# v1 · his hand

The team's own line, lifted from the sketchbook photo and written out stroke by stroke on a clean sheet that fills the viewport.

## What it does

- The lettering is the real ink from `2026-10-21-free-your-mind-sketchbook.png`: the crop is separated from the paper by brightness (local paper level against the ink level), so the marker's own edges, pooling and thin spots are kept. Nothing is redrawn.
- The writing engine (`marker.js`, shared by the Claude versions) thins the ink to a skeleton, builds a stroke graph, prunes the spurs, fuses the crossings and assembles strokes the way a hand moves: top left first, straight on through a crossing, up and around when a bar meets a loop, stem before crossbar, letter body before its dot, counter-clockwise loops. Each stroke is then revealed through a growing mask whose width follows the real stroke width, with a hand-like ease per stroke, short pauses between strokes and letters and a longer one between words. 17 strokes, about 3.9 seconds including the lead-in.
- The sheet is procedural: a cream base, a lit paper tooth (noise relief, tileable), a soft fibre mottle, a vignette. The ink multiplies onto it, with an SVG filter that roughens the edge along the fibre and adds a faint soaked halo. A grain sits over the whole page (still by default; the chrome link cycles still, live, off; `?grain=live` or `off` presets it).
- `?t=<ms>` freezes the writing at a moment for frame captures; reduced motion shows the finished line at once; replay in the chrome.

## Why

The sketchbook page is the asset: the restraint, the small lowercase line in a lot of paper, the real hand. This version changes as little as possible: clean paper instead of the photographed table and spiral, the line a little larger than on the page so it reads on a laptop.

## What it cannot do yet

- It only writes this one line. The 2000 px copy of the photo limits the ink's sharpness; the full-resolution photo or a flat scan would improve it directly.
- Stroke order for the "r" is the cursive one (up the stem and over), because the photo gives no trace of the lift a hand makes there.
- No marker tip or hand is shown; the owner's brief says the writing itself is the thing.