Hey devs, released my first gen art project Social Graphs. A mint in a frame that uses the minter’s Farcaster social activity to generate a piece based on their casts, engagement, and followers. A lot of work went into this, so I wanted to share how I approached it from a technical PoV

Hey devs, released my first gen art project Social Graphs. A mint in a frame that uses the minter’s Farcaster social activity to generate a piece based on their casts, engagement, and followers. A lot of work went into this, so I wanted to share how I approached it from a technical PoV https://socialgraphs.vercel.app

The frame is built in frames.js which I love as someone who struggles with frontend stuff. On the first button press, I start to fetch the user’s social activity using @neynar APIs. Because this may take longer than the 5 second timeout, I return an in progress view immediately.

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The user can check if the fetch is done periodically by clicking on a button to get an update. A lambda function is running to fetch the stats, store them in DynamoDB, and also update a separate table to serve as a cache. The cache lets me know what was already fetched to ensure duplicate requests aren’t done.

Once complete, the user can proceed to generate their art piece. This calls a separate Vercel serverless function running p5js on a node server to headlessly generate the art piece. This takes the user’s stats to generate a piece specific to their identity. Once done, it’s uploaded to S3 and returned to the frame.

would love to understand how the user profile is used as a seed into the gen art function. What influences color, shapes etc?

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Introducing Social Graphs - my first generative art project, which uses your Farcaster social identity to generate a piece specific to you. Every cast, engagement, and follower are represented in your piece. Free mint on @base, gas paid by me - mint will stay open until I’m out of ETH! https://socialgraphs.vercel.app

I shared a bit more in the /gen-art thread, but essentially your FID determines color palettes. And then the size and number of shapes drawn is determined by your count of: followers (avatars), casts/replies (arcs), & likes, replies to your casts, and recasts received (hearts)

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I shared a bit more in the /gen-art thread, but essentially your FID determines color palettes. And then the size and number of shapes drawn is determined by your count of: followers (avatars), casts/replies (arcs), & likes, replies to your casts, and recasts received (hearts) https://warpcast.com/maximonee/0x2bffe048