DITHERVOID // PANDORA — FIELD MANUAL

A box that mints ghosts. PANDORA is a self-contained generative engine that grows infinite animated glitch loops from a single number. Nothing is drawn by hand and nothing is random twice: every loop is fully determined by its DNA, so any loop can be resurrected byte-exactly, by anyone, forever. The whole machine is one HTML file.

Live box: https://dithervoid.art/

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THE MONITOR

The square screen is the loop, playing at a locked 25fps on the box's own player. The readout under it shows the signature, seed, frame count, and file sizes. Tap the size readout to expose playback diagnostics.

SIGNAL — the coarse dials

• PALETTE — 26 fixed DITHERVOID colorways, plus GEN∞ (the seed grows its own palette), TIS∞ (palettes grown by the TIME IS SCAM rules), and RND.
• SOURCE — the body the corruption feeds on: PLASMA, RINGS, GLYPHS, SCANS, LATTICE, ORBIT, STRATA, TENDRIL, or AUTO (the seed chooses).
• CORRUPTION — the violence dial. Low is clean signal; high is the void biting back.
• FRAMES — loop length at 25fps.
• ERA — the box holds two epochs of physics. SIGNAL is the current engine (index-space corruption, dither quake, attribute clash). CLASSIC resurrects the earlier, pre-glitch aesthetic — not an imitation: the original code, proven byte-identical. Flick it and the same seed re-renders in the other era.

SIGILS — 36 corruption channels

Each sigil arms one channel of destruction: tape tracking, pixel sort, attribute clash, ransom stamps, dither quake, tape rot, and the rest of the arsenal. Lit means armed. Combinations multiply — the same seed under different sigils is a different ghost. ☠ OBLIVION arms a violent random set and fires.

Every sigil on the rail changes the picture. That is a gated claim, not a hope: each one is rendered alone against a clean frame on four seeds before any build ships.

A larger vocabulary was built and judged in August 2026 — thirty-seven more channels, all of them working — and the curator's eye rejected it: more was not better. The box kept the vocabulary it had. The bits stay reserved in the card format so that nothing written during those hours is orphaned.

GRAFT — bring your own image

Drop a still or an animated GIF into the box and the engine feeds on it. An animated source keeps its own clock: the loop adopts the GIF's frame count and its per-frame delays, repeating a short one a whole number of times and folding a long one down, so the result still loops seamlessly at the source's own speed.

TUNE — surgical control

Override what the seed decided: MASK (30 carving shapes × 20 styles, with size and position), BODIES (up to 50 orbiting forms in 30 shapes). AUTO hands the dial back to the seed. Everything you tune is recorded in the DNA.

LAB — the genome room

• SEED — the genome number. The dice roll a fresh one.
• DNA CARD — the loop's complete genetic code as a short string (PNDR-…). Copy it, post it, keep it: whoever holds the card can resurrect the exact loop on any device, any time. The card is the artwork's proof.
• PUBLIC VAULT — a shared collection every visitor sees. STORE adds the current loop (card + thumbnail) for everyone; entries are permanent unless the curator removes them.
• GARDENS — your wallet's own shelf. CONNECT WALLET (Ethereum, one tap, no gas, ever) then SAVE TO MY GARDEN: each save is a wallet signature, publicly displayed under your address, curated by you alone. Plant without limit. What grows here matters for the next era.

𝕏 TRANSMISSION

The 𝕏 button opens the transmission modal: an X-safe version of the loop (full resolution whenever it fits X's 15MB ceiling), a save button, and a procedurally corrupted post — composed in a glitched alphabet, seeded so that no two transmissions in history repeat. X cannot carry the GIF automatically: save it, compose, attach by hand, post.

INFO MODE

Tap ? next to the tabs, then tap anything — the box explains the control instead of firing it. On desktop, hovering any control shows the same knowledge.

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THE DOCTRINE

One file. One seed, one loop, forever. The DNA card is the artwork's soul: the pixels can be deleted, the site can burn, and the loop still resurrects from its card alone. Everything else is noise.

Cards are versioned and every version still decodes. A card written before the engine grew renders on the engine it was written for, bit for bit — all 51 canon bloodlines are re-rendered on both engines and compared byte for byte before any build ships. Nothing minted is ever allowed to change.

Engine: EIDOLON E9.2 CHIMERA.

GREENCROSS × Claude — DITHERVOID, 2026

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THE REPO IS THE APP

index.html          the entire engine — one file, served as dithervoid.art
workbench/v2/       the lab: the same engine with the instrument attached —
                    KEEP/KILL curation, HARVEST, the taste model, DIGEST
CNAME               the domain
og.png / icon.png   link-preview and favicon assets
lazarus/            the corpus contract (ERC-1155) + 15-test hardhat suite
infra/              backend: Supabase schemas + the signed-action edge function

Everything the project is, in one tree. Clone it and you hold the whole organism.