Exploration · started 30 August 2026

Asfiro engagement marks

The Build, Buy and Back marks on asfiro.com are geometric and anonymous. Amit asked for fluid fire. This is the search for what that means, and the marks are generated rather than drawn, so every set is one rule evaluated three times and a change is a parameter rather than a redraw.

v16 Not a staircase Seven different concepts, after the staircase idea itself was rejected. Two of them drop the climb entirely. v15 Back to a staircase Twelve drawn staircases across nature, industrial and mechanical. The thirty image-model versions are blocked on API credits. v14 The spiral, as a vector Traced in two layers so the growth lines keep their weight. Recolours, stays sharp, and is lighter over the wire than the PNG. v13 The centre, fluent v12 broke the curl. Patched by region instead of by object, so the whole curl comes across in one piece. v12 The centre one, gone The innermost checkbox and its arrow removed, with zero other pixels changed. Four marks, done. v11 Shorter arrows, and what else moved 01 Curved with the arrows trimmed to seventy percent, and an honest account of what the model changed that nobody asked it to. v10 Box to box to box Growth lines kept, and every arrow now points at the next checkbox, so the eye is led ceiling by ceiling to the one still open. v9 Ten ways to warm it sk-7 with flow, fire, nature, softness and brokenness, and the ticks restored. v8 The box is the ceiling Amit's sketch drawn properly: a square sitting on every chamber wall, ticked where the ceiling is behind you, empty at the top. v7 Every ceiling, and whether it broke An arrow across each wall at a right angle, and a box under it: ticked where the ceiling is behind you, empty at the top. v6 Three marks, and the arrows Build, Buy and Back all chosen and traced to vector. Eight ways of putting an arrow at every ceiling the spiral breaks through. v5 Trust, and what growth costs Build and Buy settled and traced. Ten readings of trust for Back, and ten spirals where every chamber is a ceiling that had to break. v4 Thirty, drawn and generated Build as a tower of flames, Buy and Back as flames that are also houses, and the spiral with the three ceilings marked inside it. Each idea in both techniques. v3 Ribbon, as three marks Build, Buy and Back in the chosen language, traced to vector and shown at the size they actually ship beside the marks they would replace. v2 Drawn, not generated Twelve directions from the image model, six for fluid fire and six for the chambered spiral. The generated vectors of v1 were correct and none of them were beautiful. v1 Five directions One flame, Updraft, Ribbon, Ember and Heat. Each shown at 96px to judge the drawing and at 38px and 22px, the sizes it actually ships, because that is where the decision is really made.