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Actively looking for a new home for my @MacTuitui 1/1. It's a 3 piece set (Triptych) where if you loop together, you have a period of 670 days. It's truly a mesmerizing piece. Please reach out if you're interested, I'm looking to make a fair deal for the right collector.
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720 Minutes by @MacTuitui has always been one of my absolute favorite generative art projects.
I asked my AI agent to look at the code and help ELI5 so I could appreciate it more deeply, and it did not disappoint.
Just an incredible project and work of code and art.
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It's beautiful engineering in minified code.
Here's the ELI5:
Imagine 30,000 fireflies in a dark room.
The fireflies never stop moving. They're gently pushed around by invisible wind (Simplex noise). Left alone, they'd just drift like a colorful cloud.
But two invisible magnets pull on them — shaped like clock hands.
Every second, the code calculates where the hour hand and minute hand should point. Any firefly that happens to be near one of those hand-positions gets tugged toward it. The result: the swarm of fireflies naturally condenses into the shape of the current time. You see hands, but there are no
hands — just thousands of dots deciding to gather there.
Each clock has a "DNA" — the blockchain hash.
When the piece is minted, it gets a random number (the hash). That number seeds a pseudo-random generator that decides:
- Which color palette (27 options)
- Whether particles are big, small, or star-like
- Whether they swirl, spiral, drift like cards, or flow in noise
- Whether the clock is a normal round face, a chaotic scatter, or a flower with X petals
- How fast they move, how long their motion trails are
- The "magic minute" — one specific minute out of 720 where special effects activate once every 12 hours
So Clock #0 and Clock #719 both tell time from the same algorithm, but one might be fiery orange petals, the other cool blue dots, another chaotic black-and-white static.
Every second, the loop does this:
1. Read the real computer clock
2. Figure out where the hour and minute hands should point (in radians)
3. For each of the 30,000 particles, decide where it should be based on the hand angles + noise + the piece's unique style mode
4. Push particles toward those positions using spring-like attraction
5. Render everything as instanced triangles for performance
6. Apply a blur/trail pass so moving particles leave faint streaks
The "magic minute":
Each piece is assigned one specific minute (out of 720 possible). When real time hits that minute, the particle physics change — speed increases, effects trigger, the whole piece celebrates for 60 seconds, then goes back to normal. It's like a birthday that happens twice a day.
In one sentence:
It's a particle physics simulation that uses noise fields and angular attraction forces to sculpt a living swarm of dots into the shape of the current time — where every clock's visual personality is determined by its unique blockchain DNA.
Alexis André@MacTuitui
720 Minutes, Live Shibuya version.
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@misterbombadil @MacTuitui @OnChainMonkey Thanks fam 🤙🐒 ! Black and white , time for blood and smart fox with a friend 💎
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I can't stop collecting FRONTLINE by @MacTuitui 🤌🟧 !
Collect what you love @OnChainMonkey fam 🐒!
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L'appel #49 by @MacTuitui
Alexis André's Departed series meditates on mortality, memory, and the shape struggle gives to existence. L'appel — "The Call" — is the final act, following Décorés. When duty calls and the Departed need to form ranks, who will heed the call?
The work explores order within the chaos of a battlefield — making sense of the unknown and fleeting world that lies beyond. Randomness, repetition, grids, and overarching shapes pull colors around the canvas, searching for wonder through the void. The algorithm doesn't depict war; it enacts the tension between entropy and formation.
L'appel #49 reflects on the fleeting nature of existence, inviting viewers to contemplate how our struggles give shape and meaning to our time on earth. Glimmer's acquisition sits within a broader curatorial interest in generative work that confronts mortality — code as elegy, composition as memorial.
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@AGRIPPA___ @raster_art @trygamma @OnChainMonkey They worked with some great artists, e.g. Alexis Andre
But I’m not sure their main collections can be assigned to an artist?
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Status of Ordinals on @raster_art:
- 82,696 tokens
- from 93 artists
That's before @trygamma support (260 artists) and a bunch of custom collections we're importing right now
Almost there!
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I’m hunting down today’s Masterpiece of the Day 💎
🖼️👇
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Unfortunately letting go of my @MacTuitui triptych "Cross" below cost. If you're a collector or know anyone who might be interested, please let me know. Thank you @MacTuitui for the incredible work, loved having these mesmerizing pieces in my collection.
#GenerativeArt
superrare.com/artwork/eth/0x…
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Addicted is now live on Solana.
we're building the most unhinged simulation game on the internet.
get in now: addicted.fun
reply for an invite code.
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I found this Ringer keychain that @dmitricherniak hid but I wanted to find it, not keep it. If you want it guess a number between 0 and 115,792,089,237,316,195,423,570,985,008,687,907,853,269,984,665,640,564,039,457,584,007,913,129,639,935 and whoever is closest in 48 hrs gets it
Sterling Crispin 🕊️@sterlingcrispin
The goose is loose @dmitricherniak thanks that was a beautiful drive
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