Tout tracé

The work and its context

Tout tracé is project 409 on the Art Blocks V2 core contract 0x99a9b7c1116f9ceeb1652de04d5969cce509b069, published under the canonical slug tout-trace-by-florian-zumbrunn and credited to Florian Zumbrunn. The indexed project record reports a completed edition of 300 of 300 invocations, runtime three@0.124.0, and the official description: In 2022, as I was experiencing my first year as a father, I was often asking myself what impact I would have on my son, and how much my actions will be part of what will make him “him”. I started a slow introspection on the subject, and at the end of the year, I released “Foundations”, a series that focuses on the origins of our identity. “Tout tracé” is the second act, and its direct continuity. In French, it means “All mapped out”, referring to the idea of an all planned future or “a ready made path”. This series is the counterpoint of this vision. Life is full of surprises, good or bad, and each moment will have an impact on us, creating our set of experiences, many of them involuntary and embedded in our existence. As humans, we are in constant evolution and therefore, on a quest of identity; of who we really are. We are surrounded by expectations : from society, culture, religion, parents, friends, family… A list of rules that need to be followed and lived by; but, at the end of the day, I believe that only our choices matter. Like “Foundations”, the composition of “Tout tracé” is grid based: full of boxes expected to be filled. But this series is about growth, evolution, expression and re-definition. It’s about fighting against the structure in place, finding our own voice and re-shaping our reality. It is finding its uniqueness and identity that will be revealed through the millions of lines drawing each artwork, technically signing the idea of “Tout tracé”, that comes with a double meaning: “All drawn”. -- - Press ‘S’ to export a still image. - Press ‘H’ to open a new tab of the artwork in HD (A3 format). -- Opening one output in fullscreen or in live view will run an animation revealing the artwork. 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 0.7071156. Website https://florianzumbrunn.com.

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. In 2022, as I was experiencing my first year as a father, I was often asking myself what impact I would have on my son, and how much my actions will be part of what will make him “him”. I started a slow introspection on the subject, and at the end of the year, I released “Foundations”, a series that focuses on the origins of our identity. “Tout tracé” is the second act, and its direct continuity.

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 Tout tracé 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 tout-trace-by-florian-zumbrunn was retrieved from projects_metadata.script filtered by that exact slug. The UTF-8 payload is 167796 bytes with SHA-256 f4b6f954660b7f1e64c63b6526b3993237f59b8887449ece3734f4be34407d72. Runtime on the project record is three@0.124.0. The script was read in full; it was not executed in this research session. ⁶

The stored generator is 167796 bytes, SHA-256 f4b6f954660b7f1e64c63b6526b3993237f59b8887449ece3734f4be34407d72, runtime three@0.124.0. Detected source markers: draw, keydown, requestAnimationFrame, THREE, WebGLRenderer, tokenData, hash. Named functions include Bt, Ct, F, Fs, L, L0, Os, Pe, R0, S. tokenData.hash is read in source. Output then follows the drawing path those functions implement. Token 0 observation: Inspected media-proxy PNG is 1698x2400px, mid-tone and muted or near-neutral (mean RGB 143,135,155). File size 10238402 bytes. Indexed features: Palette 20; Evolution Medium; Composition Balanced; Layer Count 13; Lines count 27; Columns count 19; Perturbations None

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 409 on 0x99a9b7c1116f9ceeb1652de04d5969cce509b069 is as follows. First token minted_at is 2023-01-06T16:48:23+00:00. activated_at is 2023-01-06T20:33:11+00:00. start_datetime is 2023-02-08T18:00:00+00:00. completed_at is 2023-02-08T19:28:35+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 3.75 hours; activation to start_datetime is 32.89 days; start_datetime to completion is 1.48 hours; first mint to completion is 33.11 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 2023-01-06T16:48:23+00:00, activated 2023-01-06T20:33:11+00:00, start 2023-02-08T18:00:00+00:00, completed 2023-02-08T19:28:35+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 three@0.124.0 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

Tout tracé #0 is token 409000000 on 0x99a9b7c1116f9ceeb1652de04d5969cce509b069, minted 2023-01-06T16:48:23+00:00. The canonical token page returned HTTP 200. The inspected media-proxy PNG is a static frame. Inspected media-proxy PNG is 1698x2400px, mid-tone and muted or near-neutral (mean RGB 143,135,155). File size 10238402 bytes. Indexed features: Palette 20; Evolution Medium; Composition Balanced; Layer Count 13; Lines count 27; Columns count 19; Perturbations None Indexed features returned for this V2 token: Palette 20; Evolution Medium; Composition Balanced; Layer Count 13; Lines count 27; Columns count 19; Perturbations None. ³⁹⁴

Tout tracé #1 is token 409000001 on 0x99a9b7c1116f9ceeb1652de04d5969cce509b069, minted 2023-02-08T19:07:47+00:00. The canonical token page returned HTTP 200. The inspected media-proxy PNG is a static frame. Inspected media-proxy PNG is 1698x2400px, mid-tone and muted or near-neutral (mean RGB 128,107,118). File size 10206582 bytes. Indexed features: Palette 6; Evolution Small; Composition Free; Layer Count 12; Lines count 15; Columns count 30; Perturbations None Indexed features returned for this V2 token: Palette 6; Evolution Small; Composition Free; Layer Count 12; Lines count 15; Columns count 30; Perturbations None. ³⁹⁴

Tout tracé #10 is token 409000010 on 0x99a9b7c1116f9ceeb1652de04d5969cce509b069, minted 2023-02-08T19:19:47+00:00. The canonical token page returned HTTP 200. The inspected media-proxy PNG is a static frame. Inspected media-proxy PNG is 1698x2400px, mid-tone and muted or near-neutral (mean RGB 132,171,152). File size 10073275 bytes. Indexed features: Palette 16; Evolution Big; Composition Balanced; Layer Count 9; Lines count 27; Columns count 19; Perturbations None Indexed features returned for this V2 token: Palette 16; Evolution Big; Composition Balanced; Layer Count 9; Lines count 27; Columns count 19; Perturbations None. ³⁹⁴

Tout tracé #20 is token 409000020 on 0x99a9b7c1116f9ceeb1652de04d5969cce509b069, minted 2023-02-08T19:20:23+00:00. The canonical token page returned HTTP 200. The inspected media-proxy PNG is a static frame. Inspected media-proxy PNG is 1698x2400px, mid-tone and muted or near-neutral (mean RGB 131,131,152). File size 9058903 bytes. Indexed features: Palette 20; Evolution Very small; Composition Balanced; Layer Count 13; Lines count 29; Columns count 21; Perturbations Small Indexed features returned for this V2 token: Palette 20; Evolution Very small; Composition Balanced; Layer Count 13; Lines count 29; Columns count 21; Perturbations Small. ³⁹⁴

The AB5D header candidate is token 409000202 (edition 202), 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 1698x2400px, mid-tone and muted or near-neutral (mean RGB 144,134,155). File size 10037493 bytes. Indexed features: Palette 20; Evolution Extreme; Composition Balanced; Layer Count 13; Lines count 25; Columns count 17; Perturbations Medium 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

Tout tracé is project 409 by Florian Zumbrunn 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.