SCUMSKULLZ – 5×5grid Pixelspecies Development (2004)

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Made out of pixels, LEGOs, and even tiles on the street. Found on walls, on blotter, and scored on pills of e.
The genetic code is 25 bits of black or white on a 5×5 grid. Out of 12,209 viable designs only a fraction have been discovered / named / created in the lab. Scumskullz are sofa king rad.

Exhibitions in Munich/Germany, Zaragoza/Spain, Katowice/Poland, Vilnius/Lithuania.

Browse the whole SCUMSKULLZ gallery and see all of the pics (191 images!)

Scumskullz are constructed from black and white pixels on a 5×5 grid. the result is a space-Invaders-like pixel fighter – friendly or aggressive, chaotic or regular. It started out as an icon design study and has grown into a collaborative online art project with contributors from all over the planet. But beware: not every 5×5 bitmap is valid. There are certain constraints the anatomy of a scumskull has to meet. like almost every living creature on earth they are symmetric and contiguous. they have to touch all boundaries of the construction grid, too.

An exhaustive search showed that according to this definition there are 12,209 possible Scumskullz.

Scumskullz usually live on computer screens and stickers on the streets, but they can be made out of everything you can imagine. Bathroom tiles, legos, food, rubber stamps, lamps or truetype fonts. there are even rumors of scumskullz spotted on acid sheets and pills of E. Visit the website to witness the global infiltration, learn more about the anatomy, view all discovered species and create your own scumskull. The Scumskullz crew consists of interdisciplinary design and IT experts based in munich, bavaria.

Every Scumskull is constructed from black or white pixels on a 5×5 grid.
Additionally there are certain constraints on the shape of a Scumskull:

	A Scumskull must be symmetric to the vertical axis.
	A Scumskull must be contiguous. That is, all black pixels have to be connected. Diagonal connections are allowed.
	A Scumskull must be expletive. That is, the bounding box of the black pixels of a Scumskull must cover the whole 5×5 grid. Or, there must be at least one black pixel on the leftmost and rightmost columns and the topmost and bottommost rows of the grid

Browse the whole SCUMSKULLZ gallery and see all of the pics (191 images!)
Visit the SCUMSKULLZ website by SCUM SUPPLIES INC.

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