In this January challenge "Desert / Rings into Clouds", the idea was to use granular synthesis or FX and physical modelling.

The reference should ba a chosen desert, in my case I choose "Dacht-e Lout" (Désert de Lout, Plain of Emptiness), a UNESCO desert in south-east of Iran. Probably the hottest known desert...

My inspiration was also different games and movies like Diablo II, Prince of Persia, Command and Conquer Generals (with GLA army), and of course Arrakis on Dune (1984)

Fata Morgana is a kind of optical mirage you can get. I found this very adapted to my track...

Cover: Midjourney, based on a description of the Lut desert