
Planktos is a generative art NFT collection of ultra-photorealistic plankton portraits. Each artwork imagines a single microscopic drifter rendered in cinematic detail: translucent shells, bioluminescent glows and glass-like structures suspended in dark water or soft laboratory light.



Every Planktos artwork is built from traits that describe a microscopic seascape: organism form, shell architecture, translucency, colour spectrum, bioluminescent markings, background environment and energy state. The resulting images feel like macro photographs taken at impossible resolution — fragile, luminous structures floating in still water, part scientific illustration and part dream.



# Drifters as monuments

Plankton are some of the smallest and most important beings on Earth. They drift unseen, shaping climates and food webs, holding up entire oceans. Planktos treats them not as background data but as subjects worthy of portraiture.

Each image imagines a single organism — real or composite — presented as if under an impossibly perfect macro lens. Shells become cathedrals of silica. Cilia become crowns of light. Tiny vacuoles and chambers glow like stained glass.

# Microscopy as reverence

The collection borrows the visual language of microscopy but leans into tenderness rather than analysis. Backgrounds are simple and deep. Light is careful and directional. Depth of field is shallow, turning water into haze and colour, keeping attention on one drifting form.

There is no clutter, no noise for its own sake. Each disc, spiral, frond and spine is given space to be looked at, the way one might slowly walk around a sculpture in a quiet gallery.

# Worlds within worlds

Planktos is interested in scale. At one level, the works are about organisms measured in microns. At another, they read like galaxies, nebulae or distant planets. The same visual structures — rings, halos, radiating lines, clustered points of light — appear at both scales.

The collection invites viewers to move between those readings: from cell to star, from droplet to cosmos, from unnoticed drift to foundational presence.

# Code, not specimen jars

Everything in Planktos is generated from code and prompts. There are no scanned slides or captured specimens. Instead, the system is fed a vocabulary of biological and optical ideas and asked to respond.

That means the organisms in Planktos are not literal species but plausible kin: echoes, archetypes, imagined cousins of real plankton. They are meant to evoke the real microscopic world while remaining clearly in the realm of art — faithful to the spirit rather than the catalog.

Taken together, the works form a kind of microcosmic atlas: a map of luminous drifters that could exist, rendered in the language of fine art photography.



Planktos is a generative collection of ultra-photorealistic plankton portraits: microscopic drifters rendered as luminous, sculptural worlds of glass, light and colour.


Planktos

Diatom Disc

Diatom Rod Chain

Radiolarian Sphere

Simple Ciliate Oval

Single Frond with Cilia

Spiral Cell Filament

Tiny Copepod Silhouette

Starburst Radiolarian

Double-Lobed Cell Cluster

Triangular Plankton Form

Helical Column Organism

Bell-Shaped Microjelly

Crown-Shaped Radiolarian

Nested Ring Organism

Branching Tree-Like Plankton

Complex Multi-Arm Drifter

Cathedral Shell Composite

Smooth Glass Disc

Fine Radial Lines

Soft Honeycomb Pattern

Thin Silica Rim

Simple Segmented Plates

Sparse Spines

Delicate Fringe Edge

Dense Silica Lattice

Double-Walled Shell

Layered Ring Stack

Interlocking Plates

Spine Constellation

Intricate Filigree Shell

Fractal Plate Network

Nested Honeycomb Halos

Cathedral Tracery Shell

Impossible Glass Architecture

No Visible Glow

Soft Core Glow

Edge Halo Glow

Tiny Speckled Lights

Faint Radial Lines of Light

Ring of Bioluminescent Dots

Spine Tip Highlights

Clustered Biolume Patch

Internal Vein Glow

Pulsing Core Biolume

Radiating Biolume Filaments

Dual Colour Biolume

Full Body Bioluminescent Aura

Ghost White and Silver

Pale Aqua and Teal

Soft Blue-Green

Warm Amber Highlights

Muted Cyan with Grey

Soft Violet Edge

Pale Gold Accents

Iridescent Blue-Purple

Teal and Neon Lime

Turquoise with Ember Core

Rose Gold Undertones

Deep Ocean Blues

Multispectral Iridescence

Biolume Cyan and Magenta

Full Spectrum Prism Glow

Dark Water Void

Soft Lab Gradient

Deep Blue Haze

Muted Teal Wash

Warm Grey Background

Dim Light Beam from Above

Soft Bokeh Particles

Misty Water Depth

Cool Laboratory Neutral

Biolume Cloud Haze

Under-Ice Glow

Starlike Particles Field

Cosmic Deep-Sea Void

Dormant Stillness

Gentle Drift

Slow Rising Motion

Soft Rotation

Barely Trembling

Blooming Expansion

Subtle Pulsation

Slow Spiral Rise

Division In Progress

Aggregation Swirl

Radiant Pulse State

Critical Bloom Event

Centered Close-Up

Slight Off-Center

Foreground Sharp, Background Soft

Tight Crop on Form

Diagonal Framing

Lower Third Placement

Edge-Cut Composition

Double Organism Echo

Shadow Echo Behind

Multi-Layered Depth Focus

Center with Haloed Vignetting

Advent Nights

Elements

Woman in Vogue

Redemption

一期一会 東京 (Tokyo Once)

Rise of the Soul

Super 7

Savanna Spirit

Girl Dinners

Inked

Vintage Interiors

Lithica

Katheros

Punk AI

Worlds

Mama

Wonderland

Bugs

Infernalis

Dust

Toys

Fjords

Maria

Strobe

Refractions

Glitch

Chairs

Trace

Sonata

Caustic

Plastica

Impact

Spectra

Remanence

Jesus

Icon

Planktos

333 Tokens