Collection · generative art
SATOR. Sixteen portraits.
A four-dimensional cube, a tesseract, has sixteen corners. Each corner has a 4-bit address, from 0000 to 1111, and each piece belongs to one corner.
Our code renders every piece from a seed made of its name and its corner’s address, so the same seed always gives the same image. The generator is not public, so you cannot re-derive a piece yourself.
The sixteen names come from the roles in our own agent system, which uses the same addressing. The pieces are art made from that geometry; they are not live agents. Minted on Ethereum on 13 March 2026, with a second edition on Base.
The sixteen
On-chain
Two editions, sixteen pieces each.
Ethereum
0xd76a2627dba14652899aaa55a4ac120f3be0411616 pieces · created 2026-03-13 · Owned by the studio wallet (not renounced).
Base
0xcdba5b90a1afaf896a254b44a6b6e685b1e3219f16 pieces · created 2026-04-19 · Ownership renounced: no admin key, no new mints.
Contract owners read on-chain on 19 September 2026.
The number in the art, and a retraction
α = 1/137, and what it turned out to be.
Two of the sixteen, Yellow and Saturn, take their theme from α, the fine-structure constant, about 1/137. In March 2026 we published a reading that seemed to find that number in a quantum phase estimation run on IBM hardware.
It did not hold. Re-analysis showed the reading was noise measured against the wrong baseline; no α signal was resolved. We later found that the published value had been computed on a simulator after a bug in our code, even though the job itself ran on IBM hardware. We retracted the claim. The number stays in the art as a design choice, not a discovery.
The collection
Art from the same geometry.
The studio’s art collections, with what each one is and where it lives on-chain.