Race Condition

The work and its context

Race Condition is project 393 on the Art Blocks V2 core contract 0x99a9b7c1116f9ceeb1652de04d5969cce509b069, published under the canonical slug race-condition-by-jonas-lund and credited to Jonas Lund. The indexed project record reports a completed edition of 325 of 325 invocations, runtime three@0.124.0, and the official description: 🔈 Click anywhere to start the soundtrack 🔈 Race Condition is a racing game where you're flying through space at rapid speeds and see colors and shapes swoosh by. The game-objective is straightforward: you accelerate and try and stay on the road, if you miss a jump or a turn, you crash! The script determines the properties of your spaceship, acceleration, handling and max speed, as well as the map layout, including difficulty, color composition, and available power ups. Once the series has been fully minted, a highscore of all the mints will be created on racecondition.art. The winners in each category will be awarded an additional Race Condition Winner NFT. The categories include but are not limited to fastest spaceship, most difficult level, easiest level, worst acceleration, and worst max speed. In Race Condition, the winners are not determined by your driving skills, but by something outside of your control, the properties and features of your mint. Is your level more difficult than the others? Is your spaceship faster? Whether you are a winner in one of the categories is not really up to you, so enjoy the ride and race without pressure! The Controls ⬆️ or W to accelerate ⬇️ or S to decelerate (and cancel Nitro) ⬅️ or A to drive left ➡️ or D to drive right Space to jump N to activate Nitro M or ⬇️ S to stop Nitro ESC to open settings Shortly after loading, the spaceship will start to race the map by itself in self-driving mode, where it can't crash. As soon as you press a key on your keyboard, it switches to driving mode. The Levels Race Condition has 21 different map generating algorithms, each with their own set of challenges and difficulty rating. The algorithms take into account the playability in combination with the difficulty and try to strike a good balance between the two. Each mint gets a difficulty rating and that determines which map pool is used for the creation of the level. The easy ones requires next to zero effort whereas the hard ones require a lot of skill in driving. The Easy Medium Hard means that it can select map algorithms from the complete pool. The Music The music is generated by first selecting a scale from a set of 14 predefined ones, combined with two oscillators / synth configurations, and spread across an imaginary step-sequencer, where the hash determines which steps should be activated or not, how long the sequencer should be, what BPM it should be, and when it step into the next phase of the step-sequencer, which results in some very nice chip-tune repetitive tracks. Notes On mobile, the spaceship accelerates automatically and you turn left/right by tilting your device. You need to grant permission for this to work, if you decline, the spaceship will drive by itself in self-driving mode. 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 1.5. Website https://racecondition.art.

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. 🔈 Click anywhere to start the soundtrack 🔈 Race Condition is a racing game where you're flying through space at rapid speeds and see colors and shapes swoosh by. The game-objective is straightforward: you accelerate and try and stay on the road, if you miss a jump or a turn, you crash! The script determines the properties of your spaceship, acceleration, handling and max speed, as wel

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 Race Condition 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 race-condition-by-jonas-lund was retrieved from projects_metadata.script filtered by that exact slug. The UTF-8 payload is 50095 bytes with SHA-256 4352b549ad5bd06df4a935ac148e91a2abfa1bf7d585b3f42d33566e3671e928. Runtime on the project record is three@0.124.0. The script was read in full; it was not executed in this research session. ⁶

The stored generator is 50095 bytes, SHA-256 4352b549ad5bd06df4a935ac148e91a2abfa1bf7d585b3f42d33566e3671e928, runtime three@0.124.0. Detected source markers: keydown, requestAnimationFrame, AudioContext, THREE, WebGLRenderer, tokenData, hash. Named functions include H, Lo, Nt, O, S, Ve, We, d, e, h. tokenData.hash is read in source. Output then follows the drawing path those functions implement. Token 0 observation: Inspected media-proxy PNG is 2400x1600px, mid-tone and strongly coloured (mean RGB 144,216,169). File size 141367 bytes. Indexed features: BPM 127; Scale B Major; Trails False; Synth 1 triangle; Synth 2 triangle; Super Fog False; Color Algo 4; Map Length 9964

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 a continuing-draw or audio/WebGL constructor. The inspected PNG is one frame. Live timing and soundtrack were not captured this session. 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 393 on 0x99a9b7c1116f9ceeb1652de04d5969cce509b069 is as follows. First token minted_at is 2022-11-22T00:40:47+00:00. activated_at is 2022-11-23T23:51:47+00:00. start_datetime is 2023-01-20T18:00:00+00:00. completed_at is 2023-01-20T18:29:47+00:00. Invocations stand at 325 of a maximum 325, with complete=true on the retrieved row. ²³

