Perfectly symmetric—imperfectly drawn. The curious and fantastic outcomes of cryptographic accidents tell the story of this captivating project. Exploring the contrast between precision and chance in a playful spacecraft / papercraft setting, Paper Armada is a 3,000 edition series that provides a seemingly endless variety of colors, shapes and opportunities to build your own space flotilla. This masterpiece of long-form generative art—along with its Art Blocks Curated counterpart, Archetype—demonstrates dependably high quality outputs and abundant variety while maintaining undeniable project unity, whimsical "Armada-ness," across the series.
Project attributes that create variability include ship angle (5), base color (2), coloring strategy (4), coordination (2), unit shape (2), crew size (3), height (4), width (3) and, of course, palette (25) and ship type (6). This gallery celebrates all 25 palettes with an example of every ship type (Swarm, Mothership, Cruiser, Carrier, Convoy, Trooper). In some cases, because of rarity features, certain ship types were not generated for every palette. Swarm types were not generated in seven palettes (Magic Hour, Mono, Mysore, Nowak, Slapdash, Winegum, Woodwork) and Motherships were not generated in two palettes (Revolucion, Verena).
