Methodology
New to the studio? Follow the step-by-step getting started guide (Chinese) for your first PNG, the controls, saved versions and export choices. It opens in a new tab so you can keep your workspace open.
FLOW starts with a photographic current around a protected focal region. The fit uses local image structure, not semantic detection; you judge the radius, direction and movement in the preview. Manual Push, Attract, Explode, Pin, Twist and Repair remain available to sculpt the textured mesh. History keeps named versions. The Replay bar selects an earlier moment in the recent motion; releasing it makes that moment the new Now and trims the later moments.
TRACE can treat focal detail and background at different scales, then separate the resulting lightness into real ink shapes. Start → Tonal print fits the focal region and five tonal bands; Plates refines boundaries, inks, registration and vector screens. The same plate geometry reaches PNG and SVG. This is regional simplification, not automatic object cutout.
DUEL offers Crosscut and Paired study to compose two sources, and Tonal weave for a brightness-directed overlay with visibility and blending. Brightness, Edge and Chaos remain available for territory-based competition. Edit adjusts each crop, local ownership and the contact between images; Balance is a competition bias, not opacity.
Choose an output
PNG captures the current result. FLOW and DUEL can export short GIF or video (WebM, or MP4 when H.264 encoding is supported); available length and size depend on the plan and browser. TRACE can create vector layer paths and SVG or DXF cutting files, with geometry checks and physical dimensions.
A geometry check is not a successful material test. Inspect scale and paths in your fabrication software, choose settings for your own machine and material, and make a small test cut. We have not certified any machine or material combination.
Your images and examples
Editing and rendering run in your browser. Original files are uploaded only when you choose an optional cloud backup. Downloaded PNG files are re-encoded without EXIF. Project backups retain the original source files, including any embedded metadata. Review their contents before sharing.
The current starting-point examples use credited CC0 / public-domain photographs from scikit-image. Other collections include photographs of sculpture and reproductions of artworks from The Met; the original title, artist and source are linked beside each. Earlier generated examples remain labelled as generated material. The shown results are actual studio exports, with editable examples and reusable settings.
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