# Research notes

## Sources and access
Ten sources (S01-S10) inspected 2026-09-20T00:21Z to 12:28Z. The registry description carries the motto, the interaction notes and an ASCII-art skyline. The artist's project writeup (S07) is dated 02/06/2023, post-release, and cautions that its screenshots are development-stage; it is treated as a development account (EX-03). The registry interview field is null (EX-02). The CC BY 4.0 deed (S08) was fetched for this package and read; it is the batch's only attribution-only licence.

## Full script inspection
Script from projects_metadata.script via exact-slug query; 25,062 bytes; SHA-256 e24527523266c9850cb8d65e9672824094b5422f76a33a0982c06b23fca1a17d (recomputed locally, matches). Read in full (chunked passes plus symbol map). Coverage: xorshift128 PRNG (four-word Uint32Array state from tokenData.hash); tokenId clamp min(449, tokenId mod 1000) (EX-04); THREE.OrthographicCamera isometric rendering; procedural towers, parks, rail and edition-number billboards; animated cars and trains on requestAnimationFrame; keypress 1/2/3 projections, other-key isometric restore, 0 transparent background; mouse drag with clamped rotation and ease-back on mouseup; no audio code. Script bytes retained only for hashing.

## Token identity and visual observation
All 450 token records pulled (query in research4/fetch_tokens.py). Five static previews downloaded and viewed (V01-V05), spanning green day, rust day, olive day, blue technopolis day and aurora night; the sky-state range is inferred from this sample only (EX-05). Live renderer for 331000040 executed in headless Chrome (V06): hash matched chain exactly; realtime animation confirmed; drag, 1/2/3, other-key restore and 0 all verified; zero audio elements; clean exit.

## Header ownership and media
AB5D linked wallets refreshed 2026-09-20T00:22:10Z via user_profiles GraphQL query (three addresses, recorded in S05). Owner scan of all 450 tokens found exactly one edition held: number 40, owned by 0xdd19308a9731cdecb67e0d80ca6823394208c045, minted 2022-07-22T16:26:05Z. Edition 40 selected as header as the sole AB5D holding. Media URL in presentation.json.

## Mint chronology and calculations
First mint 2022-07-01T08:28:17Z (edition 0; about 7 hours before same-day activation at 15:22:30Z). Registry start_datetime 2022-07-22T16:00:00Z (= collection page release line). Edition 1 at 16:17:58Z; edition 40 at 16:26:05Z; edition 225 at 16:27:38Z; edition 449 (last) at 16:29:22Z; about 29 minutes from announced start. Project reported complete=true, locked=true, paused=false, active=true. Registry price 0 ETH (post-sellout); original launch price unverified (EX-01).

## Rights and conflicts
Artwork label 'CC BY 4.0' (registry, with link_to_license); category creative-commons; deed terms summarized from the fetched deed (Share and Adapt for any purpose, even commercially; Attribution the sole condition; no additional restrictions). Code licence: none found in script; recorded as unknown. Sole runtime dependency three.js 0.124.0; zero external assets. No conflicts found.

## Unresolved questions and exceptions
EX-01 original mint price unverified (pending). EX-02 no interview (pending). EX-03 writeup post-release with ambiguous date (pending). EX-04 tokenId clamp quirk (pending). EX-05 sky-state range inferred from sample (pending).

## Actual model, tools, elapsed time and measured usage
Model: Kimi (Moonshot AI), version not exposed. Tools: curl, Python 3, headless Chrome via puppeteer-core, Art Blocks GraphQL, web search/fetch. Elapsed for this package: roughly 20 minutes within the batch session. Token telemetry unavailable; usage.json fields null except timestamps.

## Checks report

| Check | Report |
| --- | --- |
| Identity and package | Slug metropixeland-by-fernando-jerez; chain 1; contract and project ID match the supplied roster and fresh registry record; all seven files present. |
| Structure and citations | 1709 words; seven sections in order; essay.md byte-identical to record.json sections via the supplied reading format; source IDs unique; citations resolve both ways (validator PASS plus builder pre-check). |
| Source research | See 'Sources and access' above: every cited source inspected with specific locators; uninspected leads (login-walled) kept here in notes, not in the ledger. |
| Code | Full assembled script retrieved via exact-slug GraphQL query; read in full; SHA-256 recomputed locally and matching evidence.json and record.json; execution disclosed separately (live renderer run). |
| Visual evidence | See 'Token identity and visual observation': distinct token/observation identities V01+ with two sustained close readings in the essay; observer is this agent; motion/controls/audio status stated per work. |
| Header | Fresh AB5D wallet set via user_profiles GraphQL query (three addresses, this session); header token owner matched against the set; media and rights/display basis in presentation.json. |
| History and rights | Chronology and duration calculations in 'Mint chronology and calculations'; current vs historical values distinguished; artwork/code/dependency rights separate; unresolved findings listed. |
| Provenance and usage | Actual model credit (Kimi, Moonshot AI; version not exposed); token telemetry null with explanation; startedAt/cutoff timezone-aware ISO 8601, cutoff at or after start. |
| Validator | Command `python3 scripts/validate_series_essays.py submission/metropixeland-by-fernando-jerez` run from the extracted pack root at 2026-09-20T02:27:54Z; validator file scripts/validate_series_essays.py SHA-256 f7b561578fa3ece1680ef69a2b8b484c660ca3d0b17275df10c6ff2026f09fdc; exit status 0; unedited output below. |
| Submission state | complete-draft (validator PASS; manual research checks reported above; pending editorial exceptions listed in record.json). |

Validator unedited output:

```json
{
  "status": "PASS",
  "scope": "Structural package validation only. Does not grant editorial acceptance or confirm publication.",
  "essays": [
    {
      "title": "Metropixeland",
      "slug": "metropixeland-by-fernando-jerez",
      "words": 1709,
      "sources": 10,
      "examples": 5,
      "pendingEditorialExceptions": 5
    }
  ],
  "totalWords": 1709,
  "errors": []
}
```