Crumb icons — the gen art so far

Deterministic, HKDF-seeded, hand-drawn (via roughjs) black-and-white forest scenes — one per physical crumb, seeded from its own anchorId so the same object always renders recognizably itself. Same trait-independence pattern as haiku.garden's avatar generator: each named trait below draws from its own HKDF keystream, so adding a new trait later never reshuffles the ones already shipped.

path trees stars ground

leiden-station-2-a

Fresh, no connections yet — 0 connections, freshness 1

leiden-station-2-a

Same object, 2 taps later — 2 connections, freshness 0.85

leiden-station-2-a

Same object, 5 taps, aging — 5 connections, freshness 0.5

leiden-station-2-a

Same object, faded — 5 connections, freshness 0.15

wemos-giveaway-07

A different object entirely — 1 connections, freshness 1

cabochon-gretel-3

A third, different object — 3 connections, freshness 0.9

What's next for these traits

Morphing (Joseph Choma) — the actual source book/video Torsten is pulling the deformation vocabulary from for path/trees/stars/ ground specifically: shaping, bending, spiralling, texturing, pinching, flattening — a named, composable set of operations to draw each trait through, instead of the current one-off jitter per trait.
Daniel Shiffman's The Nature of Code — particle systems, flocking, fractals, cellular automata, physics-based motion. A likely source for how trees or stars could grow/scatter more organically than the current fixed-count loop.
github.com/topics/nature-inspired-algorithms — a real code collection to mine for implementations, not just theory.
The Beautiful Data initiative — flagged, not yet chased down to a specific repo/book this session.

Tracked in breadcrumbs-4xh1.