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      TRADITIONAL              SHAPE-AWARE (6D)
    ╭─────────────╮          ╭─────────────────╮
   ╱@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@╲        ╱,,,##########,,,,╲
  │@@@@##########@@@│      │,,##MMMMMMMM##,,,│
  │@@@############@@│ ──▶  │,#MMMMMMMMMMMM#,,│
  │@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@│      │,#MMMMM""""MMM#,,│
   ╲@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@╱        ╲,,##########,,,╱
    ╰─────────────╯          ╰─────────────────╯
    Blurry edges             Sharp contours

           6D Shape Vector
          ╭───┬───╮
          │ ○ │ ○ │ ← upper (staggered)
          ├───┼───┤
          │ ○ │ ○ │ ← middle
          ├───┼───┤
          │ ○ │ ○ │ ← lower (staggered)
          ╰───┴───╯

     ASCII characters are not pixels—
              they have SHAPE.

January 21, 2026 8 min read

Shape-Aware ASCII Renderer: 6D Character Matching

research

                               N ▲
                            ▲▲▲▲▲▲▲
                          ▲▲▲▲▲▲▲▲▲▲▲
                         ╱─────────────╲
                        ╱  ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○  ╲
                       │  ○ ○ ● ● ○ ○ ○  │
                    W ◀│ ○ ○ ● ● ● ○ ○ ○ │▶ E
                       │  ○ ○ ● ○ ○ ○ ○  │
                        ╲  ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○  ╱
                         ╲─────────────╱
                          ▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼
                            ▼▼▼▼▼▼▼
                               S ▼

     ○ calm    ● crowded    ● panicked
     8,000+ agents │ 60 FPS │ Social Force Model

     Watch crowds form, bottlenecks emerge, panic spread.

January 20, 2026 8 min read

Living Arena GPU: WebGPU Crowd Simulation

research

                    ╱╲      ╱╲      ╱╲
                   ╱  ╲    ╱  ╲    ╱  ╲
                  ╱ 🛡️ ╲  ╱ 💡 ╲  ╱ 🌡️ ╲
                 ╱SECUR╲╱ LITE ╲╱ HVAC ╲
                ╱────────────────────────╲
               ╱                          ╲
              │    ╭────────────────╮      │
              │    │                │      │
              │    │   ╭──────╮     │      │
              │    │   │  AI  │     │      │
              │    │   ╰──────╯     │      │
              │    │       │        │      │
              │    │       ▼        │      │
              │    │      👤        │      │
              │    │  HUMAN DECIDES │      │
              │    ╰────────────────╯      │
               ╲                          ╱
                ╲────────────────────────╱
                 ╲ 📅 ╱╲ 📡 ╱╲    ╱
                  ╲  ╱  ╲  ╱  ╲  ╱
                   ╲╱    ╲╱    ╲╱
           The system helps. A human chooses.

January 16, 2026 12 min read

Living Arena: AI-Native Automation at Scale

research

                                              ✓ VALIDATED
       ╭──────────╮    ╭──────────╮    ╭──────────╮    ╭──────────╮
      ╱          ╲  ╱          ╲  ╱          ╲  ╱          ╲
     │   IC MVP   │══▶│  AGENTIC  │══▶│ WEBFLOW  │══▶│ DESIGNER │
     │            │  │  ANALYSIS │  │COMPONENT │  │  CANVAS  │
     │ Cursor/    │  │           │  │          │  │          │
     │ Claude/    │  │ Structure │  │.webflow  │  │ Props UI │
     │ Lovable    │  │ Deps      │  │.tsx      │  │ Preview  │
      ╲          ╱  │ Styling   │  │Shadow DOM│  │ Publish  │
       ╰──────────╯    ╰──────────╯    ╰──────────╯    ╰──────────╯

     ┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓
     ┃  Bundle Scanner: 3.5hrs │ 95%+ fidelity │ 100% features ┃
     ┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛
              MVPs stop dying in Downloads folders.

January 16, 2026 15 min read

IC MVP → Webflow Components: Agentic Translation Pipeline

research

    ╭─────────────────────╮    ╭─────────────────────╮
   ╱   KNOWLEDGE GRAPH     ╲  ╱   TIMELINE EDITOR     ╲
  │       ○───○             │ │  ├──●──────●────●──   │
  │      ╱│╲  │             │ │  ├──●────●──────────  │
  │     ○─○─○ ○             │ │  └──●──●────────●──   │
  │    O(n log n)           │ │   ▼ scrub, edit       │
   ╲                       ╱   ╲                     ╱
    ╰─────────────────────╯    ╰─────────────────────╯

    ╭─────────────────────╮    ╭─────────────────────╮
   ╱    REALTIME CHART     ╲  ╱    CANVAS DIAGRAM     ╲
  │         ╱╲              │ │    ┌───┐    ◯         │
  │     ╱╲╱  ╲╱╲            │ │    │   │───▶          │
  │    ─────────────        │ │    └───┘    ◇         │
  │     live streaming      │ │   export PNG/SVG      │
   ╲                       ╱   ╲                     ╱
    ╰─────────────────────╯    ╰─────────────────────╯

      Canvas → pixels, bypassing DOM overhead

January 16, 2026 8 min read

Canvas Interactivity: High-Performance Interactive Components

research

    Traditional: Your eyes ←─────→ move across
    ───────────────────────────────────────────

                         │
                         │
                         ▼
              ┌──────────────────────┐
              │                      │
              │     und e r s t and  │
              │           ▲          │
              │           │          │
              │      ORP focus       │
              │                      │
              └──────────────────────┘
                         │
                         │
                         ▼
              Eyes stay fixed.
              Words stream past.

           200 WPM ────▶ 400+ WPM
            with 90% comprehension

January 15, 2026 5 min read