How it is made
Plate 39 of 52
Kenny Lienhard, Plates, 2026
Owner: kenny83.eth
How it is made
The Plate in detail
Plate 39 of 52 · one of one
The past. With the sea about 120 metres lower, about 5,400 square kilometres of Tonga’s reef platforms were dry land, where the plate has about 700 today: the reefs of Ha’apai made two limestone islands of about 2,200 and 1,250 square kilometres, around Nomuka and around Lifuka, and Tongatapu and Vava’u were five to eight times their present size. The land was already dry when the timeline begins; the rising sea drowned most of it between 15,386 and 8,266 years ago. The lavender line turns a little toward the colour of land, all at once, and only across those spans.
Sources: Lambeck et al. 2014, PNAS 111:15296; Dickinson and Burley 2007, Geoarchaeology 22:229; Ryan et al. 2009, Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems 10:Q03014 · Ruellan et al. 2003, Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems 4
Onchain
One HTML file, to be etched to Ethereum in full: the code that draws the work (151,144 bytes before compression), this plate’s settings and its record. Nothing is fetched from anywhere else. It reads your clock and slides the view to where the plate is today.
engine sha256 a7fbc03acc0fc9ba343881bb88ddaf2b7564564d8bc9cbed16e75e47e01fb3f2
The work
One HTML file that drifts with your clock, a few centimetres a year.