The Shape Between: A Full-Page Illustrated Storybook Template

template_storybook demonstrates a public, standalone picture-book workflow in
the research template repository. The bundled project renders a deterministic
fourteen-page storybook subtitled A geometric fable of belonging, bracing, and
reciprocal form: a clear cover, a publication-and-acknowledgements page, and
twelve story pages in which a child tetrahedron raised by cubes meets a child
cube raised by tetrahedra. The story uses a large reciprocal symbol, a
tetrahedron-inside-cube stability spread, a shadow-projection lesson, a
tensegrity lantern, and a vector garden to frame belonging without sameness:
square and triangle families remain distinct while the space between them
becomes navigable.

The project separates story data, rendering logic, and orchestration. Story
text, characters, page order, palettes, and overlay choices live in
content/story.yaml; character generation and illustration live in
src/storybook/; one script renders the cover, each page script renders a
numbered page, and a final script assembles the PDF. This makes the exemplar a
forkable pattern for full-page creative artifacts rather than standard
manuscript-centered figure generation.

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Associated artifacts
GitHub release: The Shape Between v0.1.0 (https://github.com/docxology/template_storybook/releases/tag/v0.1.0)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21176001
Zenodo: https://zenodo.org/records/21176001
PDF SHA-256: 7fb0ed775db212cd9f4b5b578bef8900c9f925bc0c5cc047331eb6900679eeda

Overview source: Curated paper metadata.