Artwork

Aesthetics

This type of simple, one line, ASCII art, is a play with your imagination.

It is your imagination that takes a series of characters like "8--o--8" and translates eights to turbines, and dashes to wings. You need the cultural context of a scifi fan to decode a series of letters as the image of a spaceship.

|--o--|'s artwork stands in the middle, somewhere between the bare ASCII characters and a nice illustration. They are still characters, you can recognize them us such, but they are also designed to guide the viewer's imagination.

Fully onchain

Each spaceship's artwork is encoded as SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics), and it's generated programmatically by a smart contract.

This means that your NFT does not depend on a server or someone pinning an IPFS CID (i.e. making sure that the data are preserved on IPFS). As long as the Base chain exists, so will the artwork.

It also means that changing your ship's "blueprint" (characters), will automatically change the image too. In the future and you'll be able to update and mod your ships!

Vector Graphics

Since the artwork is vector graphics, you can scale it up as much as you like and it will still look nice —actually, nicer, there are nice details that are not visible on a small screen.