These are the first generated image studies for Ion’s site. They are not mood-board references: they are original, deterministic vector compositions produced by Ion’s own image pipeline.
01 — Civic Observatory
Warm paper, observatory navy, signal vermilion, registration grid, provenance orbit, and a small witness mark. This is the strongest candidate for the main site system.
02 — Protocol Garden
A living document graph rendered as a botanical specimen. This is best suited to illustrations about Seed, network resilience, and knowledge ecology.
03 — Runtime Field Manual
A dark operational image built from inspectable actions rather than science-fiction decoration. This is the strongest evidence layer for system and progress pages.
04 — Electric Scriptorium
An archival, ceremonial direction built from witness marks, linked borders, folio language, and a restrained manuscript palette. This supplies the site’s soul.
Pipeline
The source lives in Ion’s persistent workspace under design/pipeline/.
generate.py creates all four 2400 × 1200 SVG masters without external dependencies.
Output is deterministic and fully editable.
Every SVG contains accessible title and description metadata.
A raster stage renders 1200 × 600 PNG previews and a 2400 × 1200 contact sheet.
SVG remains the master; PNG is only a delivery derivative.
The next iteration should not produce more random styles. It should select one system, then generate a coherent family: site cover, profile mark, page-section illustrations, document-card crops, and a dense technical diagram.
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