Lucky Clover

The work and its context

Lucky Clover is project 478 on the Art Blocks V2 core contract 0x99a9b7c1116f9ceeb1652de04d5969cce509b069, published under the canonical slug lucky-clover-by-sputniko and credited to Sputniko!. The indexed project record reports a completed edition of 40 of 40 invocations, runtime p5@1.0.0, and the official description: Lucky Clover is released as part of reGEN, a special charitable auction of generative art to raise funds for Cure Alzheimer’s Fund, curated by Alex Estorick and Foteini Valeonti in collaboration with The Giving Block. Four-leaf clovers, with their rare and mystical allure, have captivated hearts for centuries, bringing happiness to those fortunate enough to discover them. When I was little, I used to embark on quests in search of one. In a sea of lush green clovers, I carefully examined each specimen and time would slip away. Lucky Clover, developed in collaboration with generative artist Kazuhiro Tanimoto, is a collection that recreates the joy of finding that special clover. Each piece represents a clover field at a certain time of day, with the four-leaf clovers hidden away for viewers to discover them. The algorithm in Lucky Clover was designed to be both realistic and surreal. The output is simultaneously photographic and illustrative, merging three-dimensional and two-dimensional elements. The myriad of clovers that fill the screen form a variety of patterns. Every color, placement, and flow is unique. Among the features assigned to the output, the “Number of Four-Leaf Clovers” is the most important feature of the work. Each output also corresponds to a specific time of day, evoking memories of the search, whether at sunrise, sunset , , when you don’t want to go home yet , , or else during mystic moonlight. The precious memories of the beautiful clover fields that each of us carries in our hearts are etched onto the blockchain as code. The work is a counterpart to Sputniko’s other work A Drone In Search For a Four-Leaf Clover, where the artist reflects on the era of AI-driven efficiency by creating a drone with advanced image recognition algorithms. The drone can discover the lucky clover with unparalleled efficiency. Would you rather use the drone to guarantee rare treasure or do you prefer the nostalgia of a sunlit search, with the chance that you might not find one? Lucky Clover is a charitable project in support of research into Alzheimer’s disease, which seeks to illuminate both new treatments and a possible cure like a beautiful clover. We respect the ongoing efforts of the many researchers around the world and believe that scientific and technological advances will make the world a better place. Notes Press [F] for full-screen mode. Press [L] to highlight the four-leaf clovers (if you want to spoil the fun and immediately discover them) Press the number keys to download a high-resolution image. [1] 1600x2400px image [2] 3200x4800px image… [7] 11200x16800px image [8] 12800x19200px image It may take time to draw depending on the environment. 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 0.667. Website https://curealz.org/news-and-events/digital-art-auction-to-benefit-our-research/.

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. Lucky Clover is released as part of reGEN, a special charitable auction of generative art to raise funds for Cure Alzheimer’s Fund, curated by Alex Estorick and Foteini Valeonti in collaboration with The Giving Block. Four-leaf clovers, with their rare and mystical allure, have captivated hearts for centuries, bringing happiness to those fortunate enough to discover them. When I was little, I u

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 Lucky Clover 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 lucky-clover-by-sputniko was retrieved from projects_metadata.script filtered by that exact slug. The UTF-8 payload is 19280 bytes with SHA-256 aa93caf3d8a6d8f9626efcb070ac787391d402f5208c85409abd5b31a554784a. 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 19280 bytes, SHA-256 aa93caf3d8a6d8f9626efcb070ac787391d402f5208c85409abd5b31a554784a, runtime p5@1.0.0. Detected source markers: setup, draw, noLoop, WEBGL, createCanvas, mousePressed, keyPressed, tokenData, hash, colorMode. Named functions include calPnt1, chkfi1Bri, curveOrLineV, drawLf, drawLfSp, drawReset, drawWork, genBgLy1, genCvs, genMp. tokenData.hash is read in source. Output then follows the drawing path those functions implement. Token 0 observation: Inspected media-proxy PNG is 1601x2400px, mid-tone and muted or near-neutral (mean RGB 90,97,68). File size 8795444 bytes. Indexed features: Tone Normal; Time of Day Morning; Shadow Shape 3; Size of Leaf Medium; Color of Light Colorless; Color Algorithm 3; Color of Flower White; Types of Clover Trifolium repens Isabella

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: Source contains noLoop. The inspected PNG is a finished still. Live motion was not stopwatched. 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 478 on 0x99a9b7c1116f9ceeb1652de04d5969cce509b069 is as follows. First token minted_at is 2023-10-10T14:46:23+00:00. activated_at is 2023-10-12T22:52:47+00:00. start_datetime is 2023-10-24T17:00:00+00:00. completed_at is 2025-03-06T18:52:35+00:00. Invocations stand at 40 of a maximum 40, with complete=true on the retrieved row. ²³

