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Punk Art Challenge #1 Experiment - Dotty Spotty "Currency" Punks Inspired by Damien Hirst's "The Currency"

The Punk Art Challenge #1 reads:

How does it work? Let's pick a theme and then it's up to you - yes, you can - to put together a new punk collection with your own artistic interpretation / generation script.

Let's kick off with a theme inspired by Damien Hirst's "The Currency" token art parody or is that cash grab with a paper with a bunch of random circles starting at $2000 a piece?

The original sale of the artworks worked like an initial public offering of shares. Aspiring buyers could register and say how many they wanted (but not nominate which individual work). The offering was over-subscribed, as more than 30,000 people wanted more than 60,000 tokens (that is, three time the available number).

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The sale of all 10,000 works is worth $20 million. But over the past month, since the artworks went on sale, there have been more than 1,800 resales, for almost $40 million. The highest price paid so far is $120,000, for No. 6272, titled “Yes”.

Source: Damien Hirst’s dotty ‘currency’ art makes as much sense as Bitcoin

Let's generate 10 000 free dotty spotty punks. For example - turn every colored pixel in the 24x24 bitmap into a circle and maybe use different-sized variants of circles and maybe use a random offset "distortion" for the circle placement and maybe use some blur or a texture and so on.

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Okkie. Let's give it a try using the punks alien #3100, zombie #3393, blondie #172 and beanie #2964.

Let's start with 10px circles - resulting in a 24*10px = 240×240px format:

punk.spots( 10 )

Let's add spacing about ½ between circles - resulting in a 24*7px circles + (24-1)*3px spacing = 237×237px format:

punk.spots( 7, spacing: 3 )

Let's try a 1/1 spacing between circles - resulting in a 24*5px circles + (24-1)*5px spacing = 235×235px format:

punk.spots( 5, spacing: 5 )

Let's add some randomness. Let's try a random circle radius between 3px and 5px and a random x/y-offset from the circles center by +/-2px:

punk.spots( 10, center: [-2,2], radius: [3,5] )

Let's add back the 1/1 spacing and let's try a random circle radius between 5px and 10px:

punk.spots( 5, spacing: 5,
                center: [-2,2], radius: [2,5] )

And bigger between 3px and 6px:

punk.spots( 5, spacing: 5,
                center: [-1,1], radius: [3,6] )

Let's try a random variation (+/-) of the lightness of the colored pixels:

punk.spots( 5, spacing: 5,
                center: [-1,1], radius: [3,6],
                lightness: [-0.03,0.03] )

And let's try an offset variation for odd and even lines:

punk.spots( 5, spacing: 5,
                center: [-1,1], radius: [3,6],
                lightness: [-0.03,0.03],
                odd: true )

Let's start all over again and let's bring back the background:

punk.spots( 10, background: '#638596' )

punk.spots( 7, spacing: 3,
               background: '#638596' )

punk.spots( 5, spacing: 5,
               background: '#638596' )

punk.spots( 10, center: [-2,2], radius: [3,5],
                background: '#638596' )

punk.spots( 5, spacing: 5,
                center: [-2,2], radius: [2,5],
                background: '#638596' )

punk.spots( 5, spacing: 5,
                center: [-1,1], radius: [3,6],
                background: '#638596' )

punk.spots( 5, spacing: 5,
                center: [-1,1], radius: [3,6],
                lightness: [-0.03,0.03],
                background: '#638596' )

punk.spots( 5, spacing: 5,
                center: [-1,1], radius: [3,6],
                lightness: [-0.03,0.03],
                odd: true,
                background: '#638596' )

One more thing - lets a 2x zoom with quadruple (2×2=4) the pixel.

punk.zoom( 2 ).spots( 10 )

punk.zoom( 2 ).spots( 10, center: [-2,2], radius: [3,5] )

punk.zoom( 2 ).spots( 5, spacing: 5,
                          center: [-2,2], radius: [2,5] )

punk.zoom( 2 ).spots( 5, spacing: 5,
                          center: [-1,1], radius: [3,6] )

That's it for now to get you started.

Questions? Comments?

Post them on the CryptoPunksDev reddit. Thanks.