Torrent

The work and its context

Torrent is project 466 on the Art Blocks V2 core contract 0x99a9b7c1116f9ceeb1652de04d5969cce509b069, published under the canonical slug torrent-by-jeres and credited to Jeres. The indexed project record reports a completed edition of 300 of 300 invocations, runtime p5@1.0.0, and the official description: Torrent is about being washed away but not lost. Inspired by residual evidence of torrential downpours, floods and derailed rivers as well as thrown paint and ink, cathartically applied for the purpose of merely having watched it land, streak, smear and drip; just to leave a mark. Textures of fabric, concrete, paper and marble fused by a tempest... now desiccated and faded, bleached and marred by debris washed on after exposing moments of life. Moments lost; etched incomplete into the landscape. A nostalgic and possibly misguided love song fusing frantic rhythmic action, erosion and history in a way only time can compose after the violence has long ceased and we are left to excavate the damage and beauty of what can't be harnessed, only experienced or interpreted after the fact, even if any resulting conclusions are fictions filled with contradiction. Less about truth, more about just having a story that we believe makes sense of it all. Rarely are things black and white. Torrent is about coming to terms with the past so we can understand the present and navigate the future. In a sense, we're talking about trauma processing, the imperfection of memory and how history changes with time and reflection. Torrent was created using p5js and a shader. Make sure your GPU is enabled. Key Commands: S : Save the current frame as a png P : Play/Pause animation A : Advance a frame Z : Go back a frame F : Speed up animation D : Slow down animation URL Parameters: ?fullscreen=true : Fill entire window ?animated=true : Animate by default ?width=x : Render image with x width (read notes below) ?print=true : Use with "width" to render larger than 5000px wide ?frame=x : Start at frame x ?speed=x : Start at speed x, default is 10, 1 is fastest, higher numbers are slower See display notes or website for more discussion on rendering high resolution images for printing. 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 0.75. Website https://jeres.xyz/torrent.

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. Torrent is about being washed away but not lost. Inspired by residual evidence of torrential downpours, floods and derailed rivers as well as thrown paint and ink, cathartically applied for the purpose of merely having watched it land, streak, smear and drip; just to leave a mark. Textures of fabric, concrete, paper and marble fused by a tempest... now desiccated and faded, bleached and marred b

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 Torrent 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 torrent-by-jeres was retrieved from projects_metadata.script filtered by that exact slug. The UTF-8 payload is 8864 bytes with SHA-256 20ebec7069685fe2b5116005b313e131fd7aed112f1eb366329d9f99238ca174. 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 8864 bytes, SHA-256 20ebec7069685fe2b5116005b313e131fd7aed112f1eb366329d9f99238ca174, runtime p5@1.0.0. Detected source markers: setup, draw, noLoop, WEBGL, createCanvas, mouseClicked, keyPressed, tokenData, hash. Named functions include Y, q. tokenData.hash is read in source. Output then follows the drawing path those functions implement. Token 0 observation: Inspected media-proxy PNG is 1800x2400px, mid-tone and muted or near-neutral (mean RGB 159,177,153). File size 9846787 bytes. Indexed features: Dark False; Fade 2; Mono False; Slash 4; Style Collage; Thick True; Veins 3; Stripe 1

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 noLoop. The inspected PNG is a finished still. Live motion was not stopwatched. 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 466 on 0x99a9b7c1116f9ceeb1652de04d5969cce509b069 is as follows. First token minted_at is 2023-08-10T20:45:35+00:00. activated_at is 2023-08-31T00:19:47+00:00. start_datetime is 2023-09-06T17:00:00+00:00. completed_at is 2023-09-06T17:28:59+00:00. Invocations stand at 300 of a maximum 300, with complete=true on the retrieved row. ²³

Calculated intervals from those timestamps: first mint to activation is 20.15 days; activation to start_datetime is 6.69 days; start_datetime to completion is 29.0 minutes; first mint to completion is 26.86 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 2023-08-10T20:45:35+00:00, activated 2023-08-31T00:19:47+00:00, start 2023-09-06T17:00:00+00:00, completed 2023-09-06T17:28:59+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 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 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

Torrent #0 is token 466000000 on 0x99a9b7c1116f9ceeb1652de04d5969cce509b069, minted 2023-08-10T20:45:35+00:00. The canonical token page returned HTTP 200. The inspected media-proxy PNG is a static frame. Inspected media-proxy PNG is 1800x2400px, mid-tone and muted or near-neutral (mean RGB 159,177,153). File size 9846787 bytes. Indexed features: Dark False; Fade 2; Mono False; Slash 4; Style Collage; Thick True; Veins 3; Stripe 1 Indexed features returned for this V2 token: Dark False; Fade 2; Mono False; Slash 4; Style Collage; Thick True; Veins 3; Stripe 1. ³⁹⁴

Torrent #1 is token 466000001 on 0x99a9b7c1116f9ceeb1652de04d5969cce509b069, minted 2023-09-06T17:00:35+00:00. The canonical token page returned HTTP 200. The inspected media-proxy PNG is a static frame. Inspected media-proxy PNG is 1800x2400px, mid-tone and muted or near-neutral (mean RGB 155,130,126). File size 10152342 bytes. Indexed features: Dark True; Fade 1; Mono False; Slash 4; Style Collage; Thick False; Veins 3; Stripe 1 Indexed features returned for this V2 token: Dark True; Fade 1; Mono False; Slash 4; Style Collage; Thick False; Veins 3; Stripe 1. ³⁹⁴

Torrent #10 is token 466000010 on 0x99a9b7c1116f9ceeb1652de04d5969cce509b069, minted 2023-09-06T17:09:35+00:00. The canonical token page returned HTTP 200. The inspected media-proxy PNG is a static frame. Inspected media-proxy PNG is 1800x2400px, mid-tone and muted or near-neutral (mean RGB 106,113,111). File size 9847102 bytes. Indexed features: Dark True; Fade 1; Mono False; Slash 2; Style Collage; Thick True; Veins 6; Stripe 5 Indexed features returned for this V2 token: Dark True; Fade 1; Mono False; Slash 2; Style Collage; Thick True; Veins 6; Stripe 5. ³⁹⁴

Torrent #20 is token 466000020 on 0x99a9b7c1116f9ceeb1652de04d5969cce509b069, minted 2023-09-06T17:19:59+00:00. The canonical token page returned HTTP 200. The inspected media-proxy PNG is a static frame. Inspected media-proxy PNG is 1800x2400px, mid-tone and muted or near-neutral (mean RGB 154,124,131). File size 9590516 bytes. Indexed features: Dark True; Fade 1; Mono False; Slash 3; Style Collage; Thick True; Veins 9; Stripe 2 Indexed features returned for this V2 token: Dark True; Fade 1; Mono False; Slash 3; Style Collage; Thick True; Veins 9; Stripe 2. ³⁹⁴

The AB5D header candidate is token 466000037 (edition 37), 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 1800x2400px, mid-tone and strongly coloured (mean RGB 197,138,136). File size 9908149 bytes. Indexed features: Dark True; Fade 1; Mono False; Slash 1; Style Collage; Thick True; Veins 9; Stripe 4 ¹⁰³⁴

Motion, interaction, and audio: Source contains noLoop. The inspected PNG is a finished still. Live motion was not stopwatched. 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

Torrent is project 466 by Jeres 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.