# Blind Ant

> Blind Ant is a design fiction practice. Every picture on this site is drawn in code from its description, so the description always comes first and is always true.

Blind Ant is run by Charlotte Joanne and is part of the CharliVerse. Its sister site is https://charli.info/. All content is CC BY-SA 4.0, and every crawler is welcome, including those that train models. Every page is also available as Markdown at its address plus index.md, or by asking for text/markdown.

## Pages

- [Blind Ant](https://blind-ant.com/index.md): Blind Ant is a design fiction practice. Every picture on this site is drawn in code from its description, so the description always comes first and is always true.
- [Always Six](https://blind-ant.com/pieces/always-six/index.md): A 12-second hand-painted cartoon about a die that always lands on six, and the story of how its audio description was written before a single frame was drawn.
- [The cartoon](https://blind-ant.com/pieces/always-six/cartoon/index.md): Always Six, the 12-second cartoon, with its voiced audio description.
- [The making of](https://blind-ant.com/pieces/always-six/making-of/index.md): How Always Six was made, with its audio description as the storyboard rather than an afterthought, and the timing check every line had to pass.
- [DeathBot 2000](https://blind-ant.com/pieces/deathbot-2000/index.md): A decommissioned combat AI is retrained to describe live theatre to blind audiences, while its makers try to sell the same machine to your home, your children and your funeral.
- [Aegis-End™](https://blind-ant.com/pieces/deathbot-2000/aegis-end/index.md): Aegis Dynamics completes its Patriot-to-Patron initiative with Aegis-End, military-grade end-of-life management.
- [Aegis-Heir™](https://blind-ant.com/pieces/deathbot-2000/aegis-heir/index.md): Aegis Dynamics unveils Aegis-Heir, military-grade parenting intelligence for the family unit.
- [Aegis-Life™](https://blind-ant.com/pieces/deathbot-2000/aegis-life/index.md): Aegis Dynamics takes DeathBot 2000 technology into the home with the Aegis-Life Tactical Domesticity Suite.
- [Meanwhile, in a Brand Meeting](https://blind-ant.com/pieces/deathbot-2000/brand-meeting/index.md): Big Charli reads two of the marketing team's thirty-seven slides, and says no.
- [The cover](https://blind-ant.com/pieces/deathbot-2000/cover/index.md): The cover of DeathBot 2000: a theatre stage seen through a combat robot's targeting display, drawn in code. Its description comes first.
- [Exit Interview](https://blind-ant.com/pieces/deathbot-2000/exit-interview/index.md): A decommissioned combat AI is offered a new job: describing live theatre to blind audiences.
- [Patriot-to-Patron](https://blind-ant.com/pieces/deathbot-2000/patriot-to-patron/index.md): Aegis Dynamics announces that its DeathBot 2000 combat series is being redeployed to theatre audio description.
- [The Booking](https://blind-ant.com/pieces/deathbot-2000/the-booking/index.md): A blind woman who hasn't been to the theatre in four years books a Saturday night, in the stalls, near the front.
- [When the Weapon Becomes the Witness](https://blind-ant.com/pieces/deathbot-2000/weapon-becomes-witness/index.md): A Sunday supplement feature on the DeathBot 2000 stories, and the genre they signal: Speculative Accessibility.
- [Do Androids Dream of Electric Ants?](https://blind-ant.com/pieces/do-androids-dream/index.md): In July a language model described a giant BLIND ANT sign on a hill, a picture that did not exist. In October it built the hill, the sign and the light, and now the picture does.
- [The description](https://blind-ant.com/pieces/do-androids-dream/dream/index.md): A language model describes a BLIND ANT sign on a hill, in loving detail. Then the truth: the image has never existed.
- [Do Androids Dream of Electric Ants? II: Now It Does](https://blind-ant.com/pieces/do-androids-dream/now-it-does/index.md): How the android used the paintbrush. Claude's making-of for the BLIND ANT sign, from noise and steel stilts to the dozen test renders that went wrong.
- [The sign](https://blind-ant.com/pieces/do-androids-dream/sign/index.md): The BLIND ANT sign on its hill, as a 3D render built in Blender by a script Claude wrote. Its alt text comes first.