A Slight Case of Overbombing

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This project was inspired by monochromatic art of the late 60s, Russian folk-art woodblock prints, and the stylised colours of British underground comics. The idea was that have the landscapes of England, Wales, Ireland and Scotland represented by red, yellow, green and blue.

I also had in mind that the landscapes were actually from some post apocalyptic event, the red from being covered in the weeds from War of the Worlds, or 1,000 years into the future with radioactive glow tinting the sky red, orange or yellow. The sun still rising and setting on a lifeless planet.

This lead to the name "A Slight Case of Overbombing", which is also the title of an Album by the Sister of Mercy which also features strong primary colours on the front.

This artwork is the first in a trilogy, the other two being (as of yet unreleased); "Vision Thing" and "Some Girls Wander by Mistake".

There were also a number of other palettes in addition to the red, yellow, green and blue, which the collector can cycle around. Each primary colour has access to these other palettes, but not to each other, i.e. a red artwork can't be cycled to red, gree or blue and so on.

Instructions

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Paper Sizes (ISO A), 1:1.414 ratio

Keypresses

'h' - toggle high resolution
's' - save PNG file
'.' - speed up
',' - slow down
space - pause
'n' - toggle noise
'p' - cycle extra palettes

Printing

The high resolution image outputs at 5,809 x 8,192 pixels.

Print 19.4" x 27.3" at 300dpi Print 49.2cm x 69.4cm at 300dpi

Add ?forceWidth=xxxx where xxxx is the pixels size you want. For example to print at 100cm high, the width would need to be 70.72cm. 70.72cm in inches is 27.84" at 300dpi = 8,352 pixels width. So using ?forceWidth=8352 and downloading will give you an PNG large enough to be safely printed at 1 meter height.

Links

>> Project page
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>> View source code on GitHub