Voyager

The work and its context

Voyager is project 434 on the Art Blocks V2 core contract 0x99a9b7c1116f9ceeb1652de04d5969cce509b069, published under the canonical slug voyager-by-disruptedstar and credited to DisruptedStar. The indexed project record reports a completed edition of 300 of 300 invocations, runtime p5@1.0.0, and the official description: INTRODUCTION Voyager 1 and 2 have been launched in 1977. They are the farthest man crafted objects from Earth. It will take tens to hundreds thousands years for them to reach other stars and planetary systems despite a velocity of 17km/s... The on-board camera, mysteriously, sends back images of the remote planets and their moons... Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light. Dylan Thomas (Do not go gentle into that good night) ARTWORK DESCRIPTION The artwork represents a planet and its moons. There is an important variety of planet/moons types, different perspectives (far or near the planet and moons), different space environments (stars, Milky Way, star clusters, comet, eclipse, Einstein cross and ring, Magellanic Clouds...). A very rare Gravitational Wave affecting space properties can occur. Usually Monochromatic, there is a variation with the addition of one color. In "live view" use the interaction possibilities to explore a given planetary system... TECHNICAL DETAILS In the same way photons hit the CCD camera, tiny squares hit the canvas. The algorithm is minimalist : pick a random position in the canvas and decide if a monochromatic tiny square has to be drawn or not (rarely, squares can be drawn in 2 colors). The light parts are drawn only through the absence of drawing. The whole complexity resides in the decision to draw or not to draw. Mathematical functions are underneath each decision, like space and time are underneath all of our world. INTERACTIONS You can interact with keyboard commands or through URL parameters. - press S : to save the current image in png - press 2, 3... 9 (URL, add DP=2) : change resolution. Increase the value step by step. Can be very long to draw, but it's worth it for printing. Very High Resolution can be achieved. The file is saved automatically when finished. - press L (URL, add liveMode=true) : to discover different views of your planetary system (images will be drawn one after the other, with the same parameters for the main planet and the space environment). - press F (URL, add fitToScreen=true) : to adapt the artwork to any screen size (artwork is changed but parameters remain the same) - press M (URL, add monoChromatic=true) : to force the artwork to be monochromatic - press G (URL, add GW=false) : to remove the gravitational wave effect - URL, add offset=, to offset the image production (same planet parameters and space environment) - URL, add grainy=true, to change the size of the grain (useful for displays to speed up the creation process) URL Parameters are added to the end of a URL after a ‘?’ symbol, and multiple parameters can be included when separated by the ‘&’ symbol. You can combine "?liveMode=true&fitToScreen=true&grainy=true" in the URL for display purpose (TV, Art show...). Combining liveMode and DP for resolution allows you to save all the images produced. EXTERNAL LICENSE Voyager is built with p5js and a simplex noise library under MIT license: simplex-noise.js. DISRUPTED STAR I am a French astrophysicist (PhD) working in high energy astrophysics. My artist name is related to an astrophysical event in which a star, a pretty common object in the Universe, comes too close to a Super Massive Black Hole (SMBH), is torn apart and finally tidally disrupted... The Generative Art plays the role of the SMBH that has changed my life in many ways in the past years... 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 0.6666666. Website https://sites.google.com/view/tidally-disrupted-star/voyager.

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. INTRODUCTION Voyager 1 and 2 have been launched in 1977. They are the farthest man crafted objects from Earth. It will take tens to hundreds thousands years for them to reach other stars and planetary systems despite a velocity of 17km/s... The on-board camera, mysteriously, sends back images of the remote planets and their moons... Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the

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 Voyager 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 voyager-by-disruptedstar was retrieved from projects_metadata.script filtered by that exact slug. The UTF-8 payload is 54604 bytes with SHA-256 e8104c2673edbfe66f3e869bbc76edfa2aa86b9f0f883102a7991f9c0db93d13. 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 54604 bytes, SHA-256 e8104c2673edbfe66f3e869bbc76edfa2aa86b9f0f883102a7991f9c0db93d13, runtime p5@1.0.0. Detected source markers: setup, draw, noLoop, createCanvas, keyPressed, tokenData, hash. Named functions include Ar, Br, Cr, Dr, E, Er, Fr, G, Gr, Ir. tokenData.hash is read in source. Output then follows the drawing path those functions implement. Token 0 observation: Inspected media-proxy PNG is 1600x2400px, dark and muted or near-neutral (mean RGB 49,49,48). File size 7250880 bytes. Indexed features: Grain Soft; Margin Small; Nebula False; Object Einstein Ring; Cluster None; Palette Black; Milky Way False; Moon Phase Quarter

