OPEN SOURCE
Alongside the art, I build open-source software. Each of these is a free, MIT-licensed library that takes a rigorous, canonical system and encodes it as verifiable rules that cite their own sources. It is the same appetite for systems that drives the art, turned into tools other people can build on.
GHUNNA
A rules engine for tajwīd, the science of Qur'anic recitation. Rather than shipping a table of pre-annotated text, it derives the rules directly from vocalized Arabic by implementing the classical teaching poems, so every annotation is transparent, verifiable, and carries a citation to the line it came from. Zero runtime dependencies.
It powers mushaftajweed.com, my colour-coded tajwīd muṣḥaf, where the rules it derives become the colours on the page.
GEVIERT
Parameterized graphic design on Swiss grid systems. It encodes Josef Müller-Brockmann's modular grid and Karl Gerstner's programmes as executable rules, each citing its page in the source books. You give it words, a grid, and a seed, and it composes print-quality pages deterministically, so the same seed returns the same book forever. Zero runtime dependencies; it even composes a book-length manual about itself.
QURTUBA
Authentic, parameterized Islamic geometric patterns, generated from their underlying construction rather than traced. Coming soon.