This plot is the genesis piece that covers my new Plottable Mesh generator.
Many NFTs are available to mint with an interesting variety of results. As in <a href="/2021/12/plottable-mountain-moons">previous generators</a>, owning the NFT confer the power to request a physical plot on: <a href="https://greweb.me/plots/nft">https://greweb.me/plots/nft</a> – this is optional and you can also just enjoy the digital version.
<h2 id="artistic-direction-and-rare-aspects">Artistic direction and rare aspects</h2>
The generator generalizes a bunch of past explorations you can find on <a href="https://greweb.me/plots">https://greweb.me/plots</a>
A noise shape is mirrored to produce symmetry effect and, using marching square, transposed into lines. Lines are &quot;doubled&quot; to offer more depth in the pattern.
The noise can be more or less intense, from a smooth mesh to stronger patterns.
One of the important innovations is the &quot;intersection&quot; mecanism: lines of a shape stop when its &quot;mirrored&quot; version also stop, which makes areas without any lines and intensify the patterns. The intersection logic can diverge to allow a bit &quot;non intersected parts&quot;.
One rarity aspect is the color you will get. It will sometimes be a 2-colors plot to emphasize on the mirror duality.
There are many other rarity aspects and the general variety will offer a wide range of results.
<h2 id="the-density-technical-challenge">The density technical challenge</h2>
As these are plottable, it was complex to adjust the number of lines depending on the intensity of the noise.
I had some early failed prototypes caused by too many lines: the pen was literally digging into the paper! I have adjusted these to hopefully no longer happen.
<img src="/images/plots/341fail.jpg" width="100%"/>

<h3 id="prototype-prototype-prototype">Prototype Prototype Prototype</h3>
Like said in <a href="https://greweb.me/2021/12/plottable-mountain-moons">https://greweb.me/2021/12/plottable-mountain-moons</a>, &quot;Prototype Prototype Prototype&quot; is the way to go for these physical pen/paper issues!
The following photos are prototype plots that shows some different explorations but do not guarantee these will be possible outcomes, but it mostly could!
<img src="/images/plots/341b.jpg" width="100%"/>
<img src="/images/plots/341c.jpg" width="100%"/>
<img src="/images/plots/341d.jpg" width="100%"/>
<img src="/images/plots/341e.jpg" width="100%"/>
<img src="/images/plots/341f.jpg" width="100%"/>
<img src="/images/plots/341g.jpg" width="100%"/>

This plot is the 'OG plot' that covers my new Plottable Mesh generator.

Plottable Mesh

This plot is an early prototype made during the development of Plottable Mountain Moons generator.
Full Article: <a href="https://greweb.me/2021/12/plottable-mountain-moons">https://greweb.me/2021/12/plottable-mountain-moons</a>
Request for plot with the NFT: <a href="https://greweb.me/plots/nft">https://greweb.me/plots/nft</a>

This plot is an early prototype made during the development of Plottable Mountain Moons generator.

Plottable Mountain Moons (prototype 10)

Plottable Mountain Moons (prototype 9)

Plottable Mountain Moons (prototype 8)

Plottable Mountain Moons (prototype 7)

Plottable Mountain Moons (prototype 6)

Plottable Mountain Moons (prototype 5)

Plottable Mountain Moons (prototype 4)

Plottable Mountain Moons (prototype 3)

Plottable Mountain Moons (prototype 2)

This plot represents the &quot;Plottable Mountain Moons&quot; generator.
Full Article: <a href="https://greweb.me/2021/12/plottable-mountain-moons">https://greweb.me/2021/12/plottable-mountain-moons</a>
Request for plot with the NFT: <a href="https://greweb.me/plots/nft">https://greweb.me/plots/nft</a>

This plot represents the 'Plottable Mountain Moons' generator.

Plottable Mountain Moons (OG plot)

Plottable Storm is a flow field simulating fountain pen ink drawing on paper on its digital form. 10 inks, many rarity features varying noise, size and color positionning. Having only one color is rare. The digital NFTs can be used to perform a physical action: @greweb plotting on demand a fountain pen plot for those who also want physical originals.
Full Article: <a href="https://greweb.me/2021/11/plottable-storm">https://greweb.me/2021/11/plottable-storm</a>
Request for plot with the NFT: <a href="https://greweb.me/plots/nft">https://greweb.me/plots/nft</a>

Plottable Storm is a flow field simulating fountain pen ink drawing on paper on its digital form. 10 inks, many rarity features varying noise, size and color positionning. Having only one color is rare. The digital NFTs can be used to perform a physical action: @greweb plotting on demand a fountain pen plot for those who also want physical originals.

Plottable Storm (prototype 3)

Plottable Storm (prototype 2)

Plottable Storm (prototype 1)

Plottable Storm (OG plot)

Plotted for an hour with a fountain pen and Amazing Amethyst ink on A4 watercolor paper.

Plotted for an hour with a fountain pen and Amazing Amethyst ink on A4 watercolor paper.

Evolutive Bug 11

Plotted for an hour with two fountain pens (Bloody Brexit + Sargasso Sea inks) on A4 watercolor paper.

Plotted for an hour with two fountain pens (Bloody Brexit + Sargasso Sea inks) on A4 watercolor paper.

Evolutive Bug 10

Plotted for an hour with a fountain pen and Bloody Brexit ink on A4 watercolor paper.

Plotted for an hour with a fountain pen and Bloody Brexit ink on A4 watercolor paper.

Evolutive Bug 09

Evolutive Bug 08

Plotted for an hour with a fountain pen and Diamine Poppy Red ink on A4 watercolor paper.

Plotted for an hour with a fountain pen and Diamine Poppy Red ink on A4 watercolor paper.

Evolutive Bug 07

Plotted for an hour with a fountain pen and Fire&amp;Ice ink on A4 watercolor paper.

Plotted for an hour with a fountain pen and Fire&Ice ink on A4 watercolor paper.

Evolutive Bug 06

Plotted for an hour with fountain pens and two Diamine inks (Poppy Red and Pumpkin) on A4 watercolor paper.

Plotted for an hour with fountain pens and two Diamine inks (Poppy Red and Pumpkin) on A4 watercolor paper.

Evolutive Bug 05

Evolutive Bug 04

Evolutive Bug 03

Ink drop on a simple curve shaping two tubes with an overlap creating some moiré effect. 100% cotton A4 watercolor from Arches, Diamine Pink Glitz ink.
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Ink drop on a simple curve shaping two tubes with an overlap creating some moiré effect. 100% cotton A4 watercolor from Arches, Diamine Pink Glitz ink.

Twin Tube

This is another experiment with ink drop and spirals. (Which is something I did a few months ago too)
Experimented a bunch of other ideas, using pink and green:
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Experimenting (again) ink drop and spirals

Pink Satellites

For this <a href="https://penplotterartwork.com/plotparty/">#plotparty</a> #4 &quot;Postcard&quot;, I&#39;ve made a fractioned art into 8 pieces of 10x14cm that will be distributed to other plotter artists all over the world.
I&#39;ve decided to continue digging my #312 exploration, moving now to 3 different inks (Amazing Amethyst, Soft Mint, Bloody Brexit) used at a ratio of 70%, 20%, 10%. Each color get randomly distributed on different spirals, randomness made it that the Amethyst color went on the biggest which is why it&#39;s named after that ink.
The plot took about 10 hours to perform on a A3 watercolor paper.
The art piece has been cut into 8 parts to make 8 individual Postcards that will be distributed to other #plotparty artists. This makes it a fractional art piece!
Here is a high resolution (12000x8422) photo of the piece before it was fractioned:
<img src="/images/plots/315full.jpg" width="100%">

Here are the 2 stops I did between the 3 inks:
<img src="/images/plots/315a.jpg" width="50%"><img src="/images/plots/315b.jpg" width="50%">
And here is a video preview of how it looked at the last plotting hour:
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/plottertwitter?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#plottertwitter</a> I have something special planned for this one... <a href="https://t.co/0746dNpCQb">pic.twitter.com/0746dNpCQb</a>&mdash; @greweb (@greweb) <a href="https://twitter.com/greweb/status/1458831670426193928?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 11, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

For #plotparty #4 'Postcard', I've made a fractioned art into 8 pieces of 10x14cm that will be distributed to other plotter artists all over the world.

