Piter Pasma
@piterpasma
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)
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Piter Pasma
@piterpasma
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)
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Piter Pasma
@piterpasma
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)
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Piter Pasma
@piterpasma
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)
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Piter Pasma
@piterpasma
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)
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Piter Pasma
@piterpasma
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)
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Piter Pasma
@piterpasma
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/ )
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