How to read a P:X

Trait overview

Six categories, 384 expressions

Every piece can be described through six trait categories, with the counts below showing the variations present throughout the collection. These values are not simply metadata. Motion traits like Speed, Transition Interval, and Pulse Direction are active components of the system, shaping how each work exists over time.

A note on wording: Type: Curated is a P:X trait marking 16 hand-picked editions within this collection. It's unrelated to Art Blocks' own Curated track, the platform's separate, more selective curatorial tier. P:X itself is a Factory project.

In plain terms

What to look for

The table above has everything. This is just the shortcut • the part to come back to when you're comparing one edition to another and don't want to keep jumping around the page.

• 01Start with Curated vs. Generated. This is probably the clearest distinction in the collection. Sixteen of the 384 editions were picked by hand. The other 368 came straight from the code. If you're trying to understand why one piece feels different from another, this is a good place to start.
• 02Rainbow is the one true 1/1. It appears only once, on #383, the closing edition. There isn't another token it can show up on. Of everything in P:X, this is the trait with the simplest definition of rare: one piece, one time.
• 03Four Composition values were written into the code by hand. Isolated, At Attention, and Rebound each belong to exactly one token • #29, #233, and #383. b:x is a little more common, but still unusual: it appears only on editions whose number divides evenly by 7, roughly 55 pieces in total. If you want to go deeper, the full breakdown is below.
• 04Expansive Pulse Direction is genuinely scarce. Only 8 of 384 editions have it, and every one of those is Curated. Everywhere else in the collection, Pulse Direction is Contractive. So when you see Expansive, you're looking at something that doesn't come around very often.
• 05Speed and Transition Interval work differently. These aren't really rarity traits. They're more about character • how a particular piece moves and feels. Both change continuously rather than falling into neat common-and-rare categories. They're worth paying attention to, just for a different reason.

Trait Lookup

Look up any edition

Every trait for all 384 editions, pulled from the deployed contract and corrected against the generator's own source where the public metadata is known to be incomplete (see note below the result). Enter a number to see exactly what a specific piece carries.

Enter a number between 0 and 383.

Type, Color, Speed, and Transition Interval are read directly from the deployed contract. Composition and Pulse Direction are corrected against the generator's own source code: Art Blocks' public metadata truncates multi-value Composition entries (including b:x) and reports Pulse Direction incorrectly for every token, so those two fields here are computed from the script's actual logic instead.

Color

The palette

The P:X palette begins with ten base colors defined by the generator itself. Beyond those, one final variation exists: Rainbow, a singular color treatment reserved exclusively for the final piece, #383.

Composition

The naming system

The Composition trait is derived directly from the deployed generator logic. It describes the positional relationship between the P-stem and the two X-stems: overlap, alignment, and mirroring behavior within the glyph structure.

In each diagram:

• the highlighted bar = P-stem
• the dimmed bars = X-stems
• the circle = leading end of each bar

The eight composition values are rolled independently for each generated piece, allowing a single token to contain multiple composition states.

Isolated 1/1 · #29

Hardcoded exclusively for edition #29, stacked as a second Composition value alongside Hostile Takeover on that same token.

At Attention 1/1 · #233

Hardcoded exclusively for edition #233. Both X-stroke rotations are set to 0, so instead of crossing, they stand straight up, in formation with the P-stem and colon.

Rebound 1/1 · #383

Hardcoded exclusively for edition #383, the closing token, stacked as a second Composition value alongside Lazy Crossover on that same token.

b:x

An intentional addition, not a bug. The code pushes the literal string "b:x" as a bonus Composition value on every generated edition whose number is a multiple of 7, roughly 55 tokens. It just isn't part of the collection's commonly cited trait list, which is why it can look like an oversight when it isn't one.

Curated numbers

The 16

The only pieces carrying Type: Curated: 2, 11, 29, 43, 61, 89, 107, 149, 173, 211, 233, 277, 313, 349, 367, and 383. Every value below, including Pulse Direction, is read directly from the deployed generator script.

Pulse Direction splits exactly 8/8 across the curated set. Every Expansive piece here traces to pdotMul = 0.75 hardcoded in the script. Everything else in the whole 384-piece collection is Contractive.