Terraforms by Mathcastles: Onchain land art from a dynamically generated 3D world

This talk was originally written to accompany an exhibition at NFTBerlin in May of 2022. In it, I seek to provide a concise view of the Terraforms artwork by the Mathcastles studio along with a bit of information about our related project Hypercastle Explorers. Importantly, Terraforms are relatively deep and complex and so for a longer and more detailed Terraforms explainer, I’ve linked to the community slide deck in the video description. Terraforms is an NFT project by the studio Mathcastles which consists of 0x113d and xaltgeist, two anonymous developers. The project consists of 11,000 NFTs which the developers describe as onchain land art from a dynamically generated on-chain 3D world. Terraforms can be engaged in multiple ways. At a base level, each token is a piece of animated art rendered on a 32x32 grid of text characters, stored in an SVG file. The animated art is drawn in a web browser using javascript to change the colors and cycle characters of a custom made font. Each token c