[{"id":"auto:beige_background","name":"Beige background","family":"backgrounds","status":"observation","def":"A beige background, first seen at #479/#480 (the only beige-background pair).","ratified":1},{"id":"bg_binary","name":"Binary background","family":"backgrounds","status":"observation","def":"The creature sits over a background tiled with 0s and 1s — the robo drop’s native binary wallpaper.","ratified":1},{"id":"bg_black","name":"Black background","family":"backgrounds","status":"observation","def":"Like a ghostGAN but the background is black instead of white (#501–504).","ratified":1},{"id":"bg_dotted","name":"Dotted / starfield background","family":"backgrounds","status":"observation","def":"A background of scattered dots or “stars in the sky”, seen on the spaceGANs.","ratified":1},{"id":"bg_line","name":"Line background","family":"backgrounds","status":"observation","def":"A background of horizontal lines or bars, first appearing around #485–488 in the review drop.","ratified":1},{"id":"auto:new_background","name":"New background (Act 1 Review)","family":"backgrounds","status":"observation","def":"A background style that first appears in the Act 1 Review drop and was not used in any earlier drop.","ratified":1},{"id":"podgan_background","name":"PodGAN symbol in background","family":"backgrounds","status":"observation","def":"The NEXT collection's podGAN symbol appearing in the background — the 'podGANs invading' set.","ratified":1},{"id":"behind_binary","name":"Sits behind the binary","family":"backgrounds","status":"observation","def":"The creature renders BEHIND the binary/wallpaper layer instead of in front of it — the digits sit over the body. A robo-drop structural signature, and the stage for the white-zero eyes.","ratified":1},{"id":"bg_skull","name":"Skull-emoji background","family":"backgrounds","status":"observation","def":"The background is tiled with small skull or invader emoji sprites.","ratified":1},{"id":"bg_test","name":"TEST wallpaper","family":"backgrounds","status":"observation","def":"The word “TEST” is tiled across the background or repeated in a mouth band — a ghost/review-drop texture, not a hidden mark.","ratified":1},{"id":"byte_identity","name":"Byte-identical pair","family":"bytes","status":"confirmed-glitch","def":"Two published files that are the same bytes (#14 = #75).","ratified":1},{"id":"negative_frames","name":"Negative (inverted) frames","family":"bytes","status":"confirmed-glitch","def":"Frames whose colours are the exact inverse of the animation around them, found by testing every frame of every file (D54): #231, #256 and #274 carry the identical list of eleven frames; #479 carries thirteen.","ratified":0},{"id":"psd_lineage","name":"PSD lineage","family":"bytes","status":"confirmed-glitch","def":"The only file whose XMP points at a real Photoshop document id and carries an OriginalDocumentID (#300, saved on the solstice, 21 Dec 2021).","ratified":0},{"id":"resave_sessions","name":"Photoshop re-save sessions","family":"bytes","status":"observation","def":"Files exported with a point-release Photoshop build (22.3, 22.5, 23.0, 23.1) rather than the drop's bulk 'Photoshop 2021/2022' export, or saved alone or in a pair outside any batch. All 512 save times were decoded from the Photoshop identifiers and cluster into 39 sessions at a 3-hour gap (D51).","ratified":0},{"id":"primes_missing","name":"Primes missing from the prime batch","family":"bytes","status":"confirmed-glitch","def":"The Photoshop 22.3 batch of 27 Aug 2021 re-saved every prime-numbered skull from 7 to 127 except #13 and #89 (verified from the decoded XMP save times, D50). The re-save sessions themselves track prime numbers (compare the Prime Rule).","ratified":0},{"id":"burnt","name":"Burnt in forge","family":"chain","status":"observation","def":"Chain-verified burn before the clue existed (30 pieces).","ratified":1},{"id":"essence_anomaly","name":"Corrupted essence","family":"chain","status":"confirmed-glitch","def":"The Essence value is malformed or misplaced: err0r (the only non-word), the TRUE/FALSE boolean formats, and essences sitting off their expected wordlist position.","ratified":0},{"id":"description_anomaly","name":"Description-text anomaly","family":"chain","status":"observation","def":"The on-chain description is not the boilerplate its drop-mates carry. Fifteen pieces. Seven are bespoke text: #130 ('1024 animations'), the tribute pieces #147, #228, #246, #264, #282, and the finale #512. Eight are defects in the boilerplate itself: #301 and #302 say 'the Colors' for 'Color' and end 'for this Image'; #303 and #304 are missing the first two sentences entirely; #305 and #306 end 'for this Image'; #400 has a tab character before each newline; and #272 carries an extra closing paragraph pointing at a different Arweave transaction (the 1 Jan 2022 capture of journal page 015, not the Act 1 archive). [audit 2026-09-16]","ratified":0},{"id":"essence_meta","name":"Essence as signal (meta)","family":"chain","status":"observation","def":"Essences that COMMENT rather than corrupt: words that literally mean a glitch (error, crack), puzzle-vocabulary essences (seed, random, final, key), and the collector's TRUE/FALSE-as-classifier hypothesis.","ratified":1},{"id":"hiddentype","name":"HiddenType anomalies","family":"chain","status":"confirmed-glitch","def":"The unpublished HiddenType trait breaking its own rules: literal '32' on #32 and #161, #119 odd filed as even, #187 even filed as square, and F on spooky #193 where the palindrome class does not exist (D52). Five misfiles. The letters are Pindar's number classes from journal 002 in order of precedence (Fibonacci, remaining primes, squares, remaining odd, remaining even), read on each drop's own numbering; F is the robo-only palindrome class.","ratified":0},{"id":"chain_mismatch","name":"Sheet and chain disagree","family":"chain","status":"confirmed-glitch","def":"A name or trait value differs between Pindar's published sheet (31 Jan 2022) and the chain: 26 pieces on the complete chain pull. Three witnesses (usage elsewhere, the Arweave filename, the journal) plus the collector's eye split them into: the sheet corrects a chain error (13), the substituted word describes the art (7), the sheet introduces the error (3), undecided number/capital differences (4). Two candidate elevens A and B come from the first pile (D57–D62).","ratified":0},{"id":"channel_banding","name":"Channel shifts & banding","family":"color","status":"confirmed-glitch","def":"Color-channel displacement or horizontal color banding.","ratified":1},{"id":"color_speedup","name":"Color speed-up","family":"color","status":"confirmed-glitch","def":"The color cycle visibly accelerates beyond the base animation rate (incl. fast rainbow cycling in robos).","ratified":1},{"id":"essence_color_word","name":"Essence is a BIP-39 color word","family":"color","status":"observation","def":"The essence word is a colour word on the BIP-39 list. The ten basic colour terms — black, blue, brown, gold, green, olive, orange, pink, silver, yellow — each occur exactly once. The list also carries bronze, copper, coral, cream, ivory, lemon, rose, salmon, sand and snow; of these, two are used: rose (#446) and bronze (#493). Expanded from the ten basic terms on Michael's ruling. [audit 2026-09-16]","ratified":0},{"id":"quantum_glitch_prelude","name":"Quantum-Glitch-Prelude","family":"color","status":"observation","def":"The rainbow morph on #501-#504 that prefigures #512's Quantum Glitch — the finale announcing itself four pieces early.","ratified":0},{"id":"sine_wave_flash","name":"Sine-wave background flash","family":"color","status":"confirmed-glitch","def":"A flash that morphs the binary background into sine waves — only on the pair {130,133}.","ratified":1},{"id":"auto:color_flash","name":"color_flash","family":"color","status":"confirmed-glitch","def":"The color-flash effect: the GAN and background change color at once, uniformly or in waves.","ratified":1},{"id":"auto:color_gradient_off","name":"color_gradient_off","family":"color","status":"confirmed-glitch","def":"The piece's color feels off relative to the drop's rainbow-gradient position (#357 feels very yellow where green/blue is expected).","ratified":1},{"id":"auto:color_register_note","name":"color_register_note","family":"color","status":"observation","def":"the collector flags the piece's color register as atypical (#49 not particularly smokey / warm not gray; #187 strange dark greens/browns/gray).","ratified":1},{"id":"auto:shimmer","name":"shimmer","family":"color","status":"process","def":"A shimmer effect that accompanies the standard frame-splice glitch (#7).","ratified":1},{"id":"eye_type_mixing","name":"Eye-type mixing","family":"eyes","status":"confirmed-glitch","def":"The eyes cycle between different drops' eye types within one piece (#191, #206).","ratified":1},{"id":"larger_eyes","name":"Larger eyes","family":"eyes","status":"confirmed-glitch","def":"Eyes noticeably larger than the drop's normal proportions, sometimes only briefly. (the collector: #43 removed from the set.)","ratified":1},{"id":"still_eyes","name":"Still eyes","family":"eyes","status":"confirmed-glitch","def":"The eyes stay perfectly static while everything else animates. A chosen class of eight: {129,130,141,159,161,174,180,192}.","ratified":1},{"id":"unique_eyes","name":"Unique eye renderings","family":"eyes","status":"confirmed-glitch","def":"One-of-a-kind eye structures: Noun-study eyes (#147), first ghost eye-structure (#187), oval large-pupil eyes (#467, #473-476).","ratified":1},{"id":"white_zero_eyes","name":"White-zero eyes","family":"eyes","status":"confirmed-glitch","def":"All-white eyes that ARE the zero characters of the foreground binary — the eyes are digits ({130,133,141,174}).","ratified":1},{"id":"abstract_class","name":"Abstract GANs","family":"figures","status":"observation","def":"The Abstract pieces new in Act 1 Review (#505-511).","ratified":1},{"id":"auto:flag:the collector: visually novel (no other drop)","name":"Act 1 Outliers","family":"figures","status":"observation","def":"Act 1 Review pieces whose look does not match any earlier drop — new visual styles that appear only in the finale set.","ratified":0},{"id":"cross_drop_hybrid","name":"Cross-drop hybrid","family":"figures","status":"confirmed-glitch","def":"The piece mixes two drops' features (robo+skull #175; robot features outside the robo drop).","ratified":1},{"id":"theme_breaker","name":"Drop-theme breaker","family":"figures","status":"confirmed-glitch","def":"The piece breaks its own drop's theme (e.g. #206, the only uncostumed spooky).","ratified":1},{"id":"entangled","name":"Entangled","family":"figures","status":"confirmed-glitch","def":"Bodies consistently intermingled. The sheet carries SubType 'Entangled' on sixteen pieces; fifteen of those are here and #235 is deliberately not. #100 and #225 are here on the eye without the SubType. Seventeen members in all. [audit 2026-09-16]","ratified":0},{"id":"hidden_element","name":"Hidden element","family":"figures","status":"observation","def":"Something concealed in the art beyond first look.","ratified":1},{"id":"merge_convergence","name":"Merge convergence","family":"figures","status":"confirmed-glitch","def":"Two creatures converge into one across the loop (#50 only).","ratified":1},{"id":"near_miss_homage","name":"Near-miss homage","family":"figures","status":"observation","def":"The piece ALMOST becomes another entity and never completes it (#357 almost-invader/Sol-Luna; #423's Eclectic-Method recycle pop).","ratified":1},{"id":"naga_palindrome","name":"Palindrome nagaGAN","family":"figures","status":"confirmed-glitch","def":"Eight robots carry all three marks: a palindrome name, a palindromic six-bit position (0, 12, 18, 30, 33, 45, 51, 63) and a forward-then-reverse animation. A ninth piece, #130 (qubitGAN, position 000001, hidden-type A), sits in the member list on the collector's eye for the animation alone: its name is not a palindrome and its position is not palindromic. Membership is the collector's call; the two data marks are simply false for #130. [audit 2026-09-16]","ratified":0},{"id":"space_invader","name":"Space-Invader motif","family":"figures","status":"observation","def":"The Space-Invader icon worn as a shirt, as a head ({465,466}), or in the background — the collector's curated invasion sets.","ratified":1},{"id":"twin","name":"Twin","family":"figures","status":"observation","def":"Two side-by-side creatures whose bodies never merge (13 ratified; per-drop dialects; Spin Twins #379 the converging exception).","ratified":1},{"id":"wrong_creature","name":"Wrong creature for its drop","family":"figures","status":"candidate-glitch","def":"A rare species inside its drop (whaleGAN in the skull drop, etc.).","ratified":1},{"id":"auto:costume","name":"costume","family":"figures","status":"observation","def":"The GAN wears a costume or mask: ghost costume, Guy Fawkes/Anonymous mask, mummy, Count Dracula, pumpkin head, clown wig, burglar mask, pirate eye patch.","ratified":1},{"id":"auto:flag:the collector: CORRUPTED type","name":"flag:the collector: CORRUPTED type","family":"figures","status":"observation","def":"Automated census category ('the collector: CORRUPTED type') from master_dataset. HEURISTIC — rule may over/under-match; audit before trusting.","ratified":0},{"id":"auto:out_of_order","name":"out_of_order","family":"figures","status":"observation","def":"The piece appears out of order vs the act's normal ordering: #467-469 TestGANs should sit with the other Ghosts-in-the-Machine