A Thousand Li: Ink Landscape

Every morning this app sets itself a subject — a brush lineage, a colour scheme, a way of measuring distance — and paints it. THIS IS NOT AI IMAGE GENERATION There is no neural network here, and no training data. The app makes no network requests at all. Every stroke is computed on your phone from rules you could look up in a book: Xie He's six laws, Guo Xi's three distances, the seven families of texture strokes. A brush is modelled as a bundle of hairs; ink is deposited and absorbed; flying white and dry brush are what happens when the ink runs out, not effects painted on afterwards. A SUBJECT A DAY, AND IT HAS A NAME Dong Yuan's hemp-fibre strokes. Fan Kuan's raindrops. Ni Zan's folded bands. Guo Xi's rolling clouds. Each day names its lineage and says in one line what it is. A month of use and the vocabulary is yours. YOU PLACE THE ELEMENTS Which corner the mass sits in. How far the…