Plots made during an internal Hackathon at Ledger using profile picture, hatching and contouring techniques.
<a href="https://opensea.io/collection/ledger-hackathon-summer-2021/">https://opensea.io/collection/ledger-hackathon-summer-2021/</a>

Plots made during an internal Hackathon at Ledger using profile picture, hatching and contouring techniques.

Hack-a-plot avatar hatching 2

Plots made during an internal Hackathon at Ledger using profile picture, hatching and contouring techniques.
<a href="https://opensea.io/collection/ledger-nft-hackathon-team">https://opensea.io/collection/ledger-nft-hackathon-team</a>

Hack-a-plot avatar hatching 1

Here is &quot;Ring of faces&quot; my 8th <a href="https://greweb.me/2021/05/plot-loops">&quot;plot loop&quot; (see article)</a>. The main digital art is a 1920p video loop of 8 frames available as a <a href="https://www.hicetnunc.xyz/objkt/144002">Tezos hicetnunc NFT</a>. The physical art is 8 frames of A4 size, plotted with a black fountain pen on 300 g/m2 grain paper, and offered when <a href="https://www.hicetnunc.xyz/objkt/144002">buying the NFT</a> (8 editions, assigned in buy order).
<img src="/images/plots/171zoom1.jpg" width="100%">

The name &#39;Ring of faces&#39; refers to generating different silhouettes of faces from pure noise. The work involved here is purely generative art (nothing draw manually). I had a selection phase where I chose this one among 100 results.
I like these eight plots series because there are many unique faces here. You can even imagine faces in the inner area. That is purely a reflection of your own imagination.
I also played a lot with this duality to put twice the art in inversed coloring filling mode as well as having a rotation. The animation between the two tiles is offset exactly by 50% while also allowing a good variety and similarity when you buy one specific frame.
I used a high grain paper this time which works well with the cross-hatching filling method used, also thanks to a not too crowded area. I usually would avoid such paper for fountain pens that can &quot;bleed&quot; too much on it. It&#39;s time to do it more in the future!
<img src="/images/plots/171zoom2.jpg" width="100%">

The general animation is inspired by a shader I wrote <a href="https://greweb.me/shaderday/68">https://greweb.me/shaderday/68</a>
<img src="/images/plots/171all.jpg" width="100%">

The effect called &#39;Apophenia&#39; is, in this case, our ability to recognize a face silhouette in pure noise.
I see these different silhouettes:
<ul>
<li>an indigenous face</li>
<li>Churchill</li>
<li>a bearded man</li>
<li>a woman</li>
</ul>
Go figure why.

8 frames plotted making an animated loop. A 1920p video and A4 physical art is available as an NFT.