2,000 living specimens on the Chia blockchain, inspired by Conway's Game of Life and rendered in stark trash-polka — ink, blood-red, bone; channel-split misregistration; collage artifacts stacked by chance.
A vivarium is a sealed enclosure for observing living things. CHIAvarium is a vivarium for the most famous toy universe ever written — Conway's Game of Life, a cellular automaton where a handful of dead-simple rules breed gliders, oscillators, and guns that fire forever.
Every token is one named pattern — a still life, an oscillator, a spaceship, or a rare gun — pinned to a card like a pressed insect, then defaced with the visual language of trash-polka: blood splatter, surgical line-art instruments, channel-split glitch. Identity is fixed; fate is a separate game.
The simulation itself — placing a specimen on a board, running the rules, watching it live or die — is an off-chain experience for holders. Nothing about it touches the chain or the metadata. The NFT is the specimen; the game is yours to run.
Each specimen is one of Conway's real patterns, classified the way an automaton-hunter would: by what it does. The rarer the behaviour, the rarer the token. Hover any specimen to glitch it.
On top of every specimen, the field-lab leaves its tools — drawn in surgical blood-red line-art. Each is rolled independently, so a token can carry none, a few, or all five at once. The percentages below are the real frequencies across all 2,000.
When a single specimen rolls the compass, clock, crosshair, barcode and stamp together, it's a Jackpot — a maximal-chaos collage. Just 1.25% of the collection. No tier is safe from it; even a common Block can hit the jackpot.
The cells render as flat ink-black blocks torn by a red/cyan channel-split — the print misregistration of a machine that's given up. Round blood and ink splatter blooms behind, sometimes half-burying the pattern. Then the instruments, then a rubber stamp, then scanlines and glitch slices on top.
Five splatter archetypes — mist, scatter, blooms, streak, pour — and a per-specimen corruption level mean no two cards decay the same way. The still you see is the calm baseline; the on-chain MP4 pulses and glitches on a seamless 4-second loop.
Locked palette
BONE · INK · BLOOD · CYAN — never anything else.
You pay 0.5 XCH and a specimen is minted to you on demand, at random — you can't cherry-pick the rare ones, and neither can we. The whole collection is generated deterministically from one public seed, #69420: anyone can re-run the algorithm in the open-source pipeline and verify every specimen and its rarity. No hidden reserves, no insider picks.
The art is deterministic from seed + token index, so the collection regenerates byte-for-byte. That's the basis of the fairness claim — and the source is public.
Royalties (10%) are enforced natively by Chia on every resale.
— of 2,000 remaining
Send exactly 0.5 XCH to mint one random CHIAvarium specimen.
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