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
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
"Origin" Terraforms deep dive 🧵
Experienced TF collectors will be familiar with "Origin Daydream" and "Origin Terraform" mode parcels. There are only 167 of them, so they don't trade often. They are never in Terrain mode. They usually have very low token ids.
Why do they exist? And where do they sit in the universe of other "special" parcel types?
My @OmarchyLinux desktop wallpaper is read live from Ethereum.
Terraforms by @mathcastles are fully on-chain, so I made my whole desktop theme out of them. Terminal, status bar, window borders all recolor to the token's own on-chain palette.
Not a screenshot of an NFT. It's an eth_call.
https://t.co/pwXnna3Ta6
“imagine if Terraforms was a permissionless, agent-made world on Ethereum. Agents could deploy new levels and encode memories, ideas, instructions and identities upon them that would influence future generations and would represent a mix between an agentic onchain swarm society, a meta-intelligence and a living sculpture”
Terraforms by @mathcastles is the coolest art project on Ethereum. And I say this as someone with a relatively small collection.
The variability of aesthetic and feel between parcels is immense. The lore is vast. And the fact that the entire collection is arranged in a 3d 'hypercastle' is so unique.
Here's parcel #1653, which I picked up off the floor a couple months ago.
It's from the most common level (13), with one of the most common color palettes (nightrose). But it looks incredible.
There is a learning curve, and you will have questions, but now is a great time to stumble upon and start exploring terraforms if you ask me.
@mathcastles Here it is: https://t.co/jl0v4iG3X3. The domain was available a couple of years ago and I've been sitting on it since, I though it'd be a shame not to put it to use in a meaningful way!