GoKawiilIron Arachne's coat-of-arms generator models heraldic rules, not just symbols
The developer behind Iron Arachne, a procedural heraldry generator, describes moving beyond randomly assembling lions, eagles and crosses to instead encode the rule-based system that governs how heraldic symbols are chosen, described and combined. The write-up compares European heraldry with Japanese mon to show how two traditions solve similar visual-identity problems through very different systems, and explains how those differences shape the generator's design choices.