Terminus - TIC-80 256 bytes

Quick release for Inércia 2025 to dust off some TIC-80 stuff, this is based on an early version of Mrityuloka, it share the same sky, i was not satisfied with this for a long time but kinda liked the minimalism / idea, most of the work was on the trails / optimizations.

Layered ellipses and lines, mostly. Lua code packed with pakettic.

-- title: Terminus

-- author: grz / The Orz

-- desc: 256b procedural gfx

e={}

r=math.random

math.randomseed(7)

cls()

function SCN(s)

 poke(0x3fc0,s/5)

end

for i=1,48 do

e[i]=r(240)

pix(e[i],i,12+i%5)

o=4+r(16)

line(e[i],o,e[i]*r()*i,o,16-i/14)

line(0,48+i/12,240,48+i/11,16-i/14)

o=i//32

elli(240+o,0+o,32-o,32-o,12+o*4)

elli(120+o,21+o,16-o,16-o,12+o*4)

end

f=0

function TIC()

  for i=2,24 do

   n=math.sin(f/9+i*8)*9*(9-f)

 
 elli(e[i]+f*4%4+n*3,57+f*5*f/30+n/21-f,f/4/i*.5,f/4/i*.5,12-r(4)*i)


  end

  f=f+.1

end

Versions

very early version

early version

2023 version

thought they were too busy, last one grew on me later on though