Takens Theorem
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In case there's any interest: I've listed for low a few of these outputs on Perpetual. The project populates visuals using direct calls to other contracts, culling from their data, some contracts years old. Listings here, and summary of projects on GH. There are 3 mini projects that went into Perpetual (2023/2024). Summary in posts below this one. https://opensea.io/collection/perpetual-vol-1 https://github.com/takenstheorem/perpetual
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Takens Theorem
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Project 1 "Archival Nodes of the First Experimental Machine": Visuals composed of the DAO proposals, cyclically across all 2016 proposals encoded on the contract, before the end, before the fork. In a sense, the project forces OS to become a kind of archival platform, serving as an additional full node encoding the DAO's activity itself.
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Project 2 "compose[d]": I sampled from WORD's "word" NFTs (2020) using a generator function. The generator function creates rhopalisms, Oulipo poems, and I coded the function fully on-chain to cull from WORD and build little expressions of the crypto culture on WORD itself.
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Project 3 (final) "Filtered": Each token is a raw bitmap generated on the contract. The token operates over the most recent minute of computation in Ethereum's block hashes. These block hashes are seemingly random. They're actually, and by necessity, deterministically connected. They link the entire history of the ledger we use. The apparent randomness of block hashes can be given structure from the "laws" coded on the "Filtered" rendering contract.
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