Entropy

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/ About the project

What if you could watch a live stream of the blockchain?

This is what prompted the creation of Entropy.

Onchain Generative Art.

/ METADATA

Medium:

HTML/JS/CSS & Smart Contract

Platform:

Custom Smart Contract

Contract Address:

0x01cc1bd2dece86e54481f1e6aeffc2fcc6915480

Storage:

Ethereum Blockchain

/ Year

2022

Mikasa, a trained mechanical engineer, has always enjoyed physics, particularly the study of Chladni figures. Among various experiments, observing these figures is one they enjoy the most.

To explore further, Mikasa created a prototype that incorporated Chladni figures to represent entropy. However, something felt amiss, as if an element was missing.

Then, one day in the shower, Nahiko had a random thought: "What if we could watch the blockchain live?"

This idea sparked months of research, coding, and repeated testing.

Eventually, a solution emerged that combined Chladni figures with block hashes:

The Stream.

A livestream of the Ethereum blockchain using each block's hash to generate custom Chladni-like figures.

What if people could own visuals of just one block?

Like a single frame in a live stream or video. This is how Absolute Zero was born: 512 editions.

The name is a nod to absolute zero (−273.15 °C), a temperature at which nothing moves and everything is frozen in time, like a frame in a video.

Each frame is generated on the Ethereum blockchain by the EVM computer. Each edition is made out of intent (curves) or data (pixels), representing the data stored on blockchains vs the actual intent behind the data.

Entropy was one of the most successful NFT projects of 2022 and holds an important place in Mikasa's heart.