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Die Verwandlung on desktop and phone
Die Verwandlung: room, on desktop
Die Verwandlung: violin, on a phone
Die Verwandlung: letters, on desktop
Die Verwandlung: plan, felice, manuscripts, on three phones
Die Verwandlung: names, on desktop

Die Verwandlung

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Gregor Samsa’s room, built from over a million glyphs of Kafka’s own German.

Case study / Die Verwandlung

"The insect itself cannot be drawn. It cannot even be shown from a distance." So you will not see him here. You are him. A world made only of a book's own text: every wall, floor, door and piece of furniture in Gregor Samsa's room is typeset from Kafka's German.

Studio
Exe.Eyes Labs
Subject
Die Verwandlung, by Franz Kafka
Services
Concept · Art Direction · Creative Development · Generative Design · Motion Design
Built with
Three.js · GSAP · Custom Coded
Year
2026
Live site
Open the Lab
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The Room

Every Surface in His Words

Over a million glyphs drawn on the GPU from a signed-distance-field atlas. Scroll to crawl. Hover the furniture: it is made of its own passage. Hang from the ceiling, lean on the door to hear them, draw across the violin's strings, hold still when the apple comes, hold on to what is left. The room darkens with the story, from the morning to the end of March. On the phone you crawl with your thumb, and the room is typeset again at the phone's own size.

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How It Was Built

A Room Typeset Live

Every surface is set from one texture: 328 signed-distance glyphs of Newsreader. The room is a handful of boxes, and each is typeset in its own passage of the German at load, over a million glyphs on the GPU (1,159,030 on a desktop screen). The same engine takes any public-domain book and builds its room in milliseconds.

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His Words

Franz Kafka, 1883 to 1924

Prague, the law, the insurance office, Felice, the Brief an den Vater. The manuscripts he asked Max Brod to burn, and Brod's refusal. A century of readers, and one word, ungeheueres Ungeziefer, translated again and again. Then the engine behind the room: give it a book, and it builds the room.

Selected screens
Die Verwandlung: 01 The morning, 02 The ceiling
Die Verwandlung: 03 The violin, 05 Franz Kafka
Die Verwandlung: 04 The apple, full-bleed
Die Verwandlung: 06 The manuscripts, 07 Kierling, 1924
Die Verwandlung: on the phone
Die Verwandlung: the glyph atlas, the room as boxes and as type, the engine
Die Verwandlung: typography and colours

A concept by Exe.Eyes Labs, 2026. Not affiliated with any publisher or with the Kafka estate. Text: Franz Kafka, Die Verwandlung (1915), public domain.

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