Generative Art Algortithms

• VESSEL's use custom GLSL shaders to manipulate the geometry insde the Vessel, allowing for much more complicated and varied animations than would be possible by standard CPU computation.

  • 13 factors are determined by the Blockchain data, and fed into our proprietary GLSL engine to create a near-infinite number of differnet visualizations.

  • Color data, animation speed, geometric data and transparency data are all affected by these attributes.

  • The visualizations are generated with a combination of Trigonometry and Perlin Noise distributions. Click here for more about Perlin Noise, a very common video game randomization algorithm.

  

• The dots orbiting around the vessel are also determine by trigonometry, and use 4 algorithms + 4 sub-parameters to ensure that your vessel's orbiters will be unlike any others

On-chain 3D models and custom materials

• The floating hands seen in every VESSEL (as well as some of the extra special 3D Addons...) come from 3D models that are inscribed onchain

• One of these models is the Mscribe MCrown. The others are paid, royalty-free, low-poly assets that have been converted to GLB/GLTF, and compressed as much as possible

• The VESSELS code loads each of these models using recursion, and manipulates them to fit the scene.
• It is IMPOSSIBLE for any 2 of the Horns, Crown or Halo to exist on the same VESSEL, except for very specific values of the ANGEL & DEVIL block-chian trait. (triggered by a "17" in the block number)

• These 3D models have their materials manipulated to change their color, brightness, metalness, roughness and other variable 3d properties to create a variety of different appearances.