Filament
A flow-field painter. In the flow-field tradition.
What connects galaxies.
A filament is the largest structure in the universe. A thread of dark matter and gas running across hundreds of millions of light-years. The threads came first; matter condensed at the junctions. The collection is named for that.
Each piece is a junction. The seed is the gravity. The render is what condenses.
250 pairs. The ones I picked.
Each mint pairs one piece I picked with one piece you roll on the spot. Both arrive together. Two halves of one frame.
Italian-named palettes, beaded chains traced through layered simplex flow fields. The selection is the work.
One mint, two artworks.
Buy a piece, get both halves of the pair. They arrive together.
The Edition is the one I picked. The Twin is yours. Same pair number on both. Two junctions on one thread, linked on chain.
You pick the Edition. The Twin is what you roll.
Most generative editions are blind: press mint, the contract resolves, you see what you got. Filament works the other way. All 250 Edition pieces are finished and visible in the gallery before mint opens. You browse the palettes, the scales, the compositions, and pick the one you want. No surprises on the artist's half.
The rolling lives in your Twin, where it belongs. The slot machine picks the seed, the algorithm renders it, and you reroll as many times as you want until it's right. Curation where the artist's hand is. Participation where yours is.
Filament Play is open.
Free, no mint required. Roll the slot machine, watch a piece render, share the URL. When the edition opens, the same machine rolls your Twin half at checkout.
Try Filament Play → Follow @UnrealFilamentMint opens Friday May 8 · 11am EST.
0.038 ETH per pair, flat across the 250-piece edition. Follow @UnrealFilament or @unrealape for the go-live ping.
— minted.
0.038 ETH per pair, flat across the edition. Pick a piece in the gallery to mint your pair.
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