The Ballgame — a still from the animation
The Ballgame · Maya Polychrome Mural

The Ballgame

Maya Polychrome Mural · Arts of the Americas

AI-animatedAdded July 2026

Filed in the Arts of the Americas wing, The Ballgame is an AI homage to Maya Polychrome Mural — a generated image, animated into a quiet scene that repeats for as long as your screen is idle.

Textiles, codices, painted ceramics, feather-work, monumental stone — the traditions of the Americas ran on their own logic entirely, with dense symbolic patterning and colour that has kept its intensity for a thousand years. The pieces here follow that patterning rather than European perspective.

Added to the collection in July 2026. It's part of the full collection, which opens up with a subscription or the one-time lifetime purchase. The free tier starts you off with 50 other pieces.

Every piece in this collection is generated by AI in the style of a historical movement, then animated. They are original homages — not scans, photographs or reproductions of existing artworks.

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Put The Ballgame on your Mac.

It plays whenever your Mac goes idle — along with the rest of the 308-piece collection, and a new artwork every night.

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