An NFT is, in essence, a collectible digital asset, which holds value as a form of cryptocurrency and as a form of art or culture. NFTs are taking the world by storm and generative or scalable arts especially using a programming language (in an automated way) are becoming the focus of investors as well as digital art collectors.
Braille is a form of written language for blind people in which characters are represented by a pattern of (raised) dots that can be understood by sense of touch. Prime numbers on the other hand are unique natural numbers that are only divisible by themselves and hold a certain value in cryptography as well. Combining these two using a minimal art concept and using color pellet adapted for color blindness is as valuable as Braille, as unique as prime numbers and as inclusive as adapted color pellet.
Motivation behind this NFT project is to raise awareness for visually impaired people and allow organizations, individuals and support groups to use these digital collectibles (once moved to marketplace) as a fund raisers for more inclusive world.
This project is built using Python3 and image processing library Pillow. A minimal digital-art is generated using a combination of trait layers including font-family, prime-number and a color-pellet.
How do we limit the number of collectible and on what basis is one the challenges. Should we further take a subset, add some emojis/text or tag names to it? Art is believed to be subjective, therefore acceptability on a marketplace might raise a concern over initial investment.
I am happy to combine subjects from different areas into a minimal art and trying to raise an awareness for a more inclusive world.
Before this project, I had no idea about NFTs, generative or scalable art, smart-contracts and even Braille. I have learned all these concepts while implementing an MVP which has a potential to evolve into a full marketplace and used by stakeholders to raise millions for a special cause.
Since this art is in a concept phase and can be improved using a more crisp business logic. Then, it can be easily ported to on-chain using smart-contracts. Metadata files are generated on the go listing trait layers. An integration with solidity and creating a contract using EIP-721 standard is what I am looking for. This project can serve as a template for many coherent ideas revolving around minimal art, generative python images, using braille as an art or prime numbers as an infinite sequence.
- Create a virtual environmet e.g.
python3 -m venv venv - Activate virtual environment e.g.
source venv/bin/activate - Install required dependencies e.g.
pip3 install -r requiremenets.txt - Make approproate changes in
scripts/generate.py(optional) - Run script e.g.
python scripts/generate.py - Follow command line instructions
