I dig it lol. It reminds me of a t-shirt site a few friends and I made https://wearwiki.com
It's cool that wikipedia shared so much data! Nice to donate to them if we got some extra funds.
For me nfts provide an easier way for me to support digital artists I love that I've been following for a while.
I don't really like the collectable scarcity kind of thing, but I like building a collection and having an easy way to explore and find art and artists. Also a lot of these websites are providing this art at higher resolutions and quality than social media would allow for (IPFS) and without direct hosting.
I think it's here to stay in some form but it'll definitely undergo some change.
Not everything exists for function, let's enjoy our time.
Indeed, and I'm much less skeptical, if it's seen as akin to buying tickets to a concert. The value is in enjoying the music in the present moment, and knowing that the musicians are receiving some income. A concert ticket is an NFT of sorts. Nobody will ever be able to attend that concert again.
I've missed concerts that I had tickets for. Fortunately I'm mostly into classical, jazz, fiddling, etc., where Ticketmaster doesn't have much of a presence.
Massive speculation scam to take advantage of the uninformed. Let them enjoy their time without making digital beanie babies and pretending they have value.
Tech Stack: React, Redux, Node.js, MongoDB, Sendgrid (Emailing), Printful (Shirt API), Stripe (Billing), Amazon S3 (Image hosting)
I'm using MongoDB's free-tier Atlas on this project and it's awesome. This project was also started while I worked there :D
The algorithm creates an svg which we render into html canvas and then build an image from that. We do some pre-rendering and tricks on mobile, since the svg creation only really works on chrome desktop.
Going forward I'm planning to clean up the code base, and hopefully open source.
Disclaimer: I'm a frontend/fullstack dev.
One of the methods I use is browsing other sites and taking inspiration. You can even inspect their elements if you'd like to see how they the style (don't copy paste!).
Other suggestions:
- Team up with someone with some ui skills
Generative art is a fascinating space - it's in its infancy for sure - I've been getting into it this past year and wrote my first algorithm about a year ago:
Like all art, it comes down to who witnesses it, and how it makes them feel. However - there's a definite gap between seeing something in real life versus digitally which I'd like to see Naon bridge. There's a large community of plotters which are doing a good job of bringing generative art into the real world. Definitely worth checking out the twitter hashtag:
It's a really handsome piece of work. I love the papercraft aesthetic. Well done.
One of the randomizations I generated was uncannily like a winking eye. But sadly I only discovered the shareable link after I had lost it. Oh, the ephemeral nature of generative art!
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