At around 7 yrs old, I became infatuated with creating these 'parabolic curves'.
Just straight lines, measured out with a pencil & ruler.
Producing a form that looks three dimensional.
I guess these were my first “digital” artworks.
Recently, after my computer decided to die suddenly, I went back to my childhood and started to recreate them...
This was the first one I've made in over 30 years.
At around 7 yrs old, I became infatuated with creating these 'parabolic curves'.
Just straight lines, measured out with a pencil & ruler.
Producing a form that looks three dimensional.
I guess these were my first “digital” artworks.
Recently, after my computer decided to die suddenly, I went back to my childhood and started to recreate them...
This was the first one I've made in over 30 years.
At around 7 yrs old, I became infatuated with creating these 'parabolic curves'.
Just straight lines, measured out with a pencil & ruler.
Producing a form that looks three dimensional.
I guess these were my first “digital” artworks.
Recently, after my computer decided to die suddenly, I went back to my childhood and started to recreate them...
This was the first one I've made in over 30 years.
After reading about the Musikalisches Würfelspiel (“musical dice game”) used by composers in the classical era, I adapted that concept to try create an IRL generative artwork.
Subsitituing the dice for a coin, I let coin flips decide on where the artwork should go, whether the curves should be filled or not, and other aspects of the final artwork such as the border.
Once the page was filled, the NFT artwork that you see is the end result.
I started out by replicating the physical artwork in Illustrator, which outputted a .svg
I started out by replicating the physical artwork in Illustrator, which outputted a .svg
Drawing the lines with an algorithm was simple enough - finding the intersection of these lines and drawing a polygon a bit harder though
Drawing the lines with an algorithm was simple enough - finding the intersection of these lines and drawing a polygon a bit harder though
I now had a javascript algorithm that could create a parabolic curve, and with a tweak to the code, javascript could output a .svg file - a vector format that is fully on-chain friendly as it's just text
I now had a javascript algorithm that could create a parabolic curve, and with a tweak to the code, javascript could output a .svg file - a vector format that is fully on-chain friendly as it's just text
Those curves could then be moved (translated) within the svg to form shapes and I could start replicating the physical artwork with javascript
Those curves could then be moved (translated) within the svg to form shapes and I could start replicating the physical artwork with javascript
Using a SVG optimiser, I was able to get the generated file down to 61kb
And I was aware of the excellent Manifold Extension by diid that friends had used to put SVGs fully on-chain.
However, 61kb would normally be cost prohibitive to deploy.
Fortunately, I was able to use his yet-to-be-released latest version which supports SVGZ compression, reducing the cost significantly.
You can confirm it is fully on-chain via the contract tokenURI method - not 'just a URL to a JPEG' Elon.
After reading about the Musikalisches Würfelspiel (“musical dice game”) used by composers in the classical era, I adapted that concept to try create an IRL generative artwork.
Subsitituing the dice for a coin, I let coin flips decide on where the artwork should go, whether the curves should be filled or not, and other aspects of the final artwork such as the border.
Once the page was filled, the NFT artwork that you see is the end result.
I started out by replicating the physical artwork in Illustrator, which outputted a .svg
I started out by replicating the physical artwork in Illustrator, which outputted a .svg
Drawing the lines with an algorithm was simple enough - finding the intersection of these lines and drawing a polygon a bit harder though
Drawing the lines with an algorithm was simple enough - finding the intersection of these lines and drawing a polygon a bit harder though
I now had a javascript algorithm that could create a parabolic curve, and with a tweak to the code, javascript could output a .svg file - a vector format that is fully on-chain friendly as it's just text
I now had a javascript algorithm that could create a parabolic curve, and with a tweak to the code, javascript could output a .svg file - a vector format that is fully on-chain friendly as it's just text
Those curves could then be moved (translated) within the svg to form shapes and I could start replicating the physical artwork with javascript
Those curves could then be moved (translated) within the svg to form shapes and I could start replicating the physical artwork with javascript
Using a SVG optimiser, I was able to get the generated file down to 61kb
And I was aware of the excellent Manifold Extension by diid that friends had used to put SVGs fully on-chain.
However, 61kb would normally be cost prohibitive to deploy.
Fortunately, I was able to use his yet-to-be-released latest version which supports SVGZ compression, reducing the cost significantly.
You can confirm it is fully on-chain via the contract tokenURI method - not 'just a URL to a JPEG' Elon.
After reading about the Musikalisches Würfelspiel (“musical dice game”) used by composers in the classical era, I adapted that concept to try create an IRL generative artwork.
Subsitituing the dice for a coin, I let coin flips decide on where the artwork should go, whether the curves should be filled or not, and other aspects of the final artwork such as the border.
Once the page was filled, the NFT artwork that you see is the end result.
I started out by replicating the physical artwork in Illustrator, which outputted a .svg
I started out by replicating the physical artwork in Illustrator, which outputted a .svg
Drawing the lines with an algorithm was simple enough - finding the intersection of these lines and drawing a polygon a bit harder though
Drawing the lines with an algorithm was simple enough - finding the intersection of these lines and drawing a polygon a bit harder though
I now had a javascript algorithm that could create a parabolic curve, and with a tweak to the code, javascript could output a .svg file - a vector format that is fully on-chain friendly as it's just text
I now had a javascript algorithm that could create a parabolic curve, and with a tweak to the code, javascript could output a .svg file - a vector format that is fully on-chain friendly as it's just text
Those curves could then be moved (translated) within the svg to form shapes and I could start replicating the physical artwork with javascript
Those curves could then be moved (translated) within the svg to form shapes and I could start replicating the physical artwork with javascript
Using a SVG optimiser, I was able to get the generated file down to 61kb
And I was aware of the excellent Manifold Extension by diid that friends had used to put SVGs fully on-chain.
However, 61kb would normally be cost prohibitive to deploy.
Fortunately, I was able to use his yet-to-be-released latest version which supports SVGZ compression, reducing the cost significantly.
You can confirm it is fully on-chain via the contract tokenURI method - not 'just a URL to a JPEG' Elon.