Programming an Infinite Doodle

Starting The Infinite Doodle™

It is Mother's Day 2013. It is time to get this thing rolling.

The The Infinite Doodle™ is a collection of connected drawings on a three dimensional grid. The doodle will expand indefinitely in all directions.

I came up with the idea of an infinite doodle several decades ago. I have some artwork dated in 1999. I kept putting off the implementation of the program largely because I could't find anyone interested in the product.

Well, I decided that I put the design off for too long.

So, I decided to re-announce the creation of the product. This product will include the creation of a web site and multiple NFTs.

NOTE: I just performed a trademark search on the term "Infinite Doodle" using TESS by the US Patent and Trademark Office. I also checked on bard.google.com. Neither programs found a registered trademark. While it is unlikely that I would register a trademark, I decided to use the "TM" symbol on these pages about the design of the program simply because it is good form to examine trademark issues at the start of a program.

I considered creationg an NFT collection on HIVE Engine. Unfortunately, this is outside my budget.

I realized that I do not need to wed the program to any particular NFT library.

So, I decided to start the doodle on PalNet.io. I will expande the program on PalNet if I receive the community's blessing. If not I will march off and create it on another NFT engine.

The Infinite Doodle™ as a Group Project

I would like to expand the infinite doodle as a group project. The basic idea is that I would create a tile in the doodle.

Group art projects create unique challenges. The flow of the program is that I will create a tile and assign it to an artist. The artist will then draw an image for the tile.

This is a huge problem in the NFT world as the NFT token will exist before the artwork.

I think I may have found a solution.

AI Images

The design of The Infinite Doodle™ creates a chicken and egg problem. My plan is to create the structure before I create the doodles.

It dawned on me last week that I could solve this problem using AI generated images. I am thinking of doing the following:

I would create a place holder for the tile.
I would create an AI image to fill the tile.
The program would assign the tile to an artist.
The artist could then create the official tile.

Each tile will have an AI generated image and an official drawing.

I've been experiment with the DALL-E program from OpenAI. This page shows the images that I have created.

The table below shows the images that I've created specifically for the doodle. To start the program with a band I decided to call the first image "bigbang" in comemoration of the creation of tyhe universe:

The Doodles

2023-05-19: The first tile has the title "Big Bang." This way the program will start with a bang! I created a post and generated an NFT on PalNet. I created a zen doodle on yintercept.

2023-04-30: The second tile goes to the opposite extreme of the big bang post. The tile has the prompt "quantum" to represent subatomic particals and the smallest items in nature.

2023-05-19: The first tile has the title Big Bang. This way the program will start with a bang!

2023-05-22: The fourth tile (100) is the first tile in the upper right quadrant of the grid. This quadrant will include abstruct images. So I titled this piece: The Grid!

2023-05-23: The infinite doodle is a binary tree. The fourth and fifth tiles (100 and 101) split from the second tile (10). I decided to name it "photon" as a photon is a fundamental partical that crosses the cosmos at the speed of light.

2023-05-23: The infinite doodle is a binary tree. The tenth and eleventh tiles split from the fifth tile titled "photon." I decided to called the tenth tile "intergallactic" as many of the photons that strike the earth are engaged in an intergallectic voyage across the cosmos.

2023-05-23: The infinite doodle is a binary tree. The tenth and eleventh tiles (1010 and 1011) split from the fifth tile titled "photon". A photon is a subatomic particle. As we are building from the smallest particles I decided to label this tile "atomic" as many of the photons that strike the earth are engaged in intergallactic travel at the speed of light.