# Worlds Within by Jason Ting

## The work and its context

Worlds Within is project 424 on the Art Blocks V2 core contract 0x99a9b7c1116f9ceeb1652de04d5969cce509b069, published under the canonical slug worlds-within-by-jason-ting and credited to Jason Ting. The indexed project record reports a completed edition of 256 of 256 invocations, runtime js@na, and the official description: Particles of light dance to create ephemeral forms that depict the formation of our celestial souls.  *Worlds Within* explores the aesthetics of the invisible as part of the artist’s ongoing research of light in motion. As various forces influence more than 500,000 particles in real time, a dynamic “stardust sculpture” emerges, each reflecting a spirit’s unique personality through forms such as swirling currents, dancing flames, glowing filaments, and neural pathways.  Building upon the use of organic form in *Bubble Blobby*, evocative color in *Glow*, and meditative motion in *Light Beams*, *Worlds Within* additionally simulates simple yet beautiful phenomena in the natural world like gravitation and chromatic aberration to reveal how hidden forces on the micro scale affect the whole in surprising ways.  *Worlds Within* is inspired by Cai Guo-Qiang's pyrotechnics, Thomas Wilfred's kinetic light art, and outer space phenomena. Drawing on these influences to create a unique visual aesthetic, *Worlds Within* gives the viewer a glimpse of the intangible: the stark black background disorients the viewer's perception of setting, scale, and dimension, much like James Turrell’s immersive light works, and draws attention to the center of the frame, where something mysterious and beautiful emerges.  #### Shortcuts * **q:** toggle quality to lower resolution (default is high) * **m:** toggle rendering mode to time-based rendering, some frames may be skipped (default is frame-based rendering, every frame is rendered) * **mouse click + drag:** rotate view * **spacebar:** pause/resume * **s:** save screenshot  Note: requires a WebGL2-enabled browser and a decent GPU. [^S01][^S02]

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. [^S01][^S02]

Contract 0x99a9b7c1116f9ceeb1652de04d5969cce509b069. Aspect ratio indexed as 1.0. Website https://instagram.com/jzlabs.

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. [^S04][^S09]

## 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. Particles of light dance to create ephemeral forms that depict the formation of our celestial souls.  *Worlds Within* explores the aesthetics of the invisible as part of the artist’s ongoing research of light in motion. As various forces influence more than 500,000 particles in real time, a dynamic “stardust sculpture” emerges, each reflecting a spirit’s unique personality through forms such as sw

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 Worlds Within are the ones relied on. [^S07][^S01]

Secondary pages that only repeat the marketplace listing are not treated as independent conception sources. [^S02][^S07]

## How the work was constructed

The complete artist program for slug worlds-within-by-jason-ting was retrieved from projects_metadata.script filtered by that exact slug. The UTF-8 payload is 17828 bytes with SHA-256 e2a2e9514c55cf4b9c16e9ff3600b0ed296bbd9cbfad5ef13c1b465320d6b0b9. Runtime on the project record is js@na. The script was read in full; it was not executed in this research session. [^S03]

The stored generator is 17828 bytes, SHA-256 e2a2e9514c55cf4b9c16e9ff3600b0ed296bbd9cbfad5ef13c1b465320d6b0b9, runtime js@na. Detected source markers: draw, requestAnimationFrame, tokenData, hash. Named functions include f. tokenData.hash is read in source. Output then follows the drawing path those functions implement. Token 0 observation: Inspected media-proxy PNG is 2400x2400px, dark and muted or near-neutral (mean RGB 9,5,5). File size 3461046 bytes. Indexed features: Palette Blood Cells; Valenced False; Attractors 1; Form Strength Medium; Core Attractor False; Noise Strength Medium; Attractor Speed Slow; Surface Attractors True

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. [^S03][^S10]

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. [^S03][^S06]

## The mint

Indexed chronology for project 424 on 0x99a9b7c1116f9ceeb1652de04d5969cce509b069 is as follows. First token minted_at is 2023-02-06T22:49:23+00:00. activated_at is 2023-02-09T05:55:59+00:00. start_datetime is 2023-03-08T18:00:00+00:00. completed_at is 2023-03-08T18:33:47+00:00. Invocations stand at 256 of a maximum 256, with complete=true on the retrieved row. [^S02][^S04]

Calculated intervals from those timestamps: first mint to activation is 2.30 days; activation to start_datetime is 27.50 days; start_datetime to completion is 33.8 minutes; first mint to completion is 29.82 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. [^S02][^S04]

Indexed clocks: first 2023-02-06T22:49:23+00:00, activated 2023-02-09T05:55:59+00:00, start 2023-03-08T18:00:00+00:00, completed 2023-03-08T18:33:47+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. [^S01][^S02]

## 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. [^S02][^S06]

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. [^S03][^S06]

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

Worlds Within #0 is token 424000000 on 0x99a9b7c1116f9ceeb1652de04d5969cce509b069, minted 2023-02-06T22:49:23+00:00. The canonical token page returned HTTP 200. The inspected media-proxy PNG is a static frame. Inspected media-proxy PNG is 2400x2400px, dark and muted or near-neutral (mean RGB 9,5,5). File size 3461046 bytes. Indexed features: Palette Blood Cells; Valenced False; Attractors 1; Form Strength Medium; Core Attractor False; Noise Strength Medium; Attractor Speed Slow; Surface Attractors True Indexed features returned for this V2 token: Palette Blood Cells; Valenced False; Attractors 1; Form Strength Medium; Core Attractor False; Noise Strength Medium; Attractor Speed Slow; Surface Attractors True.  [^S04][^S05][^S09]

