principles

style references

^ ok this one isn't tooo close to our style but i wanted to include this becau

^ ok this is a really really good example. the point here is that the bg feels like an off white piece of paper - like the midori paper color that i use every day (a japanese notebook / paper company that's great for fountain pen use).

this makes it feel natural - like it's almost coming "off the page" of sorts.

^ aaaah brilliant. this is getting really really really close to our style. you see the writing (numbers) on the right - and how it's so natural - like it's drawn on the page! that's brilliant. in fact, we should have a style for "text" labels in our visuals that resembles this, but perhaps in my handwriting (you can view the docs in ghost that have screenshots of my writing for examples)

and you see how it's grainy by nature. this once again lets us get the grainy effect.

also

^ this is actually a great visualization for π rather than the dbz super saiyan aura thing. maybe some combination. the point is that π helps us manifest our ideas - many more than we ever could, to a greater depth than we ever could. and this sort of represents ideas sprouting out of a person.

people references

don't take the color / style references in the following, except for just the way people are depicted - in the sort of abstract way.