The figure library

No figure on this site is a drawing that was made once and saved. Each one is a function: it takes a divergence angle, a rise, a point count or an exponent and returns SVG, so the same generator draws the head at 137.5° and the head at 99.5° without either being redrawn, and the difference between the two plates is a difference between two numbers rather than between two drawings.

That is also why nothing here is drawn by hand, in the strong sense. Every point a figure places arrives from the lattice, the placement rule or one of the other libraries behind this collection, computed from a stated rule — and the counting machinery is never shown the angle that produced the points, which is what makes a count of 34 evidence rather than a restatement. There are 101 generators so far, reached for by 365 essays in 602 distinct pairings — counting an essay once per generator it calls, however many figures it draws with it.

Reuse is the number that decides whether any of this is sustainable, which is why it is published rather than kept in a plan. A generator written for one essay and never called again is a design failure and not a neutral cost. The count beside each name is how many essays instantiate it, and a standing check refuses to let the work ledger advance if the ratio falls.

It is also the blast radius. Changing a generator changes every figure in its list at once, so that list is what has to be rebuilt and looked at before the change is believed — a bad shared helper once broke a hundred and eighty-one figures across four of these sites, and was caught only because somebody rebuilt immediately and knew where to look.

Each generator has its own page, drawn at its defaults — which is almost never how an essay calls it, since a placement states the numbers that essay is arguing about. Every one of the 602 pairings passes some, and that fraction is a measurement this site keeps: it drew 0% of its figures at the numbers its own essays argue about until a repair pass in August 2026, and has held at essentially 100% since.

Each page also lists the options its generator actually reads, and that list is the one thing here worth checking a placement against. An option a placement passes that the function does not read is silently ignored: the figure draws its defaults under a caption describing something else, and every other gate passes on it — the SVG is well formed, its labels fit and contrast, and it renders in a real browser. That is not hypothetical. On the day this check was adopted here it found five such placements, one of them asking a transport model for sixty cells by passing n to a function spelling it N.