Miragem

The work and its context

Miragem is project 389 on the Art Blocks V2 core contract 0x99a9b7c1116f9ceeb1652de04d5969cce509b069, published under the canonical slug miragem-by-third-vision and credited to Third Vision. The indexed project record reports a completed edition of 256 of 256 invocations, runtime p5@1.0.0, and the official description: Computation is one of the most powerful tools for our age. It opens up a whole world of possibilities. Some people use its power to solve the mysteries of our universe through science. I’m using it to explore our relationship with beauty and perception. “Miragem” (Mirage in Portuguese) is a generative project that requires your slow attention. It’s an exploration of rhythm, balance, and texture. Just simple elements in a coordinated dance, ruled by math and randomness. It’s an invitation for the eyes and mind to wander. >> ‎ >> ## “Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye, it is in my mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection.” >> Agnes Martin ‎ Please check the project website to know more about the composition and features. 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.thirdvision.xyz/miragem.

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. Computation is one of the most powerful tools for our age. It opens up a whole world of possibilities. Some people use its power to solve the mysteries of our universe through science. I’m using it to explore our relationship with beauty and perception. “Miragem” (Mirage in Portuguese) is a generative project that requires your slow attention. It’s an exploration of rhythm, balance, and texture

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 Miragem 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 miragem-by-third-vision was retrieved from projects_metadata.script filtered by that exact slug. The UTF-8 payload is 18437 bytes with SHA-256 01ad61d6b7ea2b0d56117887b605a60b27a6202cbf570f99ae3b8e9fba27cdc3. 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 18437 bytes, SHA-256 01ad61d6b7ea2b0d56117887b605a60b27a6202cbf570f99ae3b8e9fba27cdc3, runtime p5@1.0.0. Detected source markers: setup, draw, noLoop, WEBGL, createCanvas, keyPressed, tokenData, hash, colorMode. Named functions include addGrain, addTexture, brush, draw, drawDiagonalGroup, drawGroup, drawHorizontalGroup, drawVerticalGroup, e_a, e_b. 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 51,50,48). File size 7537546 bytes. Indexed features: pattern #3; dash type horizontal; wavy path True; background #0; dash color #1; group type diagonal; nr of groups 27; constrained dashes False

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 389 on 0x99a9b7c1116f9ceeb1652de04d5969cce509b069 is as follows. First token minted_at is 2022-11-04T19:17:11+00:00. activated_at is 2022-11-08T04:06:35+00:00. start_datetime is 2022-12-12T18:00:00+00:00. completed_at is 2022-12-12T18:15:35+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 3.37 days; activation to start_datetime is 34.58 days; start_datetime to completion is 15.6 minutes; first mint to completion is 37.96 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 2022-11-04T19:17:11+00:00, activated 2022-11-08T04:06:35+00:00, start 2022-12-12T18:00:00+00:00, completed 2022-12-12T18:15:35+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

Miragem #0 is token 389000000 on 0x99a9b7c1116f9ceeb1652de04d5969cce509b069, minted 2022-11-04T19:17:11+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 51,50,48). File size 7537546 bytes. Indexed features: pattern #3; dash type horizontal; wavy path True; background #0; dash color #1; group type diagonal; nr of groups 27; constrained dashes False Indexed features returned for this V2 token: pattern #3; dash type horizontal; wavy path True; background #0; dash color #1; group type diagonal; nr of groups 27; constrained dashes False. ³⁹⁴

Miragem #1 is token 389000001 on 0x99a9b7c1116f9ceeb1652de04d5969cce509b069, minted 2022-11-05T11:56:35+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 97,97,97). File size 8265038 bytes. Indexed features: pattern #2; dash type mixed; wavy path False; background #1; dash color #3; group type horizontal; nr of groups 40; constrained dashes True Indexed features returned for this V2 token: pattern #2; dash type mixed; wavy path False; background #1; dash color #3; group type horizontal; nr of groups 40; constrained dashes True. ³⁹⁴

Miragem #10 is token 389000010 on 0x99a9b7c1116f9ceeb1652de04d5969cce509b069, minted 2022-12-12T18:14:47+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 145,155,106). File size 9749554 bytes. Indexed features: pattern #5; dash type horizontal; wavy path True; background #10; dash color #1; group type vertical; nr of groups 38; constrained dashes False Indexed features returned for this V2 token: pattern #5; dash type horizontal; wavy path True; background #10; dash color #1; group type vertical; nr of groups 38; constrained dashes False. ³⁹⁴

Miragem #20 is token 389000020 on 0x99a9b7c1116f9ceeb1652de04d5969cce509b069, minted 2022-12-12T18:15:11+00:00. The canonical token page returned HTTP 200. The inspected media-proxy PNG is a static frame. Inspected media-proxy PNG is 2400x2400px, mid-tone and muted or near-neutral (mean RGB 105,92,79). File size 10188705 bytes. Indexed features: pattern #15; dash type horizontal; wavy path False; background #2; dash color #3; group type vertical; nr of groups 49; constrained dashes True Indexed features returned for this V2 token: pattern #15; dash type horizontal; wavy path False; background #2; dash color #3; group type vertical; nr of groups 49; constrained dashes True. ³⁹⁴

The AB5D header candidate is token 389000042 (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, mid-tone and muted or near-neutral (mean RGB 82,77,65). File size 10124001 bytes. Indexed features: pattern #9; dash type horizontal; wavy path True; background #0; dash color #1; group type vertical; nr of groups 55; constrained dashes False 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

Miragem is project 389 by Third Vision 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.