mattdesl

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by mattdesl 5y ago
Blockchains and crypto tech does seem to provide solutions to many challenging problems: distributed ledgers, immutable and decentralized data, ownerless contracts and program execution, secure and decentralized ownership of a digital asset
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Subscapes – Breakdown of a Generative Artwork(mattdesl.substack.com)
22 points by mattdesl 5y ago|0 comments
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by mattdesl 5y ago
By submitting any textual content (GPL or otherwise) on the web, you are placing it in an environment where it will be consumed and digested (by human brains and machine learning algorithms alike). There is already legal precedent set for t
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by mattdesl 5y ago
Not at present; sharding (part of Eth2) will change this scalability dramatically though.
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by mattdesl 5y ago
This is true; but there are multiple entry points to that data (The Graph, Infura, etherscan, etc) and just because one fails does not mean the entire ecosystem will collapse (ie: you can easily create a new indexer and switch HTTP provider
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by mattdesl 5y ago
The project was funded by the NFB. The game will stay free.
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by mattdesl 5y ago
Thanks! We used ThreeJS and JavaScript for the engine, and Svelte for the UI. We started the project with a small team, just myself (concept/code/design), Tiffany Beucher (illustration, character design and concept art), Guillaume
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by mattdesl 5y ago
Thanks! Lots of things inspire me - Journey and Flower are obvious references, but also many other projects! I find a lot of inspiration through online illustration and generative art communities.
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by mattdesl 5y ago
It was coded with JavaScript + ThreeJS and built on top of a custom entity component system. Lots of different parts to the game, each receiving different treatments; eg the terrain is built from a mix of voronoi cells, layered simplex nois
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by mattdesl 5y ago
I am more comfortable with JS + Three + Web than Unity/Unreal, and we had planned this as a web first experience. I also wanted a lot more control over the application than what those engines support (eg - in terms of loading, mobile,
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by mattdesl 5y ago
Hi all - creator of Wayfinder here! Though it was very much a team effort. Happy to see this resonating with so many people. :) Feel free to ask any questions!
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by mattdesl 5y ago
The source code is visible on-chain - it can be queried from the smart contract, but also it has been etched into the data of the “script upload” transaction. This is how ArtBlocks and other projects can fetch the script and display it. But
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by mattdesl 5y ago
In theory no; but in practice yes. PoW relies on miners competing for the next block, and block size/time tends to always be a bottleneck for scalability. This is why most secure PoW blockchains have a very low throughput. Solana’s app
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by mattdesl 5y ago
I haven’t looked too deeply at it yet - but I don’t think it would lead to more excessive energy costs than PoW. It’s using PoS in addition to their PoH validation algorithm; and you have to “stake” or lock some amount of tokens up in order
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by mattdesl 5y ago
It appears quite different than PoW, which is how it is able to boast so much higher throughput. https://tokens-economy.gitbook.io/consensus/chain-based-proo... https://medium.com/solana-labs/proof
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by mattdesl 5y ago
It’s good to see more research and development funds being invested in alternative consensus mechanisms beyond PoW/PoS. Solana looks interesting given it’s high transaction throughput and novel PoH algorithm - assuming it can scale in
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Skepticism and Optimism Around Art NFTs(artlawpodcast.com)
1 points by mattdesl 5y ago|0 comments
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by mattdesl 5y ago
Stats here fail to track OpenSea, Rarible, Nifty Gateway (three of the largest NFT platforms) and also alt/side chains like Tezos (with Hicetnunc which has recently overtaken Eth platforms in daily activity). Though likely the headline
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by mattdesl 5y ago
Perhaps this is a narrow view of ownership that will be expanded by NFTs (or, perhaps not - let’s see in a couple years). I don’t see it all that different than purchasing and therefore owning a conceptual Sol LeWitt artwork, ie: a few writ
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by mattdesl 5y ago
In the context of blockchain tokens, “digital ownership” is equally as nonsensical as owning a fine art print with ink and a pencil signature on it. These artefacts, and the ideas of ownership around them, are social constructs. The mental
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by mattdesl 5y ago
The basic idea is that distributed ledgers, tokenization, and smart contracts are enabling new paradigms for what it means to "own" digital property — in such a way that it is provably secure, transparent, and decentralized (i.e.
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by mattdesl 5y ago
The artist needs to confirm this. For example, many artists selling on Hicetnunc[1] will put their Tezos wallet address as a link in their Twitter bio. If you spot an artwork that looks like theirs minted by a different address, it’s likely
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by mattdesl 5y ago
Nope... not illegal, just a faux pas.
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by mattdesl 5y ago
The NFT is not the image/media - it is the transaction securing a relationship and/or movement of tokens from the artists wallet to the buyers wallet (which may or may not point to a file hash, or some other data). The authenticit
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by mattdesl 5y ago
There are already many NFT marketplaces across a range of blockchains. Depending on who you ask, it may be considered poor form to mint the same token on multiple chains. It would be like a print artist selling multiple editions of what the
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by mattdesl 5y ago
True. It's part of their examples, but would be worth having in core I feel, as most people are using THREE.Line for their apps/designs which is unreliable.
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by mattdesl 5y ago
Because this is largely outside the scope of most 3D game engines. Rendering crisp 2D lines (or any anti-aliased complex vector polygon) on the GPU is hard: it involves a lot of high level decisions about how to process, structure & sub
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by mattdesl 5y ago
I would argue that many NFT platforms (such as Hicetnunc.xyz[1]) have already successfully "disrupted" traditional artist marketplaces (such as Etsy, Shopify, Bandcamp, etc), despite being only popular for a short few months. I th
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by mattdesl 5y ago
You are free to do the same (trade w/o fees) with crypto currencies, nothing stops you from sending the tokens directly from one wallet to another or doing a private sale. But with galleries in the real world (where artists are “repres
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by mattdesl 5y ago
Royalties apply on re-sale, not every transfer. Royalties on sales going back to the original creator is pretty normal practice in the arts and creative industries (music, writing, art, photography). The good thing, compared to traditional

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