Factory Design · 2026
Sol LeWitt Generator
While designing my website, I wanted it to feel less static — dynamic and breathing. I started working on a grid background and remembered Sol LeWitt. I built a small tool with the help of Claude Code to fine-tune each drawing, and was so surprised by how much I enjoyed it that I turned it into a full research project.
The art is the instructions
Sol LeWitt's art is the instructions. Not the thing on the wall. Anyone with the instructions can make it. That idea hit different once I started working with AI tools. You write what you want, something else makes it.
Going deep
I went deep. Found over 200 wall drawings and built a rendering engine for each medium he used: acrylic, color pencil, pencil, ink. Then I sat there fine-tuning each one until it looked right.
Matching the real ones
I built a small LLM pipeline to match my renders against real photos. 85 are exact, another 140 are close. He made 1,300 wall drawings total. I want to get them all.
I built custom tools for each medium so I could fine-tune the rendering. Users can share their own custom drawings, and I'm still refining the engines as I find more source material.