# Research notes

## Sources and access
Fourteen sources (S01-S14) inspected 2026-09-17T22:00Z to 23:35Z. All fetches succeeded. The NFT License 2.0 text (S08) was read in full during the catblocks-by-kristy-glas research in this batch. The OpenSea guide (S11), Sotheby's lot page (S12) and DailyCoin article (S13) were read through search result content extraction. The WhaleStreet X account (@WhaleStreetoffl) was located but X pages are login-walled beyond metadata, so no posts were inspected. No dated 2021 source for the original mint price was found.

## Full script inspection
Script from projects_metadata.script via exact-slug query; 5,364 bytes; SHA-256 b988ae23153629c53a6f4dc217b4d0023427ce708b5de7cd467c1cc015dee7c8. Read in full. Coverage: xorshift PRNG seeded from hash.slice(0,16); classes Lagrange and Palette; recursive rr() partition with COMPLEXITY_P1 .7 / COMPLEXITY_P2 .5; rect_partition strips with STEP n(50)-n(100), BREAK_SLICE 1-5 leading slices dropped (voids), BLOCKS_P .6-.8 threshold (a strip is filled when a uniform draw exceeds it, so 20-40 percent of strips receive color), STROKE_WIDTH n(5)-n(7); INVERT_P=1 and STYLE_P=1 make invert and hatch-style rolls always false and FLIP_P=0 disables flipped duplicates, so this chapter renders only flat stroked blocks; 11-entry palette table (Neopunk double-weighted) with BG #000003; three Palette cursors with independent repeat 1-5; debris 15-40 fragments, quad or 3-5 vertex glyph, fill from P3, stroke BG, stroke_width STROKE_WIDTH/3, random velocity limited to n(5), heading-locked rotation, toroidal wrap; dark_matter attraction computed but multiplied by GRAVITY=0; draw loop at frameRate(30) repaints objects then advances debris. No audio code. Script bytes retained only for hashing.

## Sibling scripts
warning (5,323 bytes, SHA-256 e6040632d7b56fea3210df2179b20bd5bc1ad6a9ac8244f727937a6f9f9f4c94): GTYPE=1, GRAVITY=.1, DEBRIS 25-50, stroke 2-4, BLOCKS .8-1, FLIP .1, INVERT .8-1. ravaged (5,292 bytes, SHA-256 ce2fac7eeb2701cf51f59bcad30123ed19754ed3ae9a1ac82ce75dcb5bd381a2): GTYPE=2, GRAVITY=.75, DEBRIS 50-100, stroke 2-10, BLOCKS_P1=1, MAX_H n(10)-n(50). Same engine; identical project description text in all three registry records; each chapter has its own palette table (warning 7 entries of 5-7 colors, ravaged 12 entries of 1-2 colors).

## Token identity and visual observation
All 93 token records pulled (query in research/fetch_tokens.py). Six static previews downloaded and viewed. Live renderer for 79000037 executed in headless Chrome: tokenData.hash matched the chain record; OBJECTS.length 116; SPACE.debris.length 27 (within the 15-40 roll); debris[0] and debris[1] positions changed measurably over 3s; frameCount advanced 103 to 193 (about 30fps). Palette attributions in the essay are visual matches against the script hex table, not recomputed traits. Sampling rationale: editions 0 and 1 (first two mints), 10 (glyph spikes), 20 (minimal density), 37 and 69 (AB5D-held).

## Header ownership and media
AB5D linked wallets observed 2026-09-17 (see antennas notes for method). Owner scan of all 93 tokens found editions 37 and 69 held by 0xdd19308a9731cdecb67e0d80ca6823394208c045. Edition 37 selected as header (live-verified); edition 69 recorded as alternate in presentation.json.

## Mint chronology and calculations
Activation 2021-06-01T04:11:01Z; first mint 2021-06-01T04:28:28Z; second mint 2021-06-01T19:15:10Z; sparse mints June through August (edition 10 on 06-11, 20 on 06-27, 37 on 07-29, 69 on 08-19); registry start_datetime 2021-08-23T01:32:11Z (= collection page release line); completion 2021-09-23T02:23:45Z. First-to-last span about 113 days 22 hours. Anomaly: sale-start postdates first mint by about 12 weeks; cause undocumented (likely minter/configuration change; inference only). Project reported paused=true, complete=true, locked=true.

## Rights and conflicts
Artwork label 'NFT License' (registry, link_to_license null); category custom; terms from the NFT License 2.0 template. Code licence: none found in script (no header); recorded as unknown. p5.js dependency licence not re-verified. No conflicts found.

## Unresolved questions and exceptions
EX-01 original mint price unverified (pending). EX-02 start_datetime versus first-mint gap unexplained (pending). EX-03 no trilogy-specific artist statement; collaborator division of labor undocumented (pending). Per-token palette attributions are visual matches, not recomputed traits (noted in essay).

## 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 35 minutes within the batch session. Token telemetry unavailable; usage.json fields null.