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Supergraphics generator

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Variation
Words

Left as “WALL”, each variation picks its own word; type yours to set it. Long words break into two or three rows; short ones grow until a stem reaches its limit.

Looks
Format
Design choices

Where the word goes and which way it folds. Each layout also places the stripes, wedges and disc in its own way.

1

How steeply the word runs before the fold, times the variation’s own slope. 0 is level.

1

How steeply the word runs after the fold, times the variation’s own slope. 0 is level.

Measured on the opening picture, from 0 to 2: edges on the diagonal 11% → 13%.

3

How many stripes run beside the word before the cut, as far as they fit without going fine. 0 leaves none.

Disc and dots

The round marks: a large disc cut by the frame, and a few dots in a corner triangle.

Colour roles

Which colour does which job. The palette itself stays as chosen.

Settings

0

Moves the fold along the word, as a share of the sheet, from where the variation put it.

Colour
Finish
Motion
Export
2400 px

Save it, then put it on moving cards with your other work in the Showcase.

One choice at a time

Layout

By variationValley foldHanging from a ridgeAlong the long edgeRound a cornerIn bands

Disc and dots

Disc and dotsDisc onlyDots onlyNeither

Colour roles

Dark word, warm wedges, cool stripesDark word, cool wedges, warm stripesColoured word, dark wedgesLight word on the dark colour

Slope before the fold

012

Slope after the fold

012

Stripes

037

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How it works, the style and using it from code

One huge word folds across the sheet as paint folds across a wall corner. Stripes and flat wedges take the same fold and stop dead on a cut.

What makes it Supergraphics

These are the design choices this generator makes or lets you set. Where a choice says “Measured”, Morphogeny changed that control alone, kept everything else, and measured the picture: a number that moves with the choice, not proof that the picture reads as the style.

  • Diagonal axis
    Composition driven by tilted axes and oblique movement. “Layout”: Valley fold.
  • Rotated & vertical setting
    Lines set at angles, stacked or running vertically. “Layout”: Along the long edge.
  • Illusion of depth
    Perspective, overlap, shadow or parallax create a z-axis. “Layout”: Round a corner.
  • Rules & bars
    Thick bars, lines and dots as structural accents. “Layout”: In bands. Measured on the opening picture: long thin shapes 11 with “In bands”, and 1 to 6 with the other options.
  • Angular & zigzag
    Chevrons, zigzags, sunbursts and faceted shards. “Layout”: Zigzag.
  • Geometric primitives
    Circle, square and triangle as building blocks. Set by “Disc and dots”.
  • Flat fields
    Unmodulated areas of colour. Set by “Colour roles”.
  • Full bleed
    Image or colour runs off every edge; no protective margins. Always.
  • Extreme scale contrast
    Very large against very small elements, for drama and order. Always.
  • Type as image
    Letters so large they become the picture. Always.

How this generator works

  • One word, far larger than the sheet can hold, folds across it as paint folds across a wall corner; stripes, wedges and flats take the same fold, keep a channel of bare ground from the letters and stop dead on a straight cut.

What it never does:

  • Gradients, shading, outlines, texture and fine detail: everything is a flat colour with a hard edge, and the smallest mark is a dot about 7 % of the sheet across. It sets no second line of type and copies no particular wall or poster.

Every picture is a recipe: the variation number and the settings, kept in the page's address. Copy the link and the same picture comes back, in any browser. Random (or R) draws a new variation; ← and → step through them; S shuffles the settings; C borrows another style's colours.

About Supergraphics

Supergraphics are oversized letters, stripes and flat shapes painted straight onto walls, floors and ceilings, wrapping round corners so that a room reads larger or differently shaped. They date from the mid-1960s and later became a standard tool of signs and wayfinding in buildings.

This generator treats the sheet as such a wall. Word and shapes lie on one folded surface, so the stripes and wedges stay parallel to the letters, with a channel of bare ground between them. Six layouts decide where the word goes: dipping into a valley fold, hanging from a ridge, along the long edge, round a corner, in bands or on a zigzag.

Type any word. Long words break into rows and short ones grow until a stem reaches its limit. When it moves, it moves slowly: the fold slides along the word and the stripes travel away from it, because areas this large must never switch quickly.

Supergraphics: 1966–2026. What the controls mean: Help.

Use it from code

The recipe below draws the picture this page opens with. Copy recipe gives you the one on screen. Agents can render recipes to SVG or PNG through Morphogeny's MCP server (morphogeny_render); the same recipe always gives the same SVG.

{
  "tool": "supergraphics",
  "v": 1,
  "seed": 2,
  "format": "portrait",
  "params": {
    "word": "WALL",
    "layout": "any",
    "fold": 0,
    "slope1": 1,
    "slope2": 1,
    "stripes": 3,
    "marks": "both",
    "roles": "set",
    "effect": "both"
  },
  "palette": "supergraphics"
}

Open this recipe: /supergraphics/#seed=2&v=1. A plain-text version of this page:/supergraphics.md.