# Elementals research record

Research conducted 17 September 2026. Full indexed 7,443-character program inspected, including the complete GridLooper and GridLooper_stroke classes. No independent artist-code execution or pinned chain comparison. Canonical Art Blocks renders viewed in Codex's built-in browser for editions 0, 1, 10 and 20 and held edition 418. Static rendering is consistent with setup-only drawing and absence of an ongoing draw routine.

Technical locators: 32 hash pairs; seed slice and xorshift generator; three offset settings; countX 0/1/2 and optional countX2; floor-mapped grid dimensions; two palettes; multiply and temporary additive blending; style selector range 0 through 8; flags for small shapes have no drawing handlers; style9 unreachable; rectangle alternatives consume separate random draws; 20-band striped cells; small additive circle; triangle orientation byte11; pixel-spaced gradient lines; independent final outline grid. No audited output-frequency or cross-resolution pixel-equivalence claims.

Canonical visual observations:
- #0: blue-green field, large dark red upper circle and cooler lower circle; smaller black outlined circles, upper angular contours, bottom square and triangle.
- #1: pink ground; dense orange/red/muted green; white dot upper left and striped patch upper right; broad pale lower-right circle; black contours.
- #10: grey field; white outline grid; green/blue-green forms, orange circle above and orange triangle right; magenta lower-left block.
- #20: pink field; sparse coloured circles and lower orange square; two white squares upper left; narrow vertical gradient; large open central-left area.
- Held #418: grey ground, angular orange/teal and muted yellow-green forms; no outline layer; broad open diagonal across centre. Fresh GraphQL owner matches AB5D wallet 0xdd19308a9731cdecb67e0d80ca6823394208c045. Official static preview selected.

Context sources read: official collection page (600, Curated, 16 April2021 release); Jeff Davis interview dated14April2021; artist blog visibly dated23April2021 despite URL containing21April. Artist testimony kept distinct from code inspection and visual judgement. Interview and blog each contribute fewer than200 words of paraphrase to essay; most construction analysis comes from complete code inspection. No uninspected social posts used as standalone evidence. Blog top-grid list differs from code mapping; essay follows inspected code.

Mint evidence comprises distinct index fields, token records, collection release date and contemporary artist retrospective. Earlier first token not folded into public launch. Artist's under-hour statement qualified, no exact public-sale duration inferred. Original price/cap announcement and complete payment/allocation history remain unrecovered; current0.125ETH not called opening price. Search coverage is not claimed exhaustive.

Rights: current CC BY-NC4.0 metadata label; no metadata terms URL. Corresponding Creative Commons deed read. Tagged p5 1.0.0 LGPL2.1 licence read separately. No separate artist-program grant identified. No artist code redistributed.

Package validation passed:2223 words,ten sources,four examples. Site validator passed across1045 HTMLfiles with0 errors and0 warnings. Desktop and390px mobile preview inspected, held image and caption verified. References use first-appearance numbering and single back-links. Measured shared token interval is generation record29. Desktop publication currently unavailable because Mac remains locked; research and built-in-browser inspection continue. This entry does not claim production publication or archival acceptance.