The Artifact

This repository contains the complete code for the generative art collection "The Artifact" released on fx(hash) in January 2023. For explanations and insight into how this works and how it came to be, please read this article.

Installation and usage

The project is built on top of the fx(hash) webpack boilerplate, and installation and usage instructions are the same as described there. In brief, to run the project locally, you first need to have nodejs installed, and then you need to run the following command once in the root of the project folder to install dependencies:

npm i

After everything is installed correctly, you can start the project with:

npm start

This will start a local web server and now you can look at outputs at http://localhost:8080 in your browser.

If you want to rebuild the WASM code (this will not normally be necessary), you can run:

./_compile_asc.sh

Licensing

The code to The Artifact is in the public domain, licensed as CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/). This means you can do anything you want with this code, adapt it for your own purposes, sell NFTs based on this code, use it to build a multi-billion-dollar business, whatever you want. However, if you find this code useful, it would be polite if you acknowledged where you got it from.

Note that a small portion of the code was copied from the fx(hash) webpack boilerplate and is licensed under the MIT license. The affected parts are the entire file ./public/index.html, the webpack config (i.e., everything in the config folder), and the function setSeed() in ./src/fxrandom.js.

This project does not use any external libraries (not even p5.js). Any dependencies listed in package.json are build-time dependencies only and are not strictly necessary.