Provenance

On February 17th 2006, Noam Galai took a picture of himself screaming. He posted it to his Flickr account and called his self-portrait, “Screaming for Help.” People liked it. They really liked it. Some were inspired. Inspired enough to steal it. After many thousands of versions have been found all around the world, it's now known as “the Stolen Scream.” It is considered one of the most stolen photographs of all time. Today, leveraging the power of blockchain and NgraphT's new digital identity platform, Noam is reclaiming his likeness and original artwork with a unique NFT collection.

Grogu is the cutest thing to come out of Star Wars since that sexually charged kiss between the magic light sword guy and his sister! You must have one for your nerdy collection even though your partner said "no more toys, you're 32 years old!" Everywhere has sold out, but you find something in the dumpster out the back of Forbidden Planet. It's not great but it's good enough to feel like you achieved something today! Plus it was free so you'll only be sleeping on the sofa for a few nights!

Since my last book came out in 2017 I've been developing a huge story project. One part of this project is a character called The Endling. Over the last 5 years I've been creating art to give people a taste of her world, all while building the overall story in the background. I have a lot of art, some of which has already been minted & collected on SuperRare, KnownOrigin & Foundation. But I decided it was time to create a proper collection, and the platform I chose was Foundation. To begin with, I decided to go with the most popular pieces that so far I had been reluctant to mint. They are called 'Duel' and 'Yaeko's Ambush' and are intended to look a little like they are stills from an animated series, even if the aspect ratio doesn't match. Endling's story will be delivered in multiple mediums, and the art pieces are intended as glimpses - hints of something much bigger, and often rendered as a play on those mediums. Meaning - it might look a little like an anime, maybe in the story world there is an anime. Stories within stories, mythologies within mythologies. Tales told around a campfire or on an old VHS tape. And so much more to come...

After 4 months of coding the Generative Glasses is ready! I gained a lot of experience along the way and I really liked the creation process.I wrote an article in which I report on the creation process in more detail. It can be found at the bottom of the page for related articles. thousands of different outputs are possible only code 3D (#webGL #threejs) and 2D (#html5canvas) layers animated interactive (+controls for mobile) augmented reality view different previews: abstract view, product design view, and 2 other view save images from current view in 4k - 3 different aspect ratio save animation (from server side) on http://carco.huCompositions:- There is an abstract view where the parts of the glasses are scattered- There is a front-right view- Front-left view- Top view- Product design view that converts to split screen- Front view where the object falls apart and starts from the abstract view againFirst, one of the 6 compositions comes in and the animation starts. The system randomly determines which composition should be the first in the line. This will also be the saved image that the fxhash system creates. If you don't click or touch anything, the animation will loop continuously. If you click into the area anywhere, the controller will appear and the animation will stop. Until you get to the next composition and the animation stops, the pause button flashes until now you can't press anything, all buttons are disabled. If the animation has stopped, the buttons are enabled again, and you can move the camera in 3D space by dragging. The controls have left and right arrows that can be used to step between compositions. The animation restarts with the play button.There are also a few other buttons:- There is a save button which is a floppy disk. A menu will then appear, offering to save images of different proportions, with the default aspect ratio generated by the program code at the top. (Opening in a new window is required to save an image)- There is a camera icon that restores the original camera view. It is worth pressing this before saving.There are options that are not available for all compositions, they only appear if they are enabled in current composition:- Switch split screen to main camera view, and back (4 squares icon)- Shows and hide Editing lines (pair of compasses)- Shows and hide Callout notations (pencil and ruler)- Shows AR view and stop it (cube icon) (Opening in a new window is required to AR view, more info below)Keyboard controls:Press “5” to save image to default aspect ratioPress “6” to save image to square aspect ratioPress “7” to save image to portrait aspect ratioPress “8” to save image to landscape aspect ratio(Opening in a new window is required to save an image)Press “ArrowDown” for restores the original camera viewPress “D” to switch to next compositionPress “A” to switch to previous compositionPress “S” to start animationPress “Spacebar” to switch to split screen (if it is available)Press “1” to hide/show Editing lines (if it is available)Press “2” to hide/show Callout notations (if it is available)Press “3” to hide/show AR view (Opening in a new window is required to AR view, more info below)AR viewIf you have a camera on your device, you can try out how such glasses would suit you. This function is not available for all compositions, so if you cannot find the cube icon, tab to the next composition and click on the cube icon. I created this function with the help of Tensorflow face landmark detection package. It's not perfect, there are delays, but it's good enough to try out the glasses.More information on how were made Generative Glasses in the related article below.Thank you for your attention! Thanks for the support! Thanks for the opportunity fxhash and genart community! I hope I was able to contribute to generative art with my [email protected]