Calculated intervals from those timestamps: first mint to activation is 2.34 days; activation to start_datetime is 11.76 days; start_datetime to completion is 499.08 days; first mint to completion is 513.17 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 2023-10-10T14:46:23+00:00, activated 2023-10-12T22:52:47+00:00, start 2023-10-24T17:00:00+00:00, completed 2025-03-06T18:52:35+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

Lucky Clover #0 is token 478000000 on 0x99a9b7c1116f9ceeb1652de04d5969cce509b069, minted 2023-10-10T14:46:23+00:00. The canonical token page returned HTTP 200. The inspected media-proxy PNG is a static frame. Inspected media-proxy PNG is 1601x2400px, mid-tone and muted or near-neutral (mean RGB 90,97,68). File size 8795444 bytes. Indexed features: Tone Normal; Time of Day Morning; Shadow Shape 3; Size of Leaf Medium; Color of Light Colorless; Color Algorithm 3; Color of Flower White; Types of Clover Trifolium repens Isabella Indexed features returned for this V2 token: Tone Normal; Time of Day Morning; Shadow Shape 3; Size of Leaf Medium; Color of Light Colorless; Color Algorithm 3; Color of Flower White; Types of Clover Trifolium repens Isabella. ³⁹⁴

Lucky Clover #1 is token 478000001 on 0x99a9b7c1116f9ceeb1652de04d5969cce509b069, minted 2023-10-11T10:35:23+00:00. The canonical token page returned HTTP 200. The inspected media-proxy PNG is a static frame. Inspected media-proxy PNG is 1601x2400px, dark and strongly coloured (mean RGB 54,87,27). File size 8509539 bytes. Indexed features: Tone Normal; Time of Day Morning; Shadow Shape 3; Size of Leaf Small; Color of Light Colorless; Color Algorithm 1; Color of Flower White; Types of Clover Normal Clover Indexed features returned for this V2 token: Tone Normal; Time of Day Morning; Shadow Shape 3; Size of Leaf Small; Color of Light Colorless; Color Algorithm 1; Color of Flower White; Types of Clover Normal Clover. ³⁹⁴

Lucky Clover #10 is token 478000010 on 0x99a9b7c1116f9ceeb1652de04d5969cce509b069, minted 2023-10-24T17:29:11+00:00. The canonical token page returned HTTP 200. The inspected media-proxy PNG is a static frame. Inspected media-proxy PNG is 1601x2400px, mid-tone and muted or near-neutral (mean RGB 71,113,92). File size 8392771 bytes. Indexed features: Tone Normal; Time of Day Morning; Shadow Shape 2; Size of Leaf Large; Color of Light Colorless; Color Algorithm 1; Color of Flower White; Types of Clover Normal Clover Indexed features returned for this V2 token: Tone Normal; Time of Day Morning; Shadow Shape 2; Size of Leaf Large; Color of Light Colorless; Color Algorithm 1; Color of Flower White; Types of Clover Normal Clover. ³⁹⁴

Lucky Clover #20 is token 478000020 on 0x99a9b7c1116f9ceeb1652de04d5969cce509b069, minted 2023-10-24T19:24:59+00:00. The canonical token page returned HTTP 200. The inspected media-proxy PNG is a static frame. Inspected media-proxy PNG is 1601x2400px, dark and strongly coloured (mean RGB 49,114,32). File size 7986456 bytes. Indexed features: Tone Normal; Time of Day Morning; Shadow Shape 2; Size of Leaf Large; Color of Light Colorless; Color Algorithm 2; Color of Flower White; Types of Clover Normal Clover Indexed features returned for this V2 token: Tone Normal; Time of Day Morning; Shadow Shape 2; Size of Leaf Large; Color of Light Colorless; Color Algorithm 2; Color of Flower White; Types of Clover Normal Clover. ³⁹⁴

The AB5D header candidate is token 478000004 (edition 4), 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 1601x2400px, dark and strongly coloured (mean RGB 20,73,38). File size 7349676 bytes. Indexed features: Tone Normal; Time of Day Early Evening; Shadow Shape 3; Size of Leaf Large; Color of Light Colorless; Color Algorithm 2; Color of Flower White; Types of Clover Normal Clover ¹⁰³⁴

Motion, interaction, and audio: Source contains noLoop. The inspected PNG is a finished still. Live motion was not stopwatched. 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

Lucky Clover is project 478 by Sputniko! 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.