Thinning paralel lines of rings, with rhitmically diminishing density towards one of the corners of the canvas, often forming elongated triangles, that slowly let the background color come through.

This elegant rhythm is what gives these QQL seeds a timeless elegance, a simple yet balanced composition that's often hard to find.

It feels almost impossible, that this style of elusive seed was discovered so early in QQL history, for it was Andrew Jiang from Curated who presented the seed that would become QQL #3, the first recursive QQL, that was to be selected by Sofia Garcia for the Day 0 contest.

Focus on me, look into the eye of the seed.
For a moment, forget everything else.
Right now it's just you and the vortex of the flow field.
Loose yourself in the spiraling paths of ever-smaller rings.
Close your eyes.
Breath in through your nose. Pause for a moment.
And, slowly, let the air out through your mouth.
As you exhale, notice how a deep sense of relaxation fills your whole body.
Open your eyes.
Now, go back into the woods.

WYSIWYF. What You See Is What You Feel.

Meridian by Matt Deslauriers has become one of the most timeless collections of the long-form generative art movement. A collection of intertconnected landscapes made of wavy stratified pointillist color bands.

It's precisely this stratification where we can find the connection between QQL and Meridian. So much so, that "Meridian" has even become a substyle within Tyler and Indigo's artwork. It's in a way testament, once more, to the vast diversity that the QQL algorithm hides within its apparent randomness. While Meridian stratum often present a hilly shape, QQl's potential tends to be flat or wavy, but both share a somewhat recurrent intercalation of color.

All Meridian-like QQLs presented were found in Fidenza palette.

One of my favorite QQL's I found on Year 1 was QQL #268. It's a zig-zagging compendium of constant medium rings that seems to want to create a Zebra composition of all possible Miami color combinations. It has this simplicity, structure and regularity that I find so attractive.

While most QQL structures are impossible to replicate, certain ones seem to be at the formal edges of the algorithm and #268 is one of them. That's why I spent a month generating seeds in all 7 palettes to find QQLs that had the same quantity of rings position in the same way as the original one.