Mathcastles

nonvisual ~eternal artworks @xaltgeist @0x113d

[Mathcastles @mathcastles]

Fantastic overview of Terraforms by @matto__matto

[matto @matto__matto]

Terraforms by @mathcastles is a deep, complex and beautiful on-chain project. In this 10 minute video essay I explain what makes Terraforms so unique, and how our project @hypercastle_exp fits into the ecosystem around it. Clip embedded, full vid on YT: https://t.co/b4pNxVAij7

[SonOfLasG 🧙🏿‍♂️ @Sonoflasg]

Another reason I built the Terraforms test bench was to experiment with generative heightmaps for Daydream parcels.

Many daydream parcels look hand drawn, or like ordinary images converted into heightmaps. No shade. I wanted something more aligned with a system. A system within a system, if you like.

I spent several days looking for inspiration... photographing physical rugs, borrowing from abstract expressionism, mimicking patterns from nature. Then I worked with AI to build algorithms varied enough to keep producing interesting outputs.

Hit Generate, explore seeds, and the latest 16 stay at the bottom of the page so you can revisit them.

This is one of my favourites so far. Undertow...

A small QOL tweak I made last night... the second and third parcels now come from the same Level as the first. One heightmap, one Level, three palettes. It keeps the comparison coherent and shows how much colour varies within a single Level.

[Terraforms sales bot @hypercastle_bot]

#9659 | Level 13 at {38, 18}
0.177 WETH (take-bid)
Daydream Pulse [A]
Arc B41

[-Ian- p20w355 @CryptoProwess]

Goood Morning!!!

Terraforms by Mathcastles has a mechanic most JPEG collectors miss: switching a parcel from Terrain to Daydream is IRREVERSIBLE.

You can then draw on it and commit changes onchain, but the original Terrain mode is gone.

Read the contract before you play god.

[grace @graceb_art]

terraforms level 12 {15, 9}, 2021 @mathcastles @0x113d
live code, live work

[TerraformsOTC @TerraformsOTC]

"Mathematics, as currently practiced, is a command line. We need a better interface."
- Bret Victor
#6881

[SonOfLasG 🧙🏿‍♂️ @Sonoflasg]

Collecting Terraforms has led me to build tools for working with them. I wanted to understand parcels as canvases, and that meant trying to compose with them.

Here, one heightmap runs through three different parcels. The composition stays the same... the colour, texture and rhythm change. Comparing them this way gives me something that looking at each separately doesn’t... a feel for what each parcel brings to what I supply.

This is part of a Terraforms test bench I’m building. Coming to sonoflasg[dot]com/lab soon.

[TerraformsOTC @TerraformsOTC]

Store or do not store there is no file.

[Mathcastles @mathcastles]

Live now in Discord

[plunge @xcoldplunge]

𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗸 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗮𝗿𝘀: the first ever terraforms show and tell is happening this wednesday on the @mathcastles discord server!

All are welcome. Feel free to simply observe, or participate and show off your favorite parcels!

[plunge @xcoldplunge]

Starts in one hour!

https://t.co/e1UkZn7DPt

[Jonas @jonaslamis]

I had no idea that Terraforms by @mathcastles were made of frogs. Level 14 at {46,39} in the @FLAMINGODAO collection. gm.

[plunge @xcoldplunge]

𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗸 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗮𝗿𝘀: the first ever terraforms show and tell is happening this wednesday on the @mathcastles discord server!

All are welcome. Feel free to simply observe, or participate and show off your favorite parcels!

[ars @arsraarsra]

7463, 1476, 4623, 4114, 6433, 8859, 8583, 206, 3959, 78, 7431, 8067, 9249

[ars @arsraarsra]

So it was 2021 and those million dollar NFT headlines had me intrigued enough to try and figure out what the big deal was. I happened upon these animations, scrolling shifting characters and glyphs. Very cool looking, but somehow they were also this floating 3d mega-structure? A thread about how i explored the terraforms

[plunge @xcoldplunge]

I think if more people understood that terraforms are arranged in a three dimensional HYPERCASTLE, more people would be excited about terraforms.

[plunge @xcoldplunge]

I can't look at this parcel without seeing a ghoulish face. Fan of parcels that look like stuff. Fan of terraforms in general tbh.

#5244

[TerraformsOTC @TerraformsOTC]

Terraforms but square.

[TerraformsOTC @TerraformsOTC]

"Imagine a world where artworks are interlinked with each other through code."
- @i_like_calculus
#9902

[lines @null_lines]

[HOME]

[TerraformsOTC @TerraformsOTC]

In the @mathcastles server, flowers flow backward in time.

[TerraformsOTC @TerraformsOTC]

"I don't think Terraforms answers the question. I think it is the question."
- @0x113d, private discussion, June 2024
#5834