# Shaderverse

* [Shaderverse](https://twitter.com/shaderverse) is an open-source generative art platform that lets visual artists create, store (and soon sell) generative art collections that are stored permanently on the Bitcoin blockchain.

## How it works

* Artists create procedural art generators using the [Geometry Nodes feature](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aO0eUnu0hO0) of the open-source design tool, [Blender](https://blender.org).

* The open-source [Shaderverse add-on for Blender](https://github.com/shaderverse/shaderverse/tree/dev) adds new features to Geometry Nodes that make it easy for artists to create and store collections permanently on the Bitcoin blockchain. We have developed a protocol that allows for embedding and retreiving art made in Geometry Nodes into Bitcoin Blockchain the through an interface with [the Ordinals system](https://ordinals.com).
* The generative art is retrievable by the open-source shaderverse server which can be run locally on Windows, Linux and Mac machines, inside of Blender, in the cloud, and through hosted solutions at shaderverse.com.
* This gives artists the opportunity to create genrative art collections that are cost-efficient and where the art generator is stored permanently in every copy of the full Bitcoin Node.
* Our system allows for the creation of various types of procedural art, including avatars, pets, and abstract art.

## Why this is exciting

* The art made with Shaderverse is deterministically generated, meaning that a unique seed number determines the pseudo-random output.
* In other words, by using Geometry Nodes + our add-on, artists control exactly how the seed number influences various attributes of their artwork (all without writing any code).
* A collection is made up of numerous art pieces, each piece is generated solely by the unique seed number and a reference to the Ordinal insciption that contains the art generator
* This allows the artist to generate a collection where each each piece contains unique design features that look exactly as the artist intended.
* The open-source nature of Bitcoin, Ordinals, Blender, and Shaderverse ensures that this technology is forever accessible to artists and art collectors alike.
* As viewing capabilities improve, artists and collectors can regenerate the art at higher fidelities and higher levels of detail, making this an exciting opportunity for 3D artists and NFT creators.
* We have been building these artist-tools / infrastructure since 2021 and have helped some of the top brands in the Web3 space implement our technology including:
* Yuga Labs (Meebits)
* Deadfellaz

* Ordinals (launched only days ago) allows for storage of the art generators made by Shaderverse at a hard cost of around only $50 per collection (for a 200KB file)
* Previously, this would have been 93.5X more expensive on the Ethereum Blockchain