STATE ZERO /the-state-i-wake-up-in/ · (noun)
STATE ZERO /the-state-i-wake-up-in/ · (noun)
The condition my body returns to. Four forces converging to one point. Strain, sleep, recovery and cosmic timing, rendered daily as an alien world on film.
What if my daily health data could generate art? This is my attempt at finding out.
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A scrolling preview of State Zero daily art cards
A scrolling preview of State Zero daily art cards
I’m into biohacking, so I track my body data. I wear WHOOP and each day I check my sleep, recovery, and strain.
I had the WHOOP band, noticed it had an API, and started wondering what I could do with that data beyond staring at a number. It started loose: generative waves, visuals that reacted to the metrics, then trading cards, something almost like Pokemon. Eventually it found its shape: a daily sci-fi concept art card, an alien environment generated fresh from whatever state my body is actually in, posted to Instagram as an 8-second video.
To make the system produce genuinely unique output, I pulled months of my own WHOOP data, clustered it, and derived the zone thresholds from actual patterns in my body. I also layered in Prana Dasha, a Vedic timing system tuned to my natal chart, running at a daily level. I’m skeptical, but it seeds real variation and it is personal enough that I kept it in. Every card is meant to be distinct from anything before it. Not sure any of it means anything. That is kind of the point.
TODAY'S DATE
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├── ◈ PRANA DASHA LOOKUP
│ Active planetary period ×ばつ natal chart · shifts every few days
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│ ├── Theme ········ (what this period is asking of you)
│ │ ↳ feeds directly into the image concept
│ │
│ ├── Creature ····· (carries the theme's energy in the artwork)
│ │ ↳ dissolved into the geology · never a separate subject
│ │
│ └── Environment ·· (the world the scene lives in)
│ ↳ derived from theme · constrained by energy zone
│
└── ◈ WHOOP DATA
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├── Strain ········ (yesterday's cycle)
│ ↳ yesterday because it shaped last night's recovery
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│ └── ▸ Energy Zone
│ Low · body was still → quiet, dormant worlds
│ Medium · body was active → flowing, living worlds
│ High · body was pushed → volatile, charged worlds
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├── Recovery ······ (today · rebuilt overnight)
│ ↳ how much the body actually came back
│
│ └── ▸ Recovery Zone
│ High · restored, clear, capable
│ Mid · okay, moving, no friction
│ Low · spent, pressured, fraying
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├── Sleep Score ··· (today · quality of last night)
│ ↳ does two things independently
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│ ├── ▸ Scene Depth · where you are in the landscape
│ │ Surface · open sky, full horizon, unobstructed
│ │ Mid-Depth · overhang, partial sky · light from one direction
│ │ Deep · subterranean, buried, limited visibility
│ │ Abyss · void, compressed, total dark
│ │
│ └── ▸ feeds behavioral matrix with recovery
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└── Sleep Hours ··· (today · duration of last night)
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└── ▸ Moon Count · ambient light in the scene
7.5h+ → 3 moons · full, bright
6-7.5h → 2 moons · mixed
under 6h → 1 moon · crescent
◈ BEHAVIORAL MATRIX · Recovery Zone ×ばつ Sleep Zone = 12 states
How the body feels that day · expressed through how the world feels
High + Surface → wide open · everything came back · nothing in the way
High + Mid-Depth → warm and capable · slight weight still sitting there
High + Deep → rebuilt but running quieter than expected
High + Abyss → body is back · mind never quite arrived
Mid + Surface → steady · present · no drama either way
Mid + Mid-Depth → coasting through the middle of things
Mid + Deep → fine but everything costs a little more
Mid + Abyss → hollow · grinding · nothing to draw from
Low + Surface → wired and fraying · nowhere for it to go
Low + Mid-Depth → drained · just form moving through the day
Low + Deep → wrecked · quiet · system cooling down
Low + Abyss → nothing left · primordial still
(some combinations are physiologically unlikely · the system handles all 12)
◈ GENERATION
Theme + Creature + Environment + Behavioral State
↳ converge into one scene concept
→ Image generates from that concept
→ Video generates from the image · 8 seconds · one take
→ Card composites over the video · date, rings, title, scene description
→ Telegram handles approvals, status updates, token warnings, and failure alerts
→ Posts to Instagram every day
There are two ways to run it:
Automatic: generate the image/video through APIs and post end to end.
Manual-first: get the prompts on Telegram, make the image/video wherever you want, send the files back, and let the pipeline finish the card and post.
The only non-obvious setup is astrology. The generator builds the required files from your birth data:
python3 astrology_generator/generate_astrology_yaml.py
Everything else is in the docs:
docs/PIPELINE_SPEC.md- full architecture and pipeline referencedocs/STATE_ZERO_RULEBOOK.md- the visual and conceptual rulesastrology_generator/ASTROLOGY_GENERATOR.md- astrology setup guide
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