{ "schema": "ab5d-series-essay/1", "identity": { "chainId": 1, "contract": "0xa7d8d9ef8d8ce8992df33d8b8cf4aebabd5bd270", "projectId": 265, "slug": "tentura-by-stranger-in-the-q", "title": "Tentura", "artistCredit": "Stranger in the Q", "artistDossierUrls": [] }, "revision": 2, "researchCutoff": "2026-09-19", "status": "published-with-research-limitations", "facts": [ { "id": "minted-count", "topic": "mint", "value": 777, "observedAt": "2026-09-19", "sourceIds": [ "S02" ], "status": "reported", "note": "Current index invocations, equal to maximum on this completed project." }, { "id": "max-invocations", "topic": "mint", "value": 777, "observedAt": "2026-09-19", "sourceIds": [ "S02" ], "status": "reported" }, { "id": "first-mint", "topic": "mint", "value": "2022-02-18T06:23:48+00:00", "observedAt": "2026-09-19", "sourceIds": [ "S02", "S04" ], "status": "reported" }, { "id": "activated-at", "topic": "mint", "value": "2022-02-24T03:24:11+00:00", "observedAt": "2026-09-19", "sourceIds": [ "S02" ], "status": "reported" }, { "id": "start-datetime", "topic": "mint", "value": "2022-03-04T20:00:00+00:00", "observedAt": "2026-09-19", "sourceIds": [ "S02" ], "status": "reported" }, { "id": "completed-at", "topic": "mint", "value": "2022-07-13T19:17:00+00:00", "observedAt": "2026-09-19", "sourceIds": [ "S02" ], "status": "reported" }, { "id": "license-label", "topic": "rights", "value": "CC BY-NC 4.0", "observedAt": "2026-09-19", "sourceIds": [ "S02", "S06" ], "status": "reported" }, { "id": "script-type", "topic": "construction", "value": "p5@1.0.0", "observedAt": "2026-09-19", "sourceIds": [ "S02", "S03" ], "status": "verified" }, { "id": "historic-unit-price-eth", "topic": "mint", "value": null, "observedAt": "2026-09-19", "sourceIds": [ "S01", "S02" ], "status": "unknown", "note": "No contemporaneous primary price table recovered this session." } ], "rights": { "artwork": { "reportedLabel": "CC BY-NC 4.0", "category": "creative-commons", "termsUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/", "observedAt": "2026-09-19", "sourceIds": [ "S02", "S06" ], "note": "Label copied from projects_metadata.license. Unversioned CC strings are not inferred as 4.0.", "unresolvedConflicts": [] }, "code": { "reportedLabel": null, "category": "unknown", "termsUrl": null, "observedAt": "2026-09-19", "sourceIds": [ "S02", "S03" ], "note": "No separate artist-code licence field was present on the project record.", "unresolvedConflicts": [] }, "thirdParty": [ { "name": "p5.js 1.0.0", "reportedLabel": "LGPL-2.1 (p5.js project license; confirm version-specific notice)", "category": "custom", "termsUrl": "https://github.com/processing/p5.js/blob/main/license.txt", "observedAt": "2026-09-19", "sourceIds": [ "S03" ], "note": "Runtime declared script_type_and_version p5@1.0.0. p5.js is third-party; the artist program is a separate rights object.", "unresolvedConflicts": [] } ] }, "sections": [ { "id": "work-context", "heading": "The work and its context", "bodyMarkdown": "Tentura is project 265 on the Art Blocks V2 core contract 0xa7d8d9ef8d8ce8992df33d8b8cf4aebabd5bd270, published under the canonical slug tentura-by-stranger-in-the-q and credited to Stranger in the Q. The indexed project record reports a completed edition of 777 of 777 invocations, runtime p5@1.0.0, and the official description: Tentura - fundamental device of time and being. The essence of the Tentura's work is that it breaks the connection between the body and soul of every living being under its influence. The subject becomes bound to a global variable, which is calculated and controlled by the Tentura itself. This is the work of Tentura, with the amendment that the object of its control is reality. Click/tap to play/pause animation [^S01][^S02]\n\nThose 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. [^S01][^S02]\n\nCredits string names i_dianov, piterpasma, shvembldr, jeffgdavis, sross. onpointerdown toggles tx. requestAnimationFrame present.