Amethyst Storm

&#39;Destructive Storm&#39; pushes the paper to its limits and lets things &#39;glitch&#39; as the theme of this <a href="https://penplotterartwork.com/plotparty/">#plotparty</a> day. The plot took more than 12 hours to draw, traveled about one kilometer on an A3 watercolor paper. The quantity of inks consumed represents about 2.5 fully-filled fountain pens. This is a continuation of #312 exploration using circle packing and domain warping techniques to make a force field and throw particles in it.
Here are the glitches you can find:
As the paper started to destroy and &quot;wave&quot;, it start revealing accidental strokes a bit everywhere
<img src="/images/plots/314b.jpg" width="100%">

We can also see the paper gets really deteriorated at some places
<img src="/images/plots/314c.jpg" width="100%">

which left a lot of these paper dusts that I cleaned out
<img src="/images/plots/314d.jpg" width="100%">

It also ran out of ink on the bottom right, which was accepted as part of the art to create a brighter area.

'Destructive Storm' pushes the paper to its limits and lets things 'glitch' as the theme of this #plotparty day. The plot took more than 12 hours to draw, traveled about one kilometer on an A3 watercolor paper. The quantity of inks consumed represents about 2.5 fully-filled fountain pens. This is a continuation of #312 exploration using circle packing and domain warping techniques to make a force field and throw particles in it.

Destructive Storm

Pushing the paper to its limits with a lot of collocated lines more or less distancing from each other.
<img src="/images/plots/313b.jpg" width="100%">
<img src="/images/plots/313c.jpg" width="100%">
<img src="/images/plots/313d.jpg" width="100%">
<img src="/images/plots/313e.jpg" width="100%">

Entry for &quot;Nov 9 – Multiple Line Widths&quot;. <a href="https://penplotterartwork.com/plotparty/">https://penplotterartwork.com/plotparty/</a>

Pushing the paper to its limits with a lot of collocated lines more or less distancing from each other. Entry for 'Nov 9 – Multiple Line Widths'

Multiple Line Widths

&quot;Fire &amp; Ice Storm&quot; took 9 hours of plotting effort – 500 meters of fountain pen inks drawn on an A3 watercolor paper. The blue ink is called &quot;Fire &amp; Ice&quot; and the red ink is Diamine Poppy Red.
This plot combines circle packing and domain warping techniques to make a force field and throw particles in it.
It was released as Day#1 for #plotparty event. <a href="https://penplotterartwork.com/plotparty/">https://penplotterartwork.com/plotparty/</a>
<img src="/images/plots/312a.jpg" width="100%">
<img src="/images/plots/312b.jpg" width="100%">
<img src="/images/plots/312c.jpg" width="100%">
<img src="/images/plots/312e.jpg" width="100%">
<img src="/images/plots/312d.jpg" width="100%">
<img src="/images/plots/312f.jpg" width="100%">

'Fire & Ice Storm' took 9 hours of plotting effort – 500 meters of fountain pen inks drawn on an A3 watercolor paper. This plot combines circle packing and domain warping techniques to make a force field and throw particles in it.

Fire & Ice Storm

Same generator as in the NFT. Different seed.

Evolutive Bug 02

This is part of an NFT concept on Tezos blockchain.
The generator makes evolutive physical plot, determined by its buyers! Each sale mutates the art piece, slowly evolving the next edition to a unique variation. Each piece will be physically plotted with fountain pen (21cm by 21cm) and can be shipped worldwide when bought from the artist. Contact @greweb or <a href="mailto:&#x72;&#x65;&#110;&#x61;&#117;&#x64;&#x65;&#x61;&#x75;&#46;&#x67;&#97;&#x65;&#116;&#x61;&#110;&#64;&#103;&#x6d;&#97;&#x69;&#108;&#46;&#99;&#x6f;&#x6d;">&#x72;&#x65;&#110;&#x61;&#117;&#x64;&#x65;&#x61;&#x75;&#46;&#x67;&#97;&#x65;&#116;&#x61;&#110;&#64;&#103;&#x6d;&#97;&#x69;&#108;&#46;&#99;&#x6f;&#x6d;</a>

Evolutive Bug – genesis

Rotation of the same shape 3 times creates an interesting pattern.

Rotation of the same shape 3 times creates an interesting pattern.

Maillage 09

Maillage 08

Maillage 07

Rotation of the same shape 3 times creates an interesting pattern.
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Maillage 06

Maillage 05

Rotation of the same shape 3 times creates an interesting pattern.
<img src="/images/plots/304full.jpg" width="100%"/>
<img src="/images/plots/304zoom.jpg" width="100%"/>
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Maillage 04

Maillage 03

Maillage 02

Maillage 01

Celebrating the 300th day of the year with another 3-inks plot.

Celebrating the 300th day of the year with another 3-inks plot.

The 300th plot

Trio 08

Trio 07

Shapes explorations with 3 inks: Diamine Amazing Amethyst, Diamine Evergreen, Robert Oster Fire and Ice.
<img src="/images/plots/297zoom.jpg" width="100%"/>

Trio 06

Trio 05

Trio 04

Pattern explorations with 3 inks.

Trio 03

Trio 02

Trio 01

Techniques: distance field, Perlin noise, domain warping, marching square. Fountain pen on Watercolor A4 paper.

Techniques: distance field, Perlin noise, domain warping, marching square. Fountain pen on Watercolor A4 paper.

Red Blue Field Overlap

Mint Red Field Overlap

Distance Field Black Castle

Distance Field Starship

Diamond Ship Overlap

Distance Field Square Overlap

Distance Field Intersection

Distance Field Colombus

Distance Field Aurora Borealis Ship

Distance Field Blue Diamond

Distance Field Blue Flower

Distance Field Yellow Flower

Distance Field Turquoise Rock

Distance Field Black Rock

Distance Field Amethyst Rock

Distance Field Indigo Rock

Techniques: distance field, Perlin noise, domain warping, marching square. Fountain pen on Watercolor A4 paper.
The glitch that happened at the end wasn&#39;t planned but gives a nice touch.

Distance Field Vanishing Ring

Distance Field Rock

Techniques: distance field, Perlin noise, domain warping, marching square. &#39;Amazing Amethyst&#39; ink from Diamine. Fountain pen on Watercolor A4 paper.

Techniques: distance field, Perlin noise, domain warping, marching square. 'Amazing Amethyst' ink from Diamine. Fountain pen on Watercolor A4 paper.

Distance Field Mask

Distance Field

Erosion02

Moving average on 1000 digits of π

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Pattern03 #7184

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[plotnft]: https://greweb.me/plots/nft
[fxhash]: https://www.fxhash.xyz/u/greweb

**=> https://www.fxhash.xyz/u/greweb <= is where you can find my plottable generators.**

I plan to release a plottable generator every Wednesday – this article covers today's release & share some thoughts on how to approach generative art variety.


**Last week highlight:**

<img width="40%" src="/images/2021/11/plottablestorm/digital.jpg" style="float: left">

[See article to explain this concept](/2021/11/plottable-storm) released last week with "Plottable Storm" from which I learned and grew some ideas for the next iterations!
Plottable Storm may still be available on https://www.fxhash.xyz/generative/1050 – it was released via a mint of 10tez, which was pretty expensive for the platform's current price average – but made sense as the first "plottable NFT" of the platform. Note that, getting a physical plot is only an option, on which I will ask (1) to own the NFT and (2) to pay extra fees for me to plot it on demand.

 

## 🎉 Release: Plottable Mountain Moons

Ok, this may be the best plot generator I have ever created so far. I have put so much effort. This is months of iterations and experiments concentrated into one generator. I had goosebumps exploring the results and plotting them. This is just an illegal amount of fun.

I have also improved the ink simulating shader and added animation to make it visually interesting on its digital rendered version. Here is a quick preview:

<video loop autoPlay muted src="/images/2021/12/plottable-mountain-moons/promo1.mp4" width="100%"></video>

**Find it on => https://www.fxhash.xyz/u/greweb <=**

## Tips: Prototype, prototype, prototype

I've developed my generator in the mind that it would be realistic to plot with fountain pens, e.g. without destroying the paper. This means I had to test a bunch of prototypes to check that:
- Paper can handle it (think of it like "load testing" but with ink)
- It's good looking (ink need to react well, some ink mix can be bad looking for instance)
- that the digital preview and the ink simulation is accurate (I've added many new inks and I had to tweak colors)

Here are a few prototypes I did this weekend... Actually 18 plots! Beware I use that as an iteration loop, so some helped to tweak things and do not necessarily represent a possible outcome anymore, but it's mostly the case.

