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Para Bellum is about the struggle between emotion and logic
This is represented by lovely color fields inspired by Rothko or Swiss design billboards and coincidental words, generated via a language engine trained on text about rebellion or anarchy and the best outputs produce randomized words which blend into the color fields, making them a cohesive piece of artwork with two colliding sources
New color fields are formed on top of each other, with an expanding or collapsing method - Some fields may be inverted for additional dynamics
Color Fields expansion is shown by the draw mode - This is "grow"
And this is "split"
Most outputs have "Texture" = "true" to resemble physical color fields, but some show no texture
The standard composition is "whole canvas" but some outputs form a "Polaroid" or "Inverted Polaroid"
On both Polaroids, the color fields are free of text and the letters are just shown as one word on the frame
"Polaroid" is part of the "Layout" trait as well, meaning an output either is a polaroid or not
The "Rotate" special trait is not possible for polaroids, as it rotates the text and the text has to be more than one word
Pieces with "stagger" true indents the succeeding line each time a little bit
"Punch" is another special trait and lets part of the text cut a form into the color fields below them
The text is influenced by the "Layout" trait - "Single" is the standard output of one word, distributed somewhere on the canvas, sometimes affected by the color fields, sometimes just showing a fraction of it
"Big word" is a text with a line break, covering huge parts of the canvas, but don't work with special traits like "Stagger" or "Rotate"
"Overlap" shows a compressed single word with big letters, sometimes making them nearly invisible
"Wordlines" produces different single words with line breaks across the canvas - they work with "Stagger" and "Rotate"
"Fadelines" is the rarest layout and shows fading "Wordlines" with one word
"Paragraph" produces a huge text block across the whole screen
The palettes are inspired from art, sometimes especially by the great Rothko, like No 9 and 22 being inspiration of the palette with the same name
Or Jean-Michel Basquiat is honored with "Boy and Dog", "Jean Michel" and "Head"
"Elwood" is inspired by the Blues Brother
And some palettes were inspired by a trip to NYC by the artist, Matty Mariansky, like "Brownstone", "Dominopark" or "Avenue A"
Many other influences to the palettes are still a mystery to me, but they are colorful - these are "#30" and "Apples"
"Blue Flames" & "China"
"Cold Blaze" and "Enderpearl"
"Exu" & "Haze"
"Italian" & "Red List"
"Jazz" & "Light Blue Movers"
"Mono" & "Nebula"
"Ochre Red" & "Ramzor"
"Reds & "Sienna"
