Round 00 · origin
The spark
The first grid established the translucent, blobby, centrifugal language. The broad full-orb sheet immediately exposed the density problem.
- Outcome
- 1 seed · 1 density miss
- Active build time
- 5m 30s
- Scope
- 2 generated images
Opening question
What is the smallest useful visual premise?
The successful seed was not a finished system. It was a material and motion direction: loose watercolor bodies circulating around an implied center.
The companion sprite sheet filled too much of the orb at once. Stacking that much material could never preserve the reference’s absences, so the miss became the first constraint for the next round.
Decision
Keep the language; remove the mass
Round 01 keeps the palette and feathered watercolor body, but breaks the orb into twelve sparse color events with intentional empty states.