<img width="100%" src="/images/2021/12/plottable-mountain-moons/all.jpg">

Each plot is done on a 21 by 21 centimeters watercolor paper.

Here are a few zooms:

<img width="100%" src="/images/2021/12/plottable-mountain-moons/zoom1.jpg">
<img width="100%" src="/images/2021/12/plottable-mountain-moons/zoom2.jpg">
<img width="100%" src="/images/2021/12/plottable-mountain-moons/zoom3.jpg">
<img width="100%" src="/images/2021/12/plottable-mountain-moons/zoom4.jpg">
<img width="100%" src="/images/2021/12/plottable-mountain-moons/zoom5.jpg">
<img width="100%" src="/images/2021/12/plottable-mountain-moons/zoom6.jpg">
<img width="100%" src="/images/2021/12/plottable-mountain-moons/zoom7.jpg">

And finally, the OG one that is the generator cover:

<img width="100%" src="/images/2021/12/plottable-mountain-moons/plot.jpg">


## Economy: Supply and Price

Determining the supply and price to put an NFT generator has never been easy. In fxhash, there is a great average of price of 0.5tez to 2tez which is very cheap if you think about what is happening in Ethereum. In a way, it needs to fit in this platform range, but I also need to think a lot about the supply: to me, the supply is proportional to the variety of your generator, how different results it can produce. Low Supply creates scarcity while High Supply gives more chance to collectors and reduce the FOMO effect. The price is also a way to limit the number someone can take, but is not very fair for low budget,...

For my case, and it may only justify for my own plans. I fallback-ed a bit on the idea (at least this time) to make is a Low Supply.

I decided this time to make it high in supply and a relatively accessible price for these reasons:

- This generator covers a great amount of my plotting work this year. A lot of primitives and shape combination has been converged into one big generator. And I find it fair and ethical that I can't anymore in the future release new generators that overlap too much with these. So in a way, this is a sacrifice to make. That means, I better need the supply to be high enough to make the generator fully express its variety.
- The idea of this NFT, first of all which are pretty cool as digital art, is also to use them as a power to have a physical action: claiming a physical plot to be performed. That physical plot request costs a fee. (currently set at 15tez but may evolve depending on demand and my capacity to respond to it) That means I want the price of the NFT itself to be relatively accessible which means low, which means supply need to have a better offer to those who will want to find the rare gems.
- I want my collectors to fully embrace collecting for the art and lower the "collecting for the speculation". Increasing the supply will decrease the scarcity effect that exist on second market. That said, it's not that high supply (smolskull was 2000!) and there will be room for second market to occur for those who are looking for "the perfect plot to perform".

## Tech: In pursuit of the perfect rarity equilibrium

My plot generator are develop with Rust. I have developed myself my own set of tools and I will basically have a watch loop that recompile and regenerate a .svg each time I change code. My Visual Studio Code set up will have a SVG display within the IDE while I can edit the generative code. This makes a nice ~5s live reloading development loop. Not bad.

The problem of this is that it's a generator, it yields a lot of different results. So I usually would just have a "seed" parameter exposed on the CLI and generate a folder with tons of images. Not very practical neither.

This time was still a bit of this for the initial development. But at some point I have to really think about the rarity of the results and trying to make everything interesting and unique. on my JavaScript side, I have a `generateVariables(random)` function that takes a RNG and yield a bunch of parameters to give to my generator as well as all the "features" to put in the NFT metadata.

### rarity analysis

This was really useful to split this in a dedicated file, because I could then develop a small node script that would do an analysis on 100 000 tries and give me stats about rarity. For instance:

```
Ink Sherwood Green
 undefined: 95.2%
 Mountain: 2.1%
 Stars: 2.1%
 Both: 0.6%
Inks Count
 2: 71.7%
 1: 28.3%
Mountains 2-Colors
 No: 80.6%
 Yes: 19.4%
Mountains Visibility
 Low: 46.7%
 High: 34.8%
 Full: 10.8%
 Empty: 7.7%
```

Which is super useful to try to classify and adjust how much you want a given case to occur. Indeed it forces you to really think about your classification first.

### as a query language

Ok, now what's super cool about this is I have a way to query my generator to give me a result of a given query!! So I made it work. Here are few examples:

```
node script.mjs 'p["Primitives"] > 4 && p["Inks Count"]==2'
ooa7qfERP3s73oycm7hvvtexuidFMvHtcr6dcLRHSpM9Uz33gVt
...
node script.mjs '(p["Ink Aurora Borealis"] && p["Ink Poppy Red"]) && p["Primitives"]>4 && o.a1 > 0.5 && o.f1 > 0.02 && p["Elements Count"]=="Normal" && p["Mountains Visibility"]=="Low"'
ooAzT5R8UgCy7eFYbvtryykBt8AVVBf25MQG7eknVfzHstahomV
```

the query is literally JavaScript code. And here is the simple script to run it:

```js
const predicate = new Function("p,o", "return (" + (argv2 || "true") + ")");
let r, hash;
do {
 const { fxhash, random } = newRandom();
 r = generateVariables(random);
 hash = fxhash;
} while(!predicate(r.props, r.opts));
console.log(hash);
```

### generating the .svg files in a folder

I didn't plan to explain in depth my tech stack because it would deserve a whole article, but to summarize: **generator is developed in Rust language, compiled in WASM which takes props and outputs SVG, which is rendered with WebGL shaders (sorry for your headaches)**

WASM can run in a web browser and is pretty efficient. (I'm not sure you can say the same of p5js for instance)

What's cool is WASM can also run in Node.js. So putting together that `generateVariables(random)` and even the query system, I ended up with a very powerful tool.

For instance, here I could generate a lot of results that have Blue Mountain and either Yellow or Pink moons:

```
node script.mjs '(p["Ink Amber"] || p["Ink Pink"]) && p["Ink Bloody Brexit"]=="Mountain"'
```

<img width="100%" src="/images/2021/12/plottable-mountain-moons/folder.jpg">

Pretty cool hey!

and the JavaScript is faily simple evolution of the previous code:

```js
const wasmBuffer = fs.readFileSync(path.join(__dirname, "./rust/pkg/main_bg.wasm"));
const wasmLoad = import("./rust/pkg/main.mjs");
wasmLoad.then(async (wasmModule) => {
 await wasmModule.default(wasmBuffer);
 const predicate = new Function("p,o", "return (" + (argv2 || "true") + ")");
 let r, hash;
 while (true) {
 const { fxhash, random } = newRandom();
 r = generateVariables(random);
 hash = fxhash;
 if (predicate(r.props, r.opts)) {
 const svg = wasmModule.render(r.opts);
 fs.writeFileSync("dist/" + hash + ".svg", svg, "utf-8");
 }
 }
})
```

I will definitely reuse this idea in the future. **With powerful tools comes great responsibilities!**

I plan to release a plottable generator every Wednesday – this article covers today's release & share some thoughts on how to approach generative art variety.

“Plottable Mountain Moons” and an approach to query generative art

[plotnft]: https://greweb.me/plots/nft
[fxhash]: https://www.fxhash.xyz/generative/1050


## The "Plottable NFT" paradigm

I've finalized what will be my paradigm for the next weeks and months:

- I will release a digital version of my work using NFTs and notably generative art NFT platforms.
- I will allow the NFT owners to request a physical plot on demand. ([https://greweb.me/plots/nft][plotnft])

### A collaborative and open ecosystem

The NFT, like any regular NFT, points to a digital artwork that can be sold and resold on second market – blockchain guarantees its unicity.

In the "Plottable NFT", such **NFT gives a privilege to its owner: requesting a physical plot** (with an artistic fee to cover costs, [see /plots/nft][plotnft]). This obviously can be executed multiple times, yet every physical piece is unique: plotting is an analog process that will inevitably yield different results.

[https://greweb.me/plots/nft][plotnft] sets my own "plotting services" terms but any other plotter artist is welcome to collaborate and contribute to offering to the community their own services under their own terms and interpretation of the art – I would just ask to verify that the requester owns the NFT.

<img width="100%" src="/images/2021/11/plottablestorm/schema.png">

The NFT vs physical art decoupling allows a business model that allows both the digital creator and the physical creator to be rewarded and makes the NFT truly interesting as a token that has a real-life action: to unlock physical pieces.

