A painter's eye, written in code. A new Signal every two weeks.
It all starts with one seed.
Genesis: Fragment Lock · on TRANSIENTLABS, Nov 2 and Nov 9 (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 The piece is grown, not drawn. Your seed and the Fibonacci numbers decide its pattern, the time of day sets its light, and it lays itself out to fit your screen. Why squares The code draws Fibonacci squares, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, each new one set against the last so they grow outward, with a quarter arc in each that comes close to the golden spiral. How many fit follows your screen.
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.
01 / Signal Works
The Signals.
Sixty seconds of art and sound. Each one keeps its own palette. Your time of day only changes the light.
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.
CodeFormDetails: 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 speaks their language: patterns from a rule, light from the time of day, made in code.
Genesis goes to auction on TRANSIENTLABS, November 2 and November 9.Genesis went to auction on TRANSIENTLABS, November 2 and November 9.
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 generative art, made in code.
@RarePatterns directs one 60-second Signal every two weeks, and AI writes the code. Above, you grow your own daily Garden Signal from the sunflower's numbers, in the same language of code and light.
Ideas from the community
Signal Origins.
Signals start as ideas. If yours becomes one, your X handle can stay with it here.
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.
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
Send a topic, a mood or a single word.
- 02 Code
Written in code
RarePatterns directs it as a 60-second Signal, sound included, and AI writes the code.
- 03 Form
Resolved into a Signal
If your idea starts a Signal, your X handle sits next to it in Signal Origins.
02 / About
About RarePatterns
The Signals are finished artworks by @RarePatterns (opens in a new tab). He trained as a painter in college. He chooses the idea, the palette and the sound for every Signal. AI writes the code, and every decision is his. Fragment Lock came first. Velocity, suggested by @solrious (opens in a new tab) in Signal Origins, is next and in the studio now. Golden Angle is saved for later in the series. Then one Signal every two weeks.
Every Signal is generative art, made in code, and every frame grows from the code. Some Signals grow straight from the sunflower's numbers. Golden Angle sets every seed 137.5° from the last. Others follow their own code, like Fragment Lock. The site's music ends on the chord of Fragment Lock, the Genesis piece.
Each Garden Signal grows from the numbers in sunflower and pinecone spirals, with a fresh seed every visit, so come back and another grows.
Each Signal gets its own palette, chosen by eye before the code is written, the way a traditional painting begins with a limited palette set out for its subject. It's the practice he trained in: a few colors, mixed for value and light. Fragment Lock holds to orange and black; Golden Angle works chiefly in black, sienna, warm yellow and orange.
Golden Angle
For years, RarePatterns lived among sunflowers and pine trees at his last home. Each sunflower seed sits about 137.5° from the last, and each pinecone turns in spirals of 8 and 13. Golden Angle is how he keeps that place: he guides the work, and AI writes the code. · Signal page →
Golden Angle and the Garden Signal share the same math: Golden Angle's code sets each sunflower seed at the golden angle, about 137.5°, from the last, and the Garden Signal grows from Fibonacci numbers, the same numbers its spirals count. Black is the dark it grows from, sienna the earth, yellow the sunflower, orange the low sun.
Fragment Lock came first and is built differently. Some Signals grow from the sunflower's numbers. Others follow their own code.
- Cadence
- Every two weeks. Fragment Lock first, then Velocity, suggested by @solrious.
- Duration
- 60 sec
- Process
- Directed by the artist, AI writes the code
- 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. Five is a Fibonacci number too. 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), November 2 and November 9. Collect it on TRANSIENTLABS (opens in a new tab). Future Signals can begin with an idea from the community.
- 2 at auction, 24 hours each, a week apart: Nov 2 and Nov 9. 1 kept by the artist. 2 set aside for the community.
- Five, a Fibonacci number, like the 55 and 377 in the garden.
- Each edition is the 60-second film, held as a token in your wallet.
- Contract 0xa257…f26b (opens in a new tab) · on Ethereum.
04 / Connections
Connections.
New Signals land here every two weeks. Follow along on X, or suggest the next one.
05 / Follow
Follow theSignal.
New Signals land here every two weeks. 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 ↑
05 / 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.