01Anatomy of a Letter

A lowercase g, dissected from outline to bone.

The anatomy is generated from the letter’s own drawing: a distance field gives the thick and thin strokes, the skeleton gives the ductus, and everything else hangs from it. Then the type terms are taken literally: the eye gets an eyeball, the ear a cochlea, the loop a heart, the neck a trachea.

Gestures: Hover — incise · Scroll — depth · Shift + scroll — diameter · Drag — rotate
Tools: X-ray · Frontal, transverse and sagittal section · Exploded plate
Layers: I Cutis · II Musculi · III Vasa sanguinea · IV Nervi · V Viscera · VI Ossa
Specimen: Plate I — lowercase g, Fraunces Black, SOFT 100
Technique: Three.js, surface nets, cutting shaders, wax shading. All code for now; AI hybridisation comes next.
Status: In progress — 2026