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A letterform is a place to live.
Give a bacterium a surface, some sugar and a temperature it likes, and it will not draw your type — it will occupy it. The glyph stops being a shape and becomes terrain: thick strokes hold food longer, counters become isolated islands, a tight join is a corridor two cells wide.
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Nothing here is animation.
Every cell carries its own size, age, division count and a small genome of heritable traits. It eats on Monod kinetics, divides by adding a constant amount rather than doubling, mutates a little each time, and dies of starvation, poison or age. The shapes you get are the outcome of those rules meeting your letterforms. No frame is drawn twice.
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You are the environment.
Feed a corner and the colony walks to it. Poison one and watch resistance appear in the survivors within a few generations. Raise the heat past seventy degrees and only the archaeon is left. You are not adjusting a filter; you are running a selection experiment and the plate is answering.
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Then take it away with you.
Any moment of it exports: a still at four times size for a print or a wallpaper, the cells as real SVG geometry, the run as WebM, the population history as CSV. The culture is yours, and so is everything it produced.
Return adds a line.
Drag on the plate to paint nutrient.
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