u/jumpingjehosophat

This is a procedural Wimmelbilder Mega-Factory — Engineered strictly for Pen Plotters (Node.js / Raw SVG)

Built a plotter-first generative city in JavaScript. I wanted it to feel dense, alive, and rewarding to inspect, more like a circuit board and wimmelbilder than a clean grid. The system uses clustered neighborhoods, local routing, sparse bridge lines, district-based motifs, and layered SVG output for pen plotting. Concept, direction, and heavy iteration were mine. AI helped accelerate coding and refinement.

Had an idea for a circuit city type thing and I am not much of a javascript programmer so I used AI. These are 3 revisions

Coded this with Chat Gpt, Gemini and Claude over a long back-and-forth session — more art directing than programming. It's a generative circuit-city system:

The last one has ~280 procedural motifs (pipe U-bends, DNA helixes, coils, button grids, bead chains) placed in clustered neighborhoods, then connected by bundled orthogonal routes with proper SVG arc corners.

5 pen passes on A3 Yellow, Orange, Green, Red, Blue  0.4mm fine points. Each color is its own layer so I can swap pens between passes. Pure Node.js, ~1200 lines, no dependencies. The whole piece evolved through iteration — tweaking colors, spacing, corner radii, motif weights — until it felt right.

The wife is really into StarWars so I have been printing these. The piano one turned out sooo good.