STROKE LAB / REVISION 01

Find the line before we build the tool.

Every arrow below uses an open head drawn with the same rough ink as its shaft. Select individual specimens you would trust in a diagram.

Compare the same route across three seeds. A useful profile must remain good across all three—not merely produce one lucky line.

00 / CONNECTION PATTERN

dash + dot / selected ink

Pattern experiments use the approved two-pass profile. Arrowheads stay solid so direction remains legible when the shaft is discontinuous.

ink token
notebook-connector-medium-v1
status
select before assigning meaning

long dash

strong discontinuity; remains readable at small sizes / 12 8

directshort causal relation
shallow bowclear one nearby obstacle
deep bowtravel along the diagram edge
soft Sweave between two points

short dash

quieter discontinuity for secondary relations / 6 6

directshort causal relation
shallow bowclear one nearby obstacle
deep bowtravel along the diagram edge
soft Sweave between two points

open dot

widely spaced uncertainty or indirect influence / 1 7

directshort causal relation
shallow bowclear one nearby obstacle
deep bowtravel along the diagram edge
soft Sweave between two points

dense dot

more continuous at graph scale / 1 4.5

directshort causal relation
shallow bowclear one nearby obstacle
deep bowtravel along the diagram edge
soft Sweave between two points
01 / INK RECIPE

single / current

Our present clean connector. Useful control; too uniform for the desired ink.

roughness
0.92
bowing
0.96
offset
1.48
passes
1
directshort causal relation
shallow bowclear one nearby obstacle
deep bowtravel along the diagram edge
soft Sweave between two points
offset Senter a target from above
double Sroute around two obstacles
edge sweepkeep annotation ink outside content
return curvefeedback into a later time-slice
02 / INK RECIPE

double / quiet

Two restrained passes. Mostly one line, with occasional separation.

roughness
0.52
bowing
0.56
offset
0.9
passes
2
directshort causal relation
shallow bowclear one nearby obstacle
deep bowtravel along the diagram edge
soft Sweave between two points
offset Senter a target from above
double Sroute around two obstacles
edge sweepkeep annotation ink outside content
return curvefeedback into a later time-slice
03 / INK RECIPE

double / clean medium

The leading candidate: controlled overlap without hairy edges.

roughness
0.68
bowing
0.74
offset
1.12
passes
2
directshort causal relation
shallow bowclear one nearby obstacle
deep bowtravel along the diagram edge
soft Sweave between two points
offset Senter a target from above
double Sroute around two obstacles
edge sweepkeep annotation ink outside content
return curvefeedback into a later time-slice
04 / INK RECIPE

double / visible split

More thick–thin–thick rhythm and visible local divergence.

roughness
0.88
bowing
0.92
offset
1.52
passes
2
directshort causal relation
shallow bowclear one nearby obstacle
deep bowtravel along the diagram edge
soft Sweave between two points
offset Senter a target from above
double Sroute around two obstacles
edge sweepkeep annotation ink outside content
return curvefeedback into a later time-slice
05 / INK RECIPE

selected / notebook medium

Approved across direct, shallow/deep bow, and soft-S routes in all three seeds.

roughness
1
bowing
1
offset
2
passes
2
directshort causal relation
shallow bowclear one nearby obstacle
deep bowtravel along the diagram edge
soft Sweave between two points
offset Senter a target from above
double Sroute around two obstacles
edge sweepkeep annotation ink outside content
return curvefeedback into a later time-slice

Selection contract: geometry.profile.seed

Next: promote the chosen recipes into named connector tokens, then encode those tokens in the reusable diagram tool.