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.All that even happened because of this series 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.This rendering of masses of 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. Ok enough trivia, enjoy with sound and mint if you like!