> You can be your own artist too, buy a plotter, try it out! This is all designed to be open-source friendly and you can download the SVG yourself!

## @greweb's generative art, plotting and NFTs

### RELEASING "Plottable Storm" on fxhash.xyz

[**=> Check my profile on fxhash.xyz <=**][fxhash]

**Here is one digital ink simulated version: (this is not a photo!)**

<img width="100%" src="/images/2021/11/plottablestorm/digital.jpg">

**Here is the physically plotted version: (photo of the 3 hours long plot on A4 paper)**

<img width="100%" src="/images/2021/11/plottablestorm/physical.jpg">


This work is based on one of my original exploration: [https://greweb.me/plots/312](https://greweb.me/plots/312).

> Plottable Storm is a flow field simulating fountain pen ink drawing on paper on its digital form. 10 inks, many rarity features varying noise, size and color positionning. Having only one color is rare.
> The digital NFTs can be used to perform a physical action: @greweb plotting on demand a fountain pen plot for those who also want physical originals.
>
> Digital and Physical art, hybrid and decoupled:
> - The art is made as a regular digital NFT on Tezos blockchain – its digital form rendered with WebGL shaders.
> - Token to the physical world: owning each NFT confer the power to request the related physical plot.
> 
> A collaborative and open ecosystem: an SVG file can be downloaded (Drag&Drop or right-click save) and plotted with fountain pens physically by plotter artists who can interpret it the way they want in their own conditions. @greweb offers his service on https://greweb.me/plots/nft
> 
> Designed for A4 size. Estimated time of 3 hours of plotting time (25% speed)


**Here are a few other physical plots made during the exploration**, especially important to tweak the generator to make a plot that would be feasible without damaging the paper too much!

<img width="100%" src="/images/2021/11/plottablestorm/2.jpg">
<img width="100%" src="/images/2021/11/plottablestorm/3.jpg">
<img width="100%" src="/images/2021/11/plottablestorm/4.jpg">

### Coming from past explorations

This latest work is a continuation of a lot of previous explorations. In the past months, I've been continuously exploring different ways to combine physical art with digital NFT and one of the recent way I've been trying this is ["Pattern 03" (article)](/2021/08/pattern-03).

I've been polishing my ink simulator lately and based on the same principle I will be able to generate more plots and have easy ways to iterate on. The tech stack is a bit ambitious, experimental and unique:

- The SVG generator is implemented in Rust language and then compiled and executed in WASM on the browser.
- It is rendered in real time and enhanced with WebGL shaders.

In context of [Ethereum absured fees](https://etherscan.io/gastracker), I've decided to focus my NFT effort on other blockchains like Tezos. I'm also focusing even more on my "plottable art" lately because, even if it's maybe not where I find the most sucess, it is definitely what I love the most experimenting with. There are so much challenge to tackle with the physical ink and paper constraints.

### Future plans

This year, I've been releasing a plot a day as shown on [https://greweb.me/plots](https://greweb.me/plots) and I intend to continue to do so, but in a more organized way:

**On the next weeks, and on a weekly basis,** I intend to release a new plottable NFT generator on fxhash. "Plottable Storm" is hopefully the series of many! I will adapt some of my best plotting explorations of this year but I also plan to dedicate time on exploring new ideas.

**Starting next year, on a monthly basis,** I intend to have a "subscribe to my plots" series where people would receive surprise plots in their mailbox from me and using a NFT membership system. The idea is still a work in progress – **Would you be interested in this idea? Don't hesitate to keep in touch with me if you like this concept.**

I will release a digital version of my work using NFTs and notably generative art NFT platforms. I will allow the NFT owners to request a physical plot on demand.

“Plottable Storm”, a generator of plottable SVGs

This weekend, a new platform called fxhash emerged on https://fxhash.xyz/, which opens to everyone the release of NFT art generators – similar to artblocks.io but on the Tezos blockchain. 

This platform have a lot of hicetnunc's vibe when it was released back in March: it is very experimental yet a huge community is jumping into it – this was long awaited on Tezos. It is trustless and fully opened like hicetnunc was. Despite being in a beta state, there is already a decent UX and DX (developer experience): The developer onboarding might be one of the best among all the generative art platform I've been able to test. Without contacting anyone, I was able to publish my first generator. You get guided interactively and end to end from testing your generator, snapshotting the preview and signing transactions to publish it. It is completely trustless and autonomous.

**Beware the platform is still barely working due to heavy load from the community trying to jump into it.**

This weekend, I released a variant of one of my "shaderday" to make "Wave":


> Wave by @greweb – https://www.fxhash.xyz/generative/67
>
> <img width="60%" src="/images/2021/11/duality/wave.gif"/>



I will now release a new generator called 'Duality' – heavily inspired from https://greweb.me/shaderday/65 but with a lot of variety of results and loop possible.

## Duality

will appear soon on https://www.fxhash.xyz/u/greweb

> Duality is a minimalistic loop of circles and squares jumping between dark and light sides. wide variety of effects using repetitions, polar modulus, disc and squares. There are very rare cases implemented that may be revealed over mints! A generalization of my "Jumping Blob" creation – develop in 2021 under water by @greweb.

<img width="100%" src="/images/2021/11/duality/a.gif"/>
<img width="50%" src="/images/2021/11/duality/b.gif"/><img width="50%" src="/images/2021/11/duality/c.gif"/>
<img width="50%" src="/images/2021/11/duality/d.gif"/><img width="50%" src="/images/2021/11/duality/e.gif"/>
<img width="50%" src="/images/2021/11/duality/f.gif"/><img width="50%" src="/images/2021/11/duality/g.gif"/>
<img width="50%" src="/images/2021/11/duality/h.gif"/><img width="50%" src="/images/2021/11/duality/i.gif"/>

fxhash: duality

- [Pre-release article](/2021/08/pattern-03)
- [Post article: Part 1: covering the rarity aspects](/2021/08/the-day-after-pattern-03)
- [Post article: Part 2: covering the future plots](/2021/08/plotting-pattern-03)

> 🤗 **The ethblock.art BlockStyle ['Pattern 03'](https://ethblock.art/style/32) sold out yesterday in only 2 hours with 888 pieces.** I still can't believe it. There are no words to describe how thankful I am for all your support. THANK YOU!

You can browse through the mints on [https://ethblock.art/style/32](https://ethblock.art/style/32).

As a first disclaimer, I will have to say it's nearly impossible to cover in this article all of the 888 or even to classify them, there are amazing discoveries. I will highlight some of them.

## Rarity in ethblock.art

With ethblock.art there is always a search for the rare piece. This happens because everyone wants to find the pearl that no one will have, the one that will be unique among them all. Nevertheless, the rarity often appears where no one expected. There is also a bit of game theory at play here: if everyone mints the same rarity, it's not reeeaaally rare anymore in the final collection. What makes a great piece ultimately is the general composition and the (relative) beauty of the piece. I would always recommend not necessarily to search for the "rarity by design" (by the BlockStyle creator rules) but to find something that you like with all these components at play.

In the case of 'Pattern 03', some very cool patterns emerged. Symmetry plays an important role to reveal it, like in Nature.

The metadata of OpenSea are still loading as we speak but I'm going to highlight a small analysis of what happened with some of the picks to explain it.

## Designed rarity of Pattern 03

There were a few elements that were covered yesterday (check the [Pre-release article](/2021/08/pattern-03)) and that took an important part yesterday.

### Crosshatch shape

This shape has been used relatively popularly as it's quite rare.

Here are many examples:


[*#6824 BY BITSIKKA.ETH* ![](/images/2021/08/picks/6824.png)](https://ethblock.art/view/6824)
[*#6739 BY 0X8A53...63CF* ![](/images/2021/08/picks/6739.png)](https://ethblock.art/view/6739)
[*#6813 BY 0XE20A...866E* ![](/images/2021/08/picks/6813.png)](https://ethblock.art/view/6813)
[*#6807 BY J0RDAN.ETH* ![](/images/2021/08/picks/6807.png)](https://ethblock.art/view/6807)
[*#6931 BY SETANIMALS.ETH* ![](/images/2021/08/picks/6931.png)](https://ethblock.art/view/6931)
[*#6611 BY KLEINTONNO.ETH* ![](/images/2021/08/picks/6611.png)](https://ethblock.art/view/6611)

### The symmetry

Symmetry helped a lot on revealing some human / animals patterns and let me highlight some.

