The Sun, Embattled

This piece doesn't exist yet. Here's the canvas on which it will some day be painted:

A black fencing mask.

I'll probably get someone else to paint it, since painting on a curved mesh surface is a hard skill to practice. But in the meantime I'm working on some reference materials for the artist to work with.

The prompt

In the center there is a sun. The sun's light dominates the center of the mask, but around the perimeter it gets darker. Perhaps there are stormy clouds occluding the sky there.

In the darkness there are eyes.

SVG, take 1

I needed a desktop wallpaper and I wanted to try my hand at my own rendition of The Sun, Embattled. Why not tackle both at once?

I'm hoping to improve this over time, but my first attempt looks like this:

A yellow circle, fading at the edges, against a backdrop of blue sky. At the left and right edges of the image the sky darkens and fills with eyes.

trillioneyes (2014)

This has been my avatar on all online accounts for over a decade. I named it after my usual username, which is why it's lowercased.

This piece was originally an svg generated programmatically; here's the code. Unfortunately, one of the libraries I used made breaking changes to its API and it's now harder to compile, though it would probably be possible if I could find the right version of the library to install.

I've lost the original svg, but here's a version I uploaded to Gravatar once upon a time:

On a black background, a sierpinski triangle in blue. Each empty space in the triangle is filled with a green eye. On the right, half an eye is visible, implying that the triangle would continue if you zoomed out.

And here's the version I use as my Github avatar, which I think is higher quality:

On a black background, a sierpinski triangle in blue. Each empty space in the triangle is filled with a green eye. On the right, half an eye is visible, implying that the triangle would continue if you zoomed out.

As a bonus, here's a much older version -- I drew the eye by hand and programmatically tiled it and added the triangles using a J script that is lost forever. I only have the Gravatar version here, but the original was probably not much better quality.

On a black background, a sierpinski triangle in blue. Each empty space in the triangle is filled with a green eye. Unlike the previous similar images, this one is partially drawn by hand, and there is no half-eye on the right side to imply infinity.