Ridge scribbles is the first piece of a small series around mountain landscapes using different rendering techniques.

A heightmap is generated using fractal noise with different parameters and scales. Then we generate tens of thousands of paths by using a gradient descent algorithm with momentum, starting at random positions on the reversed heightmap. Those paths are then rendered using one of 11 different colour palettes.

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Original artwork by William Watkins · Lyon, 2022