Chonks

I was planning on going a different direction for this announcement but after this interaction I felt my hands were tied.

Here we go:

Indie dev and dad.
Chaotic good.
Find my work at sylphdapps.com

First: Every Chris I know is fine

Second: Announcing the CHonks RenderIng Service

Chonk artwork is composed on-the-fly by a Base node whenever you call the tokenURI method. I wanted to access the images in a more Web2 friendly way, so I wrote an API that wraps those Web3 calls.

You can read the docs here:
https://sylphdapps.com/chris/

In short, it'll let you download PNG and SVG versions of any Chonk's 2D form. It also has the option to randomly select traits in your Chonks' backpacks in the output images.

It'll let you download images based on an owner's address or ENS and an index, too.

(The Chonks contract stores your chonk's IDs in an array mapped to your address and the index you provide is the index into that array.)

E.g. https://sylphdapps.com/chris/owner/mike.sylphdapps.eth?index=0&format=png

I used Chris to download PNGs of a bunch of my chonks to my phone to make a widget collage. This was loads easier than what I would have had to do otherwise, taking a screenshot of each Chonk and cropping.

Some notes:

- Chris caches requested images for 5 minutes, so if you view a chonk and then change its traits, it'll take a few minutes before you can get the up-to-date image out of Chris.

- It uses public RPCs under the hood, so there is a rate limit in place.