One rule per Signal.Never the same rule twice.
Fragment Lock came apart until what remained held. Golden Angle grew a still life out of the dark.
Genesis: Fragment Lock · live now on TRANSIENTLABS (opens in a new tab)
@RarePatterns (opens in a new tab)
Signals Share your Garden Signal
Signal #001 · GenesisFragment LockView Genesis Collect Genesis on TRANSIENTLABS (opens in a new tab)Why
Sunflowers and pinecones.
Each sunflower seed sits 137.5° from the last. Each pinecone turns in spirals of 8 and 13. Same numbers, every time: 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13.
Why code Nothing in this garden was drawn by hand. Your seed picks the numbers, the hour you visit sets the light, and your screen decides how far it gets. The rule is followed exactly, which is the only way a rule is worth following. Why this one The Garden Signal follows the sunflower: 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, each square set against the last, a quarter arc in each, growing outward. That is the Garden Signal’s rule, not the collection’s. The Signals each keep their own.
Gold at midday, for the flower that grows toward the sun. Young sunflowers follow the sun by day and turn back east at night. In bloom, they stop turning and face the morning sun. The piece reads your clock the same way, so its light moves through the day with yours.
01 / Signal Works
The Signals.
Sixty seconds of art and sound, and no two Signals share a rule. Fragment Lock is a field of light on a grid of sixty-pixel tiles that bends and comes apart until what remains holds. Golden Angle sets seeds 137.5° apart until the spirals show.
Velocity, suggested by @solrious (opens in a new tab). In the studio now.
Garden Signal
Your turn. Grow one. Every visit plants a fresh seed.
Each daily seed is 1 in 4.3 billion. The seed picks a run of Fibonacci numbers, and each number grows as a square, lit by your time of day.
CodeForm
Details: one share a day. Reach 55 within 63 days, so up to 8 days can be missed.
Today grows one piece. Your days grow The Golden Turn.
Your piece
Every visit grows a new piece from one seed, the number at the top. Names repeat, like a species; the number regrows this exact piece. Its code is your seed's Fibonacci digits. Its form is each number, as a square. The same seed always grows the same piece, fitted to your screen. Its share link shows that piece to anyone.
The same numbers are found in sunflower and pinecone spirals: 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8…
Here, a new Garden Signal grows from that sequence and a fresh seed every visit. This one grew from your visit. Regrow this
Same seed, same piece. Share the link and anyone can see it.
Lit by the time of day it grew. Four lights, morning, midday, evening and night, set by your clock.
The Signals are separate, finished artworks by @RarePatterns (opens in a new tab), released one every two weeks from here on. Your piece works the way they do: one rule, followed exactly, drawn in code.
Genesis goes to auction on TRANSIENTLABS.Genesis went to auction on TRANSIENTLABS.
See examples of The Golden TurnCome back tomorrow to add a pane. · This browser only · Details
Code and Form grow from one seed, lit in matching places.
Grown from the sunflower's numbers.
Sixty seconds of film, picture and sound grown from the same code.
@RarePatterns directs one 60-second Signal every two weeks; AI writes the code. Above is the Garden Signal, your own, grown from the sunflower's numbers. Its rule is its own, like every Signal.
Ideas from the community
Signal Origins.
The next Signal can start here. Your handle stays with it.
Chosen next · In the studio now
- Velocity @solrious (opens in a new tab) Share ↗
Ideas
Each idea resolves out of the static. Credited ideas resolve into their Signal.
Topics sent with an X handle can appear here. Some are held back.
The Golden Turn
The Gathered.
The Gathered is its own thing, drawn with your seed and the sunflower's numbers. Share your Garden Signal on X each day. At 55 days, claim your piece. Keep going as long as you like.
days in your garden. Back up your days to this site? Safari can erase days kept only in this browser. With a backup, they come back on your next visit, and your garden link brings them back anywhere.
- Seed 0000000000. A fresh number for this visit.
- Numbers It starts the Fibonacci digits at place 1: .
- Squares The code draws Fibonacci squares growing outward from 1, as many as your screen allows.
- Piece Each digit becomes a square tile, lit for the time of day. Same seed, same piece.
The Golden Turn
Come back tomorrow. Your days grow The Golden Turn.
Day 1 is the gold center, the Origin Eye. Each new day adds a pane, 137.5° from the last, like seeds in a sunflower. At 55 days, it blooms whole.
Because each pane grows from a 1-in-4.3-billion daily seed and your time of day, every piece is unique.
Your garden
Only in this browser ·
Your Golden Turn is woven from every 1-in-4.3-billion daily seed you share: every piece is unique.
THE GATHERED · 55+ DAYS SHARED ON X · RECORDED
55 verified daily X shares for @RarePatterns · Certificate G55-00000000-000000. Drawn from all of your verified daily seeds: every piece is unique to the person who grew it.
Your X handle, this address and your post link are kept for your certificate and the planned Gathered list, never sold, and deleted on request. Privacy
One quick check so only you can set this address. Post this from your X account, then paste the link to that post here. The code lasts 48 hours.
RPS-0000-0000
This post is public and only shows this account is yours.
It shows only the start and end of your address. You can delete the post once it says Saved.
