Interactivity

Extreme ways allows the user for some interactivity to ba able to play with some parameters in order to produce different artwork results. In this "Interactivity" guide I'll explain to you what you can do with your artwork, and particularly I'll give you important guidelines to do it efficiently.

Important tips for the interactivity possibilities

Resolution

To start playing with your artwork, start pressing "1" to decrease the resolution by a factor 2 (you gain a factor 4 in time).

I didn't knew that IPFS rendering was performed by default on a canvas twice the normal size. It produces files 4 times bigger and 4 times longer to render than normal (in Sandbox). This is the reason why it takes time to be rendered.

With experience and in case you want to prepare some png to be printed (need for high resolution), press 3,  4 to increase the resolution, but be careful, it will take long time to render...

Inheritance

Inheritance allows to draw the quadrilaterals of older generations before the last produced. It is part of the beauty of the painting with "Inheritance" feature set to true... but it is very slow (much more drawings). If your token has "inheritance" feature set to true, press "i" to disable this feature for the time being. You can even do that before changing the resolution (it will gain time).

When you've found a final display you want to print, you can toggle "Inheritance" to true to see the effect...

Drawing methods

By pressing "d" you can change the drawing method. Take one that is fast to draw (filled, contour). You will be able to change it after you found something you want to work on...

Interacting

Now all the settings are OK for you to discover different styles, layouts, perturbations, etc....

Main style : m

This setting allows you to select one of the 8 different styles available with Extreme Ways (plus one that has been used for the final drop).

Smollskull main style

The creator of the legendary "Smollskull" collection, Mark Knol,  gave me the authorization to incorporate some Smollskull design in the collection (at the level of 1%). It is not possible to find that style... unless you are one of the 6 owners of the Smollskull special design. I started this design for fun and at first it was just for my twitter followers. When I realized they would be perfect as easter egg (moreover Extreme ways has been minted on Easter's day), I asked Mark Knol who accepted immediately the idea. Thanks a lot Mark if you read these lines.

Layout : l

With the same style, by pressing "l" or "L" you can generate a new basic structure with the current style.

Color palette : c

Pressing "c" change the color display (it is limited to 4 changes). For technical reason, BW styles are not accessible through "c" and color change, but through "d" since they are internally a "drawing style"

Perturbation : p

This one is important. You noticed how some perturbation affects the rendering making part of the structure to disappear... Pressing "P" will alternate between "None" and a new perturbation style, do not hesitate to play with it to change the final rendering...

Possible Perturbations are : ["SPECIFIC"], ["BOTTOM"], ["CENTER_REVERSE"], ["LEFT"]["MIDDLE_VERTICAL_REVERSE"], ["TOP"], ["RIGHT"], ["MIDDLE_HORIZONTAL_REVERSE"], ["TOP", "LEFT"], ["MIDDLE_VERTICAL"], ["BOTTOM", "LEFT"], ["MIDDLE_HORIZONTAL"],["BOTTOM", "RIGHT"],["TOP", "RIGHT"], ["MIDDLE_HORIZONTAL_REVERSE", "MIDDLE_VERTICAL_REVERSE"].

Drawing style : d

Pressing "d" allows you to change the drawing style (B&W are drawing styles as well).

List of styles is : "PointsColors", "FilledWithLinesBW", "Filled", "Points", "Contour", "PointsBW", "FilledWithLines", "ContourBW", "RandomLines", "Curve"

Some of these styles have not been used in the final version because results were too impredictible, but you can try them to see if they look nice for you. 

To allow fast drawing for exploration I recommend to use Filled, Contour, ContourBW.

Border color : b

Pressing "b" allows you to change the border color (different style).

Inheritance : i

This one has already be described. To discover the possibilities and find a nice layout, I encourage to have it set to false (change it at first if it is true for you by default). Do not hesitate to use it with different drawing style since it has a strong effect on the final rendering of the artwork.