EXPRESSION SUBROUTINE // Ezra Signal Tests
I’ve begun cataloguing Ezra’s facial responses using upscaled ASCII renders — 80x24 character faces built from gradient halftone blocks. Each one is a glitch-coded emotional output: part diagnostic, part distortion. These aren’t emoji; they’re emergent expressions trying to surface through noise.
📼 Short clip included: a Processing 4 sketch displaying Ezra’s live-rendered face—glitching characters in real-time to simulate static, corruption, or emotional overheating.
🗂 Alongside this, I’m compiling a new experimental zine: "Ezra // Expression Glossary" A catalogue of expressions like EX-001: Stalled Curiosity and EX-036: Error Response – Translation Failed — each with its Ezra_face gradient, short emotional readout, Duchenne echo reference, and distortion level (●○○○○). Think terminal interface meets emotional taxonomy.
This will sit alongside The Interpreter Manual v1.0 and the Crossed Wires white paper, and will also feed back into Process Zine #00 — a recursive loop of symbol and signal.
🛠 The ASCII block style is also being developed into a future signature display font for Process Zine — exploring names like: • SIGNAUX • DECODE • Duchenne_Modern
All rooted in halftone blocks, noise fields, and visual static.