Invisibles

The work and its context

Invisibles is project 446 on the Art Blocks V2 core contract 0x99a9b7c1116f9ceeb1652de04d5969cce509b069, published under the canonical slug invisibles-by-ismahelio and credited to Ismahelio. The indexed project record reports a completed edition of 200 of 200 invocations, runtime p5@1.0.0, and the official description: "Invisibles" is a collection of generative art that takes you on a journey through fantastical cities and unreal architecture. Infused with a sense of imagination and wonder, aspires to be a visual joy and dream-like in its heart. Inspired by the novel "The Invisible Cities" (Italo Calvino), a book with algorithmic qualities, this work incorporates several themes and concepts, from exploring new ideas, lands, and cultures to the interplay between reality and fiction. Like the book's exploration of Venice, the pieces in "Invisibles" are rooted in the essence of Hong Kong, a city the creator called home for nine years. Each piece in this series captures the spirit of a different city, creating a beautiful and intricate mosaic of shapes, and patterns. The detailed engravings of architecture from the 18th and 19th centuries influenced its visual style while exploring the conceptual connection between engravings and code as a generation source. This collection is plottable and aims to transcend the digital realm becoming tangible as an added dimension to the artwork beyond digital printing. Bringing the generative drawing into the physical world while turning plotting into the equivalent of 21st-century engraving. "s" saves a PNG file with the current screen size. "h" generates a HD 4K PNG "v" generates a SVG file (ideal for plotting) 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 0.75. Website https://invisibles.ismahelio.com/.

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. "Invisibles" is a collection of generative art that takes you on a journey through fantastical cities and unreal architecture. Infused with a sense of imagination and wonder, aspires to be a visual joy and dream-like in its heart. Inspired by the novel "The Invisible Cities" (Italo Calvino), a book with algorithmic qualities, this work incorporates several themes and concepts, from exploring new

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 Invisibles 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 invisibles-by-ismahelio was retrieved from projects_metadata.script filtered by that exact slug. The UTF-8 payload is 55056 bytes with SHA-256 106a633972b8f5059b0466b189c4bcf05ef9ee9dd1ca829ba9247eb6eb2414e2. 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 55056 bytes, SHA-256 106a633972b8f5059b0466b189c4bcf05ef9ee9dd1ca829ba9247eb6eb2414e2, runtime p5@1.0.0. Detected source markers: setup, draw, WEBGL, createCanvas, tokenData, hash. Named functions include Be, De, Fe, Ge, He, Ie, Je, Ke, Le, Me. tokenData.hash is read in source. Output then follows the drawing path those functions implement. Token 0 observation: Inspected media-proxy PNG is 1800x2400px, mid-tone and muted or near-neutral (mean RGB 169,151,141). File size 6362086 bytes. Indexed features: Sky 1; City Isidora; Night False; Width Regular; Destiny East; Horizon 3

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 446 on 0x99a9b7c1116f9ceeb1652de04d5969cce509b069 is as follows. First token minted_at is 2023-05-03T12:21:35+00:00. activated_at is 2023-05-10T03:58:11+00:00. start_datetime is 2023-06-26T17:00:00+00:00. completed_at is 2023-06-26T17:31:47+00:00. Invocations stand at 200 of a maximum 200, with complete=true on the retrieved row. ²³

Calculated intervals from those timestamps: first mint to activation is 6.65 days; activation to start_datetime is 47.54 days; start_datetime to completion is 31.8 minutes; first mint to completion is 54.22 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 2023-05-03T12:21:35+00:00, activated 2023-05-10T03:58:11+00:00, start 2023-06-26T17:00:00+00:00, completed 2023-06-26T17:31:47+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 'CC BY-NC 4.0'. That string includes an explicit 4.0 version and is treated as Creative Commons version 4.0. 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 'CC BY-NC 4.0'.

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

Invisibles #0 is token 446000000 on 0x99a9b7c1116f9ceeb1652de04d5969cce509b069, minted 2023-05-03T12:21:35+00:00. The canonical token page returned HTTP 200. The inspected media-proxy PNG is a static frame. Inspected media-proxy PNG is 1800x2400px, mid-tone and muted or near-neutral (mean RGB 169,151,141). File size 6362086 bytes. Indexed features: Sky 1; City Isidora; Night False; Width Regular; Destiny East; Horizon 3 Indexed features returned for this V2 token: Sky 1; City Isidora; Night False; Width Regular; Destiny East; Horizon 3. ³⁹⁴

Invisibles #1 is token 446000001 on 0x99a9b7c1116f9ceeb1652de04d5969cce509b069, minted 2023-06-26T17:00:47+00:00. The canonical token page returned HTTP 200. The inspected media-proxy PNG is a static frame. Inspected media-proxy PNG is 1800x2400px, mid-tone and strongly coloured (mean RGB 139,70,80). File size 6442215 bytes. Indexed features: Sky 2; City Zobeide; Night False; Width Regular; Destiny East; Horizon 2 Indexed features returned for this V2 token: Sky 2; City Zobeide; Night False; Width Regular; Destiny East; Horizon 2. ³⁹⁴

Invisibles #10 is token 446000010 on 0x99a9b7c1116f9ceeb1652de04d5969cce509b069, minted 2023-06-26T17:21:23+00:00. The canonical token page returned HTTP 200. The inspected media-proxy PNG is a static frame. Inspected media-proxy PNG is 1800x2400px, light and muted or near-neutral (mean RGB 189,214,224). File size 7006935 bytes. Indexed features: Sky 2; City Zaira; Night False; Width Regular; Destiny East; Horizon 2 Indexed features returned for this V2 token: Sky 2; City Zaira; Night False; Width Regular; Destiny East; Horizon 2. ³⁹⁴

Invisibles #20 is token 446000020 on 0x99a9b7c1116f9ceeb1652de04d5969cce509b069, minted 2023-06-26T17:24:11+00:00. The canonical token page returned HTTP 200. The inspected media-proxy PNG is a static frame. Inspected media-proxy PNG is 1800x2400px, mid-tone and muted or near-neutral (mean RGB 186,170,156). File size 7172600 bytes. Indexed features: Sky 1; City Isidora; Night False; Width Regular; Destiny West; Horizon 2 Indexed features returned for this V2 token: Sky 1; City Isidora; Night False; Width Regular; Destiny West; Horizon 2. ³⁹⁴

The AB5D header candidate is token 446000182 (edition 182), 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 1800x2400px, mid-tone and muted or near-neutral (mean RGB 178,177,170). File size 8302598 bytes. Indexed features: Sky 1; City Despina; Night False; Width Regular; Destiny West; Horizon 3 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

Invisibles is project 446 by Ismahelio 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.