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🏜 Lunarean’s Sandy Algorithm Produced Golden Dunes…
Find out more about Lunarean’s creative process and what inspired Solace…
What a month! We have learned many things from twenty-one NFT artists so far, and today we have a new one (and a special one). In case you didn’t know, I’ve been writing one article per day for the #30NFTartists30days series. Don’t forget to subscribe to don’t miss the final eight stories…
Today’s generative NFT artists created one of the top collections on the FxHash platform. Lunarean is a software developer who only needed two collections to break out as an exciting innovator in the on-chain art movement. He made his masterpiece (Solace) using as inspiration the word “sand.” In the beginning, he just made a sketch but noticed how the procedures could be generalized to produce not only one sand dune but many more. The rest is history.
“Solace is an algorithm that generates artworks of sand dunes. It draws hundreds of thousands of tiny points according to a probability distribution calculated from the positions of the dunes.
The logic to divide the dunes into light and dark sides is simple but produces some interesting chaotic behavior. These are details that weren’t hard-coded but emerge organically, such as the patterns on the spines of the dunes or the stripes around their bases.”