[*#6991 BY 0X5A17...4A17* ![](/images/2021/08/picks/6991.png)](https://ethblock.art/view/6991)
[*#6958 BY 0XB84D...04D3* ![](/images/2021/08/picks/6958.png)](https://ethblock.art/view/6958)
[*#6766 BY BITSIKKA.ETH* ![](/images/2021/08/picks/6766.png)](https://ethblock.art/view/6766)
[*#6776 BY 0XB8BA...F556* ![](/images/2021/08/picks/6776.png)](https://ethblock.art/view/6776)
[*#6778 BY 0X27F8...269B* ![](/images/2021/08/picks/6778.png)](https://ethblock.art/view/6778)
[*#6766 BY BITSIKKA.ETH* ![](/images/2021/08/picks/6766.png)](https://ethblock.art/view/6766)
[*#7154 BY 0X2D55...8034* ![](/images/2021/08/picks/7154.png)](https://ethblock.art/view/7154)
[*#6808 BY 0X3037...CF6E* ![](/images/2021/08/picks/6808.png)](https://ethblock.art/view/6808)
[*#6817 BY 0XE63E...1D85* ![](/images/2021/08/picks/6817.png)](https://ethblock.art/view/6817)

### inks used

As I expected, black was the most common ink used. It's pretty good to get nice contrasts, especially on important patterns.

Black is 25% of plots, then comes "Bloody Brexit" ink which is a dark blue (about 10%). then the great "Red Dragon" which is a strong red (about 8%). Then indigo and turquoise take about 5% each.

I don't have precise stats because OpenSea is still indexing.

### colors-duality

About 20% of the picks are using two colors so it was an undeniable search from minters.

I was very interested by the combination of colors that were chosen, some I had never considered in the past and it truely was a revelation to me on some ink coupling to try more in future.

[*#6824 BY BITSIKKA.ETH* ![](/images/2021/08/picks/6815.png)](https://ethblock.art/view/6815)

[*#7000 BY PLAYPAUSESTOP.ETH* ![](/images/2021/08/picks/7000.png)](https://ethblock.art/view/7000)

[*#7013 BY 0X81E5...5D63* ![](/images/2021/08/picks/7013.png)](https://ethblock.art/view/7013)

[*#6790 BY 0XB8BA...F556* ![](/images/2021/08/picks/6790.png)](https://ethblock.art/view/6790)

[*#6832 BY 0X42AD...B84E* ![](/images/2021/08/picks/6832.png)](https://ethblock.art/view/6832)

[*#7030 BY 0X6E82...918E* ![](/images/2021/08/picks/7030.png)](https://ethblock.art/view/7030)

[*#6637 BY 0XB8BA...F556* ![](/images/2021/08/picks/6637.png)](https://ethblock.art/view/6637)

## Undocumented rarity of Pattern 03

There were a few surprises that I didn't document but that some of you found out!

### "partial" lines

Another dimension of the "colors duality" is actually to have the second color not plotted at all, it makes it back to one color but with part of the pattern that is simply disabled.

It's about as rare as having a dual color. And it was used by a few pieces.

**it allowed to keep only one line here:**

[*#6777 BY 0X44DC...F3BD* ![](/images/2021/08/picks/6777.png)](https://ethblock.art/view/6777)
[*#6736 BY 0X04C4...A644* ![](/images/2021/08/picks/6736.png)](https://ethblock.art/view/6736)

there are many other examples of "partial" lines.

### The "strikethrough" lines.

I've made it possible that on top of borders, there would be some strikethrough lines. It was both a really rare feature and also very hard to use properly in a way that it's really estetic. It allows to "divide" the space of the canvas.

Here are technically all the possible strikethrough:

<img src="/images/2021/08/strikethrough.jpg" width="400"/>

Here is a prototype plot that shows how lines blends:

<img src="/images/2021/08/strikethrough-pic.jpg" width="400"/>

It's not easy to "simulate" in the digital version and be 1:1 with the physical result because all the parameters at stake with the fountain pen, ink and paper.

Technically, the SVG have a lot of lines that goes back and forth to achieve this:

<img src="/images/2021/08/strikethrough-spec.png" width="800"/>

One of the mint:

[*#6979 BY 0XBA29...0345* ![](/images/2021/08/picks/6979.png)](https://ethblock.art/view/6979)

### Ink saturation

One of the important feature I developed was to try to simulate the effect of important amount of ink. This is something you can see at stake in https://mountainofink.com/blog/diamine-pink which is one of the ink I use.

Here are 3 examples:

[*#6802 BY 0X04C4...A644* ![](/images/2021/08/picks/6802.png)](https://ethblock.art/view/6802)
[*#6804 BY 0XAE68...FBE3* ![](/images/2021/08/picks/6804.png)](https://ethblock.art/view/6804)
[*#6800 BY 0XE20A...866E* ![](/images/2021/08/picks/6800.png)](https://ethblock.art/view/6800)

that last one will be particularly interesting to plot because of the "red-ish" effect of that ink.

### Curly loops: a rarity that wasn't found! (correct me if i'm wrong)

There were a rare possibility that the displacement would have been so high that it would have make lines curly.

This was in the prototype:

<img src="/images/2021/08/picks/curly.png" width="400"/>

I have to admit this property is pushing the plotting to a certain extreme because small curls often will be too hard for the paper and the pen will start digging through it. So i'm relief 50% of the plots are not like this. 😅

## Organic rarity

There are rarity aspects that happened organically and that I didn't planned or anticipate at all. That is the beauty of generative art in general. It goes beyond its creator.

### low/stable `f` noise values

(refer to [first article](/2021/08/pattern-03) for explanation of `f`)

While there were indeed a possibility for the `f` value to go low or having a very similar value, I didn't anticipate it would be used as a feature and having other factors (e.g. `displacement`)

So these art appear to not have `f` noises at all:

(fun fact, this block was minted [3 times!](https://opensea.io/collection/blockart?search[stringTraits][0][name]=BlockNumber&search[stringTraits][0][values][0]=13115508))
[*#7025 BY 0X91D7...28B3* ![](/images/2021/08/picks/7025.png)](https://ethblock.art/view/7025)

as well as this one which nearly have no `f` but have an heavy cos displacement and a pattern I never expected:

[*#7182 BY 0X7DB2...E04B* ![](/images/2021/08/picks/7182.png)](https://ethblock.art/view/7182)

There are a few similar pieces having these wavy displacement

[*#7193 BY 0X9422...17DF* ![](/images/2021/08/picks/7193.png)](https://ethblock.art/view/7193)
[*#6938 BY ZEROLIGHTING.ETH* ![](/images/2021/08/picks/6938.png)](https://ethblock.art/view/6938)

### Great usage of the "radial gradient"

One uncommon feature of the generator was to create concentric circles. It can happen either by "removing" or by "adding" into the `f` factor. It was curated in various interesting ways.

[*#7049 BY PSYCHOKILLER.ETH* ![](/images/2021/08/picks/7049.png)](https://ethblock.art/view/7049)
[*#7042 BY GABRIELLEMIC.ETH* ![](/images/2021/08/picks/7042.png)](https://ethblock.art/view/7042)
[*#7178 BY PBOCK.ETH* ![](/images/2021/08/picks/7178.png)](https://ethblock.art/view/7178)
[*#6714 BY 0XE20A...866E* ![](/images/2021/08/picks/6714.png)](https://ethblock.art/view/6714)

### Pushing the plots to their extreme

I'm not astonished that some mints pushed the generator to its extreme boundaries but some of the picks still surprised me.

**very low line resolution (mod5) with white holes:**

[*#7056 BY 0XBA29...0345* ![](/images/2021/08/picks/7056.png)](https://ethblock.art/view/7056)

**extreme displacement and f going beyond 1.0 (so it overlaps the next line)**

[*#7040 BY 0XD21A...100C* ![](/images/2021/08/picks/7040.png)](https://ethblock.art/view/7040)

**one liner**

[*#7151 BY 0X5AB4...BAD5* ![](/images/2021/08/picks/7151.png)](https://ethblock.art/view/7151)

**invisible art** (which funnily I tried to prevent but you still found one!)

[*#6900 BY 0X81E5...5D63* ![](/images/2021/08/picks/6900.png)](https://ethblock.art/view/6900)

**extreme amount of lines**

[*#6640 BY 0X8A53...63CF* ![](/images/2021/08/picks/6640.png)](https://ethblock.art/view/6640)


**A LOT OF OTHER COOL THINGS! impossible to cover everything.**

[Next article on the future plots](/2021/08/plotting-pattern-03)

The ethblock.art BlockStyle 'Pattern 03' sold out yesterday in only 2 hours with 888 pieces. The day after Pattern 03, covering the rarity aspects.