Your days are kept only in this browser, on this device. Clearing site data or a private window erases them, and Safari may clear them after a week without a visit. Your days stay in this browser unless you choose Back up my garden, open Keep on another device, or open your private link. After that, each day you grow a piece here is added to the backup. Saving or sharing a piece, or posting your Golden Turn, sends only seeds and the time of day, never dates.
Your days are kept in this browser and backed up on this site. If Safari erases them here, they come back on your next visit. If you clear cookies or switch browsers, your garden link brings them back, so copy it now from Keep on another device.
Saves your days to this site. If this browser forgets them, they return on your next visit, and a private link brings them back on any browser. It sets one cookie holding a random code, nothing else.
Backup isn’t available right now. Your days are still saved in this browser, so you can try again later.
Your garden is saved under a random code in a cookie this site sets. If this browser loses your days, the page checks with this site once, sending only that cookie, so they can come back. It stores only the dates you grew a piece here, with each piece's seed and light, and when it last changed: no name, email or IP address, and none of it is shared with anyone or used for ads or analytics. (The site counts page visits with Cloudflare Web Analytics, which sets no cookies.) Anyone with your garden link can open and add to it, so keep it to yourself. It is kept until you ask us to delete it at hello@rarepatternsignal.com.
It holds each day's seed and light, no dates, so anyone can regrow your garden.
days in your garden. Back up your days to this site? Safari can erase days kept only in this browser. With a backup, they come back on your next visit, and your garden link brings them back anywhere.
Keep your garden. This private link brings your days back on any browser or device. Keep it to yourself.
Grows 1 → 55 → 100 → 365 → 610+ days.
Examples: one sample garden at 55 days, 100 days and 365 days.
How it works
- 01 Idea
Suggest a Signal
A topic, a mood, one word. That is enough to start.
- 02 Code
Written in code
The rule and the palette are his. AI writes the code, and the sound comes out of it.
- 03 Form
Resolved into a Signal
Sixty seconds, no second take. If your idea starts one, your handle stays with it in Signal Origins.
02 / About
About RarePatterns
A minute is long enough to find out if it holds.
RarePattern trained as a painter. For every Signal he picks the idea, the palette and the sound, then the rule runs and he doesn’t touch a frame. That’s the slow part: a rule can look finished for a week with nothing underneath it, and the piece isn’t done until it holds for the whole minute.
The rule is not the art. What makes it art is that someone decided where it stops. The sound comes out of the same code, so the film and its music are one thing.
Fragment Lock came first: a field of light on a grid of sixty-pixel tiles, bending and coming apart until only what holds is left. Golden Angle sets seeds 137.5° apart until the 34 and 55 spirals show. Two rules, no method in common. Velocity, from an idea by @solrious (opens in a new tab), is next. Then one Signal every two weeks.
Every palette is set by eye before a line of code is written: a few colors, mixed for value and light. Fragment Lock is orange and black. Golden Angle is black, sienna, yellow, the low sun.
The Gathered is smaller and separate: the sunflower’s numbers drawn with your seed instead of his. No film, no score. It isn’t a Signal. A fresh seed each visit, so another grows.
Golden Angle
Years of sunflowers and pinecones, kept in code. Each seed sits about 137.5° from the last and each pinecone turns in spirals of 8 and 13. Golden Angle holds that place: black to grow out of, sienna for the earth, yellow for the flower, orange for the low sun. · Signal page →
Fragment Lock came first and works by another rule: a grid of light coming apart. Same care. Nothing shared but the minute.
- Cadence
- The first two came six days apart. From here, one Signal every two weeks. Velocity is next, suggested by @solrious.
- Duration
- 60 sec
- Process
- Rule and palette: the artist. Code: AI.
- Palette
- Chosen by eye for each Signal
- Edition
- Edition of 5
- Chain
- Ethereum
03 / Collect
Collect a Signal.
Genesis: Fragment Lock is an edition of 5 on TRANSIENTLABS (opens in a new tab), Ethereum. Until the auctions, a seed head in Signal Works grows a little each day.Genesis went to auction on TRANSIENTLABS (opens in a new tab). Collect it on TRANSIENTLABS (opens in a new tab). Future Signals can begin with an idea from the community.
One of the two auctions is live now on TRANSIENTLABS. The second Genesis edition follows.
- 2 go to auction on TRANSIENTLABS, 24 hours each. 1 kept by the artist. 2 are gifts.
- Five. The same sixty seconds, five times over.
- Each edition is the same sixty seconds, one token each.
- Contract 0xa257…f26b (opens in a new tab) · on Ethereum.
04 / Connections
Connections.
Every two weeks a new rule. Follow along on X, or suggest the next one.
05 / Follow
Follow theSignal.
One Signal every two weeks, each with its own rule. Follow @RarePatterns (opens in a new tab) on X, or suggest the next one.
A new piece grows every visit from a 1-in-4.3-billion seed, and because each Golden Turn is drawn from your own daily seeds, every piece is unique. Record X share or check your handle ↑
06 / Suggest
Plant an idea.
Type a topic and watch it sketch itself. Send it, and it may grow into a Signal. Velocity started here.
With an X handle, your idea can appear in Signal Origins, and if it becomes a Signal, your handle stays with it. Without one, it is not shown on the site. 144 characters max.
Ideas don't give a share in, or rights to, a Signal. Credit is the suggester's X handle only.
Or write to hello@rarepatternsignal.com
Short and specific works best. 144 characters max.
Idea sketch
Each idea sketches itself. Like it? Send it above.