Hello,
I wrote-up a little pixel art programming in ruby article
titled Inside the CryptoPunks Bubble - Greyscale / Grayscale Punks
Collection Case Study -
Conceptual Art (Parody)? (Get-Rich-Quick) Cash Grab? Greater Fools
(Financial) Fraud?
RECORD SALE - Greyscale Punk #2243 just resold for a
whopping 1.2 ETH (~$4000)! 4000% profit!-- Greyscale Punks, August 22, 2021
Happy pixel pushing and minting. Cheers. Prost.
PS: Here's the "magic" formula / script in ruby to turn all 10 000
original punks
into grayscale (or why not? yes, ye olde' sepia vintage) in less than
ten seconds:
require 'cryptopunks'
print "==> loading image..."
punks = Punks::Image::Composite.read( 'punks.png' )
print "OK\n"
# change all 10 000 punks to grayscale
punks_grayscale = punks.grayscale
punks_grayscale.save( "punks_grayscale.png" )
# or change all 10 000 punks to ye olde' sepia vintage
punks_sepia = punks.change_palette8bit( Palette8bit::SEPIA )
punks_sepia.save( "punks_sepia.png" )
[1] https://github.com/cryptopunksnotdead/cryptopunks/tree/master/grayscale