The day after Pattern 03 (1/2)

- [Pre-release article](/2021/08/pattern-03)
- [Post article: Part 1: covering the rarity aspects](/2021/08/the-day-after-pattern-03)
- [Post article: Part 2: covering the future plots](/2021/08/plotting-pattern-03)


> 🤗 **The claiming phase has ended. Please now refer to https://greweb.me/plots/nft if you want a physical plot.**

## What about the physical art?

Quick recap of the philosophy announced before the BlockStyle was released:

**Decoupling physical art from its digital form:** Not all digital NFT collectors also are physical collectors. It is therefore important to allow both to co-exist without having a limitation on any side.

**Openness and scalability of physical plotting**. The digital NFT have a "SVG" button on hover which allow to download the SVG file (right click, download). The SVG format is a vectorial format that is used to define all the "paths" of drawing. It is the recipe to plots. That way, this is truly scalable and decentralized. Like blockchain is. I am not necessarily the only one that can plot the work physically. It could be you. It could be another artist. This model allows it.

**An economy around the digital NFTs?** In this decoupled model, 'Pattern 03' digital NFT are the main pivot NFTs at stake. an economy can be built around them. Physical artists can plot them, create & sell on side collection that allows the second market to grow. There are many ways this can be traded: for instance swapping the digital NFT as a currency is a possibility that would be recommended, but so is doing a more regular "selling print as a service"... Ultimately, the physical artist value their own skills, own "touch" – a bit like a baker can sell baguettes with a shared recipe designed by ancestors.

## *"@greweb 'Pattern 03' plots"* collection

A collection [*"@greweb 'Pattern 03' plots"*](https://opensea.io/collection/greweb-pattern-03-plots) has been created on OpenSea.
It will curate plots that I will start drawing in the coming days.

It's going to be a time-consuming process as a plot takes about 1 hour to perform (depending on settings and complexity of the lines). The physical art is designed to be plotted with fountain pens on A4 water-colour 300g paper and then cut into a 21 by 21 centimeters piece with a 5mm padding (so your art is a 20x20cm square). The planned inks to use are those described by the "Ink" trait (Diamine inks). The digital NFT has simulated a rendering that will be relatively well respected. There is going to be unpredictability when plotting it for real.

> Disclaimer: Beware I will likely not be able to plot them all. There are 888 items and it takes an average 1 hour to plot. However, I'll start plotting following a bit this curation decision process:
> - personal favorite picks
> - I will look at Opensea most starred NFTs
> - I will look at Opensea most sold NFTs
> - also if you really want the physical piece. e.g. if you ask me on Discord / Twitter. I can sure take request and add it in the wished list But I can't guarantee it as it would probably takes me 800 hours =)

## [EXPIRED] First phase: 🎉 claim a physical plot *before November 1st, 2021*

This first phase will ends on November 1st, 2021 for all physical NFTs. The presented offer will only be available during that time. The NFT physical I own after this time will still be owned by me and a second phase will be documented later.

**How did it work?**

You can claim a physical NFT (created on the collection shared above) **as long as you own the digital NFT**. 

To claim it, you make a small Offer on the NFT physical (pay what you want, e.g. 0.03 WETH – ideally >0.02 to cover the mint cost) so I can verify you are the NFT digital owner & proceed to the NFT transfer of that 'physical NFT'.

You will then get a code to obtain it physically.

**How shipping works?**
- The 'physical NFT', once acquires, will have unlockable content with instructions on how to contact me for proceeding to shipping.
- **IMPORTANT: Please use a PO Box or other postal service ( e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poste_restante ). I do not want to know your home address, thanks.**
- On my side, I will use a simple (possibly tracked) letter to ship the 20x20cm art internationally.

## second phase

**The second phase is done via https://greweb.me/plots/nft**


<img width="50%" src="/images/2021/08/artist-1.jpg" /><img width="50%" src="/images/2021/08/artist-2.jpg" />

The ethblock.art BlockStyle 'Pattern 03' sold out yesterday in only 2 hours with 888 pieces. Let's cover what's next with future plots.

The day after Pattern 03 (2/2)

See follow-up articles:

- [Post article: Part 1: covering the rarity aspects](/2021/08/the-day-after-pattern-03)
- [Post article: Part 2: covering the future plots](/2021/08/plotting-pattern-03)

🤗 **The ethblock.art BlockStyle ['Pattern 03'](https://ethblock.art/style/32) was released on August 28th, 2021 and sold out in only 2 hours with 888 pieces.**

Pattern 03 is a tribute to fountain pen plotting, generating strokes lines to yield unique patterns. It recreates the condition of ink on paper in a digital art form. The second market will be exciting as these are also physically plottable. A SVG file can be downloaded from each NFT that is the recipe for a physical artist to perform the art physically (20cm square), with their own tools.

This article goes through many features of the generator and includes plotting tricks, technical notes, and useful information for collectors. You will see images attached, both digital and physical prototypes, at the end the rendering is very similar!

<img width="50%" src="/images/2021/08/pattern-03-post.jpg" /><img width="50%" src="/images/blockstyles/pattern-03/01.png" />

For many months, I've been exploring plotting art with fountain pens while exploring many different creative coding techniques. Every day, I've been releasing generators and plotting art that you can find on https://greweb.me/plots. This has been very interesting both technically and artistically. I expanded more and more my algorithm knowledge and creative coding techniques. These various experiences now contribute to this next level: I've made a "super generator" that generalizes many of them into one bundled *ethblock.art* BlockStyle generator.

Pattern 03 took a lot of patience and iterations to achieve its final result. I put my own expectation pretty high, I wanted great variety (and tweaking parameters is always hard). I also wanted a very realistic rendering technique that would almost look like the physical piece. The digital version had to be as good, if not better, than the possible physical piece that it could produce. I believe a lot in digital NFT by itself and the goal is to embrace digital-first.

In the past months, I've been thinking a lot about NFTs and the possibilities of physical VS digital art. I see many artists bridging the two worlds as well, there are many great experiments out there, I collected a bunch of physical art myself via NFTs. You already saw me already trying this ["plot loops"](/2021/05/plot-loops) concept.

**By minting on the generator, you are generating digital art.**

A lot of effort has been spent on the digital piece itself. It renders in a very realistic way on your browser, almost like if it was plotted, simulating many aspects of plotting. There is even a slight animation that I let you discover! The digital art is a unique 1:1 piece that will be an NFT that includes the SVG recipe:

 **By minting on the generator, you are curating one recipe for a possible plot.**

I've been plotting many prototypes to tweak parameters in a way that everything should technically be drawn with fountain pens! By minting, you are curating a plottable art that an artist from the plotting community could use. I've intentionally made it public and open for anyone to download the SVG related to a mint piece: ultimately anyone can plot it. This only unlocks the possibility and I will personally be one of this "physical artist" for the coming weeks. **(see *NFT and physical pieces?* section for more information)**

**By minting on the generator, you are a curator of the future plot collection.**

Giving the possibility for curators to select plotted art out of a generator with fine controls to tweak it is beyond anything I've seen done today in this field. In fine, minters have the responsibility to chose something really interesting that worth plotting, to express this responsibility, the fees to mint has been a bit higher than my previous BlockStyle.

 
 What I now want to achieve is to make the NFT as good "digitally" as it can be "physically". I've been plotting many prototypes to tweak parameters in a way that everything should technically be drawn with fountain pens! I want this art to be both physical and digital and in a loosely coupled way that gives full freedom of preferring one or the other or both.

 I intend later to offer a way for collectors to obtain the physical creation from me, but I believe this idea is beyond me and anyone in the plotting community could pick these to plot them. I believe a lot in free art, opensource and hacking mindset. I enjoy a lot free initiative like [plotterfiles.com](https://plotterfiles.com/) and this was a great inspiration here.

## What is EthBlock.art?

Before talking about 'Pattern 03', a quick recap of the platform I'm releasing on:

EthBlock.art aims to create a virtuous ecosystem of "deterministic art", code visualization of Ethereum blocks. Everything is data: from the ethereum block of transactions, to the code that visualizes it, and to the NFTs minted/traded using Ethereum transactions (that themselves are into Ethereum blocks).

