Platonic Love

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Platonic Love is a 11 piece NFT collection featuring visuals by Esteban Diacono, a motion graphics designer from Buenos Aires, Argentina, and original music by Mike Shinoda.[1] It was debuted on March 29, 2021 through Nifty Gateway.

Background

Mike Shinoda said the duo started talking through Instagram DMs.[2]

The project was announced on March 19, 2021. Esteban Diácono wrote, "Very happy and very excited to announce "Platonic Love", a collaboration between myself and the the great Mike Shinoda. We'll be debuting our first collaboration on March 29th, exclusively on Nifty Gateway. "Platonic Love" is a humble homage to 3D Graphics and how I fell in love with the art and the craft. The collection features original compositions and sound design by Mike Shinoda, who through his music, added a whole new dimension to the visuals."[3]

"The most challenging part of this drop has been getting eyes on the concepts and the decisions," he explained.[4] He further elaborated on the concept behind the project, "The collection is called "Platonic Love" and yes, there's Platonics, and there's also a ton of love put into it. It's a collection about 3D history, about the tools, the journeys, the discovery and the learning processes. It's a bit of a nostalgia trip."[5]

Composition

The collection is categorized into three 3D Test objects, Five Platonics and three Open Editions.[6] The 3D Test objects are "The Cornell Box", "The Stanford Bunny" and "The Utah Teapot" while the Five Platonics are the solids: "Thetra", "Hexa", "Octa", "Dodeca" and "Icosa". Each piece of the Open Editions is composed of all Five Platonics (hence why they all have "Platonics" in their titles) with the same mechanics but they are visually different and features different music.

3D Test

About the 3D Test objects, Esteban Diacono said, "the idea was to pay homage, remember and maybe introduce to a new audience the work of the people who helped advance the field of 3D graphics."[7]

The Cornell Box

The description for "The Cornell Box" reads:

"The Cornell box is a test aimed at determining the accuracy of rendering software by comparing the rendered scene with an actual photograph of the same scene, and has become a commonly used 3D test model.The physical properties of the box are designed to show diffuse interreflection. For example, some light should reflect off the red and green walls and bounce onto the white walls, so parts of the white walls should appear slightly red or green."[8]

The Stanford Bunny

The description for "The Stanford Bunny" reads:

"The Stanford bunny is a computer graphics 3D test model developed by Greg Turk and Marc Levoy in 1994 at Stanford University. The model consists of 69,451 triangles, with the data determined by 3D scanning a ceramic figurine of a rabbit. The data can be used to test various graphics algorithms, including polygonal simplification, compression, and surface smoothing."[9]

The Utah Teapot

The description for "The Utah Teapot" reads:

"The Utah teapot, or the Newell teapot, is a 3D test model that has become a standard reference object and an in-joke within the computer graphics community. It is a mathematical model of an ordinary Melitta-brand teapot that appears solid with a nearly rotationally symmetrical body. It was one of the first to be modeled using bézier curves rather than precisely measured."[10]

Five Platonics

The description for the Five Platonics reads:

"In three-dimensional space, a Platonic solid is a regular, convex polyhedron. It is constructed by congruent, regular polygonal faces with the same number of faces meeting at each vertex. Five solids meet these criteria: Thetraedron, Cube, Octahedron, Dodecahedron and Icosahedron."[11]

Release

The initial release of Platonic Love happened on March 29, 2021 through Nifty Gateway. It is presented as 11 videos in mp4 format, each with an average duration of 40 seconds and containing a different instrumental song made exclusively for the video. The 3D Test objects were limited to 1 unit each, while the Five Platonics were limited to 15 each (despite the announcement that there were only 10).[6][11]

"Platonics: On A Budget", "Platonics: At The Frathouse" and "Platonics: With Honors" were released on a separate page as Open Editions, meaning the platform allowed for up to 9999 purchases of each piece. However, there was a time limit and they were only available for 5 minutes.[12]

An additional 50 seconds piece titled "A Lot Of Platonic Love" was sold for $1 starting on June 8, 2021 at 2 PM ET exclusively for holders of Platonic Love pieces. It was limited to 20 units.[13] Owning multiple pieces granted multiple entries.[14] While the visuals are unique to this piece, the music is an extended version of "Icosa".

