Figure31

I think about this sequence a lot

Dice

@brachlandberlin ✍️

CIPHER RELEASE 8PM CET 23/04/2026

@lukeweaver_eth Gardens within gardens within gardens within...

Introducing the Garden Factory deploy your own sculpture garden, contract show, or onchain publishing platform 0x2ac9Ae22f0D5A4fAEAdeABbfF24403bC7194Fbcd live at factory.garden

anyone can deploy a sculpture permissionlessly to the world computer sculptures can be as simple as plain text stored in a contract, like an onchain poem but they can also be contracts that generate programmatic outputs (see @figure31's WCSG entry below)

gambling monk, germany, 15th century

@drewcoffman Fairly accessible collection of essays. It expanded my thinking early on during university. Highly recommend

need more weird little essay collections in my life who has recs

Sometimes I feel the need to make generative art, but then I roll some dice instead, and I feel satisfied

Stanisław Dróżdż.

@being_on_line myth (re)creation!

the models need new iconic sequences. we need new iconic sequences! the reason the prompt is legible to the model is because the human precedent exists.

@goekhan ...even when generated on a dead L2 at the bottom of the bear market

@figure31 OK, Mallarme

A Deterministic Transaction Hash Never Will Abolish Choice

Don't forget to feed the computation-hungry giant before you close its tab

@CSA2D7 Ohh, fair enough. It is indeed.

@figure31 The comment was just on crypto though

This is actually a liberating comment for all blockchain artists. Art thrives as a useless utility, especially so when created in a wasteland of worthless wonders.

@CSA2D7 One side of my brain recognizes the usefulness, the other refuses to acknowledge that art is nothing more than for its own sake.

@figure31 Yea but it’s obviously useful. Taking a silly comment to heart?

Like a peacock in a fishbowl

The blob points the way

@grafixlabsai Parts of the code are from an older project, but I'll wait a bit for the artwork itself.

@figure31 Very cool. Open source?

Notes on the work I've been sharing recently These are runtime ASCII animations fuelled by a live stream of transaction hashes. They embody the network they exist on. Hashes seed randomness and influence behaviour. The shapes deform, move, and evolve infinitely. Each display is recorded on-chain and affects the parameters over time. Working on this made me question my assumptions. Some digital processes, networks, and distributed systems we call inanimate might actually be animate in ways we have yet to recognize. Does that feeling arise from complexity, human-driven data flows, or just projection? It reminds me of an essay I wrote a couple of years back about ghosts in the Ethereum Mempool—pending transactions haunting the network, full of undecoded machine and human intent. Making bodies and shells is one way to discover new lifeforms. These are not necessarily all-encompassing reasoning AI models. They just need a little artistic spectacle.

@potrepka I try not to go further than one recursive loop

You write tests for your source code. But do you write tests for your test code?