# The Shape Between: A Full-Page Illustrated Storybook Template

**Daniel Ari Friedman** (2026) · *Zenodo*

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## Abstract

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.

## Keywords

storybook · illustration · procedural graphics · reportlab · reproducible publishing

## Artifacts

| Field | Value |
|------|-------|
| **DOI** | [10.5281/zenodo.21176000](https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21176000) |
| **Published** | 2026 |
| **Version** | 0.1.0 |
| **Zenodo record** | https://zenodo.org/records/21176000 |
| **GitHub release** | https://github.com/docxology/template_storybook/releases/tag/v0.1.0 |
| **Source repository** | https://github.com/docxology/template_storybook |

## Files

- `the-shape-between.pdf` - Zenodo PDF
- `Friedman_2026_Shape_7fb0ed77.pdf` - Zenodo PDF

## Citation

> Friedman, D. A. (2026). *The Shape Between: A Full-Page Illustrated Storybook Template*. Zenodo. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.21176000. URL: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21176000.

## Related

- Zenodo record: https://zenodo.org/records/21176000
- GitHub release: https://github.com/docxology/template_storybook/releases/tag/v0.1.0
- Source repository: https://github.com/docxology/template_storybook
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