Starting Up

My typical setup generates gifs so that I can see the progress of the image being generated (also they just look cool), so the first couple of images are animated.

Then I realized that I couldn't create gifs like I normally do, because the process looks like the following:

Move every entity

Draw every entity

Save off a frame

Repeat...

However my goal was to draw a multitude of circle "tentacles" on top of one another so I couldn't do my typical step all then draw all until completion. Instead I needed to step a single "tentacle" until completion and draw at each step before moving on to other tentacles. Because of this (and my goal to create a static image) I stopped producing gifs and just output the final image.

I decided that I didn't want that much whitespace, however looking back I like the scale and the amount of whitespace. I think I might have been to focused on re-creating the original work at this point.

I decided to try a wider format/ratio (1:5) and I really liked it, sticking with it for quite a while. The space at the bottom of this image made me wonder what if all of the tentacles started from the top and reached down like tornados or the appendages of some monstrous celestial octopus.