Pocket Giraffe
research artifacts

Image generation as architectural exploration

Stylized landscape output produced by the substrate's compositional pipeline. Components emit primitives, deterministic renderer composes pixels. Not a product surface — an architectural artifact demonstrating that structured composition transfers across domains.

v1 — minimal primitive vocabulary
early substrate sunset output, 4 horizontal bands

First substrate-generated image. Four horizontal color bands. Demonstrates the pipeline works end-to-end — query routes, components fire, primitives emit, renderer produces PNG. Architectural floor.

v2 — bundled primitives, single component
substrate lake reflection sunset, smooth gradient

Single component firing with bundled structured output. Smooth gradient interpolation through proper sunset palette. Mirror physics on water reflection. 35 primitives.

v3 — multi-component composition
substrate mountain landscape with snow caps and tree silhouettes

Many components contribute to shared structured output. Sky gradient, jagged mountain silhouettes with depth variation, snow caps at peaks, tree line silhouettes, foreground rocks — all composed deterministically. Atmospheric perspective renders structurally: distant peaks lighter than near peaks.

v4 — graceful domain degradation
substrate ocean sunset with sun and clouds

Same shard, out-of-domain query. Components whose predicates match the query (sky, sun, clouds) fire and contribute. Components specific to mountains, snow, lakes do not fire. Result is a clean partial composition rather than a wrong forced output.

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