# @leegte.eth: Orbits, 2026 Source: https://orbits.leegte.org ## Summary Jan Robert Leegte's Orbits is a fully on-chain Ethereum mainnet project of 1000 explorable orbits, generated by a WebGL engine as JPEG sequences at 12 frames per second. It premiered at Art Basel | Zero 10 with Office Impart and Upstream Gallery, with the site going live on June 8 and the edition of 200 selling out on June 18. The public sale price was 0.25 ETH, with a presale discount to 0.2 ETH limited to wallets holding tokens from earlier Leegte collections. The supply was frozen on-chain on October 5, 2026, making 200 the permanent edition size. ## Article Endless circular motions in nature are born from two sources. They are either guided by celestial motions, like the sun or moon or they are made by humans. Everything else dampens. And maybe what makes the natural repetitive motions so mesmerising is them being whispers from space. So when we trap endless loops, wind- and watermills, the steam engine, dynamos, the clock, the computer processor, it makes us divine. Artificial motion kicks in at ten to twelve frames a second. In the 1830s, Plateau and Stampfer identified that rate as the threshold for the mind to construct continuity from discrete frames. It would lay the cornerstone of animation and film. Orbits appears as a scene that has never existed. It recalls memories of science-fiction, a planet glimpsed through extreme signal degradation. It is a familiar motion but unplaceable in origin. A world existing only in the instant it is compressed, orbiting only because we are watching. Jan Robert Leegte, 2026 Orbits Orbits is a fully on-chain project on Ethereum mainnet. It is a seeded space of 1000 orbits that can be explored. A WebGL engine generates a sequence of JPEG files at 12 frames per second. Orbits is responsive and interactive. You can drag-rotate the camera within the work. Token cover images are stored on Arweave. Orbits can be found on secondary: Raster Verse Release Orbits premiered at Art Basel | Zero 10 with Office Impart and Upstream Gallery. The site went live on the 8th of June for a week of exploration, then the presale opened on Monday the 15th of June and the public sale on Tuesday the 16th. The edition sold out on the 18th of June. Pricing and edition size Edition size: 200 — sold out Public sale: 0.25 ETH Presale 20% discount: 0.2 ETH The artist and the representing galleries minted APs during the presale, including the first mint. The supply was frozen on-chain on the 5th of October 2026, so 200 is the edition size permanently. Presale The presale was allowlisted. Any wallet holding an NFT from an earlier collection excluding Coin or Wanderer had minting access (Ornament, JPEG, Window, Buttons, 1/1, Web, Selection, Mountains and Drop Shadows, Walled Garden, Bas Relief), and one such token was enough to validate multiple mints without limit. The wallet addresses were snapshotted on Saturday the 13th of June, and delegate.xyz could be used to delegate minting to a hot wallet. About myself Since 1997 I have been making art on and about the internet as websites, apps, installations, videos, prints, sculptures, audio works, drawings. The networked computer is the central muse in my work, with all its wonders and peculiarities. I don't use software to make art. I make art about software. My work has been exhibited at Whitechapel Gallery, Centre Pompidou, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum, ZKM and the Ludwig Museum, and has been acquired by various private and institutional collections. Orbits is my thirteenth NFT collection. Earlier collections in chronological order: Ornament, Window, JPEG, Broken Images, Buttons, Coin, Web, Mountains and Drop Shadows, Selection, Bas-relief, Walled Garden and Wanderer. Check out my work at www.leegte.org. Privacy This site keeps anonymous usage statistics. No personal data and no raw IP addresses are stored.