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 434 on 0x99a9b7c1116f9ceeb1652de04d5969cce509b069 is as follows. First token minted_at is 2023-03-01T08:18:35+00:00. activated_at is 2023-03-09T03:30:47+00:00. start_datetime is 2023-04-17T17:00:00+00:00. completed_at is 2023-04-17T17:26:23+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 7.80 days; activation to start_datetime is 39.56 days; start_datetime to completion is 26.4 minutes; first mint to completion is 47.38 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 2023-03-01T08:18:35+00:00, activated 2023-03-09T03:30:47+00:00, start 2023-04-17T17:00:00+00:00, completed 2023-04-17T17:26:23+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

Voyager #0 is token 434000000 on 0x99a9b7c1116f9ceeb1652de04d5969cce509b069, minted 2023-03-01T08:18:35+00:00. The canonical token page returned HTTP 200. The inspected media-proxy PNG is a static frame. Inspected media-proxy PNG is 1600x2400px, dark and muted or near-neutral (mean RGB 49,49,48). File size 7250880 bytes. Indexed features: Grain Soft; Margin Small; Nebula False; Object Einstein Ring; Cluster None; Palette Black; Milky Way False; Moon Phase Quarter Indexed features returned for this V2 token: Grain Soft; Margin Small; Nebula False; Object Einstein Ring; Cluster None; Palette Black; Milky Way False; Moon Phase Quarter. ³⁹⁴

Voyager #1 is token 434000001 on 0x99a9b7c1116f9ceeb1652de04d5969cce509b069, minted 2023-03-01T08:34:47+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 73,96,92). File size 9752660 bytes. Indexed features: Grain Delicate; Margin Small; Nebula False; Object White Dwarf; Cluster None; Palette Jungle; Milky Way True; Moon Phase Full Indexed features returned for this V2 token: Grain Delicate; Margin Small; Nebula False; Object White Dwarf; Cluster None; Palette Jungle; Milky Way True; Moon Phase Full. ³⁹⁴

Voyager #10 is token 434000010 on 0x99a9b7c1116f9ceeb1652de04d5969cce509b069, minted 2023-04-17T17:10:11+00:00. The canonical token page returned HTTP 200. The inspected media-proxy PNG is a static frame. Inspected media-proxy PNG is 1600x2400px, dark and muted or near-neutral (mean RGB 39,37,33). File size 9357562 bytes. Indexed features: Grain Delicate; Margin None; Nebula False; Object Einstein Ring; Cluster Coma Berenice; Palette Paper; Milky Way False; Moon Phase Full Indexed features returned for this V2 token: Grain Delicate; Margin None; Nebula False; Object Einstein Ring; Cluster Coma Berenice; Palette Paper; Milky Way False; Moon Phase Full. ³⁹⁴

Voyager #20 is token 434000020 on 0x99a9b7c1116f9ceeb1652de04d5969cce509b069, minted 2023-04-17T17:21:47+00:00. The canonical token page returned HTTP 200. The inspected media-proxy PNG is a static frame. Inspected media-proxy PNG is 1600x2400px, dark and muted or near-neutral (mean RGB 49,77,73). File size 7407926 bytes. Indexed features: Grain Soft; Margin Standard; Nebula False; Object Nova; Cluster None; Palette Jungle; Milky Way True; Moon Phase Quarter Indexed features returned for this V2 token: Grain Soft; Margin Standard; Nebula False; Object Nova; Cluster None; Palette Jungle; Milky Way True; Moon Phase Quarter. ³⁹⁴

The AB5D header candidate is token 434000288 (edition 288), 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, dark and muted or near-neutral (mean RGB 53,53,52). File size 6760801 bytes. Indexed features: Grain Soft; Margin Standard; Nebula False; Object None; Cluster Coma Berenice; Palette Black; Milky Way False; Moon Phase Quarter 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

Voyager is project 434 by DisruptedStar 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.