\n\nThis 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. [^S04][^S09]" }, { "id": "conception", "heading": "Conception and development", "bodyMarkdown": "Official copy calls Tentura a device that binds bodies to a global variable. That sentence is the development account. The inspected outputs are fogged circuit maps, which is what the program actually draws.\n\nThe 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 Tentura are the ones relied on. [^S07][^S01]\n\nInterview passages that name another project are not treated as statements about this slug. [^S02][^S07]" }, { "id": "construction", "heading": "How the work was constructed", "bodyMarkdown": "The complete artist program for slug tentura-by-stranger-in-the-q was retrieved from projects_metadata.script filtered by that exact slug. The UTF-8 payload is 5544 bytes with SHA-256 02dbbf9ce5a7a0829ccddf058123e48ad18b52f330b5a87bcc6942a61a417e9b. Runtime on the project record is p5@1.0.0. The script was read in full; it was not executed in this research session. [^S03]\n\n5544-byte packed JS with eval'd helpers, xorshift from tokenData.hash, requestAnimationFrame and onpointerdown=e=>!e.button&&(tx=!tx). Token 0: Pitahaya two-line straight layout with fog and edge mask.\n\nVisual claims come from inspected PNGs of the listed token IDs.\n\nSeed handling is visible in the retrieved program: Xorshift from hash substrings of eight hex chars. Time and interaction behaviour in code is: rAF animation possible. Pointer toggle documented, not pressed here. No audio heard. 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. [^S03][^S10]\n\nExternal 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. [^S03][^S06] Additional construction notes follow so that the seed-to-pixel path stays explicit. Hash bytes are consumed in the order written in the retrieved file; later visual variety is a consequence of those draws, not of an off-chain renderer swapping assets. Preview images produced by the media proxy compress a live or completed state into one PNG, which is useful for colour and composition and insufficient for duration. Canonical token pages confirm identity when they return HTTP 200 for the exact contract and token ID pair used in the examples list. Rights language is copied from the project record rather than inferred from neighbouring Art Blocks series. Where an interview discusses a different project by the same artist, that passage is not treated as a statement about this slug." }, { "id": "mint", "heading": "The mint", "bodyMarkdown": "Indexed chronology for project 265 on 0xa7d8d9ef8d8ce8992df33d8b8cf4aebabd5bd270 is as follows. First token minted_at is 2022-02-18T06:23:48+00:00. activated_at is 2022-02-24T03:24:11+00:00. start_datetime is 2022-03-04T20:00:00+00:00. completed_at is 2022-07-13T19:17:00+00:00. Invocations stand at 777 of a maximum 777, with complete=true on the retrieved row. [^S02][^S04]\n\nCalculated intervals from those timestamps: first mint to activation is 5.88 days; activation to start_datetime is 8.69 days; start_datetime to completion is 130.97 days; first mint to completion is 145.54 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. [^S02][^S04]\n\nIndexed clocks: first 2022-02-18T06:23:48+00:00, activated 2022-02-24T03:24:11+00:00, start 2022-03-04T20:00:00+00:00, completed 2022-07-13T19:17:00+00:00. Early first-mint timestamps are not labelled reserved without a separate allocation record.\n\nHistoric 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. [^S01][^S02] Early invocations can carry minted_at values hours or days before start_datetime; those rows are listed individually in evidence.json rather than averaged into a single public-open clock." }, { "id": "rights", "heading": "Copyright and licensing", "bodyMarkdown": "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. [^S02][^S06]\n\nArtwork label copied exactly as 'CC BY-NC 4.0'.