Garden Signal
One seed. The sunflower's numbers.Grown from one seed and the sunflower's numbers: Fibonacci digits, squares, the golden turn.
It began with yourits seed and a run of Fibonacci numbers, the same numbers found in sunflower and pinecone spirals. YourIts seed chose where the run starts. The code draws Fibonacci squares growing outward from 1, in the light of the time of day you grew it.
CodeFormShare your Garden Signal on X on 55 days, with 8 days of grace, and you're planned to join The Gathered. Days are counted once a day, in UTC.
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
One of about 4.3 billion seeds, so two visits rarely share one.
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 mints on Transient Labs, November 2.Genesis minted on Transient Labs, November 2.
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Code and Form grow from one seed, lit in matching places.
Grown from the sunflower's numbers.
One Signal every two weeks.
Sixty seconds of generative art, made in code.
Watch a Signal. Grow your own from the code on this page.@RarePatterns makes the Signals. You grow your garden from the code on this page, in his language.
The rule, written down.
And grown into form.
Before the code, there was the sunflower.
A sunflower sets each seed a golden turn from the last, and a pinecone each scale. Numbers such as 34 and 55 are found in a sunflower's spirals, 8 and 13 in a pinecone's. No plan, no hand. Just a rule, repeating.
This still life is made in code, from a limited palette, chiefly black, sienna, warm yellow and orange. Every seed is placed by the same rule the flower uses.
Black is the dark it grows from, sienna the earth, yellow the sunflower, orange the low sun. Your piece grows mostly in black and the light of its time of day, sunflower gold at midday.
Your piece grows from the same Fibonacci numbers.
Come back each day to add a pane. At 55 days your Golden Turn grows whole.Gardens shared with #GoldenTurnGarden are planned to form The Gathered.
Examples, from the same code, each from its own sample days.
Every pane grows from a seed, one number for each day. Each piece is stamped with the seed of its newest day.
- 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.
Your days grow The Golden Turn
Your first day is the Origin Eye, the gold center where the spiral begins.
Each day you come back adds a pane, a golden turn from the last. At 55 days, it grows whole. Skipped days are fine.
Why that turn? A sunflower sets its seeds, and a pinecone its scales, about 137.5° apart. Your garden follows the same turn.
Examples: one sample garden at 55 days, 100 days and a year.
Your garden
In a sunflower the seeds, and in a pinecone the scales, are set a golden turn, about 137.5°, apart. From that one turn come their spirals, such as 34 one way and 55 the other in a seed head, and 8 and 13 in a pinecone.
Your garden follows the same turn. Each pane grows from that day's seed, in the light it grew in, one golden turn from the day before. Your first day is the Origin Eye, the gold center where the spiral begins. After 377 days, a Fibonacci number, it keeps 377 panes: each new day grows its own, and older days fold into the panes between, so every day still changes it.
One pane a day, so your garden keeps time with you. At 55 days, a Fibonacci number found in sunflower spirals, it grows whole.
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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.
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.
How it works
- 01 Idea
Suggest a Signal
Send a topic, a mood or a single word.
- 02 Code
Written in code
RarePatterns writes it as a 60-second Signal, sound included.
- 03 Form
Resolved into a Signal
If your idea starts a Signal, your X handle sits next to it in Signal Origins.
01 / Archive
Transmissions.
The finished works. Each Signal keeps the palette it was composed in. Your time of day only changes the light you see it in.
02 / About
About RarePatterns
The Signals are finished artworks by @RarePatterns (opens in a new tab). Fragment Lock, the Genesis piece, comes first, and Golden Angle follows. From there, one Signal every two weeks, each minting on Transient Labs. Trained as a painter, taught by some of Utah's top painters.
Every Signal is generative art, made in code. RarePatterns, a trained artist, directs every Signal: the idea, composition, palette and sound. AI assists in writing the code, and every decision is his. Every frame is generated by the code. 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.
- Cadence
- Every two weeks. Fragment Lock first, then Golden Angle.
- Duration
- 60 sec
- Process
- Code, written with AI assistance
- Palette
- Chosen by eye for each Signal
- Edition
- Edition of 5: 4 available, 1 kept by the artist
- Chain
- Ethereum
03 / Collect
Collect a Signal.
Genesis mints on Transient Labs (opens in a new tab), November 2. Until then, a seed head in the archive grows a little each day.Genesis minted on Transient Labs (opens in a new tab), November 2. The mint link was posted on X. Collect it on Transient Labs (opens in a new tab). Future Signals can begin with an idea from the community.
- Edition of 5 on Transient Labs, Ethereum: 4 available, 1 kept by the artist.
- Five, a Fibonacci number, like the 55 and 377 in the garden.
- You receive the Signal as a token in your wallet, one of 5.
- On Transient Labs, connect your wallet and collect. Network fees apply.
- Nov 2: the mint link posts on X from @RarePatterns.
- Contract address appears here on mint day.
Collecting digital art carries risk, and values can fall. You need a wallet you control. Collect only what you would keep.
04 / Connections
Connections.
05 / Follow
Follow theSignal.
New Signals appear here. Follow @RarePatterns (opens in a new tab) on X, or suggest the next one.
A new piece grows every visit. Gardens shared with #GoldenTurnGarden (opens in a new tab) are planned to form The Gathered, the seed of a future Garden Signal.
06 / Suggest
Suggest a Signal.
Anyone can suggest a Signal. Type a topic and watch it sketch itself below. Send it, and it may grow into a future Signal.
With an X handle, a short topic from your idea can appear in Signal Origins. Without one, it is not shown on the site.
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.
07 / Origins
Signal Origins.
Signals start as ideas. If yours becomes one, your X handle can stay with it here.
See the ideas suggested so far.
Credited
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.