Episode4-Memories

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Background

Category: Complexity

Category: Composition Type

Category: Splotches

Astam's top picks of the collection

Jared_poz's top picks of the collection

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Splotches (left) vs. without on the Koten Palette (grey background subset)

Splotches (left) vs. without on the Ink and Xuan paper Palette

Splotches are very faint, well splotches, on the background of the palette. They add a nice texture and additional dimension to the pieces. Splotches make up ~30% of the collection, but there is no significant price premium.

Emergent properties

Vermillion Bird

Intrepid

Hong Bao

Smoke and Fire

Porcelian Vase

Category: Palette

Palette refers to the color scheme of the pieces. Memories of Qilin brings a unique style and feel to these palettes, likely driven by the East Asian inspiration of the collection. Also unique is the use of patterns intermixed with solid blocks of colors.

In Memories many palettes have different colored backgrounds within the palette, adding additional collectability.

We have highlighted some of the palettes we find most visually appealing below and throughout this Deca gallery. At the bottom of this document we have a full list of the different colored backgrounds for each palette, we suggest you take a look and see what strikes your eye the most.

Price wise, certain palettes stand above the others. Notably, Smoke and Fire and Vermillion Bird, which are both statistically rare and have unique visuals.

Beyond that there haven't been too many clear winners, and as we'll show below the emergent properties tend to drive a lot of collectibility and popularity, which tend to cross over palettes.

Flock-Offset-Sweep-Focal on the Forest Palette (a set of the brown background)

Flock-Offset-Sweep-Focal on the Blood Moon Palette

www.collectorscorner.xyz @collectors_xyz (Twitter) Episode link Recorded: August 31, 2022

Your hosts: @astamcloud and @jared_poz

Into The Collection

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Episode 4: Memories of Qilin by Emily Xie

"Memories of Qilin is inspired by traditional East Asian art. It channels the sense of movement and fluidity found in classical Chinese brushwork, while drawing from the colors, patterns, and forms of ukiyo-e woodblock prints. The series explores elements of folklore, evoking the mythological imagery of dragons, phoenixes, flowers, and mountains. The title references a fabled chimerical beast found throughout East Asian mythology (while the qilin is its Chinese name, it is also known in Korea as the girin and Japan as the kirin) that represents prosperity and luck.Viewers are invited to interpret elusive forms that verge on representation. As with the stories passed on through generations, each piece is imagined, organic, and ever-in-flux." - Emily Xie

Low-Medium-High on the Mira Palette (set of the grey background)

Low-Medium-High on the Velvet Palette (set of the red background)

Release date: March 21, 2022 Collection size: 1024 Platform: Artblocks Curated Mint type: Dutch Auction (no rebate) Resting mint price: 0.75E (~$2,171 USD at the time)

For real-time prices by trait, we recommend Artacle - https://artacle.io/project/memories-of-qilin Disclosures: At the time of this recording CC members owned items from this collection

One of the most interesting features of Memories is the emergent properties and your mind fills, often reminding us of animals and natural shapes. We believe there is significant opportunity in finding these pieces as they are often undervalued by collectors primarily on categories or statistical rarity.

To highlight this point, below are a few of the emergent properties that caught our eye. Notice the diversity of Palettes these outputs come from, and that most are in the Sweep Composition Type, which is by far the most common.

We'd love for you to share other emergent properties, send us some and we'll include them in our gallery and give you credit for the find!

"Duck" Palette: Ink and Xuan Paper
Composition: Sweep

"Hummingbird" Palette: Smoke and Fire Composition: Sweep

"Crossbow" Palette: Velvet Composition: Focal

"Crab" Palette: Sea Dune Composition: Sweep

"Leviathan" Palette: Mira Composition: Flock

"Water Dragon" Palette: Porcelain Vase Composition: Sweep

"Orca" Palette: Porcelain Vase Composition: Focal

"Manta Ray" Palette: Poppy Field Composition: Focal

"Floating Pigeon" Palette: Intrepid Composition: Focal

"Lion"

"Ephemeral Warhorse"

"Feather"

"Tsunami"

"Scorpion"

"Kingfisher"

"Blast off"

"Earth Yin Yang"

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Extras

List of background colors in each palette

Blood Moon - red, blue Blossoms - green, blue, pink, brown Dragon dance - yellow, red, orange Forest - gray, green, clay Hong Bao - red [bright, med, dark], yellow Ink - all the same (there may be a shade that is slightly darker) Intrepid - yellow, turquoise, off-white, navy Koten - grey, blue Mira - green, blue, yellow, navy, orange Poppy field - blue, light grey, dark grey, green, black Porcelain vase - sand, light blue, dark blue, black Sea Dune - sand, grey, brown Smoke and fire - all the same Velvet - sand, brown, red Vermilion bird - black, red

Complexity is subtle and appears to influence the number of curves and turns in the shapes that emerge. Looking at the examples below, you can see as complexity increases the different contours overlap more with more intricate connections, most easily visible when colors and patterns overlap.

Low complexity is more statistically rare making up ~12% of the collection. Low complexity is also correlated with the Flock composition type. Otherwise there are no significant visual, price, or rarity differences amongst the complexity traits.

Composition is a driving factor in the visual output of the collection. The composition type appears to determine where within the palette the image appears, as well as how broadly or narrowly the digital brush stroke touches the canvas.

The Focal type, which carries a significant price premium, tends to have consolidated images in the center of the palette, resulting in many emergent properties that we'll discuss below. Unsurprisingly, the focal type are all low Complexity. Focal make up ~10% of the collection.

Flock, the most rare type with only 24 (2%) in the collection, also carries a price premium and results in interesting patterns that tend to coalesce then diffuse, often taking up the whole palette.

Offset similarly broadly impacts the palettes, but is often off center, resulting in a feeling such that the piece may be running out of the frame. Offset make up ~12% of the collection.

Finally the sweep composition, the most common (75%) but also the one with the most emergent properties. Sweep composition pieces tend to be similar to Focal in that the image stays near the center of the palette, but have broader strokes that lead to very interesting outputs.

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