Field Guide • P:X by mightymoose

Trait overview

Six categories, 384 editions

Counts below are the distinct values that actually appear across the collection. Speed, Transition Interval, and Pulse Direction aren't just rarity signals. See how they work as the piece's actual medium.

Trait	Distinct values	Notes
Type	2	Curated or Generated. Only the 16 curated numbers carry Curated.
Color	11	10 named base colors from the generator's own color array, plus Rainbow, a 1/1 exclusive to the closing edition, #383.
Composition	12	8 relationships that occur across the randomly generated editions, 3 that are 1/1 exclusives, and one undocumented value left in the code by accident. Full breakdown below.
Pulse Direction	2	Contractive on 376 editions (all 368 generated, plus 8 curated). Expansive on exactly 8, all curated, all set explicitly in code.
Speed	50	Numeric, derived from the animation's frame interval. Sampled values range roughly 77–112.
Transition Interval	5	Numeric. Every possible value the code can produce: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.

Color

The palette

Ten base colors, pulled directly from the deployed generator script's own color array. One more value, Rainbow, is a one-token exclusive: it only ever appears on the closing edition, #383.

Orange

#FE7D05

254+125+5 = 384

Pink

#D71990

215+25+144 = 384

Blue

#0978FF

9+120+255 = 384

Green

#2EFF53

46+255+83 = 384

Cyan

#00B8C8

0+184+200 = 384

Ghost Black

#232B2B

35+43+43 = 121

Black

#000000

0+0+0 = 0

Ghost White

#F8F8FF

248+248+255 = 751

Yellow

#FFDF00

255+223+0 = 478

Red

#FF0505

255+5+5 = 265

Rainbow (1/1)

exclusive to #383

The 384 easter egg, fully verified. Reading straight from the generator script's own color array: exactly 5 of the 10 named colors (Orange, Pink, Blue, Green, Cyan) have red, green, and blue channels that add up to precisely 384, the same number as P (16th letter) × X (24th letter). The other 5 (Ghost Black, Black, Ghost White, Yellow, Red) don't, and aren't meant to. They're the piece's structural neutrals and primaries, not part of the 384 set.

Composition

The naming system

Composition describes how the P-stem and the two X-stems overlap or mirror one another. This is read straight from the deployed generator script, not inferred from samples. Each diagram below: the highlighted bar is the P-stem, the dim bars are the X-stems, and the small circle marks each bar's leading end. That's the same circle-and-bar vocabulary the piece itself is built from. These 8 are rolled independently on every randomly generated edition, so a single token can carry more than one at once.

Pclipse

P-stem paired: the P's stem fully overlaps one of the two X stems.

Xclipse

X-stems paired: the two X stems fully overlap each other.

Crossover

The P-stem sits vertically mirrored from one of the X stems.

Reflections

The two X stems mirror each other vertically.

Lazy Crossover

The P-stem sits horizontally mirrored from one of the X stems.

Lazy Reflections

The two X stems mirror each other horizontally.

Hostile Takeover

The algorithm draws the P-disc after a colon disc, at the same spot, so the P-disc wins and sits on top.

Preferential Treatment

The reverse: the algorithm draws a colon disc after the P-disc, at the same spot, so the colon disc wins.

That's 8 values. The remaining 4 that bring the trait to 12 aren't generative dice-rolls. They're hardcoded exceptions, each tied to a specific token:

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

Not a designed trait. 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. Almost certainly a debug label the artist never cleaned up before shipping, now permanent on-chain.

An edition carrying the b:x composition value, looking entirely ordinary

An actual b:x edition. Nothing about it looks different, which is the whole point.

Editions #11, #313, and #349 hit neither dice roll, so they carry no Composition value at all. That's why the OpenSea trait filter shows nothing for them. It's not a data gap, it's what the code actually does.

Curated numbers

The 16

The only editions 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.

Edition	Token ID	Color	Composition	Pulse	Speed	Trans.
#2	54000002	Black	Lazy Reflections	Contractive	82	4	view ↗
#11	54000011	Black	none	Contractive	78	4	view ↗
#29	54000029	Ghost White	Hostile Takeover + Isolated	Contractive	83	4	view ↗
#43	54000043	Yellow	Lazy Reflections	Contractive	77	5	view ↗
#61	54000061	Ghost Black	Reflections	Contractive	77	2	view ↗
#89	54000089	Black	Lazy Reflections	Expansive	78	6	view ↗
#107	54000107	Black	Reflections	Expansive	78	5	view ↗
#149	54000149	Black	Lazy Reflections	Expansive	78	3	view ↗
#173	54000173	Cyan	Lazy Reflections	Expansive	83	4	view ↗
#211	54000211	Red	Lazy Reflections	Expansive	78	3	view ↗
#233	54000233	Ghost White	At Attention	Expansive	77	3	view ↗
#277	54000277	Black	Reflections	Expansive	83	3	view ↗
#313	54000313	Pink	none	Contractive	85	3	view ↗
#349	54000349	Yellow	none	Contractive	83	3	view ↗
#367	54000367	Black	Lazy Crossover	Expansive	78	4	view ↗
#383	54000383	Rainbow	Lazy Crossover + Rebound	Contractive	81	3	view ↗

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