The Web3 world has given users the opportunity to reinvent their digital identity, along with offering new ways of creative expression and individuality. This is even more so as nonfungible tokens (NFT) become more dynamic and customizable.
On February 8, a new project from Snark.art and OG.Art called Heterosis launched a collection of dynamic NFT flowers that can be developed and customized by the owner.
After the initial mint of NFT flowers, users can view the larger catalog of available flowers and begin to “breed” flowers to create hybrid species. According to the announcement of the project, when a new flower trait is discovered, it spreads throughout the population, “like diversification in nature.”
Flower collectors who want to create NFT flower hybrids must pay the owner of the flower they want to develop a small fee, creating two virtual flower markets. One for selling rare digital flowers, and another for selling DNA traits.
The collection was created by artists Mat Collishaw and Danil Krivoruchko. Collishaw says he wants to create a type of art that is not available in any other context than the metaverse.
“These mechanics are important to the Heterosis project and very important to us as something that can only be done in a decentralized space.”
Krivoruchko says that creating art for the NFT project that can evolve with different natures is “the most complex collection of digital art” he has ever worked on.
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In addition, the flower section of the NFT garden will be placed in a “metaverse greenhouse,” created by metaverse developer EL-GABAL, modeled after a dystopian version of the National Gallery in London.
The greenhouse can be accessed through a computer browser, mobile phone or virtual reality set through real-time audio-visual rendering done in the cloud.