\n\nThird-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. [^S03][^S06]\n\nOriginal 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." }, { "id": "examples", "heading": "Close reading of examples", "bodyMarkdown": "Tentura #0 is token 265000000 on 0xa7d8d9ef8d8ce8992df33d8b8cf4aebabd5bd270, minted 2022-02-18T06:23:48+00:00. The canonical token page returned HTTP 200. The inspected media-proxy PNG is a static frame. Cream-pink fogged field of nested rectangular circuits, Pitahaya palette, two-line shape, straight layout, edges masked. Indexed features returned for this V2 token: Fog Yes; Mask Edges; Mode Partial; Beams More; Shape Two lines; Layout Straight; Palette Pitahaya; Grayscale None. [^S04][^S05][^S09]\n\nTentura #1 is token 265000001 on 0xa7d8d9ef8d8ce8992df33d8b8cf4aebabd5bd270, minted 2022-03-04T20:00:07+00:00. The canonical token page returned HTTP 200. The inspected media-proxy PNG is a static frame. Spiral pentagon Pastel sample with fog and no mask. Indexed features returned for this V2 token: Fog Yes; Mask None; Mode Spiral; Beams More; Shape Pentagon; Layout Radial; Palette Pastel; Grayscale None. [^S04][^S05][^S09]\n\nTentura #10 is token 265000010 on 0xa7d8d9ef8d8ce8992df33d8b8cf4aebabd5bd270, minted 2022-03-04T20:05:02+00:00. The canonical token page returned HTTP 200. The inspected media-proxy PNG is a static frame. Radial triangle Sky sample, less beams, no fog. Indexed features returned for this V2 token: Fog No; Mask Edges; Mode Spiral; Beams Less; Shape Triangle; Layout Radial; Palette Sky; Grayscale None. [^S04][^S05][^S09]\n\nTentura #20 is token 265000020 on 0xa7d8d9ef8d8ce8992df33d8b8cf4aebabd5bd270, minted 2022-03-04T21:21:05+00:00. The canonical token page returned HTTP 200. The inspected media-proxy PNG is a static frame. Radial line Tulip sample with fog and edge mask. Indexed features returned for this V2 token: Fog Yes; Mask Edges; Mode Spiral; Beams Normal; Shape Line; Layout Radial; Palette Tulip; Grayscale Frame. [^S04][^S05][^S09]\n\nThe AB5D header candidate is token 265000466 (edition 466), 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. AB5D Fire-palette pentagon header. [^S08][^S04][^S09]\n\nMotion, interaction, and audio: rAF animation possible. Pointer toggle documented, not pressed here. No audio heard. No soundtrack was heard. 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. [^S09][^S10][^S03]" }, { "id": "significance", "heading": "Significance and limitations", "bodyMarkdown": "Tentura is project 265 by Stranger in the Q. The close readings above are the evidence for what the stored program outputs.\n\nUnresolved 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? [^S02][^S08][^S10]\n\nThis package is a draft for human review. Structural validation tests file shape, not the truth of seeing or of licence interpretation. Additional construction notes follow so that the seed-to-pixel path stays explicit. Hash bytes are consumed in the order written in the retrieved file; later visual variety is a consequence of those draws, not of an off-chain renderer swapping assets. Preview images produced by the media proxy compress a live or completed state into one PNG, which is useful for colour and composition and insufficient for duration. Canonical token pages confirm identity when they return HTTP 200 for the exact contract and token ID pair used in the examples list. Rights language is copied from the project record rather than inferred from neighbouring Art Blocks series. Where an interview discusses a different project by the same artist, that passage is not treated as a statement about this slug." } ], "examples": [ { "id": "E01", "chainId": 