Morning Cloud(s)

I’m further developing the cloud engine, adding new visualization modes for an upcoming project. Each mode offers another way to answer the same question: what vocabulary should the sky be redrawn in? This iteration renders the clouds in ASCII characters. Density becomes typography; the formations resolve into text that happens to look like weather. More…

The scanner has taken another turn. Rather than leaving the sky empty around the clouds, the script now fills it with concentric contours derived from the sky itself, which then merge with the cloud contours already being traced. The result is fascinating, psychedelic, and mesmerizing. The boundary between cloud and sky, the very thing the…

The cloud scanner has grown into something worth a version number. After further tweaking of the detection, Sky Scanner 2.0 now recognizes clouds at a much finer granularity. Thin contours trace each cloud’s outline, while hatching fills in and identifies its mass. I also played with the 3D grid to implement different hatching styles, and…