Generative Art Collection

Pigments is built on the premise that the canvas itself — not the paint — is the real subject. Rather than composing forms deliberately, Brito distorts coordinate space using a technique known as domain warping, bending and crumpling the pixel grid before any colour is applied. What emerges are fluid, layered structures that resist explicit authorship: marble veins, nebular clouds, oil on canvas, smoke, caustic light on water. No shape is drawn by hand. Every configuration is a consequence of noise.

Algorithm

At the algorithm's core are multiple stacked subspaces, each driven by its own flavour of Fractional Brownian Motion and combined through a chain of non-linear colour interpolations. The result is that even the palette behaves unexpectedly — the same set of six colours can produce entirely different visual outcomes depending on which of the 13 layouts it flows through. Brito curated 109 palettes in total, each named in a personal invented language blending English, Spanish, and Latin. The collection is animated by design. Each piece runs as a live GLSL fragment shader, computed in parallel on the GPU — a moving painting, continuous and quiet.

Curated Selection

Pigments was selected for Art Blocks' curated collection and released in August 2021 as an edition of 1024 on-chain NFTs. It is part of the Art Blocks 500, a retrospective recognising the defining works of on-chain generative art from 2020 to 2025.

Featured in Taschen

This project is featured on TASCHEN's publication: On NFTs.

A book: encompassing the entire NFT ecosystem from algorithmic art to avatars and AI, the first major art historical survey of this field is now available in an updated, unlimited edition and includes 11 additional artists. With 10 academic essays and 111 artists in total, the book offers an extensive insight into digital art on the blockchain today.