Infinite scrolling E-Ink landscape never repeats

Traditional Chinese landscape scrolls can be a few tens of meters long and require the viewer to move along its entire length to see all the intricate details of each section. [Dheera Venkatraman] replicated this effect with an E-Ink photo frame that displays an endlessly scrolling Shan Shui-style landscape that never repeats.

A new landscape every time you look

< p>The scenery never repeats and is procedurally generated using a script created by [Lingdong Huang]. It consists of a single HTML file with embedded JavaScript, so you can run it locally with minimal resources or view the demo online. It is inspired by historical artworks such as A Thousand Li of Rivers and Mountains and Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains.

[Dheera]'s implementation uses a 10.3″ e-ink mounted in a ready-made photo frame connected to a Raspberry Pi Zero running a forked version of [Lingdong's] script. It does a decent job of avoiding the self-illuminated electronic look and creates a piece of decor that you could easily stand and stare at for a long time.

Computer generated art is making a lot of waves with the advent of AI models like Dall-E and Stable Diffusion. The ability to bring original art into existence with a simple phrase will have an undeniably profound long-term effect on the art world.