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Wait says the yellow light, twinkling in between. 

Bill Nye now:

BILL BILL BILL BILL BILL BILL BILL

his wife hasn't been kidnapped

their marriage is not healthy or functional

this guy isn't rescuing his wife, he's hunting her down

his wife is a crime boss, those are her henchpeople he's fighting in a john-wick bloodbath

Currently it's all the rage to abstract blocks down to colour averages. In this, flatter and less busy blocks are actually preferred - not to say that people do away entirely with the block textures, of course, but those matter almost exclusively in the close-ups and the small scale builds. Blocks are treated not as individual units but as pixels in a bigger image. Noise is randomized and chaotic to add a sense of roughness and natural chaos.

So, philosophically, the opposite of this would actually be highlighting the individual textures. Which is the other common technique - patterning. Glazed terracotta becomes king. Intricate tilings, visual interest added through elaborate symmetries and regularities. Especially noticable in the older days of Minecraft when we had more limited palettes, when every block was distinct.

Obviously the two get combined. I&'m just kind of fascinated with how one could push the patterning further, make it more intricate, glaring. It's also not something you can autogenerate with Axiom. Probably the most common type of build that achieves what I& strive for are perimeter walls as pictured above (seriously, go spend some time just looking at perimeter walls. They're awesome)

Any Austin's channel is perhaps so fascinating to me& for this reason: he also takes interest in how artists choose to use objects with function in real life as decoration and set dressing in games. He thoroughly explores this connection. The process of simulating an object in a game is inherently doing this "aestheticizing".

Currently it's all the rage to abstract blocks down to colour averages. In this, flatter and less busy blocks are actually preferred - not to say that people do away entirely with the block textures, of course, but those matter almost exclusively in the close-ups and the small scale builds. Blocks are treated not as individual units but as pixels in a bigger image. Noise is randomized and chaotic to add a sense of roughness and natural chaos.

So, philosophically, the opposite of this would actually be highlighting the individual textures. Which is the other common technique - patterning. Glazed terracotta becomes king. Intricate tilings, visual interest added through elaborate symmetries and regularities. Especially noticable in the older days of Minecraft when we had more limited palettes, when every block was distinct.

Obviously the two get combined. I&'m just kind of fascinated with how one could push the patterning further, make it more intricate, glaring. It's also not something you can autogenerate with Axiom. Probably the most common type of build that achieves what I& strive for are perimeter walls as pictured above (seriously, go spend some time just looking at perimeter walls. They're awesome)