The "Lost City" series is a generative pixelart project. I created it in 2021 with Processing and applied with it at KnownOrigin to become an artist on their platform. I even was accepted but close to when I wanted to release the artworks I was hit by a major setback - my hard drive crashed and was broken.. All data was lost among it this very series. I was so depressed, I stopped creating for a few months. This series itself was even the reason for the hard drive failure as it invloved a lot of testing and the rendering of countless frames to optimize colors, vehicle generation (the small thingies flying through the cities), loop optimization to fit the audio, etc. I was working on it for several weeks, it took a lot of time to render all the tests, often over night. The rendering of cluntless frames led to a completely stuffed hard drive as I simply did not keep track of it. And that's exactly one of the ways to destroy a SSD hard drive.. About three and a half years later I found this exact release stored on another random external hd by accident. I was looking for something completely different and then just stumbled upon that one folder. I couldn't believe it as I was so certain it was lost for good. The code for generating these cities actually is gone for good and one of the 8 loops is a bit different from the others - the reason why I was still rendering more frames at that time, to correct that small error. You can spot it if you look close enough. 👀 Each loop works standalone and you can watch the small flying vehicles do their business on and on and on.. Put in a sequence however the 8 loops form one large relaxing audiovisual.