Enter the Machine

A portrait studio for digital entities

Nyan Cat! [Official].mp4

Nyan Cat captured the spirit of the Internet in the early 2010s; animated by Chris Torres

The Subject of this Portrait

At the time this portrait was created, the subject was available online at youtube.com/watch?v=2yJgwwDcgV8 

Screenshot of a gray, pixel-art cat with a pink pop-tart for a body, flying through space leaving a pixel-art rainbow in its wake
Screenshot of Nyan Cat

Attributes

Subject Name
Nyan Cat! [Official].mp4
Subject Creation Date
04/12/2011
Subject Weight
6,327,714 bytes (6.3 MB)
Subject Location
youtube.com/watch?v=2yJgwwDcgV8
Entities in Portrait
1 File
Entity Types in Portrait
MP4
Portrait Type
Individual

Portrait Details

A curved and organically shaped form of programmatically generated gradient of yellow to purple to pink pixels against a paint splattered background of the same colors
Portrait detail
A sea of contiguous golden yellow and peach pixels against a paint splattered background that is primarily magenta with splatters of blue, cyan, orange, and yellow
Portrait detail
A programmatically generated form of magenta pixels invades most of the image though a pink, yellow, blue, orange, and cyan paint splattered background is able to show through an abundant amount of negative space
Portrait detail
Zoomed in, programmatically generated cluster of magenta and pink pixel blocks that contains a lot of pixel-shaped holes that allow the multi-colored paint splattered background to show through
Portrait detail
Zoomed in image of a programmatically generated, contiguous cluster of canary yellow pixels that surround most of the image, allowing a multi-colored, paint splattered pink, orange, cyan, and blue background to show through the negative space
Portrait detail

Enter The Machine portraits are interactive in different ways. Below are the supported interactions for this specific portrait.

ActionDesktopTouch Devices
Start/stop animationSpacebar or Hold tap for 2s then
Toggle sounds or Hold tap for 2s then
Zoom (stop animation, then) scroll wheelpinch and zoom
Pan (stop animation, then) click and draghold and drag
Rotate (stop animation, then) shift + alt/option and dragpinch and rotate
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Documentation of this internet-native artwork is stored permanently on blockchain should future changes in web-based technologies affect how it displays.

Permalink
arweave.net/hLy-L0cYAzFJ0xzl6O3K8oZO7Bdazfg4B92Bo11TJOE
Format
video/quicktime
Resolution
1296 x 2304
Duration
2'29
Transaction
viewblock.io/arweave/tx/hLy-L0cYAzFJ0xzl6O3K8oZO7Bdazfg4B92Bo11TJOE

Artist
Eric Corriel
Sound Design
Chris Child

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