GANs.","ratified":1},{"id":"fib_full_reverse","name":"Backwards-Fibonacci recurrence","family":"frames","status":"confirmed-glitch","def":"The complete backwards-Fibonacci frame re-insertion: one frame returns with 5, 3, 2, 1, 1 frames between visits and the run ends clean. Ten robots plus one solstice piece (#287); not a robo-only class, as the count was previously written. [audit 2026-09-16]","ratified":0},{"id":"frame_splice","name":"Frame splice / recurrence (the standard glitch)","family":"frames","status":"confirmed-glitch","def":"Frame REINSERTIONS at shifting intervals, where the intervals map to Fibonacci numbers (the collector's definition): one frame returns again and again with the spacing walking the Fibonacci sequence. 44 pieces verified by two independent detectors in exact agreement on every repeat position.","ratified":1},{"id":"frame_count","name":"Frame-count anomaly","family":"frames","status":"confirmed-glitch","def":"The GIF's measured frame count differs from its drop's standard (skull 41, all others 55).","ratified":0},{"id":"held_frame","name":"Held frame","family":"frames","status":"confirmed-glitch","def":"A single frame held for 100 ms in a file whose other frames run at 0 ms, in a drop whose normal file runs every frame at 100 ms: #479 frame 27, #480 frame 24, #146 frame 0 (measured per frame, D50).","ratified":0},{"id":"montage_glitch_frame","name":"Montage shows the glitch frame","family":"frames","status":"candidate-glitch","def":"The piece's tile in Pindar's official montage is an actual glitch frame of its animation (#19 proven; hypothesis open).","ratified":1},{"id":"prime_rule","name":"Prime-rule exception","family":"frames","status":"confirmed-glitch","def":"Breaks the first drop's hidden number rule (glitch iff prime-and-not-Fibonacci): #47 should and doesn't; #5 shouldn't and does.","ratified":1},{"id":"wrong_speed","name":"Wrong speed","family":"frames","status":"confirmed-glitch","def":"The frame-delay table does not follow the drop's pattern: ten later-drop files run every frame at 0 ms (#155, #176, #180, #182, #190, #446, #467, #468, #469, #512) and #228 runs every frame at 50 ms with 120 frames (measured per frame, D50).","ratified":0},{"id":"auto:fib_run_boundary_case","name":"fib_run_boundary_case","family":"frames","status":"confirmed-glitch","def":"#291 carries the complete backwards-Fibonacci run plus one extra return — whether it joins the eleven is a pending classification decision.","ratified":0},{"id":"glitch_name_liar","name":"Glitch-named, no glitch","family":"label","status":"confirmed-glitch","def":"Named Glitch/Shimmer but the animation shows no glitch (the collector's 17), plus the mirror set (Shimmers that DO glitch).","ratified":1},{"id":"label_mismatch","name":"Label vs art contradictions","family":"label","status":"candidate-glitch","def":"The label promises what the art withholds (or vice versa): mislabels, Eyes-count lies, Name-vs-GANg mismatches.","ratified":1},{"id":"auto:label_contradiction_confirmed","name":"label_contradiction_confirmed","family":"label","status":"confirmed-glitch","def":"The collector confirmed a real label-vs-art contradiction on this piece (the label promises what the art contradicts).","ratified":0},{"id":"tributes","name":"Person tributes","family":"lore","status":"confirmed-glitch","def":"Pieces named for real people: artists, collectors, solvers (#210,#211), The Artist, satoshi reference.","ratified":1},{"id":"promise_piece","name":"Pindar promise piece","family":"lore","status":"confirmed-glitch","def":"Publicly flagged by Pindar as puzzle-relevant ('hold on to this info for later'): #119, and #32 via the radix pointer.","ratified":1},{"id":"quantum_group","name":"Quantum group","family":"lore","status":"observation","def":"Everything in the collection touching quantum: qubitGAN #130 and its pair #133, the fifteen Entangled pieces, Spin Twins #379, the Quantum-Glitch-Prelude (#501-504), the #217 pointer, and the #512 Quantum Glitch capstone — 24 pieces, censused from names, traits and the storyline. The bridge to the quantum-computer collection that follows.","ratified":0},{"id":"auto:anachronism","name":"anachronism","family":"lore","status":"observation","def":"A feature appears before the drop that introduced it: #465/#466 are Spooky GANs (drop 2021.10.17) yet carry the invader, which did not appear until Ghosts in the Machine.","ratified":1},{"id":"auto:quantum_capstone","name":"quantum_capstone","family":"lore","status":"observation","def":"#512: a wholly