Tide Predictor

The work and its context

Tide Predictor is project 376 on the Art Blocks V2 core contract 0x99a9b7c1116f9ceeb1652de04d5969cce509b069, published under the canonical slug tide-predictor-by-lovid and credited to LoVid. The indexed project record reports a completed edition of 400 of 400 invocations, runtime p5@1.0.0, and the official description: LoVid’s signature video work mixes handmade analog synthesizers with digital tools in immersive Red, Green, and Blue (RGB) compositions that celebrate luminosity, chaos, relationships between craft and engineering, and connections between body and tech. Tide Predictor, LoVid’s first onchain generative work, builds a bridge from video synthesizer patches to algorithmic code-derived imagery. This collection is formally and technically inspired by hardware-based image generation, and places experimental moving-image, circuit boards, and electrical signal-based video art at the conceptual roots of generative art. Tide Predictor is a modular video synthesizer patch model, designed to reflect the analog spirit by working with three channels: RGB. Tide Predictor reimagines NTSC-encoded, oscillator driven electrical current based video synthesis while adding digital randomness/unpredictability, and transformations based on code, along with each mint’s unique content. In the late 19th century, mechanical analog computers used rhythm and repetition to anticipate the rise and fall of water levels. In addition to “tides”, which are low frequency oscillations of the ocean, higher frequency changes or “waves” are frequently discussed in reference to both water and electrical signals. By working with looping - and explicitly addressing the period (=1/frequency) for each RGB color - Tide Predictor extends analogies between the flow of water and the flow of electricity. LoVid’s Tide Predictor brings these relationships from the blockchain, through your screen, straight to your retina! 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 http://lovid.org.

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. LoVid’s signature video work mixes handmade analog synthesizers with digital tools in immersive Red, Green, and Blue (RGB) compositions that celebrate luminosity, chaos, relationships between craft and engineering, and connections between body and tech. Tide Predictor, LoVid’s first onchain generative work, builds a bridge from video synthesizer patches to algorithmic code-derived imagery. This

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 Tide Predictor 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 tide-predictor-by-lovid was retrieved from projects_metadata.script filtered by that exact slug. The UTF-8 payload is 4602 bytes with SHA-256 6f55ce9c5487dc4e9dcec138c86d4231318f6d8166db892afa0035595902a683. 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 4602 bytes, SHA-256 6f55ce9c5487dc4e9dcec138c86d4231318f6d8166db892afa0035595902a683, runtime p5@1.0.0. Detected source markers: setup, draw, createCanvas, tokenData, hash. Named functions include draw, increment_rbg, make_parameters, random_period, setup, sync_period, sync_periods, update_incrs. tokenData.hash is read in source. Output then follows the drawing path those functions implement. Token 0 observation: Inspected media-proxy PNG is 2400x2400px, mid-tone and muted or near-neutral (mean RGB 125,127,127). File size 111880 bytes. Indexed features: aligned False; indivisible False; b_period_reset 1000; g_period_reset 250; r_period_reset 1000; all_period_sync_prob 0.05

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: Loop behaviour inferred only from source keywords. The inspected PNG is a static frame. 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 376 on 0x99a9b7c1116f9ceeb1652de04d5969cce509b069 is as follows. First token minted_at is 2022-10-26T14:47:47+00:00. activated_at is 2022-10-27T20:59:11+00:00. start_datetime is 2022-11-02T17:00:00+00:00. completed_at is 2022-11-02T17:40:59+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 30.19 hours; activation to start_datetime is 5.83 days; start_datetime to completion is 41.0 minutes; first mint to completion is 7.12 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 2022-10-26T14:47:47+00:00, activated 2022-10-27T20:59:11+00:00, start 2022-11-02T17:00:00+00:00, completed 2022-11-02T17:40:59+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 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

Tide Predictor #0 is token 376000000 on 0x99a9b7c1116f9ceeb1652de04d5969cce509b069, minted 2022-10-26T14:47:47+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 125,127,127). File size 111880 bytes. Indexed features: aligned False; indivisible False; b_period_reset 1000; g_period_reset 250; r_period_reset 1000; all_period_sync_prob 0.05 Indexed features returned for this V2 token: aligned False; indivisible False; b_period_reset 1000; g_period_reset 250; r_period_reset 1000; all_period_sync_prob 0.05. ³⁹⁴

Tide Predictor #1 is token 376000001 on 0x99a9b7c1116f9ceeb1652de04d5969cce509b069, minted 2022-11-02T17:27:11+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 125,127,126). File size 1689190 bytes. Indexed features: aligned False; indivisible True; b_period_reset 200; g_period_reset 1000; r_period_reset 333; all_period_sync_prob 0.1 Indexed features returned for this V2 token: aligned False; indivisible True; b_period_reset 200; g_period_reset 1000; r_period_reset 333; all_period_sync_prob 0.1. ³⁹⁴

Tide Predictor #10 is token 376000010 on 0x99a9b7c1116f9ceeb1652de04d5969cce509b069, minted 2022-11-02T17:31:35+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 126,127,127). File size 1567874 bytes. Indexed features: aligned False; indivisible False; b_period_reset 200; g_period_reset 250; r_period_reset 1000; all_period_sync_prob 0.5 Indexed features returned for this V2 token: aligned False; indivisible False; b_period_reset 200; g_period_reset 250; r_period_reset 1000; all_period_sync_prob 0.5. ³⁹⁴

Tide Predictor #20 is token 376000020 on 0x99a9b7c1116f9ceeb1652de04d5969cce509b069, minted 2022-11-02T17:39:23+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 125,126,126). File size 1560843 bytes. Indexed features: aligned False; indivisible False; b_period_reset 200; g_period_reset 1000; r_period_reset 1000; all_period_sync_prob 0.05 Indexed features returned for this V2 token: aligned False; indivisible False; b_period_reset 200; g_period_reset 1000; r_period_reset 1000; all_period_sync_prob 0.05. ³⁹⁴

The AB5D header candidate is token 376000338 (edition 338), 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 123,127,127). File size 644934 bytes. Indexed features: aligned False; indivisible False; b_period_reset 500; g_period_reset 500; r_period_reset 200; all_period_sync_prob 0.01 ¹⁰³⁴

Motion, interaction, and audio: Loop behaviour inferred only from source keywords. The inspected PNG is a static frame. 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

Tide Predictor is project 376 by LoVid 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.