◈ THE SYNTH
Set the coordinates — Default Gravity, color coupling, value, chroma, hue breadth — and The Synth procedurally builds a composition that lands on them, then runs the same VTL kernels on its own output to prove it did. The inverse of The Crit and The Field.
RUNS ENTIRELY IN YOUR BROWSER · DETERMINISTIC · NO MODEL, NO KEY, NO UPLOAD
The Crit and The Field take an image and report its coordinates. The Synth takes coordinates and finds an image. It's deterministic and self-checking — no diffusion model, no prompt, no upload. What it draws is the shape of the metric space itself: abstract compositional fields, not photographs.
Dial in where you want to land: a settled basin or an authored diagonal, color welded to the structure or floating free, the value key, the chroma, the hue breadth.
A procedural generator renders candidate fields; both VTL kernels measure each one; an evolution strategy climbs toward your coordinates until the gap is small.
The winning image is measured again and shown against your target, metric by metric. When a target is physically out of reach — dark and maximally saturated — the readout shows the gap instead of faking it.
Default Gravity 80 vs 20 stops being abstract when you can generate both and look. A way to build intuition for the coordinates — and a source of compositional reference fields tuned to a spec.
A deterministic generator that lands on a target by construction — the reference against which a real model's outputs can be compared. Coming: a steerability mode that prompts a live model from the same target and measures how far it drifts back toward its default basin.