This is a virtuous ecosystem, similar to [Supply Chain Transformation concepts](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value_chain): each actor in this ecosystem add value and get retributed for it, as I tried to explain in this schema:

![](/images/posts/cryptoaliens/ethblockart.png)

## The controls

As a minter, you get 6 "mods" controls.

- **MOD1:** allows you to pick your color. which recreates the conditions of some inks. Black is very powerful but also other inks are very vivid.

- **MOD2:** is controlling two factors, the border width (0.5 to 1.0) and the intensity of the noise (cycles twice).

- **MOD3:** is a general padding control and also tweaks border placement and sometimes lines distance.

- **MOD4:** control the alignment of waves and the amplitude of the "displacement" effect.

- **MOD5:** controls the resolution of each line. (beware high values slows down other mods)

- **MOD6:** adds a variable blur effect.

> MOD2 to MOD5 are controlling at least two properties of the art. This is something I like to call the "duality of controls". When you make one slider controlling two properties, you are giving a lot of variety while "constraining" the boundaries of the possible tweaks, forcing the minter to look for other blocks. This also is very important for the UX of the controls. There is always a tradeoff between being fully in control and having to search another block.

## Rarity features, block data and what drives the generation

In JavaScript is implemented the logic to extract out the "parameters" of the generator from the block data. While some of the work relies on the block hash and use an RNG (fun fact: there are 70 calls to `random()` to make it very diverse in results and rarity), some of the work also are big data analysis on the block data.

I'm going to document here how some of the main features work, You can do a general Ethereum blocks analysis to find the shape you prefer!

There are some other rarity features that I intentionally do not fully document. You do not need to "hunt" for the rarity that is "designed by the author", but instead search for the organic rarity & enjoy patterns and unexpected shapes.

> I crawled a lot of data from coingecko and etherscan to snapshot the prices of all ERC20 tokens in a way that I can value exactly how much a block have in $. I can then compare the Ethereum value and the ERC20 tokens value and do decisions based on it. (evaluated with Aug 2021 static prices)

### Main shapes

This most important feature split is the main shapes:

- If there is at least one transaction and mostly only Ethereum is transferred on that block (which is the case for very old blocks btw), you're going to get a **"rectangle spiral"**.
- If more $ is transferred in ETH than in ERC20 tokens, it's going to be **vertical lines**, **horizontal otherwise**.
- And finally, if there are actually exceptional amounts of ERC20 transfers (mostly only ERC20 transfers) it's going to Cross-Hatch.


### lines and "sub-lines"

**First: The plots are all composed of N main lines.**

The number of lines are driven by the number of transactions. More there are transactions in the minted art, more likely the number of lines will be high. This goes between 1 and 90 and these extremes are rare.

**Second: each line subdivide into M "sub-lines".**

It is most visible when there are not a lot of "lines" as it will diverge so much that sublines are no longer touching:

![](/images/2021/08/turquoise-crosshatch.jpg)

but it can also be subtle and not separate at all:

![](/images/2021/08/orange_lines.jpg)

### `f` main driver of curves

What I call `f` is a function that drives the sublines positioning and effectively makes them expanding or collapsing into one same line.

It is implemented using various noises and combined with different techniques. The following plot is covering most of them:

![](/images/2021/08/pink-osc.jpg)

- the general noise effect is the most common feature here and is available 99% of the time (not having this noise is rare). It is built with Simplex Noise and domain warping.
- the circling is an added feature that is not very common. It can have various properties.

There are also other cases like the fact lines would sometimes stop when the `f` values goes below 0.0.

### `displacement` second driver of curves

Displacement is a similar yet different technique. It allows displacing the whole lines independently of the `f` values. 

- The waving effect seen in the pink image above is produced with simple trigonometry.
- It can aggressively make lines moving a lot, even "looping" sometimes.

Displacement is overall a relatively rare feature. It is also one possible source of trouble for plotting (can dig the paper if you draw too much at the same place!) so it was pretty well contained.

Here is an example of displacement with aggressive settings:

![](/images/2021/08/aggressive-displacement.jpeg)

> It looks like a photo but this is actually the digital version!

### Inks and colors

The curator-artist chose one color among 11 inks. Each ink has various properties and some are very vivid. I would overall recommend black which produces very good contrast plots, but it's great to have the general possibility.

![](/images/2021/08/inks.jpg)

There are some plots that have color duality and that can also be plotted:

![](/images/2021/08/color-duality.jpg)

> This is a prototype and I was not careful as the corner and the final line scratch. Plotting is a challenge!

## Plot optimizations

A plotter is a machine that follows your drawing paths, here using SVG. When you do a SVG `<path>` every `move` (M) will be an actual move so you got to avoid useless moves. As it's easy to "move to the start" in algorithms, something that should not happen here.

Sometimes, the pen also was going up where I planned to "continue", this was the case of the initial algorithm of the "rectangle spiral", I avoided doing moves and preferred to connect lines.

To optimize the traveling of plotting lines, I've made it go back and forth: The first line is drawn from left to right, the second line gets drawn from right to left, and so on... This allows to avoid too much undesired ink accumulation or other pen/paper issues by alternating the direction.

Another problem I've optimized is the order of plotting lines and sublines. Instead of plotting all sublines in once, I preferred to plot the first subline of each line, then the second subline of each line, and so on... Despite the small extra move it requires, it's very important to balance the ink evenly as some inks tend to "dry" a bit over time which makes the drawing "fade away" as it flows. What's interesting is you can see the fading happening on each line:

![](/images/2021/08/strokes-zoom.jpg)

which is something I've simulated on the digital piece too! The effect varies from one ink to another.

> See also how the ink behaves on this photo? accumulation of this ink produces red-ish colors. Something that can be observed on the digital generator as well!

## Technical stack

Technically speaking, I believe this is the best achievement I did in a few years and profoundly refreshing. I managed to connect my creative coding pipeline: Rust generating SVG files, used through WASM and post-processed in WebGL to add extra effects and simulate the ink drawing. This was a blast to put these all together and I feel I've found something I'll keep doing in the next weeks and months.

The choice to use Rust was initially a personal exploration, using a language that is meant to be performant while being relatively high level and functional. It's something I did initially for plots and it helped on time-consuming algorithm. I've used it here for two reasons: first of all, most of my tooling for plotting is written in Rust, I'm very fluent it in now and I have many helpers I could reuse, secondly, there is a gain of performance. I have initially written my code in JavaScript and had some bad performance on the simple templating of the SVG code, I've estimated a gain of about x2 on the performance of using Rust. There are no super complex algorithms here, but it's still 2-3 loops with big iterations on them. The performance overall can still feel a bit slow, but you have to imagine each mod changes regenerate the SVG that can be up to 4 MB of XML.

I didn't try to enable asynchronicity or parallelism but it's something I will dig in the future when I'll do more complex work like shape packing (that can require parallelization).

This is a melting pot of technologies as I had to work on 3 aspects:
- In JavaScript is managed the logic that handles mods and block data and bakes the "parameters" of the generator.
- In Rust is implemented the generator itself, taking parameters in input and resulting SVG file.
- In WebGL/GLSL and gl-react library is implemented the simulation of ink on paper rendering.

## NFT and physical pieces?

The release of "Pattern 03" on EthBlock.art is primarily "digital" NFTs. Every BlockArt is going to be a digital NFT that includes the SVG recipe to make it physical.


**The physical collection is not meant to be 1 physical for 1 digital**. The idea is that the digital NFT remains unique but the physical art can be explored in different ways or ordered multiple times, it will not be guaranteed unique. Actually I can't prevent the plot to be done X times, like anyone can draw X times a La Joconde. However Nature have randomness and each physical plot will be unique.

**This is by design decoupled.**

- There are curators that prefer digital art, this is the BlockArt. There are curators that may be interest by the physical version.

- The "physical artist" do not necessarily need to be the same as the "digital artist". The idea here is the art goes beyond me, the digital pieces are recipes and a community of plotters could be using these digital pieces in different ways under different terms and with their own tools. This is the openness of blockchain and NFT and this is secured by the contracts and the ownership of NFTs.


