Introducing the 'cybernaut' who is another character I've been developing for Propaganda. It's all vectorized and will be embedded as an asset with the code for the collection.

A big step for Propaganda has been figuring out how to apply a paper texture that's scalable when an edition gets resized. Yes, it's skeuomorphism, and it's critical for turning the algorithm's outputs into believable retro posters. See what it looks like below.

I've been working on Propaganda in stealth mode over the past months. It taken me a ton of time as I'm creating a whole set of characters entirely vectorized so I can swap their color palettes programmatically from within an algorithm. Here is what it looks like to work on it.

Hey everyone! January and February have been crazy busy with IRL stuff on my side. I've made good progress on my next generative art project, Propaganda, and I will share some stuff with you later this week or next week.

I have written an article about Dissonance, the collection I created for the generative advent calendar organized by Cyphr / Ross. It also includes a brief interview with him, discussing his philosophy on curating generative art. Read it here 👇
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This is Dissonance #10. Reminiscent of screenprinting, this edition features overexposed layers resulting in darker areas. This makes for a strong contrast with the bright pink circle and the white background.

This is Dissonance #9, owned by abstractment. I like the chaotic nature of this edition. The grids are made of many small objects, and the central pattern looks like it could have been generated with Perlin noise, but it's made only of angle rotations and size variations.

This is Dissonance #8, owned by Zeneca 🔮. This one is sort of a naked version of the algorithm. It uses grayscales instead of the three primary colors like the other editions do, and by doing so, it reveals the grid structure of repeating patterns underneath.

This is Dissonance #5. This time, the grids are made of messy overlapped gray-scaled circles, and there is one large circle at the center filled with a single primary color that's giving an anchor to the entire piece.

This is Dissonance #4, owned by aaanon. A light shifted grid rotation initially at the top left accumulates into a large shift at the bottom right. If you look at it long enough, you will start seeing the lines and column bending as an optical illusion.

This is Dissonance #3. What's interesting here is that two of the grids align perfectly, while the third is at an almost 45 degree angle. All three grids are made of squares with variable sizes, creating a pattern with negative spaces that gives the impression of depth.

This is Dissonance #2, owned by Coel.eth - It's pronounced "Seel". This variation of the algorithm has large grids with only circles, and the rotation of the grids ended up blending the colors in a way that this edition looks like a photo of an LED display.

This is Dissonance #1, owned by Shima 🇺🇦🇨🇦. The core idea for the algorithm is to superimpose three grid layers made of basic geometric shapes and use only the three primary colors and a random rotation of each grid to let additional colors and patterns emerge.

In December, I had the honor to take part in a generative advent calendar run by Cyphr / Ross. For the occasion, I created Dissonance, a collection of 10 editions. Over the next couple of weeks, I will post about Dissonance and show those editions. Below was the starting point 🙌

I love these Mallory Orbitals sheesh. They were recently re-opened for public mint and I grabbed four. Here's #121.

Several people have asked me to mint Orbitals, so I've re-opened the project at 0.015e per edition (0.015e is the resting price now that I've doubled the allocation for all holders). You can mint at this URL: fxhash.xyz/generative/slu…