Universal Rayhatcher is the largest collab I ever did. 

Initially to prove it was a bad idea, I felt that adding parameters for collectors to control output was reductive to genart because it's the artists' job to make choices (DYOR, not artistic advice).

(URH351)

I thought too much freedom, and it would be a bad experience for both.

Explaining a joke is like dissecting a frog. You understand it better but the frog dies in the process. Is this also the case for genart? (URH324)

Generative Artist ~ In the beginning there was code, and the code had a groove ~ Creator of Skulptuur (see http://skulpturen.nl) and other impossible things

Fortunately I kind of like dissecting jokes. So I turned up the freedom to 11. Sliders, knobs, numerical values, no. You want freedom, you get to write the entire formula.

It was never going to work right?

I asked a few artist friends, if I make this, will you try it? (URH47)

And so they did. Trying to maintain some semblance of control, I priced the mint practically free and tried to maintain an allowlist for people who I thought would do a good job.

Then the requests came in, and I am way too nice :)

(URH7)

Misunderstanding/misconfigurating the fxparams ticketing system, mint tickets ended up on secondary and for a while, anyone could do absolutely anything.

My attempt at proving a point had backfired spectacularly.

(URH129)

URH has not minted out yet. Anything is still possible. The project page says differently but we are at 548/555 mints because there are still people paying upkeep and sitting on SEVEN tickets :D (ahem @HaiverArt
) see the mint tickets tab here: https://fxhash.xyz/generative/slug/universal-rayhatcher
(URH310)

Image credits for some of my favourite mints: @strangerintheq @mwiederrecht @mknol @clauswilke @elsif  @abakshonokoleg

It feels like there's a lesson to be learned here, but I'm still learning it. It's out of my control now.

Just, please, read the manual and everything will be fine https://gist.github.com/tripzilch/9042195ae6f62901909ff7c99aeb8fcc 

(shoutout to @fxwho
 for the amazing URH gallery https://fxwho.xyz/fxhash/urh/ )

Even if you don't have a ticket, you can still play with the URH dev environment at

httxps://extreme-rayhatching.netlify.app

I've always felt (wrongly) intimidated by this project

Valuable and commendable are those who master the fusion of code and art.  50 $DEGEN