r/p5js

A few days ago I posted a domain-warped mist piece here and got some great feedback, so here's the next engine.

Visuals ("fluxo"):

• Thin wavy lines drifting left to right, with brighter streaks travelling along them like packets.
• Two layers: the back one is denser, dimmer and slower, which gives a bit of depth.
• The loop trick: nothing is stored from frame to frame. The streak pattern repeats along each line, and in every 150 s loop each line advances a whole number of repeats, so frame 4500 is exactly frame 0.

Sound ("pulso"): a separate synth engine with a warm pad, a brown-noise bed and a soft felt-hammer pulse at 70 BPM. The 10-min audio loop is exactly 700 beats, so the pulse never skips at the seam.

Follow-up on the "muddy darks" question from last time: I tested 1080p H.264, 1080p with a ±1-level dither, and 1440p HEVC 10-bit. After YouTube's re-encode the 1440p upload won: it got VP9 right away, and it's about 5× smaller.

The first piece felt more "sleep" than "focus" to me, so this one was designed the other way around.

Two questions:

1. Does this read as "focus" to you, or still too calm?
2. If you've done stateless looping particles in p5, how did you approach it?