# Gen 2 research notes

# Gen 2 research checkpoint

DCA, project 18, not James Merrill. Initial mistaken-name search produced no evidence used. Official collection read: https://www.artblocks.io/collection/gen-2-by-dca . Playground, 256 works, release 15 February 2021, animated and interactive. Artist description: hash read left to right creates bitmap and colour matrices, combined image used algorithmically in dynamic composition. Cached metadata has NIFTY label with no terms link, p5 1.0.0, 0.15 ETH current setting only.

Contemporary Art Blocks newsletter read in full: Druid, 6 May 2021, https://medium.com/the-link-art-blocks/charity-on-chain-how-art-blocks-is-raising-85eth-or-300k-4c27f3742b82 . Names Genesis then Gen 2/Gen 3 in Playground; author compares Gen 2 with dial-up era imagery. This is the writer's reception, not the artist's intention. DCA's language quote and charitable pledge are about Gen 3, not evidence for Gen 2. Keep derived prose within 200 words. No original-price proof recovered here.

Full original 19,907-byte script inspected. Four live examples inspected before and after one click each. No sprite example in this sample. Detailed development chronology remains unresolved. Source files already cached under .ab500-cache/series-expansion/gen-2-by-dca/.


Full code locators: setup hash bytes and first-sixteen-byte sum seed; generated bitmap styles and fixed sprite matrices; transparent first palette entry; flood, rectangular and radial buffers; trigonometric stamping; tint and invert branches; mouseClicked opening and mover activation; uppercase H/Q and lowercase reset; sparkle after fifteen clicks. Requested frameRate(15), not guaranteed timing. No independently executed original download or pinned block comparison.

AB5D #159 owner freshly checked through Hasura. Canonical renderer retrieved at viewing time through CORS-enabled official generator, inside an opaque sandbox iframe. AB5D invokes the existing mouseClicked function once after setup to start the authored opening. No artist drawing code committed. Successive screenshots confirm movement; subsequent click retains closing control. This presentation starts after one interaction, whereas the four comparison readings explicitly include the original closed state.

S03 and S04 read in full; source-derived discussion below 200 words each. Tagged p5 library licence inspected. Artwork NIFTY terms not recovered and not conflated with library rights. Launch-era price and allocation evidence not recovered.