The Room of Infinite Paintings
Lost in the simulation, a painter spent the rest of their infinite life, painting the feeling of their infinite room. No one knows how far it goes, but apparently, it is infinite.
“The Room of Infinite Paintings” is a mid-season art project for The Logged Universe. It’s generative on-chain SVG art that is free to mint & that has an infinite supply. Up to 1 million mints, paintings becomes increasingly likely to produce more minimal variations. eg: here’s a painting that drawn at the most maximal and the most minimal by the generative art algorithm. It’s a part of the pursuit of the infinite painter to capture their reality in precise and simpler ways: to capture the feeling more than the detail.
Thus, while later paintings can be as colourful, it just becomes less likely. Earlier paintings are more likely to be vibrant.
As of this post, 466 have been minted and it’s been wonderful to see the variations in style of this infinite painter!
Mint.fun has a page to mint and see new version as they are discovered in the infinite room.
https://mint.fun/0x4325ac3371f5526fb4190e5b426355c141b85018
You can also collect/trade on OpenSea: https://opensea.io/collection/the-room-of-infinite-paintings
Why?
A part of the Untitled Frontier experiment is to find models and ways to support speculative fiction through NFTs as collectibles. This currently takes the form of the premium story universe, “The Logged Universe”, and the start of the collectible speculative fiction magazine, “The Collector’s Tales”. With each new story we experiment with how to effectively reward the writers and the fans and how to maximize these relationships.
A recent trend is the idea of the ‘free mint’. This can be beneficial in a few ways.
1) Cheap.
2) Any subsequent demand for the collectibles is directly captured entirely by the fanbase.
3) Secondary royalties come back to the creators (or DAO if there is one).
4) Creates new fans.
To support writers/creators through this model, one tries to rely on the fact that fans will continue to support the overall project through more premium mints or trade the free collection on secondary markets.
Thus: because Untitled Frontier has always tried to create accessible NFTs that don’t always rely on hype, FOMO, or access lists to get an NFT, this mid-season project is a good experiment.
In the future, no matter where the project itself is, fans would always be able to collect a free-to-mint painting from “The Room of Infinite Paintings”. Who knows, maybe we learn more about this infinite painter in a future story? Where are they now? Are they still painting?
