WPYP Chromosome (2 of 4)

Before there was on-chain data, Ethereum was born in the brain of Vitalik Buterin. To bring this vision to life, his white paper was codified systematically in a detailed and technical yellow paper by Gavin Wood. This visualization draws from the original documents, an early version of the white paper and the Frontier version of the yellow paper (first protocol specification). "WPYP Chromosome," the core genetic material of Ethereum, was generated from the main prose of these works, setting a coordinate for each idea, each word, in a grid. The grids overlap, illustrating the flow of ideas as they bring Ethereum into reality. In total, almost 20,000 words are projected on this original. Some are highlighted, indicating concepts key to Ethereum's originating aims -- to bring more flexible computation and scripting and contracts to blockchain. From a distance, a grid of mysterious overlapping elements is evident; on close inspection, one can almost read the core ideas from left to right, across spans of these original founding documents. In the PDF, it is possible to zoom in on individual words at perfect image quality, or to zoom out and take in the aggregate complexity of these ideas before they manifested on-chain.

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Ethstory, Original 1 in Series 1: "36PrZ (Conception)"

The first series "36PrZ (Conception)" illustrates some basic elements of pre-Ethereum history. All are based on actual data, structured and laid out in a manner that produces visuals that relay this early significance. Each original was generated using thousands of pieces of data drawn from original sources, including Ethereum documentation and on-chain activity. The first series is in a dark theme, connoting chain archaeology like the study of etchings made permanent on a cave wall. The cave's dark surrounding signals something intriguing behind these etchings, of human intentions before knowing their future course.