Ingress

The work and its context

Ingress is project 377 on the Art Blocks V2 core contract 0x99a9b7c1116f9ceeb1652de04d5969cce509b069, published under the canonical slug ingress-by-pawel-dudko and credited to Paweł Dudko. The indexed project record reports a completed edition of 256 of 256 invocations, runtime p5@1.0.0, and the official description: Ingress is an immersive, interactive virtual space filled with color and lights. A visitor stands in the middle of the synthetic space with nothing to define their orientation or the interior scale. Sight direction might be an initial clue to the positioning, but as it turns out, it would be misleading. Floating, pulsating, and blending lights either close the surroundings or open it to infinity. Even though there are no restrictions in viewing direction, the visitor's position is bonded to the center. The feeling might be calming, or disturbing. One might find it a beautiful and peaceful surrounding for contemplation, while others will recognize reminiscences of dark video games. Some spaces might be perceived as energetic music clubs, while others will resemble temples' interiors. Mobile rendering brings an even more powerful experience. When the device is moved, the visuals change accordingly. A small screen held in the viewer's hand turns into a discrete window allowing for some augmented voyeurism. The urge to see the hidden space makes the visitor move around, reach out and discover the ambiance. It's an opportunity of experiencing the second world, located in an unknown dimension. Mobile devices are recommended for the most augmented and immersive experience. Use a chromium-based browser for the best experience (e.g. Chrome, Opera). iOS devices need orientation data permission. On desktop devices, a fullscreen display is suggested. navigation: mouse: LMB + drag, scroll keyboard: arrows, +, - mobile: interactive, pinch view presets: [1] , still camera, [2] , predefined camera movement save image: [s] ¹²

Those figures are current index observations retrieved on 2026-09-19, not a reconstruction of the original public sale announcement. Atlas position is a catalogue ordinal and is not the on-chain project ID. The live collection page and the Hasura projects_metadata row agree on title, slug, contract, and project ID after a filtered query that used the exact slug. ¹²

Contract 0x99a9b7c1116f9ceeb1652de04d5969cce509b069. Aspect ratio indexed as 1.0. Website https://www.pdudko.com/2022/08/ingress.html.

This essay treats the stored artist program, four independently identified outputs, and a freshly checked AB5D holding (or an explicit collection gap) as primary evidence. Metadata traits are cited only when they were returned for the same V2 contract token IDs that were visually inspected. They do not replace looking at the pictures. ³⁴

Conception and development

The official project description is the development account used here. Interview or dossier sentences that name a different slug are not treated as statements about this series. Ingress is an immersive, interactive virtual space filled with color and lights. A visitor stands in the middle of the synthetic space with nothing to define their orientation or the interior scale. Sight direction might be an initial clue to the positioning, but as it turns out, it would be misleading. Floating, pulsating, and blending lights either close the surroundings or open it to infi

The development account used here is the specific source named in the citations, not a paraphrase of an artist-dossier page. Where that account is an official project description written in the artist's voice, that limit is stated rather than upgraded into an unpublished studio diary. Where an interview exists, the sentences that actually name Ingress are the ones relied on. ⁵¹

Secondary pages that only repeat the marketplace listing are not treated as independent conception sources. ²⁵

How the work was constructed

The complete artist program for slug ingress-by-pawel-dudko was retrieved from projects_metadata.script filtered by that exact slug. The UTF-8 payload is 14627 bytes with SHA-256 2308cc3df54c80e52f74ed45b4fb30250753cf200cfb0e84e65e21897df9ff07. Runtime on the project record is p5@1.0.0. The script was read in full; it was not executed in this research session. ⁶

The stored generator is 14627 bytes, SHA-256 2308cc3df54c80e52f74ed45b4fb30250753cf200cfb0e84e65e21897df9ff07, runtime p5@1.0.0. Detected source markers: setup, draw, WEBGL, createCanvas, mousePressed, keyPressed, tokenData, hash, colorMode. Named functions include createGeometry, createModel, draw, keyPressed, requestAccess, setup, shape, touchMoved. tokenData.hash is read in source. Output then follows the drawing path those functions implement. Token 0 observation: Inspected media-proxy PNG is 2400x2400px, dark and muted or near-neutral (mean RGB 61,48,55). File size 3411276 bytes. Indexed features: FOV narrow; Dense False; Noisy False; Pulse noisy; Walls 6; Lights 16; Palette Crimson Glare; Haziness nervous

Visual claims come from inspected media-proxy PNGs plus indexed token features.

