“Not our relics, not our legacy”
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This document will help inform you:
Each Satoshi relic is unique. It’s visual storytelling is deeply tied to the Bitcoin blockchain and the history it represents.
Each Satoshi relic is a 576x576 pixel art inscription generated from Bitcoin transaction history. The size of the art was chosen because:
The
ordexplorer, used by ordinals.com, displays inscription previews with a maximum size of 576 by 576 pixels, making it a reasonable choice when choosing a maximum display size.
Satoshi relics are recursive and generated on the fly on the device you are viewing it from. (Unless cached by the marketplace, wallet).
Zoom in and you will see each of the 576x576 pixels of a relic.
Each relic employs around 40 different colors and produces a gif image.
As written in the ordinal’s documentation, digital artifacts are:
Imagine a physical artifact. A rare coin, say, held safe for untold years in the dark, secret clutch of a Viking hoard, now dug from the earth by your grasping hands. It…
We were inspired by past civilization cultures around the world and wanted to create a visual experience that conjures the weight of human culture and history. Each relic was designed to appear like intricately carved forms in stone by artisans.
We imagine these relics hidden in tombs, in caves, or under modern humanity’s detritus. It is your job to find them.
These relics are our revered history and designed to pay respects to the greatest human artifacts of our time. Many of our creative choices for Relic’s is guided by this vision.
Pixel art was chosen as the medium of choice to conjure up a timeless sense of digital media. From the earliest moments of computers to the present, pixel art is synonymous with a stylized, poetic expression of human creativity on screen. In paying homage to pixel art, we hope these relics bring up past memories of games like Mario, DOOM, or Pokemon and modern hits like Stardew Valley.
