#polyglyph

Subtitle Spectrograms (v1.1) — new renderers

Picking up from the first batch of subtitle spectrogram experiments, I’ve now added three new renderers into the mix (tested here with Perfect Blue):

Supershape → distinct silhouette forms, where punctuation ratios and bursts of speech bend the geometry.

Bitmask Weave → patterned interference fields, a glitch-like textile woven out of line density.

PolyGlyph → convex hull “signatures” that shift with the film’s lexical variety, punctuation energy, and rhythm of silence.

I’ve also layered some of the raw renders together into composite panels — more chaotic, more textile, but already suggesting directions for future ProcessZine spreads, posters, and even album packaging.

These shapes aren’t spectrograms in the audio sense; they’re closer to misheard timelines, where captions collapse into patterns that look as much like language residue as visual echoes.

Each renderer has its own eccentricities — the task now is less about “cleaning” and more about curating difference: finding the settings, weights, and accidents that make each film unmistakable.