Neon Dreams

Every city looks better at 2am when rendered in 32 colors and viewed through a rain-slicked window. This series started as a shader experiment and became something I kept running long after the experiment ended.

Process

The scenes are built from a handful of primitives — rectangles, gradients, noise fields — assembled by a script that has never once produced the same image twice.

import random
import math

def neon_rect(canvas, x, y, w, h):
    hue = random.randint(180, 320)  # cyan to magenta range
    glow = math.sin(y * 0.05) * 0.5 + 0.5
    canvas.draw_rect(x, y, w, h, hsl(hue, 1.0, 0.5 * glow))

Selected Outputs

The images in this post are placeholder solids. The real ones are on a hard drive somewhere, waiting.