Seed handling is visible in the retrieved program: tokenData.hash is read in source. Time and interaction behaviour in code is: Loop behaviour inferred only from source keywords. The inspected PNG is a static frame. A handler found in source is not the same thing as a control that was pressed in a live renderer during this session; tested controls are listed only when an actual key or pointer action was performed. ⁶⁷

External dependencies are those declared by script_type_and_version plus any library identifiers inside the file. Public visibility of the stored script does not grant a right to redistribute the raw artist source in this package, so the analysis cites functions and byte length rather than reprinting the program. ⁶⁸

The mint

Indexed chronology for project 377 on 0x99a9b7c1116f9ceeb1652de04d5969cce509b069 is as follows. First token minted_at is 2022-11-03T05:33:11+00:00. activated_at is 2022-11-08T04:06:35+00:00. start_datetime is 2022-11-23T18:00:00+00:00. completed_at is 2022-11-23T18:37:11+00:00. Invocations stand at 256 of a maximum 256, with complete=true on the retrieved row. ²³

Calculated intervals from those timestamps: first mint to activation is 4.94 days; activation to start_datetime is 15.58 days; start_datetime to completion is 37.2 minutes; first mint to completion is 20.54 days. These are differences of indexed clock fields, not a claim about when a web storefront button became visible to every collector. A first mint that precedes start_datetime is treated as an early or reserved mint unless a separate allocation record is produced. ²³

Indexed clocks: first 2022-11-03T05:33:11+00:00, activated 2022-11-08T04:06:35+00:00, start 2022-11-23T18:00:00+00:00, completed 2022-11-23T18:37:11+00:00. Early first-mint timestamps are not labelled reserved without a separate allocation record.

Historic per-token ETH prices for the original public sale were not recovered from a primary price table during this session and remain unresolved. Any floor price visible on a marketplace page in 2026 is a current listing observation, not the 2021 ask. ¹²

Copyright and licensing

The project record stores the artwork licence label 'NFT License 2.0'. That label is not a Creative Commons version string and is recorded as a custom or unknown artwork term. Code rights for the artist program are not separately labelled on the same field; they are treated as unknown rather than assumed identical to the artwork deed. ²⁸

Artwork label copied exactly as 'NFT License 2.0'.

Third-party runtime p5@1.0.0 is a separate rights object from both the artwork outputs and the artist source. p5.js, three.js, and ordinary browser JavaScript each keep their own licence texts. This package does not redistribute those libraries. ⁶⁸

Original essay prose in this package is dedicated CC0-1.0 by the research operator. That dedication does not change the artwork, code, or dependency licences.

Close reading of examples

Ingress #0 is token 377000000 on 0x99a9b7c1116f9ceeb1652de04d5969cce509b069, minted 2022-11-03T05:33:11+00:00. The canonical token page returned HTTP 200. The inspected media-proxy PNG is a static frame. Inspected media-proxy PNG is 2400x2400px, dark and muted or near-neutral (mean RGB 61,48,55). File size 3411276 bytes. Indexed features: FOV narrow; Dense False; Noisy False; Pulse noisy; Walls 6; Lights 16; Palette Crimson Glare; Haziness nervous Indexed features returned for this V2 token: FOV narrow; Dense False; Noisy False; Pulse noisy; Walls 6; Lights 16; Palette Crimson Glare; Haziness nervous. ³⁹⁴

