Rothko on Pennies

Overview

Rothko on Pennies is a digital, fully on-chain artwork that encodes a dithered and scaled down derivative of Mark Rothko's "Composition (1959)" into the balances of hundreds of Ethereum wallet addresses.

Concept

The artwork is a dithered interpretation of Rothko's famous painting. Instead of being stored as a traditional image file, the artwork data is distributed across the balances of numerous Ethereum addresses. This approach creates a decentralized and permanent representation of the artwork on the Ethereum blockchain.

Technical Details

• The artwork data is split into small chunks, each represented by the balance of an Ethereum address.
• A smart contract system is used to manage these addresses and render the artwork.
• The main components include:
  • RothkoOnPennies: Main contract, a Manifold extension that mints a token and retrieves tokenURI.
  • ROPMetadataRenderer: Renders the artwork by collecting balances from the storage addresses.
  • ROPMetadataRendererV2: An updated version with additional features like balance snapshots.
  • ROPBalanceHolder: Individual contracts holding parts of the encoded image data in their ETH balances.
  • VandalizedValue: A Manifold extension that mints soulbound "Vandalized Value" token.
  • VandalizedValueRenderer: Renders a generative Rothko inspired artwork that gets more glitchy as the vandalized value increases.
  • Vandalizor: Contract that allows users to "vandalize" the artwork by sending ETH to specific addresses.

Viewing the Artwork

The artwork can be viewed by calling the renderMetadata() function on the ROPMetadataRenderer or ROPMetadataRendererV2 contract. This function collects the balances from all storage addresses and reconstructs the image data.

Vandalism

Users can interact with the Vandalizor contract to "vandalize" the artwork by sending ETH to specific addresses. This creates a deficit balance which is used by the VandalizedValueRenderer to render a generative Rothko inspired piece.

Deployed Contracts

Mainnet

• RothkoOnPennies: 0xBb38316A829DbC0559280598DBd8593801fA8471
• ROPMetadataRenderer: 0xa3e4e0b234382F00a40fB4F74B570334De0Df716
• ROPMetadataRendererV2: 0x7a9c12551e50C307c2D3EA5FFEBFb5240C660d53
• VandalizedValue: 0xc0156ace24C5DDB0b9a7E552dfdcc48A5B11B9F9
• VandalizedValueRenderer 0xfE347966B763Ebb345847d38f484A48ecD189Cc4
• Vandalizor 0xFecf4161A7AF6b411Bb4cbF7cCd2F55515407a48

Sepolia

• RothkoOnPennies: 0xe4519998fe1dCe6e3C2B0EF454743A3C900d1c36
• ROPMetadataRenderer: 0x049dC1f57B076b3dA7De40eF132be12a6560DAB3
• ROPMetadataRendererV2: 0xE1FD97c2cb31d0CB5784a7FcC09336671210B03C
• VandalizedValue: 0xd18296FeeE158b564630499a77f4892bb910E163
• VandalizedValueRenderer 0x641BD4923d48e5E4c907637403820FBf0A4c645a
• Vandalizor 0x1aAd9FFA78C36175B31c6ae47F50534c9c2ccC9e

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.