Track Listing

Platonic Love

No. Title Writer(s) Length
1 The Cornell Box Mike Shinoda 0:40
2 The Standford Bunny Mike Shinoda 0:40
3 The Utah Teapot Mike Shinoda 0:40
4 Thetra Mike Shinoda 0:40
5 Hexa Mike Shinoda 0:40
6 Octa Mike Shinoda 0:40
7 Dodeca Mike Shinoda 0:42
8 Icosa Mike Shinoda 0:40

Platonic Love Open Editions

No. Title Writer(s) Length
1 Platonics: On A Budget Mike Shinoda 0:40
2 Platonics: At The Frathouse Mike Shinoda 0:40
3 Platonics: With Honors Mike Shinoda 0:40

Reward Drop

No. Title Writer(s) Length
1 A Lot Of Platonic Love Mike Shinoda 0:50

Gallery

External Links

References

  1. Mike Shinoda on Instagram: “Coming to @niftygateway in one week /// visuals by the incredible @_estebandiacono /// audio by me #nft #nftart #blockchain”, March 22, 2021
  2. Mike Shinoda YouTube Q+A (March 30, 2021) - Newswire - Linkin Park Live, March 30, 2021
  3. Esteban Diacono / diaconoesteban.eth / on Twitter: "Very happy and very excited to announce "Platonic Love", a collaboration between myself and the the great @mikeshinoda. We'll be debuting our first collaboration on March 29th, exclusively on @niftygateway. https://t.co/Obt23o46DJ" / Twitter, March 22, 2021
  4. Esteban Diacono / diaconoesteban.eth / on Twitter: "The most challenging part of this drop has been getting eyes on the concepts and the decisions, so I decided to write some mini-3D history threads that hopefully will give context and help understand why a teapot, why a bunny, etc. https://t.co/Vsi1TbKmfg" / Twitter, March 29, 2021
  5. [Esteban Diacono / diaconoesteban.eth / on Twitter: "The collection is called "Platonic Love" and yes, there's Platonics, and there's also a ton of love put into it. It's a collection about 3D history, about the tools, the journeys, the discovery and the learning processes. It's a bit of a nostalgia trip. https://t.co/LenpEOZ2Fg" / Twitter], March 29, 2021
  6. 6.0 6.1 Esteban Diacono / diaconoesteban.eth / on Twitter: "The drop's format is the following: 5 Silent Auctions featuring the Five Platonics (editions of 10). 3 1/1 Auctions, featuring the most iconic and beloved 3D test objects. 3 Open Editions. Each piece has an original, made-for-this-drop score by @mikeshinoda. https://t.co/M6ukS9MZRs" / Twitter, March 29, 2021
  7. Esteban Diacono / diaconoesteban.eth / on Twitter: "About the 3D Test objects, the idea was to pay homage, remember and maybe introduce to a new audience the work of the people who helped advance the field of 3D graphics. Here's a few threads for the last couple days with some #OriginStories (sorry, @RogerDickerman)." / Twitter, March 29, 2021
  8. The Cornell Box - Nifty Gateway
  9. The Stanford Bunny - Nifty Gateway
  10. The Utah Teapot - Nifty Gateway
  11. 11.0 11.1 Thetra - Nifty Gateway
  12. Platonic Love Open Editions by Esteban Diacono x Mike Shinoda - Nifty Gateway
  13. Esteban Diacono / diaconoesteban.eth / on Twitter: ""A Lot of Platonic Love", a reward mini drop for holders of last March collection. 20 editions, $1 each, featuring original music composed by @mikeshinoda from @linkinpark. JUNE 8th, 2 PM ET. You MUST own a piece from "Platonic Love" to enter. @niftygateway https://t.co/TbWbPfR59n" / Twitter, June 5, 2021
  14. A Lot Of Platonic Love by Esteban Diacono x Mike Shinoda - Nifty Gateway