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Sketch a prison of the imagination. A procedural burin does the rest: no AI, only geometry, perspective and hatching.

Burin

Perspective

Depth layer

How strokes are read

│ vertical line becomes a rusticated pier
─ horizontal line becomes a bridge with balustrade
⌒ a gentle hump becomes a curved bridge
∩ an arc becomes an arch and a receding vault
⌐ steps or a diagonal become a staircase
⤴ a sweeping curve becomes a stair that follows it
∪ a sagging curve becomes a chain
≀ a wavy drop becomes a hanging chain and lantern
○ a closed loop becomes a barred window
· a dot becomes a tiny figure
~ anything else becomes a rope

Draw on the plate, then press Etch.

Draw on the plate, then press Etch.

The plate

Animate the burin Re-etch after each stroke

Everything is procedural. Strokes are classified by shape, regularised into architecture, extruded toward the vanishing point, shaded by a fixed light and rendered as layered cross-hatching. The seed makes every plate reproducible.