Feeding an 1883 ornament design classic to AI yields striking structural analysis
debreuil · x · 2026-10-18
The author shares what happens when you feed Jules Bourgoin's 1883 classic Théorie de l'Ornement to an AI: it feels like exploring design ideas with the master in the room.
The attached screenshot shows the AI parsing the book's ornamental patterns into derived construction networks — 216 executed derived edges, 39 sibling marker units, with contact edges and overlap relations labeled. The author predicts turning such old books into in-depth interactive videos will soon be amazing, calling the book worth an 'AI tour'.
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