Trichro-matic

The work and its context

Trichro-matic is project 482 on the Art Blocks V2 core contract 0x99a9b7c1116f9ceeb1652de04d5969cce509b069, published under the canonical slug trichro-matic-by-mountvitruvius and credited to MountVitruvius. The indexed project record reports a completed edition of 600 of 600 invocations, runtime js@na, and the official description: Trichro-matic meditates on perception. As you explore the piece, your perception of the structure shifts. Elements change their relationships - what is out turns in; what is flat deepens. What stood adjacent now occludes. The piece uses rhythmic color and form, displacement, and juxtaposition to create structures that invite interpretation and exploration. Some outputs challenge our depth perception conventions, while others manipulate explicit structural cues and emphasize intentional imperfections. From this concept, the piece gets its name - Trichro-matic - denoting the ability to perceive using all three primary colors. The hyphenated "o-matic" denotes fictional machinery, hinting at the generative system supporting the piece. Both hand-selected and algorithmically-generated color palettes feature, with the latter aiming to elicit emotions akin to the former. When you explore an output from different starting points, you understand the elements' relationships differently. In these changing interpretations, no answer is definitive. Each perspective, whether your first, your last, or someone else's, is valid. Prints will be available for Trichro-matic owners. For more details, visit this link. Note: Renders might take longer on lower-end or mobile devices. This piece is my most technically complex release to date, relying on a custom GPU render process which can demand significant resources, even if outputs appear simple. Finally, I dedicate this piece to my father, who suffered vision loss from a stroke in September 2023. 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 0.666666. Website https://www.mountvitruvius.art.

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. Trichro-matic meditates on perception. As you explore the piece, your perception of the structure shifts. Elements change their relationships - what is out turns in; what is flat deepens. What stood adjacent now occludes. The piece uses rhythmic color and form, displacement, and juxtaposition to create structures that invite interpretation and exploration. Some outputs challenge our depth pe

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 Trichro-matic 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 trichro-matic-by-mountvitruvius was retrieved from projects_metadata.script filtered by that exact slug. The UTF-8 payload is 49876 bytes with SHA-256 db64ba6004c2e7f2c456692a3289a71f424029aebb80f888445fb7d73b2a83eb. 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 49876 bytes, SHA-256 db64ba6004c2e7f2c456692a3289a71f424029aebb80f888445fb7d73b2a83eb, runtime js@na. Detected source markers: draw, keydown, requestAnimationFrame, tokenData, hash. Named functions include A, B, L, W, X, _, j, k. tokenData.hash is read in source. Output then follows the drawing path those functions implement. Token 0 observation: Inspected media-proxy PNG is 1600x2400px, mid-tone and muted or near-neutral (mean RGB 157,146,136). File size 7317731 bytes. Indexed features: Palette Rand-ey; Line work No; Base Scale Small; Genome Base Complex & Warped; Packer Bias Filtered; Displacement No Limits; Palette Range Full; Shading Depth Very High

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 482 on 0x99a9b7c1116f9ceeb1652de04d5969cce509b069 is as follows. First token minted_at is 2023-10-30T19:09:11+00:00. activated_at is 2023-10-30T19:45:23+00:00. start_datetime is 2023-11-08T18:00:00+00:00. completed_at is 2023-11-08T18:24:59+00:00. Invocations stand at 600 of a maximum 600, with complete=true on the retrieved row. ²³

Calculated intervals from those timestamps: first mint to activation is 36.2 minutes; activation to start_datetime is 8.93 days; start_datetime to completion is 25.0 minutes; first mint to completion is 8.97 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 2023-10-30T19:09:11+00:00, activated 2023-10-30T19:45:23+00:00, start 2023-11-08T18:00:00+00:00, completed 2023-11-08T18:24:59+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 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

Trichro-matic #0 is token 482000000 on 0x99a9b7c1116f9ceeb1652de04d5969cce509b069, minted 2023-10-30T19:09:11+00:00. The canonical token page returned HTTP 200. The inspected media-proxy PNG is a static frame. Inspected media-proxy PNG is 1600x2400px, mid-tone and muted or near-neutral (mean RGB 157,146,136). File size 7317731 bytes. Indexed features: Palette Rand-ey; Line work No; Base Scale Small; Genome Base Complex & Warped; Packer Bias Filtered; Displacement No Limits; Palette Range Full; Shading Depth Very High Indexed features returned for this V2 token: Palette Rand-ey; Line work No; Base Scale Small; Genome Base Complex & Warped; Packer Bias Filtered; Displacement No Limits; Palette Range Full; Shading Depth Very High. ³⁹⁴

Trichro-matic #1 is token 482000001 on 0x99a9b7c1116f9ceeb1652de04d5969cce509b069, minted 2023-11-08T18:00:59+00:00. The canonical token page returned HTTP 200. The inspected media-proxy PNG is a static frame. Inspected media-proxy PNG is 1600x2400px, light and strongly coloured (mean RGB 223,188,148). File size 6772170 bytes. Indexed features: Palette Generative; Line work No; Base Scale Medium; Genome Base Simplify; Packer Bias Filtered; Displacement Fluids; Palette Range Very High; Shading Depth Low Indexed features returned for this V2 token: Palette Generative; Line work No; Base Scale Medium; Genome Base Simplify; Packer Bias Filtered; Displacement Fluids; Palette Range Very High; Shading Depth Low. ³⁹⁴

Trichro-matic #10 is token 482000010 on 0x99a9b7c1116f9ceeb1652de04d5969cce509b069, minted 2023-11-08T18:01:35+00:00. The canonical token page returned HTTP 200. The inspected media-proxy PNG is a static frame. Inspected media-proxy PNG is 1600x2400px, mid-tone and strongly coloured (mean RGB 177,137,110). File size 6835532 bytes. Indexed features: Palette Generative; Line work No; Base Scale Huge; Genome Base Graphic; Packer Bias Echo; Displacement Advections; Palette Range Full; Shading Depth Screenprint Indexed features returned for this V2 token: Palette Generative; Line work No; Base Scale Huge; Genome Base Graphic; Packer Bias Echo; Displacement Advections; Palette Range Full; Shading Depth Screenprint. ³⁹⁴

Trichro-matic #20 is token 482000020 on 0x99a9b7c1116f9ceeb1652de04d5969cce509b069, minted 2023-11-08T18:09:11+00:00. The canonical token page returned HTTP 200. The inspected media-proxy PNG is a static frame. Inspected media-proxy PNG is 1600x2400px, mid-tone and muted or near-neutral (mean RGB 129,126,115). File size 7014645 bytes. Indexed features: Palette Master; Line work No; Base Scale Large; Genome Base Graphic; Packer Bias Echo; Displacement Imperfect; Palette Range Full; Shading Depth Huge Indexed features returned for this V2 token: Palette Master; Line work No; Base Scale Large; Genome Base Graphic; Packer Bias Echo; Displacement Imperfect; Palette Range Full; Shading Depth Huge. ³⁹⁴

The AB5D header candidate is token 482000008 (edition 8), 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 1600x2400px, mid-tone and muted or near-neutral (mean RGB 148,143,145). File size 6737410 bytes. Indexed features: Palette Generative; Line work No; Base Scale Huge; Genome Base Illustrative; Packer Bias Sample & Hold; Displacement Imperfect; Palette Range Full; Shading Depth Screenprint 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

Trichro-matic is project 482 by MountVitruvius 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.