The Inner World

The work and its context

The Inner World is project 352 on the Art Blocks V2 core contract 0xa7d8d9ef8d8ce8992df33d8b8cf4aebabd5bd270, published under the canonical slug the-inner-world-by-dominikus and credited to Dominikus. The indexed project record reports a completed edition of 400 of 400 invocations, runtime js@na, and the official description: Drifting apart as the little islands that we are, you may ask yourself What is bigger - the inner space or the outer? This project was inspired by the multitudes we keep within us. The harsh shadows and the combination of pure 2d rendering with a 3d effect mimic feelings of separation from the rest of the world. Their undetermined scale reflects the seemingly unlimited depths of consciousness. The Inner World starts its rendering from one or more circular cores representing the centers of our personalities. Each of these cores spawns various thoughts and emotions, flowing as tendrils through the scene, making connections among themselves or reaching for the outside. Their movement ranges from straight and orderly to (seemingly) chaotic, sometimes twisting the clean underlying personality center into a completely different shape. Two rendering styles (illustrative and shaded) with palettes ranging from cool, gloomy and serious to cheerful or dramatic reflect the variety of predispositions. While waiting for the rendering to complete, look at the focus animation highlighting the circular cores of your piece. You're invited to spend this time pondering how everything you know, everything you have or will ever experience, and even the most majestic sights from stars to microbes fit into the space between your ears. 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 0xa7d8d9ef8d8ce8992df33d8b8cf4aebabd5bd270. Aspect ratio indexed as 1.0. Website https://dominikus.art/the-inner-world.

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. Drifting apart as the little islands that we are, you may ask yourself What is bigger - the inner space or the outer? This project was inspired by the multitudes we keep within us. The harsh shadows and the combination of pure 2d rendering with a 3d effect mimic feelings of separation from the rest of the world. Their undetermined scale reflects the seemingly unlimited depths of consciousness.

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 The Inner World 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 the-inner-world-by-dominikus was retrieved from projects_metadata.script filtered by that exact slug. The UTF-8 payload is 15160 bytes with SHA-256 60e680df505dd74df1d00345117a43fe3e4a12c7135941ef4641c5b14382422b. Runtime on the project record is js@na. The script was read in full; it was not executed in this research session. ⁶

The stored generator is 15160 bytes, SHA-256 60e680df505dd74df1d00345117a43fe3e4a12c7135941ef4641c5b14382422b, runtime js@na. Detected source markers: draw, requestAnimationFrame, tokenData, hash, colorMode. Named functions include E, R, a, n, s, y. tokenData.hash is read in source. Output then follows the drawing path those functions implement. Token 0 observation: Inspected media-proxy PNG is 2400x2400px, light and strongly coloured (mean RGB 161,187,228). File size 12778263 bytes. Indexed features: Size Grow; Shape Circle; Colors Illustrator; Layout Circles; Radius 35; Special Ripples; Freeflow False; Overflow 0.83

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 352 on 0xa7d8d9ef8d8ce8992df33d8b8cf4aebabd5bd270 is as follows. First token minted_at is 2022-08-18T16:07:56+00:00. activated_at is 2022-08-24T23:31:42+00:00. start_datetime is 2022-09-02T17:00:00+00:00. completed_at is 2022-12-03T10:44:59+00:00. Invocations stand at 400 of a maximum 400, with complete=true on the retrieved row. ²³

Calculated intervals from those timestamps: first mint to activation is 6.31 days; activation to start_datetime is 8.73 days; start_datetime to completion is 91.74 days; first mint to completion is 106.78 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 2022-08-18T16:07:56+00:00, activated 2022-08-24T23:31:42+00:00, start 2022-09-02T17:00:00+00:00, completed 2022-12-03T10:44:59+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 js@na 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

The Inner World #0 is token 352000000 on 0xa7d8d9ef8d8ce8992df33d8b8cf4aebabd5bd270, minted 2022-08-18T16:07:56+00:00. The canonical token page returned HTTP 200. The inspected media-proxy PNG is a static frame. Inspected media-proxy PNG is 2400x2400px, light and strongly coloured (mean RGB 161,187,228). File size 12778263 bytes. Indexed features: Size Grow; Shape Circle; Colors Illustrator; Layout Circles; Radius 35; Special Ripples; Freeflow False; Overflow 0.83 Indexed features returned for this V2 token: Size Grow; Shape Circle; Colors Illustrator; Layout Circles; Radius 35; Special Ripples; Freeflow False; Overflow 0.83. ³⁹⁴

The Inner World #1 is token 352000001 on 0xa7d8d9ef8d8ce8992df33d8b8cf4aebabd5bd270, minted 2022-09-02T17:23:41+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 45,84,91). File size 6902518 bytes. Indexed features: Size Constant; Shape Curve; Colors Palette; Layout Phyllo; Radius 10; Special Widen; Freeflow False; Overflow 0.66 Indexed features returned for this V2 token: Size Constant; Shape Curve; Colors Palette; Layout Phyllo; Radius 10; Special Widen; Freeflow False; Overflow 0.66. ³⁹⁴

The Inner World #10 is token 352000010 on 0xa7d8d9ef8d8ce8992df33d8b8cf4aebabd5bd270, minted 2022-09-02T17:29:57+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 140,140,140). File size 4886203 bytes. Indexed features: Size Constant; Shape Curve; Colors Black + white; Layout Grid; Radius 17; Special None; Freeflow True; Overflow 0.93 Indexed features returned for this V2 token: Size Constant; Shape Curve; Colors Black + white; Layout Grid; Radius 17; Special None; Freeflow True; Overflow 0.93. ³⁹⁴

The Inner World #20 is token 352000020 on 0xa7d8d9ef8d8ce8992df33d8b8cf4aebabd5bd270, minted 2022-09-02T17:30:55+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 137,140,114). File size 10579055 bytes. Indexed features: Size Constant; Shape Curve; Colors Palette; Layout Phyllo; Radius 39; Special None; Freeflow False; Overflow 0.83 Indexed features returned for this V2 token: Size Constant; Shape Curve; Colors Palette; Layout Phyllo; Radius 39; Special None; Freeflow False; Overflow 0.83. ³⁹⁴

The AB5D header candidate is token 352000208 (edition 208), 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 149,137,113). File size 12666587 bytes. Indexed features: Size Noise; Shape Curve; Colors Palette; Layout Grid; Radius 26; Special None; Freeflow False; Overflow 0.59 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

The Inner World is project 352 by Dominikus on 0xa7d8d9ef8d8ce8992df33d8b8cf4aebabd5bd270. 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.