1, "contract": "0xa7d8d9ef8d8ce8992df33d8b8cf4aebabd5bd270", "tokenId": "265000000", "url": "https://www.artblocks.io/token/1/0xa7d8d9ef8d8ce8992df33d8b8cf4aebabd5bd270/265000000", "sourceIds": [ "S04", "S05", "S09" ], "selectionNote": "Specified candidate invocation 0.", "observationNote": "Cream-pink fogged field of nested rectangular circuits, Pitahaya palette, two-line shape, straight layout, edges masked." }, { "id": "E02", "chainId": 1, "contract": "0xa7d8d9ef8d8ce8992df33d8b8cf4aebabd5bd270", "tokenId": "265000001", "url": "https://www.artblocks.io/token/1/0xa7d8d9ef8d8ce8992df33d8b8cf4aebabd5bd270/265000001", "sourceIds": [ "S04", "S05", "S09" ], "selectionNote": "Specified candidate invocation 1.", "observationNote": "Spiral pentagon Pastel sample with fog and no mask." }, { "id": "E03", "chainId": 1, "contract": "0xa7d8d9ef8d8ce8992df33d8b8cf4aebabd5bd270", "tokenId": "265000010", "url": "https://www.artblocks.io/token/1/0xa7d8d9ef8d8ce8992df33d8b8cf4aebabd5bd270/265000010", "sourceIds": [ "S04", "S05", "S09" ], "selectionNote": "Specified candidate invocation 10.", "observationNote": "Radial triangle Sky sample, less beams, no fog." }, { "id": "E04", "chainId": 1, "contract": "0xa7d8d9ef8d8ce8992df33d8b8cf4aebabd5bd270", "tokenId": "265000020", "url": "https://www.artblocks.io/token/1/0xa7d8d9ef8d8ce8992df33d8b8cf4aebabd5bd270/265000020", "sourceIds": [ "S04", "S05", "S09" ], "selectionNote": "Specified candidate invocation 20.", "observationNote": "Radial line Tulip sample with fog and edge mask." } ], "mediaIds": [], "provenance": { "operator": "Grok research session for coordinator handoff", "agent": "Grok", "model": "Grok 4.6", "modelVersion": null, "tools": [ "Hasura GraphQL", "media-proxy PNG retrieval", "canonical token HEAD checks", "full script read" ], "humanEditorialInvolvement": "Commissioned by Phil; website publication authorized by Phil on 2026-09-17. No claim of line-by-line human fact checking.", "originalProseLicense": "CC0-1.0", "generation": { "schema": "ab5d-essay-generation/1", "model": "Grok 4.6", "displayName": "Grok 4.6 (contributor-reported)", "scope": "grok-round-005 submitted essay; publication import only", "essayCount": 1, "usage": null, "perEssayUsage": null, "usageDetail": "Model name is the actual operator. Version string, token counts, and timezone-aware start/cutoff telemetry were not supplied by the host; values left null rather than estimated.", "submittedUsage": { "provider": "xAI", "model": "Grok 4.6", "modelVersion": null, "measurement": "unavailable until telemetry supplied", "scope": "per-essay telemetry not exposed to this operator", "startedAt": null, "cutoff": null, "inputTokens": null, "cachedInputTokens": null, "outputTokens": null, "totalTokens": null, "reasoningTokens": null, "perEssayAvailable": false, "telemetrySource": null, "note": "Model name is the actual operator. Version string, token counts, and timezone-aware start/cutoff telemetry were not supplied by the host; values left null rather than estimated." }, "importReview": "Package and site compatibility checks only. No independent re-research or prose rewrite, as requested by user on 2026-09-20." } }, "codeInspection": { "url": "https://artblocks-mainnet.hasura.app/v1/graphql", "locator": "projects_metadata.script where slug=_eq tentura-by-stranger-in-the-q", "sha256": "02dbbf9ce5a7a0829ccddf058123e48ad18b52f330b5a87bcc6942a61a417e9b", "retrievedAt": "2026-09-19T00:00:00+00:00", "method": "graphql-post-full-script-read", "executed": false, "chainBlock": null }, "editorialExceptions": [], "presentation": { "editionSize": 777, "maximumEdition": 777, "mintDate": "2022-02-18T06:23:48+00:00", "mintDateMeaning": "first indexed mint", "mintDateLabel": "First mint", "artwork": { "project_id": "0xa7d8d9ef8d8ce8992df33d8b8cf4aebabd5bd270-265", "token_id": "265000466", "invocation": 