Convergence Assets

Art library for the Convergence research reports. Monochrome retro-futurist pencil concept art, GPT Image 2.

Folder	What	Edit?
masters/	Full-res originals: sheet-* concept sheets, *-clean cleaned heroes, single report heroes	Never. Add only
crops/	Pieces cut from the sheets (heroes, banners, vignettes, icons, charts)	Add only
upscaled/	Real-ESRGAN x4plus versions of every crop and sub-1536 hero (65% ESRGAN blended with 35% Lanczos to keep pencil grain). scripts/upscale.py	Generated
web/	WebP at 480/960/1600 px wide (only sizes up to the source width)	Generated
social/	1200x630 share cards for every hero	Generated
svg/	Vector-traced icons and logos, fill="currentColor" so CSS sets the colour	Generated
manifest.json	One entry per asset: report, role, sizes, alt text, file paths	Generated

Rebuild everything after adding art:

pip install pillow vtracer
python3 scripts/build.py

Using on the site

<img src="web/kondratiev-sixth-wave-960.webp"
     srcset="web/kondratiev-sixth-wave-480.webp 480w, web/kondratiev-sixth-wave-960.webp 960w, web/kondratiev-sixth-wave-1536.webp 1536w"
     sizes="(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 960px" alt="Kondratiev sixth wave, monochrome retro-futurist pencil concept art">
<meta property="og:image" content="social/kondratiev-sixth-wave-og.jpg">
<button class="icon"><img src="svg/protocol-logo.svg" alt=""> Chainlink</button>

Inline an SVG (rather than <img>) when you want currentColor to follow text colour or hover states.

Naming

<report-subject>-<role>[-variant].png, e.g. world-orders-reserve-currency.png, waves-icon-train.png.

Corrected versions (use these)

• world-orders-debt-cycle-fixed.png: tower sign corrected from "SYSTEIEBT" to "SYSTEM EXPANSION" using the image's own letter strokes.

• master-synthesis-v1-fixed.png: Big Cycle relabelled ~100-250 yrs and Kondratiev ~50-60 yrs, re-using the image's own lettering. The original master-synthesis.png is kept untouched.

• fourth-turning-archetypes-fixed.png: Crisis and Unraveling labels swapped so the wheel reads High, Awakening, Unraveling, Crisis in sequence.

Known flaws

• fourth-turning-crisis-era.png: original kept; its wheel has uneven segments. Use fourth-turning-crisis-era-v2.png, regenerated with four equal quadrants in clockwise order (High, Awakening, Unraveling, Crisis).

• evolution-of-money.png: barter to programmable money, value dematerialising from substance to trust to code.

• evolution-of-money-river.png: preferred money hero, one landscape: river of value from barter market to code city.