Calculated intervals from those timestamps: first mint to activation is 47.18 hours; activation to start_datetime is 57.76 days; start_datetime to completion is 29.8 minutes; first mint to completion is 59.74 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 2022-11-22T00:40:47+00:00, activated 2022-11-23T23:51:47+00:00, start 2023-01-20T18:00:00+00:00, completed 2023-01-20T18:29:47+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-ND 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-ND 4.0'.

Third-party runtime three@0.124.0 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

Race Condition #0 is token 393000000 on 0x99a9b7c1116f9ceeb1652de04d5969cce509b069, minted 2022-11-22T00:40:47+00:00. The canonical token page returned HTTP 200. The inspected media-proxy PNG is a static frame. Inspected media-proxy PNG is 2400x1600px, mid-tone and strongly coloured (mean RGB 144,216,169). File size 141367 bytes. Indexed features: BPM 127; Scale B Major; Trails False; Synth 1 triangle; Synth 2 triangle; Super Fog False; Color Algo 4; Map Length 9964 Indexed features returned for this V2 token: BPM 127; Scale B Major; Trails False; Synth 1 triangle; Synth 2 triangle; Super Fog False; Color Algo 4; Map Length 9964. ³⁹⁴

Race Condition #1 is token 393000001 on 0x99a9b7c1116f9ceeb1652de04d5969cce509b069, minted 2023-01-19T18:01:23+00:00. The canonical token page returned HTTP 200. The inspected media-proxy PNG is a static frame. Inspected media-proxy PNG is 2400x1600px, mid-tone and muted or near-neutral (mean RGB 101,84,83). File size 140246 bytes. Indexed features: BPM 133; Scale F Major; Trails False; Synth 1 square; Synth 2 sawtooth; Super Fog False; Color Algo 1; Map Length 10066 Indexed features returned for this V2 token: BPM 133; Scale F Major; Trails False; Synth 1 square; Synth 2 sawtooth; Super Fog False; Color Algo 1; Map Length 10066. ³⁹⁴

Race Condition #10 is token 393000010 on 0x99a9b7c1116f9ceeb1652de04d5969cce509b069, minted 2023-01-19T18:14:11+00:00. The canonical token page returned HTTP 200. The inspected media-proxy PNG is a static frame. Inspected media-proxy PNG is 2400x1600px, mid-tone and muted or near-neutral (mean RGB 120,105,79). File size 79607 bytes. Indexed features: BPM 165; Scale B Major; Trails False; Synth 1 square; Synth 2 triangle; Super Fog False; Color Algo 4; Map Length 10092 Indexed features returned for this V2 token: BPM 165; Scale B Major; Trails False; Synth 1 square; Synth 2 triangle; Super Fog False; Color Algo 4; Map Length 10092. ³⁹⁴

Race Condition #20 is token 393000020 on 0x99a9b7c1116f9ceeb1652de04d5969cce509b069, minted 2023-01-19T19:13:23+00:00. The canonical token page returned HTTP 200. The inspected media-proxy PNG is a static frame. Inspected media-proxy PNG is 2400x1600px, mid-tone and muted or near-neutral (mean RGB 72,63,76). File size 113549 bytes. Indexed features: BPM 125; Scale F Major; Trails False; Synth 1 sawtooth; Synth 2 square; Super Fog False; Color Algo 4; Map Length 10134 Indexed features returned for this V2 token: BPM 125; Scale F Major; Trails False; Synth 1 sawtooth; Synth 2 square; Super Fog False; Color Algo 4; Map Length 10134. ³⁹⁴

The AB5D header candidate is token 393000189 (edition 189), 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 2400x1600px, mid-tone and strongly coloured (mean RGB 164,84,71). File size 80221 bytes. Indexed features: BPM 165; Scale A# Major; Trails False; Synth 1 sawtooth; Synth 2 sine; Super Fog False; Color Algo 1; Map Length 10031 ¹⁰³⁴

Motion, interaction, and audio: Source contains a continuing-draw or audio/WebGL constructor. The inspected PNG is one frame. Live timing and soundtrack were not captured this session. 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

Race Condition is project 393 by Jonas Lund 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.