Sea of Stars
by Ayoub Azzouzi, posted on December 1, 2025
Who I am
Hello, my name is Ayoub Azzouzi. I am a media designer interested in interactive mediums that seeks to creates non pragmatic experiences.
Idea
I dedicated my work to the theme of planets and stars in space, getting inspired by old space opera movies and PlayStation 1 games aesthetics to capture the vastness of the cosmos while evoking a nostalgic twist.
Process
My initial idea was to work with Processing 3D, while making some trials and error I got interested in the theme of planets in space. With the 128KB constrain I had some fun trying to mimic ecliptic system with minimal details in a short gif. This space like setting was also inspired by the types of astral or planetary holograms found in the first Star Wars movies with cliché green outlines and low resolution.
A favorite piece of code
I really appreciated using some dithering effects at the end of the process, it felt like the cherry on top, drastically changing the output and giving me a pleasant surprise eat the very end.
convert input.gif -dither Steinberg -colors 4 -layers Optimize output.gif
gifsicle -O3 --colors 6 --dither turmoil.gif -o output.gif