Asking GPT-6 to compute calligraphy brushstrokes instead of generating images is gloriously awkward
liminal_bardo · x · 2026-11-08
A user asked GPT-6 to do Japanese calligraphy not by generating an image, but by calculating each brushstroke — coordinates, pressure, and so on — then drawing the strokes. The results are "gloriously awkward": wobbly, hilariously imperfect characters, but a genuinely creative reframing of media generation as structured motor-control output rather than pixel sampling.
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