Shaderverse

  • 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 of the open-source design tool, Blender.

  • The open-source Shaderverse add-on for Blender 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.

  • 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