# Chimera research in progress

Full 49,927-character indexed artist script read in three contiguous segments. Exact query, response metadata, digest and byte length are in project-evidence.json. Fresh five-token and complete three-wallet AB5D profile query is in fresh-evidence.json. Header candidate #765 owner matches a linked AB5D wallet. Essay completed and editorially reviewed against code, fresh index records, primary sources and five original generators.

## Code inspection

Two alternating seeded sfc32-like generators, warmed through one million combined calls, determine major choices. Separate Math.random calls affect generated stroke-mask irregularities and some accessory placement detail; do not claim every pixel is repeatable. Procedural flower trajectories, stems, lathed vase/accessory geometry and instanced stroke planes construct the image. Eight flower classes and multiple stroke treatments are implemented. Perspective camera and screen-space stroke processing create a deliberately painterly 3D view. No imported flower models are needed, but actual procedural geometry exists.

A Canvas-generated four-tile stroke-mask texture and embedded background grain PNG are present. Distinguish the artist's interview shorthand about no textures from the absence of imported painting maps; do not repeat the shorthand as a literal code inventory. Shader includes Ashima noise credit. Three r124 dependency. No comprehensive separate artist-code licence established. Artwork current label CC BY-NC 4.0.

Progressive instance filling builds the scene. Animation defaults on, autorotation off; A toggles animation, R rotation, drag changes camera view, wheel/pinch zooms. C/H screenshot paths exist. Frame-rate adaptation can lower quality. HeadlessChrome branch disables normal animation and accelerates building, so visual inspection must use an ordinary browser. No audio found.

## Sources read

Art Blocks interview, In Conversation with Michael Kozlowski (mpkoz), 5 January 2022, and official collection page. Interview-derived prose must remain under 200 words. Artist print page was only discovered, not fully inspected; omit unless later verified. Fresh record: 987 minted/max; first token December 17 2021, public release January 10 2022; activation and completion separate. Sales notes provide descending Dutch auction ladder, not a transaction payment audit.

## Visual observations so far

Official ordinary-browser #765 observed twice before camera drag, then after drag. Pale blue-green ground within thin rust frame; red/pink rounded vase, cream and white curled petals, orange brown flowers, yellow accent left. Blooms and stem visibility changed between frames. Drag altered spatial overlap and exposed a different bouquet orientation. Hash signature at lower right. Autoplay visibly active without a click. No audio observed or promised.

Official #0 initial settled frame: lavender ground, cream/peach swirling wall strokes above blue swirling lower plane; pink mauve vase and pale green stems; pink upper blooms, cream left bloom, dark cobalt/blue right bloom. Background mark direction competes with the bouquet; still requires later frame and other three outputs.

#0 later frame: large blue bloom has dissolved, exposing green branching stems and right pink bloom; upper pink mass narrows. The image cycles rather than simply turning a finished bouquet. Background remains strongly active.

#1 first settled frame: thin blue frame, dusty pink ground, two large pale pink/white flowers edged dark rose; one high left, one lower right. Green stem and pale yellow-green vase. Pink fruit left; shallow pink bowl right and blue object below/right. Broad pale looping background marks and scattered blue-grey marks weaken object boundaries.

#1 later frame: flower contours and scattered marks shift while the high-left/low-right arrangement remains recognizable. Lower-right flower is more open, blue foreground object fuller. Two temporal observations support motion, not measurement of cycle duration.

#10 first frame: blue-grey field and thin muted blue border; bright cyan/blue folded orchid petals clustered over a broad brown vase with thick cream rings. Tall blue bottle left. Pale pink and blue fruit/accessory forms across lower field. White/light-blue strokes above, pink/blue strokes below articulate a floor-like plane. Dark indigo petal recesses give the flowers pronounced volume despite broken surfaces.

#10 later frame: lower-left orchid extent recedes, opening more ground and separating vase from side objects. Cream vase bands and blue petal edges shift, while palette and broad composition remain stable.

#20 first frame: cream thin border, muted blue field, broad peach/cream halo behind yellow and olive flowers; green stems descend into a squat dark blue vase. Pale pink horizontal table-like strip with yellow edges. Few separate objects, strong frontal symmetry tempered by unequal flower heights. Metadata says three flowers; only two dominant heads are clearly separable in this moment, so do not force a visible count from the label.

#20 later frame: petal masses shift and lower-right head narrows; dark vase upper rim/left extent changes, broad halo and table strip persist. Five originals have now each been seen in two temporal states. Source linkage and factual review complete; structure passes. Publication verification follows rendering.