Plenty :: Plenty veNFT Design by Varundo
December 2, 2022When the Plenty team approached me to conceptualise a design for their NFT collection I saw the opportunity to dig into sci-fi history to bring back one of my favourite themes — the LCARS from Star Trek — The Next Generation, a TV show that played a big role in imagining the future.
The Library Computer Access and Retrieval System (LCARS for short) was the main computer operating system employed by the United Federation of Planets in the mid-24th century. It was used aboard all Starfleet vessels, starbases, and space stations.
The Next Generation was a show from 1987, so this imaginary operating system came well before the Apple Operating System which was launched in 1999 and around the same time as Windows 2.0 which was also launched in 1987.
A big past of the concept of this operating system was the way the user interface was designed. First seen in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home in 1986, the Okudagram was the affectionate name given to the interactive panels created by the technical adviser, scenic artist and art department supervisor Michael Okuda. These definitive signage styles of a new design of control panel were unique because of lack of physical controls.
With iPads coming into our lives in 2010, it’s hard to see this as futuristic anymore but looking at the history of mobile devices, user interfaces and tablets, it’s impossible to deny the influence these imaginary systems had on our collective sense of the future. This is the reason why I have gone back to this era to pay homage to the LCARS and Okudagrams as we go where no NFT has gone before on Tezos.
The token for Plenty which is also known as a veNFT is a brand new kind of dynamically generated NFT that is created via the smart contract. The token represents the ‘vote escrowed’ position on Plenty and the graphic displays the voting power, locked $PLY and days until expiry. The token is animated in LCARS style and also changes colour based on how close it is to expiry. It’s been created for smartphone displays so that once you have it open on fullscreen you’re reminded of its sci-fi origins.
Web3: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Plenty. Its mission: to explore strange new worlds. To seek out new technology. To boldly go where no NFT has gone before!
About Varundo
Artist, Creative Coder & Synthesist. Lead @tezosiac (Tezos India Arts & Culture). Curator @naanwallet.
Linktree: http://linktr.ee/varundo
About Plenty
The Plenty team is building an all-in-one decentralized platform on Tezos. Plenty will allow swaps on uncorrelated assets, and low-cost, near 0 slippage trades on tightly correlated assets. Plenty also features a built-in bridge from multiple EVM blockchains to Tezos.
Website: plenty.network
Whitepaper: whitepaper.plenty.network
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