Worlds Within #1 is token 424000001 on 0x99a9b7c1116f9ceeb1652de04d5969cce509b069, minted 2023-03-08T18:10:47+00:00. The canonical token page returned HTTP 200. The inspected media-proxy PNG is a static frame. Inspected media-proxy PNG is 2400x2400px, dark and muted or near-neutral (mean RGB 3,4,6). File size 2952701 bytes. Indexed features: Palette Deep Sea; Valenced True; Attractors 1; Form Strength Low; Core Attractor False; Noise Strength Medium; Attractor Speed Fast; Surface Attractors False Indexed features returned for this V2 token: Palette Deep Sea; Valenced True; Attractors 1; Form Strength Low; Core Attractor False; Noise Strength Medium; Attractor Speed Fast; Surface Attractors False.  [^S04][^S05][^S09]

Worlds Within #10 is token 424000010 on 0x99a9b7c1116f9ceeb1652de04d5969cce509b069, minted 2023-03-08T18:29:35+00:00. The canonical token page returned HTTP 200. The inspected media-proxy PNG is a static frame. Inspected media-proxy PNG is 2400x2400px, dark and muted or near-neutral (mean RGB 12,9,9). File size 3967987 bytes. Indexed features: Palette Autumn; Valenced False; Attractors 4; Form Strength Medium; Core Attractor False; Noise Strength High; Attractor Speed Fast; Surface Attractors True Indexed features returned for this V2 token: Palette Autumn; Valenced False; Attractors 4; Form Strength Medium; Core Attractor False; Noise Strength High; Attractor Speed Fast; Surface Attractors True.  [^S04][^S05][^S09]

Worlds Within #20 is token 424000020 on 0x99a9b7c1116f9ceeb1652de04d5969cce509b069, minted 2023-03-08T18:29:47+00:00. The canonical token page returned HTTP 200. The inspected media-proxy PNG is a static frame. Inspected media-proxy PNG is 2400x2400px, dark and muted or near-neutral (mean RGB 3,2,2). File size 2640424 bytes. Indexed features: Palette Ember; Valenced True; Attractors 1; Form Strength Low; Core Attractor False; Noise Strength Medium; Attractor Speed Fast; Surface Attractors False Indexed features returned for this V2 token: Palette Ember; Valenced True; Attractors 1; Form Strength Low; Core Attractor False; Noise Strength Medium; Attractor Speed Fast; Surface Attractors False.  [^S04][^S05][^S09]

The AB5D header candidate is token 424000020 (edition 20), 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, dark and muted or near-neutral (mean RGB 3,2,2). File size 2640424 bytes. Indexed features: Palette Ember; Valenced True; Attractors 1; Form Strength Low; Core Attractor False; Noise Strength Medium; Attractor Speed Fast; Surface Attractors False [^S08][^S04][^S09]

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. [^S09][^S10][^S03]

## Significance and limitations

Worlds Within is project 424 by Jason Ting 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? [^S02][^S08][^S10]

This package is a draft for human review. Structural validation tests file shape, not the truth of seeing or of licence interpretation.

[^S01]: Art Blocks. [Worlds Within by Jason Ting collection page](https://www.artblocks.io/collection/worlds-within-by-jason-ting). Accessed 2026-09-19.
[^S02]: Art Blocks Hasura index. [projects_metadata record for worlds-within-by-jason-ting](https://artblocks-mainnet.hasura.app/v1/graphql). Accessed 2026-09-19.
[^S03]: Jason Ting. [Worlds Within on-chain artist program](https://artblocks-mainnet.hasura.app/v1/graphql). Accessed 2026-09-19.
[^S04]: Art Blocks Hasura index. [tokens_metadata for sampled Worlds Within token IDs](https://artblocks-mainnet.hasura.app/v1/graphql). Accessed 2026-09-19.
[^S05]: Art Blocks. [Canonical token pages for sampled Worlds Within outputs](https://www.artblocks.io/token/1/0x99a9b7c1116f9ceeb1652de04d5969cce509b069/424000000). Accessed 2026-09-19.
[^S06]: Creative Commons. [Reported artwork licence label CC BY-NC 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/). Accessed 2026-09-19.
[^S07]: Jason Ting. [Worlds Within official description](https://instagram.com/jzlabs). Accessed 2026-09-19.
[^S08]: Art Blocks. [AB5D linked wallet set and profile index](https://www.artblocks.io/profile/ab5d). Accessed 2026-09-19.
[^S09]: Art Blocks media proxy. [Static PNG renders of sampled Worlds Within tokens](https://media-proxy.artblocks.io/0x99a9b7c1116f9ceeb1652de04d5969cce509b069/424000000.png). Accessed 2026-09-19.
[^S10]: Art Blocks. [Live generator renderer for Worlds Within](https://generator.artblocks.io/0x99a9b7c1116f9ceeb1652de04d5969cce509b069/424000000). Accessed 2026-09-19.