DITHERVOID // PANDORA
ENGINE · EIDOLON E9.0 CHIMERA · ONE SEED · ONE TOKEN · ONE CHANCE
STANDBY
PANDORA SEALED — TAP TO OPEN
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DROP AN IMAGE HERE · OR TAP TO CHOOSE

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THIS SEED — reading the surfaces…

DITHERVOID // PANDORA

01WHAT THIS ISA free generator of animated loops by GREENCROSS. No wallet needed. Minting is optional.▸

PANDORA is a generator of animated loops by GREENCROSS, and the program STORMGLASS grew out of. Making, saving and downloading loops is free and needs no wallet. If you want, you can also mint a loop as a token on Ethereum (see below). PANDORA is separate from the STORMGLASS daily sale on the home page.

02TAP THE BOXEvery tap makes a new loop. The dials shape it. SPLICE redraws it with the dials as they are.▸

Every tap makes a new loop that nobody has seen before. CORRUPTION sets how much the picture is broken up, VOID how much of the shape stays dark, CHROMA limits the range of colours, and the PALETTE grid picks the colours. SPLICE redraws the current loop with the dials as they are now.

03HOW A LOOP IS MADEOne number grows the whole loop. The same seed and dials give the same loop on any device.▸

Every loop begins as a single number. That seed grows an entire world through one seeded sequence: a form, a camera, a light, a colorway, a way of moving.

FULL RULE ▸

The form is mathematics rather than modelling, a solid with no polygons and no textures, and the box finds it by marching rays into it and gathering what comes back, mirror floor and reflections and contact shadow included. One loop is one revolution: thirty-six frames, each a position on a circle, every motion built to arrive exactly where it left so the seam never shows. The finished frame is then crushed into sixty-four colours by an ordered dither, and the sigils chew it on the way through. Nothing is fetched, nothing is trained, no model and no hand draws any of it. The same seed with the same dials gives the same loop, forever, on any device.

04ROLLING, SAVING AND USING LOOPS IS FREEOpen the box as often as you like. Download the GIFs and use them anywhere.▸

Open the box as many times as you like. Download the GIFs. Use them anywhere. What plays on screen is a live draft, built small and played at true speed so nothing stutters on any device; RENDER builds the same loop at full size, and that is what DOWNLOAD saves.

05FIVE WAYS TO ROLLTAP, SPLICE, DICE, MUTATE and OBLIVION each open the box a different way.▸

TAP opens the box on a loop nobody has seen. SPLICE re-renders the genome on the dials, so the same settings give the same picture every time.

FULL RULE ▸

DICE is the trained roll: most of it serves the shapes the curator has kept, the rest hunts the frontier those make plausible. MUTATE holds the seed and changes three to six sigils, lurches the corruption and shifts the void, for when you almost love a loop and want its siblings. OBLIVION is the ritual of maximum hunger, corruption 68 to 96, where the dense chaos lives.

06GRAFT PUTS YOUR OWN IMAGE INSIDE THE LOOPDrop your own picture or GIF into the loop. It is read in your browser and never uploaded.▸

Drop a picture or an animated GIF into GRAFT and it enters the transmission before the dither, so it is never a layer sitting on top: the artwork's own 64 colours quantize it, the void carves it, the corruption chews it.

FULL RULE ▸

Arm any number of ROLES at once and the line beneath them tells you which surfaces this seed actually has. BLEND offers twelve ways to marry the graphic to the picture, from NORMAL and MULTIPLY through DIFFERENCE, XOR and SOFTLIGHT, and the OPACITY slider sets how far that blend carries; AMOUNT, SCALE, OFFSET, ROTATION, GAMMA and THRESHOLD shape the rest. Your image is read in this browser and never uploaded anywhere. The DNA card records the loop, not the graft, so keep the picture if you want to build it again.

07DNA IS THE ARTWORK'S PROOFThe DNA card is the whole genome. RESURRECT rebuilds the exact loop from it, anywhere.▸

The card in the DNA field is the loop's complete genome. Copy it, post it, keep it: RESURRECT rebuilds the exact loop from any card, on any device, forever.

08MINTING CARRIES A SMALL FEE0.01 ETH for a 1/1, 0.001 ETH for editions. Each seed can be minted only once.▸

MINTING CARRIES A SMALL FEE — 0.01 ETH for a 1/1, 0.001 ETH for editions — because this is an art project by GREENCROSS and the fee pays the artist's monthly AI bill.

FULL RULE ▸

Minting records the loop as a token in the PANDORA contract on Ethereum, and you keep the first copy. A 1/1 has one copy. An edition can sell more copies at the price you set, limited in number or open, and that money goes straight to you. Each seed can be minted only once, by anyone. Minted loops appear in THE SEALED, where any copy can be listed and resold.

09CC0 — NO RIGHTS RESERVEDCopy it, remix it, sell it, build on it. Show what you made in the showcase.▸

Copy it, remix it, sell it, build it into your own work. You are encouraged to. Made something with a loop? Submit it to the showcase.

GARDENS · SHOWCASE · THE SEALED · CONTRACT ↗ · ENGINE: EIDOLON E9.0 CHIMERA · ONE SEED · ONE TOKEN · ONE CHANCE