On-Chain Real-Time Animations. Kim Asendorf [2024], commissioned by Tribute Labs, curated by XX DAO (f/k/a Bright Opps DAO).
On-Chain Real-Time Animations. Kim Asendorf [2024], commissioned by Tribute Labs, curated by XX DAO (f/k/a Bright Opps DAO).
Check the full collection on sabotage.kim. Sabotage pictures the constant fight of order versus chaos. It takes shape of a series of real time animations that move pixels in a simple but oddly surprising way. Central to the animation are various sets of patterns such as grids, lines and gradients that are arranged on the canvas to create an initial state of order. The rows start to shift to the left and right and in the middle of the canvas, the 'saboteur' is shifting pixels from the top to the bottom to manipulate the order of the patterns. The process runs endlessly and mixes pixels into new compositions while also restructuring the order on its edges.
Alternate is a collection of abstract real-time animations, that start with simple compositions and color palettes to evolve endlessly and to develop a depth in geometry and color over time. All pixel movements are restricted to their eight surrounding neighbors and occur at the speed of exactly one pixel per frame.
The artworks are written in GLSL (WebGL2) and JavaScript, utilize the P3 color space and respond to any screen size.
The code is fully on-chain to be delivered directly from the Smart Contract without any third party render engine involved. Unlike usual, the work extends into the field of action of the preview image, making it part of the work.
Each NFT includes 4 versions of the artwork, that can be alternated by its owner by calling the modify function of the Smart Contract. The alternation call is protected by a fee and can not be reverted.
The Pixel Network (Token 0) is a crowd sourced artwork that requires PXL tokens to become visible. Participants lend PXLs to the network and receive a receipt NFT in return. Kim Asendorf 2026 (This is a WebGPU project. The data URL requires to be loaded via an HTML Blob)
PXL DEX is a series of fully on-chain real time animations, where each pixel is a token in itself. PXL DEX is the first artwork within the PXL ecosystem, an ongoing work series to experiment with pixels as utility tokens. The collection consists of 256 NFTs that are deployed via a custom Smart Contract on the Ethereum Mainnet.
The NFTs can be minted for 0.5 ETH plus 0.000001 ETH per pixel. Each pixel is actually a PXL token and will initially be owned by the PXL DEX Smart Contract to be assigned to the minted NFT. PXL tokens can be withdrawn and deposited by the owner. The minter is allowed to mint up to 500.000 PXL tokens along with the NFT. Each Deck has an additional allowance of 500.000 PXL to be minted any time later. The allowance is bound to the NFT and will transfer along with the NFT ownership.
A single Deck can hold all available PXL tokens, there is no limit on the Smart Contract level. The only limitation is the GPU of the computer that displays the Deck.