Source: https://mayphus.org/motif/
Title: Motif
Metadata: {"category":"study","id":"motif","kind":"artifact","language":"en","route":"/motif/","tags":["generative","drawing","patterns"],"type":"project"}

Motif

A small Racket language for composing borders, lattices, medallions, cloud forms, vessels, knots, and other reusable drawing ideas.

[![Spiral Cloud: a dense circular cloud study built from the motif DSL.](https://mayphus.org/motif/spiral-cloud.svg)](https://mayphus.org/motif/spiral-cloud.svg)

[![Jade Mask: a symmetrical mask assembled from reusable geometric primitives.](https://mayphus.org/motif/jade-mask.svg)](https://mayphus.org/motif/jade-mask.svg)

[![Antique Border: a circular meander border generated from one repeated unit.](https://mayphus.org/motif/antique-motif.svg)](https://mayphus.org/motif/antique-motif.svg)

## A language, not a picture folder

The archive defines reusable points, paths, circular repetition, palettes, and roughly twenty named motif modules. These three outputs were regenerated directly from that code for this migration. Zoom the drawings to inspect the repeated geometry; this view does not run the original language or generate new motifs.