**What I plan personally to do "as a physical artist"**. Now that this decoupling is explain, let me take the physical artist hat.
As physical plot have some cost, there are many ways to cover this. Indeed the simplest way is just to sell physical goods like a regular marchant.

As I said before *Nature have randomness and each physical plot will be unique.*. As a physical plot is still unique, I will emit an NFT each time I plot something.

In my case, there will be two ways of buying the physical piece:

- Either you will be able to SWAP your digital NFT against the physical NFT. And physical art will be shipped physically to where you want.
- Or you will be able to BUY it, but the price will be intentionally HIGHER than the digital NFT / will be following a bit the "floor price" of the digital NFTs of the collection.

I will also be the one to chose what I plot, I will not necessarily "plot them all" (but I can take requests) and I will not necessarily keep a 1:1 relationship as shared before. Actually, if you chose the SWAP option, I will have back the NFT digital, this is the way I get "paid" as I can then put it back on market.

I believe this ecosystem will be amazing and will allow a lot of options and freedom. I am so thrilled by the possibilities of NFT.

<img width="50%" src="/images/2021/08/artist-1.jpg" /><img width="50%" src="/images/2021/08/artist-2.jpg" />

Pattern 03 is a tribute to fountain pen plotting, generating strokes lines to yield unique patterns. It recreates the condition of ink on paper in a digital art form. The second market will be exciting as these are also physically plottable. A SVG file can be downloaded from each NFT that is the recipe for a physical artist to perform the art physically (20cm square), with their own tools.

Pattern 03, the first plottable generator on ethblock.art

<img width="400" src="/images/2021/05/relics.gif" />

# Releasing **Relics**, my first curated NFT collectible series, on Tezos blockchain and platform [_hicetnunc.xyz_](https://hic.link/greweb).

**Collection:** There are 28 curated visual loops that will be shared on the 7 days of this week. 4 NFT a day. I will use French day names as well as French seasons to name them all.

**Technical:** Relics collection are unique animation made with Perlin noise, cellular automaton and GLSL. The generator is fully open source and available on my website here: https://greweb.me/shaderday/63 as I strongly believe in open sourcing literally everything I do even as an artist. That said, I curated carefully the 28 unique NFTs myself and it's the only official collection of that generator.

> Contact me if you are the buyer to obtain the parameters of your NFT. Unfortunately it's not possible yet to "unlock" content as part of buying a NFT but I would be glad to give you the parameters of your NFT! I can also generate high resolution versions on demand (but also, the open sourced code allows it, once you have these parameters!).

_Lundi d'hiver, Lundi de printemps, Lundi d'été, Lundi d'automne._

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_Mardi d'hiver, Mardi de printemps, Mardi d'été, Mardi d'automne._

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_Mercredi d'hiver, Mercredi de printemps, Mercredi d'été, Mercredi d'automne._

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_Jeudi d'hiver, Jeudi de printemps, Jeudi d'été, Jeudi d'automne._

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_Vendredi d'hiver, Vendredi de printemps, Vendredi d'été, Vendredi d'automne._

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_Samedi d'hiver, Samedi de printemps, Samedi d'été, Samedi d'automne._

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_Dimanche d'hiver, Dimanche de printemps, Dimanche d'été, Dimanche d'automne._

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_published on [hic.link/greweb](https://hic.link/greweb)_

Relics collection are unique animation made with Perlin noise, cellular automaton and GLSL.

Relics NFT collection

I am thrilled to release my first **"plot loop"** and plan to release one every week. Let me explain simply the idea:

- an animation is generated with code, (SVG plottable files)
- Each frame of this animation is plotted physically,
- photographed back into a digital picture,
- and post-processed back into a video that makes it an artistic creation by itself as well as each physical plot being one "edition" of that plot loop series.

> **You can see all my plot loops made so far at [https://greweb.me/plots/tags/plotloop](https://greweb.me/plots/tags/plotloop)**

**So there are two creations:**

- the animation is itself digital art => it is released as an NFT, with as many editions as there are frames.
- each individual frame is physical art => it can be shipped to first buyer.

### Plots and NFT ?!

**Plot loop animations will be released as [Non Fungible Token (NFT)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-i9Jsm95ro)** on [hicetnunc](https://www.hicetnunc.xyz/). It allows anyone with Tezos crypto currency to acquire this video on Tezos blockchain. Digital collectors are collecting one edition of this NFT which adds to their collection: **The NFT video is an art in itself**. On top of this, physical collectors can also claim the shipping of the physical art of the frame corresponding to the collected NFT edition (there is as many editions as there are frames plotted).

**This is a hybrid concept between physical and digital art.** By buying a frame (by order of buy), the first buyer has the possibility to chose what happens to the physical art: either you allow me to keep it OR you can claim it (contact me on Twitter) and have me sending it anywhere in the world!

> I'm writing a bigger article about my recent NFT exploration and my art in general. I've been exploring so many ideas recently. I already sold some plots via NFTs, I am very honored to have found some buyers 😍. They can still be found at [hic.link/greweb](https://hic.link/greweb). I'm currently burning them one after the other to expire the possibility to buy them as I will focus on these new projects.

## First release, the triplanet loop

**hicetnunc NFT: [OBJKT#57902](https://www.hicetnunc.xyz/objkt/57902)**

<a href="/plots/121"><img width="50% " src="/images/plots/121.gif"/></a>

My first plot loop is called "Triplanet". It's a transition of two parametric functions with many perlin noise displacements. This is a continuation of ["Planet Holes"](/plots/100) series as well as recent ["Parametric stack"](/plots/111) explorations.
Every frame is generated with a Rust script I wrote.

**Triplanet was released in [plots#121](/plots/121).** 16 frames have been plotted with fountain pen on bristol paper (ink: Red Dragon by Diamine).

<img width="100%" src="/images/plots/121_walled.jpg"/>
<img width="50%" src="/images/plots/121_zoom.jpg"/><img width="50%" src="/images/plots/121_plot.jpg"/>

**Plotting with fountain pen is challenging** as it requires many search on the ink, paper and many fail and retry. Plotting all these frames took an afternoon.

## What's next?

I plan to release a _plot loop_ every week.

It's taking a lot of time to plot all frames so there are great challenges: first of all is to reduce the number of frames, secondly is to make them worth it, to make them really good: I want every frame to be unique, to include some specific elements, easter eggs, that make it recognizable out of the other frames.

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# Please also check out other great artists

I believe a lot of this hybrid idea of mixing plot, animation, and NFTs. It was very funny for me to see all coïncidence and convergence of ideas on this topic. It's one of these moments when we have the same ideas at the same time. I'm not the only one exploring this and I want to do a big kudos to these great artists.

### Marion [@atelier_marion](https://twitter.com/atelier_marion/status/1388071908575490048)

who recently released a very similar idea! <del>She has 2 more frames yet to be taken!</del> Not anymore!

<a href="https://www.hicetnunc.xyz/objkt/42546"><img src="https://cloudflare-ipfs.com/ipfs/QmXcAWQTaGHQp4BGy1krER284PoaPCNhKYzDrxp86MaM7b" style="max-width: 300px"></a>

She is also creating impressive drawing work as seen on her website: https://www.marionguy.com/shop

### Maks Surguy [@msurguy](https://twitter.com/msurguy)

who is behind [plotterfiles.com](https://plotterfiles.com/) platform. He also does a lot of great plotting art and thought about similar concept recently! [Checkout this article about his work.](https://medium.com/poptwig/artist-in-focus-maks-surguy-26277c95b197)

### Thomas Lin Pedersen [@thomasp85](https://twitter.com/thomasp85)

who is doing a [stuning work](https://www.hicetnunc.xyz/tz/tz2Pkj2xWJovKKCsABjnr3NbyMVJTMBkpTvb) and very impressive landscapes. Also selling NFT for shipping physical print.

He recently did a very cool NFT in collaboration with **Lionel Radisson** [@MAKIO135](https://twitter.com/MAKIO135):

<a href="https://www.hicetnunc.xyz/objkt/53662"><video style="max-width: 300px" controls autoplay loop src="https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmaGfhSgWX1UTq6jPX11mfHDxccK5eXGYqi6u71zNLaBhY"/></a>

### ...so many other artists!

Let's chat! You can join us on [hicetnunc's discord](https://discord.gg/jKNy6PynPK) on channel #phygital-objkts which explore very similar idea and where other artists will be active!

I'm also available for collaboration.

Releasing my first 'plot loop', generative animation plotted and published as an NFT.