new, higher-definition GAN. The Quantum Glitch capstone, alluding to Pindar's next collection (quantum computers).","ratified":1},{"id":"auto:quantum_group","name":"quantum_group","family":"lore","status":"observation","def":"Member of the quantum group: every piece touching quantum vocabulary or the quantum storyline (qubit, Entangled, Spin, the Prelude, the Quantum Glitch capstone).","ratified":0},{"id":"notes","name":"the collector's verbatim notes","family":"lore","status":"observation","def":"the collector's free-text visual notes — the project's primary eye record.","ratified":0},{"id":"name_bip_proper","name":"BIP word in a proper name","family":"name","status":"confirmed-glitch","def":"A formula-breaking proper-name title containing a valid seed word (Dr Awkward, The Artist — 16 pieces).","ratified":1},{"id":"name_error_names","name":"Error & joke names","family":"name","status":"confirmed-glitch","def":"A name that is itself an error message or a joke about one. One member: #404, named '404 Not Found'. The related error-shaped values live elsewhere and do not carry this tag: err0r is the essence of #191, Dog God is the name of #159. [audit 2026-09-16]","ratified":0},{"id":"name_leet","name":"Leet styling (cross-drop)","family":"name","status":"confirmed-glitch","def":"Digit-for-letter naming outside the robo drop where it is convention (#194 '8bit').","ratified":1},{"id":"name_case","name":"Miscased name","family":"name","status":"confirmed-glitch","def":"A letter cased wrong in the chain name — exactly {175,205} carry 'Gan'.","ratified":1},{"id":"name_typo","name":"Name typo / transposition","family":"name","status":"confirmed-glitch","def":"A word in the title misspelled on one side of sheet vs chain: Primoridal (#16, #100, chain), Cronenber (#123, sheet), skullGANs (#124, chain). Trait-value typos (Gltich #73 sheet, skulGAN #88 chain, Raibow #170 both / #175 sheet) and filename typos (gltich #9/#73, raindow #128) are tagged separately.","ratified":0},{"id":"name_whitespace","name":"Selective double-space","family":"name","status":"confirmed-glitch","def":"Two spaces before the counter where siblings have one (six spookies + #174).","ratified":1},{"id":"name_radix","name":"Wrong-base number","family":"name","status":"confirmed-glitch","def":"A number written in the wrong base ({465,466} hex where octal belonged; revalues to 32/33).","ratified":1},{"id":"painted_mark","name":"Hand-painted mark","family":"painted","status":"confirmed-glitch","def":"A number or letters hand-painted into the animation. Four confirmed: #165 '81', #179 '10 . 00', #207 '4', #379 'AI'.","ratified":1},{"id":"auto:label_question_resolved","name":"label_question_resolved","family":"process","status":"process","def":"A previously-open label question the collector resolved as NOT a contradiction (e.g. family styling explains the label).","ratified":0},{"id":"auto:recurrence_classification_note","name":"recurrence_classification_note","family":"process","status":"process","def":"Detector-reconciliation note on a piece whose workbook glitch classification was revised (e.g. #147's naga mirror-loop counted as repeats).","ratified":0},{"id":"deliberate_pair","name":"Deliberate pair","family":"relations","status":"confirmed-glitch","def":"Two pieces carrying the SAME one-off anomaly that appears on exactly those two in 512 (byte-identical file, shared typo 'Primoridal'/'Gan'/'gltich'/'Raibow', shared flash, day/night, TRUE/FALSE). Exactly ELEVEN pairs: nine ratified by the collector + {9,73} (filename 'gltich') and {170,175} (SubType 'Raibow') found 2026-09-06. #175 sits in two.","ratified":1},{"id":"double_mint","name":"Double mint","family":"relations","status":"confirmed-glitch","def":"One piece minted twice: #390 'Frozen ghostGAN (90/144)' at mint slots 519 and 583 (verified on chain, D49).","ratified":0},{"id":"forge_pair","name":"Forge pairing","family":"relations","status":"confirmed-glitch","def":"The chain names which two burnt pieces forged each SuperRare output — including the pair burnt and never forged.","ratified":1},{"id":"auto:day_night_pair","name":"day_night_pair","family":"relations","status":"observation","def":"A positive/negative day-night twin pair (#209 Solar / #300 Lunar dark twin, dotted-star background).","ratified":1},{"id":"auto:pair_reason","name":"pair_reason","family":"relations","status":"observation","def":"States the specific reason a piece belongs to its deliberate pair (byte-identity, shared one-off effect, planted typo, day/night mirror...).","ratified":0}]