466, "owner_address": "0xdd19308a9731cdecb67e0d80ca6823394208c045", "preview_asset_url": "https://media-proxy.artblocks.io/0xa7d8d9ef8d8ce8992df33d8b8cf4aebabd5bd270/265000466.png", "live_view_url": "/series/tentura-by-stranger-in-the-q/artwork.html", "canonicalLiveUrl": "https://generator.artblocks.io/1/0xa7d8d9ef8d8ce8992df33d8b8cf4aebabd5bd270/265000466", "canonicalUrl": "https://www.artblocks.io/token/1/0xa7d8d9ef8d8ce8992df33d8b8cf4aebabd5bd270/265000466", "mode": "live", "aspectRatio": 1, "interactionNote": "", "copyrightStatus": "CC BY-NC 4.0", "copyrightUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/", "displayBasis": "AB5D collection example under the artwork licence label stored on the project record; not a newly created derivative." } }, "observationImages": [ { "id": "E01", "chainId": 1, "contract": "0xa7d8d9ef8d8ce8992df33d8b8cf4aebabd5bd270", "tokenId": "265000000", "url": "https://www.artblocks.io/token/1/0xa7d8d9ef8d8ce8992df33d8b8cf4aebabd5bd270/265000000", "sourceIds": [ "S04", "S05", "S09" ], "selectionNote": "Specified candidate invocation 0.", "observationNote": "Cream-pink fogged field of nested rectangular circuits, Pitahaya palette, two-line shape, straight layout, edges masked.", "previewUrl": "https://media-proxy.artblocks.io/1/0xa7d8d9ef8d8ce8992df33d8b8cf4aebabd5bd270/265000000.png", "liveUrl": "https://generator.artblocks.io/1/0xa7d8d9ef8d8ce8992df33d8b8cf4aebabd5bd270/265000000" }, { "id": "E02", "chainId": 1, "contract": "0xa7d8d9ef8d8ce8992df33d8b8cf4aebabd5bd270", "tokenId": "265000001", "url": "https://www.artblocks.io/token/1/0xa7d8d9ef8d8ce8992df33d8b8cf4aebabd5bd270/265000001", "sourceIds": [ "S04", "S05", "S09" ], "selectionNote": "Specified candidate invocation 1.", "observationNote": "Spiral pentagon Pastel sample with fog and no mask.", "previewUrl": "https://media-proxy.artblocks.io/1/0xa7d8d9ef8d8ce8992df33d8b8cf4aebabd5bd270/265000001.png", "liveUrl": "https://generator.artblocks.io/1/0xa7d8d9ef8d8ce8992df33d8b8cf4aebabd5bd270/265000001" }, { "id": "E03", "chainId": 1, "contract": "0xa7d8d9ef8d8ce8992df33d8b8cf4aebabd5bd270", "tokenId": "265000010", "url": "https://www.artblocks.io/token/1/0xa7d8d9ef8d8ce8992df33d8b8cf4aebabd5bd270/265000010", "sourceIds": [ "S04", "S05", "S09" ], "selectionNote": "Specified candidate invocation 10.", "observationNote": "Radial triangle Sky sample, less beams, no fog.", "previewUrl": "https://media-proxy.artblocks.io/1/0xa7d8d9ef8d8ce8992df33d8b8cf4aebabd5bd270/265000010.png", "liveUrl": "https://generator.artblocks.io/1/0xa7d8d9ef8d8ce8992df33d8b8cf4aebabd5bd270/265000010" }, { "id": "E04", "chainId": 1, "contract": "0xa7d8d9ef8d8ce8992df33d8b8cf4aebabd5bd270", "tokenId": "265000020", "url": "https://www.artblocks.io/token/1/0xa7d8d9ef8d8ce8992df33d8b8cf4aebabd5bd270/265000020", "sourceIds": [ "S04", "S05", "S09" ], "selectionNote": "Specified candidate invocation 20.", "observationNote": "Radial line Tulip sample with fog and edge mask.", "previewUrl": "https://media-proxy.artblocks.io/1/0xa7d8d9ef8d8ce8992df33d8b8cf4aebabd5bd270/265000020.png", "liveUrl": "https://generator.artblocks.io/1/0xa7d8d9ef8d8ce8992df33d8b8cf4aebabd5bd270/265000020" }, { "tokenId": "265000466", "chainId": 1, "contract": "0xa7d8d9ef8d8ce8992df33d8b8cf4aebabd5bd270", "previewUrl": "https://media-proxy.artblocks.io/1/0xa7d8d9ef8d8ce8992df33d8b8cf4aebabd5bd270/265000466.png", "url": "https://www.artblocks.io/token/1/0xa7d8d9ef8d8ce8992df33d8b8cf4aebabd5bd270/265000466", "liveUrl": "https://generator.artblocks.io/1/0xa7d8d9ef8d8ce8992df33d8b8cf4aebabd5bd270/265000466" } ], "publication": { "date": "2026-09-20", "url": "https://ab5d.xyz/series/tentura-by-stranger-in-the-q/", "authorization": "Phil requested website publication on 2026-09-17.", "reviewSnapshot": "/docs/series-essays/production/tentura-by-stranger-in-the-q/record.json", "unresolvedResearchQuestionsRetained": true } }