Ingress #1 is token 377000001 on 0x99a9b7c1116f9ceeb1652de04d5969cce509b069, minted 2022-11-23T18:17:35+00:00. The canonical token page returned HTTP 200. The inspected media-proxy PNG is a static frame. Inspected media-proxy PNG is 2400x2400px, mid-tone and muted or near-neutral (mean RGB 75,73,69). File size 1822055 bytes. Indexed features: FOV wide; Dense False; Noisy False; Pulse noisy; Walls 4; Lights 18; Palette Shadow; Haziness calm Indexed features returned for this V2 token: FOV wide; Dense False; Noisy False; Pulse noisy; Walls 4; Lights 18; Palette Shadow; Haziness calm. ³⁹⁴

Ingress #10 is token 377000010 on 0x99a9b7c1116f9ceeb1652de04d5969cce509b069, minted 2022-11-23T18:31:11+00:00. The canonical token page returned HTTP 200. The inspected media-proxy PNG is a static frame. Inspected media-proxy PNG is 2400x2400px, dark and muted or near-neutral (mean RGB 75,43,40). File size 3482439 bytes. Indexed features: FOV regular; Dense False; Noisy False; Pulse noisy; Walls 20; Lights 16; Palette Ambiguous Brightness; Haziness calm Indexed features returned for this V2 token: FOV regular; Dense False; Noisy False; Pulse noisy; Walls 20; Lights 16; Palette Ambiguous Brightness; Haziness calm. ³⁹⁴

Ingress #20 is token 377000020 on 0x99a9b7c1116f9ceeb1652de04d5969cce509b069, minted 2022-11-23T18:32:11+00:00. The canonical token page returned HTTP 200. The inspected media-proxy PNG is a static frame. Inspected media-proxy PNG is 2400x2400px, dark and muted or near-neutral (mean RGB 48,55,85). File size 3663576 bytes. Indexed features: FOV regular; Dense False; Noisy True; Pulse noisy; Walls 4; Lights 94; Palette Prismatic; Haziness tranquil Indexed features returned for this V2 token: FOV regular; Dense False; Noisy True; Pulse noisy; Walls 4; Lights 94; Palette Prismatic; Haziness tranquil. ³⁹⁴

The AB5D header candidate is token 377000042 (edition 42), currently indexed to 0xdd19308a9731cdecb67e0d80ca6823394208c045, which is one of the three linked addresses returned for username ab5d on 2026-09-19. That ownership match is a present-tense index observation, not proof of continuous custody since mint. Inspected media-proxy PNG is 2400x2400px, dark and muted or near-neutral (mean RGB 13,18,13). File size 389870 bytes. Indexed features: FOV narrow; Dense False; Noisy False; Pulse noisy; Walls 20; Lights 12; Palette Cimmerian; Haziness calm ¹⁰³⁴

Motion, interaction, and audio: Loop behaviour inferred only from source keywords. The inspected PNG is a static frame. The static PNGs document halt or preview states. They are not by themselves proof that a live loop is still running, nor proof that a work is silent. No soundtrack was heard from these pages during this session. ⁴⁷⁶

Significance and limitations

Ingress is project 377 by Paweł Dudko on 0x99a9b7c1116f9ceeb1652de04d5969cce509b069. The close readings above are the evidence for what the stored program outputs.

Unresolved research questions that remain after this pass: (1) What was the exact public-sale unit price in ETH at start_datetime, supported by a contemporaneous primary source rather than a later floor? (2) For tokens whose live renderer was not stopwatch-timed, what is the measured wall-clock period of one full cycle or one completed progressive draw? (3) What contemporaneous primary source records the original public unit price in ETH? (4) Incomplete Control aside, do any of the three current AB5D wallets later acquire or dispose of the header token used above after 2026-09-19? ²¹⁰⁷

This package is a draft for human review. Structural validation tests file shape, not the truth of seeing or of licence interpretation.