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Jack butcher's "8" closed last night and he just posted the trait sheet. here's what i think these are going to look like, plus one trait i'm pretty sure i've figured out. We all sent $8 to @jackbutcher on x money with the eth address in the memo, and your transaction id is the seed for your piece. I added up the plate counts on his sheet: 122,154 editions, roughly $977k in mint funds. The whole trait sheet reads like a print shop, so my read is these are cmyk prints of your transaction. Eights (i think this one's solved) 73% have zero, 23% have one, and exactly one piece out of 122k has five. i ran the numbers: if you count how many "8"s show up in 18 random characters of an x money transaction id, you get almost exactly his distribution. 73.12% vs 73.26% for zero, 23.09% vs 22.92% for one, and it keeps matching all the way down. so go count the 8s in your tx id. that's probably your number. mine has none, so zero eights for my transaction. colors / plates there are 15 colorways, every possible combination of cyan, magenta, yellow and black ink. each one shows up about 6.7% of the time, so it's a fair roll. "plates" is just how many ink colors you got. 2 plates is the most common (40%) because there are 6 ways to pick two inks. only one combo uses all four, so full cmyk is the rare one at 6.66%. print this is the one i'm most excited about. in offset printing each ink goes down as a separate pass, and if a plate is slightly off you get misregistration: colors that don't line up. 87% are registered (clean). the rest are slip, nudge, skew, drift, and loose (0.8%), which i'm guessing is the most out of line. weight my guess is this is how the marks split between plates. even (57%) is balanced, lean (28%) lets one ink dominate, sparse (13.5%) is lighter overall, and extreme (1%) is lopsided. bits every piece has 16 to 160 "marked bits", and the histogram has four humps, which i think lines up with 1 to 4 plates. so each ink probably marks around 40 bits. 160 bits is also exactly the size of an eth address. could be coincidence, could be your address baked into the art. mine here's a mockup seeded from one of my own tx ids. the zero eights is the only part i'd bet on. the rest is my own guess at how the traits get picked. nothing's onchain yet. visualizevalue.eth hasn't deployed anything since sept 12, so everything else here is speculation until he drops the art. all images are my own mockups built from the trait sheet, not the real pieces.