# Color Study research notes

Complete original indexed script read on 17 September 2026. Static code inspection, not independent execution or pinned-block verification. Four official preview images inspected for editions 0, 1, 10 and 20. Their token records and feature labels are retained. No claim to have inspected the distribution across all 2,000 works.

Technical locators: byte extraction, repeated divs list and sparse-axis constraints; RGB parent selection; easeblack and complementary/blackcorner/tinted/saturated switches; contrast-based secondchance; weighted four-corner channel mixing; seeded random-cell override; circles and white line passes; albers hash substring test and final nested-square overlay; noLoop. Complementary branch assigns fourth parent from ma, despite calculating md. Description follows actual assignments. No probability calculation or runtime verification asserted.

Primary context: February 2021 Art Blocks interview read in full, with unnamed upcoming Playground project kept unnamed. May 2023 Right Click Save interview read; excerpt-derived discussion deliberately concise. Artist Progression Explained page read; only explicit continuity of colour modifications used. Current collection and indexed fields support distinct release/mint observations.

Mint investigation included current project index, four token records, contemporary interview, and focused launch-price search. Etherscan page for token #1 mint transaction failed through the web reader; no transaction payment or allocation claim derived from it. Failed URL: https://etherscan.io/tx/0xa7bac5fb76fd436afda58fd6bf676a35911b6f0adbf8f4c4916cc48eb92c35f3 . No verified launch-price/cap announcement or complete event replay recovered. No exact public sellout interval calculated.

Artwork CC BY-NC 4.0 label observed; corresponding deed inspected. Separate artist-code grant not found; original script is not redistributed. Tagged p5 1.0.0 LGPL-2.1 licence read separately. A first attempt at a v1.0.0 tag returned 404; the actual 1.0.0 tag URL used in S10 resolves.

AB5D held #494 was freshly confirmed against the known wallet set. Header uses official static preview, title, artist, token link and licence caption. Model and measured research/drafting-period telemetry recorded separately; no fabricated isolated per-essay count.