Aluminum frame,
LED panel.
The housing is fabricated from aluminum extrusion — a material chosen for its structural precision and its neutral, industrial character. The frame makes no claim about the work's content; it holds the computation without ornamentation.
The LED panel is mounted at the top of the frame. The panel and the microcontroller board inside the housing together form a closed system — no external display device, no projector, no computer. The work runs entirely within the object.
Code on a circuit.
Inside the aluminum frame sits a microcontroller board running the Rain Blooms algorithm natively. This is the same algorithm that drives the on-chain digital edition on Art Blocks Studio — but here it runs on dedicated hardware, without a browser, without a network, without any external dependency.
The board communicates directly with the LED matrix through a ribbon connector. At startup, the algorithm reads its parameter configuration and begins computing. Each frame is rendered in real time — there is no video file, no pre-rendered sequence, no storage medium that the work plays back from.
The digital edition (Art Blocks Studio) is a license to compute: the algorithm runs whenever the token owner opens their browser. Rain Blooms Lattice is a machine: it runs whenever it is powered on. Same code. Different material conditions.
Standalone.
Self-contained.
Rain Blooms Lattice is a closed system. Once powered on, the work requires no network connection, no companion device, and no ongoing maintenance. The algorithm runs on the embedded microcontroller and renders directly to the LED matrix.
Because the work computes its image from local rules at the pixel level, each new startup under the same display configuration will produce the same evolution — identical parameters, identical behavior. The work is not random; it is deterministic from a fixed initial condition.
