Metrix

Paint from a public ledger. Palettes are events of its history. Brush strokes that stagger and mass according to over a decade of value computation. Opulent open metrics. An on-chain Bitcoin ordinals project.

A playful, interactive project on the intrinsic aesthetics of data, expressed through blockchain and its metrics.

For more details, terms, etc., see:

https://takenstheorem.weebly.com/metrix.html

“Metrix” visually encodes a numeric history revealed on Bitcoin’s public blockchain. The palettes capture various events of its history. Bitcoin’s metrics yield diverse patterns like looking into a kaleidoscope. Metrics become colorful assays of a new financial system.

I am a cryptothematic visualist, and use data as a raw material. I work under the constraint that variation on visuals should derive from data, and avoid departing from this constraint: axes, colors, orientations, and scales -- should as much as possible map in some way to specific elements of data.

“Metrix” draws from raw Coin Metrics (CM) API data, and is constructed dynamically in the browser using on-chain Bitcoin inscriptions. The pieces have some default data baked into their inscription. This makes them completely free of any external dependencies. But pieces can be modified interactively with keystrokes. For example, owners can pull in more data from the CM Community API by pressing “c” and adapting it with other keystrokes.