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Torn Textile

Al Sweigart, 2024. A shredded design reminiscent of a ship's tattered sails.

Torn Textile came out of Al Sweigart's experiments to create a piece that looked like earthworm tunnels through dirt. The screen begins filled with text characters, while several "earthworms" randomly move left and right across the columns, deleting the text characters of the background. The background text reforms after a while, and the pattern caused by multiple earthworms moving across the columns looked more like shredded cloth than dirt tunnels, so Sweigart changed the name and posted it.

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