Rhythmic marks
Lines and dots punctuate the flow.
Generator
A new rhythm between marks.
From the artist’s fluorescent handwriting, new forms come into view.
Tap a mark to look closer
Size
Loading the marks…
Shape the rhythm
Explore the relationship between marks. Each adjustment rearranges the existing glyphs.
From line to form.
Built on the artist’s fluorescent handwriting, Generator explores how the structure of a mark can develop into a new form.
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Skeleton generation
A mark begins with the centre lines of its strokes. These skeletons establish the structure of compact signs and extended, creature-like forms.
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Colour rendering
The rendering stage follows the skeleton, giving the strokes their width, texture and fluorescent colour.
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Finishing
Lines are refined and stray fragments removed, retaining the dots, eyes and small features that give each form its character.
White, blue and green distinguish stages in this process study; they are not the model’s output colours. Model-generated examples, separate from the interactive glyph pool.
More process studies＋
One practice. New forms.
Hand-painted marks and generated glyphs are documented separately. Their relationship lies in the evolving practice, rather than a one-to-one pairing.
Artist’s hand-painted originals
Model-generated glyphs
Writing through rhythm.
These marks do not form a language with fixed translations. Their grammar emerges through repetition, intervals, scale and the relationships between forms.
Single marks
Compact gestures create intervals and shifts.
Creature forms
Extended structures carry movement across a line.
Rhythmic marks, compact signs and extended forms alternate across the wall. Changes in scale and spacing alter the rhythm of a passage. Open “Shape the rhythm” above to explore your own arrangement.
8,267Glyphs from the artist’s own work in the training material
≈72MParameters in the skeleton model
Technical notes ＋
Shared structure
Different aspect ratios are handled by a shared network. Learning the centre lines of strokes allows compact marks and longer creature-like structures to be explored within the same framework.
Four conditions
Kind, length, density and source are represented as separate conditions and combined. They guide visual characteristics, including combinations less common in the existing walls, without assigning fixed meanings to the glyphs.
Structure and rendering
Skeleton generation and painterly rendering are separate stages. The added skeleton control is zero-initialised so it can gradually learn to follow a supplied structure while developing the stroke appearance.
Evaluation and selection
Rendering is compared on skeletons used during training and on new skeletons, examining stroke overlap, fragments and the main structure. This helps investigate potential memorisation and generalisation issues; it is not a proof of originality. New experimental batches are reviewed separately before publication.
Material and authorship
Training material consists only of the artist’s own fluorescent hand-painted work: 8,267 glyphs in the current training dataset. The skeleton model has approximately 72 million parameters. Generated results are not fed back into the training set and remain separate from the hand-painted LO archive.
What happens on this page
The glyphs shown here are pre-generated. You can change their arrangement, scale and spacing to explore the same collection in different ways. Layout changes happen in the browser; these interactions do not run the model or generate new glyphs. The project continues to develop.