Thirty-six views of the firewall

Four woodblock prints after Hokusai, each printing itself block by block: the mountain is a stepped firewall around a datacentre, the sea is network traffic, and vermilion marks only the hostile packets that break against it.

Four Three.js scenes drawn into 11 ink separations with multiple render targets, then printed on procedural washi with per-block misregistration, woodgrain and bokashi
Two-tone cel lighting with noisy band thresholds and inverted-hull key lines; the great wave is a slab painted from a signed distance field
Ink-wash shadows: the inverted shadow map is smoothstepped, broken with world-space noise and edged with a separate noisy contour
Foam claws, spray and mackerel clouds made of thousands of instanced packet glyphs, outlined as one mass by a key-block pass
The transition is the printing sequence: key block, each colour block, then the seal; every frame is a pure function of t

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