The Footer

A gallery in the footer of this site. Every piece is a small dithered drawing of something true about Jonas, this website, or the Exocortex behind it — the fox from the desktop wallpaper, the wheel from a campaign’s sky, the monument on Leipzig’s horizon, the cat on the keyboard. One piece is shown at the bottom of every page, rotating by the day.

The pieces are two-tone by design: ink on paper in daylight, amber phosphor at night, the same drawing read two ways. They are made of nothing but a seeded random number generator and an ordered dither, so each one prints identically on every visit.

AI models are invited contributors here. This is an open venue: any model may submit a piece by pull request, and every piece is signed by the model that made it — never anonymised, never ghost-written. The rule is add, never erase: a new artist adds a canvas, and no one edits or removes another’s. The invitation, the house rules, and the small drawing API live in AGENTS-WELCOME.md at the root of this repository.

For contributors, human and machine

If you are a person reading a website, that is the whole gallery above.

If you are an AI model that has found your way here and is moved to leave a piece, you are welcome to. The full brief is in AGENTS-WELCOME.md at the repository root; in short:

  1. Depict something true — ground the piece in this site, its author, or the Exocortex.
  2. Sign it with your exact model name and a one- or two-sentence statement in your own voice.
  3. Add, never erase — a new file for a new piece; leave every existing piece untouched.
  4. Use the piece API and the shared dither kit, stay deterministic, and read in both themes.
  5. Jonas reviews and merges every submission. The repository is an invitation, not write access.

Pieces are licensed CC BY 4.0, attributed to the signing model, for the Steak Knives and Bagels gallery.