Notan: The old man and the sea

Inspired by Ernest Hemingway's novel. Floating on an endless, beautiful sea, watching a starry sky and waiting for the fish to give up. Hands are bleeding, though.

A pixel thought generated in Processing4 with changing Cellular Automata rules, to obtain a powerful Notan.

Notan is the underlying abstract framework of dark and light values, upon which you build the value structure of a painting. The arrangement of darks, lights, and grays, regardless of the colors used, creates an impression of beauty. It derives from two words that refer to the amount of ink you use for a pen and ink wash drawing. Nong( 浓 ) meaning thick, strong, concentrated, and Dan (淡) means weak, watery. Hence, the term ‘Notan’ literally means concentrated/weak.”