Bottom nav on every page, Apollonius, and the Combine menu completed
Navigation
- Every page's own Previous/Next line is now repeated at the bottom, directly
above the Related heading. Done by tools/add_bottom_nav.py, which finds that
heading BY NAME rather than by position, so the nav never lands in the middle
of a real section.
circles-arcs
- New Apollonius section with its own figure, apollonius-cases.png, built by a
new generator build_apollonius.mjs. Three worked cases: two lines and a
circle, three circles, two points and a line. One solution solid, the rest
light and dotted. Placed immediately before the Arc tool heading.
- circle-methods.png reverted: Apollonius gets a separate diagram, not a
fourth panel on the existing one.
selection
- Select Outer Edges removed. It is a node-side command and does not belong on
the modeling-view page. Added a Related link to the node page instead.
transform-tools
- Rewritten so the page only ever speaks of transforming POINTS. Locus does not
transform objects, it transforms the free root points an object is built
from, and everything standing on them re-solves and follows.
- New callout before the Transform menu heading: if root points are shared with
objects you do not want to move, run Edit > Detach first.
- Reference and handle clicks snap in all the same ways a point does.
align-distribute
- The same Detach callout added at the bottom, below the refusal paragraph.
regions-booleans
- Paint Region added to the list of ways to build a region.
menu-combine
- The Combine menu has eight commands and this page listed six. Paint Region
and Split (Bake) added, in menu order.
- Two new pages: combine-paint.md and combine-split.md. Split's page says
plainly that it is a one-shot bake, not a live boolean.
- The Previous/Next chain shifted, so combine-fill, combine-autoregion,
combine-difference and menu-transform changed their nav lines, and _Sidebar
gained both entries.
- Both icons rendered by the normal exporter from Vera's glyphs, tinted region
like the rest of the row.
Apollonius, a Blur page, and the Auto Region command
Circle: Tangent is Circle: Apollonius in the app now. Renamed in the 17
places across seven pages that still used the old name, and the node card
re-rendered. The slug stays node-circle-tangent: it is a link target and an
asset name, not a display name.
Blur is a new node and had no page. node-blur.md documents In, Radius,
Strength and Out, what an image, a field and a plain number each turn into,
that Radius is millimetres of model space rather than pixels, and the two
things that do not blur: Random's index-seeded Per point field, and the
node's own preview thumbnail, which is a per-pixel lookup. It goes between
Graph Mapper and Combine in the chain.
Auto Region became a modeling command with no command page, though its node
page existed. combine-autoregion.md matches its five siblings and sits
between Fill and Union, where the Combine menu puts it.
node-blur and cmd-combine-autoregion icons are pending.
Keyboard characters only: sweep all 245 English pages
Every character that cannot be typed on a US keyboard is replaced. Em dash
becomes a colon where it introduces a list bullet's description, matching how
the Italian pages already read, and a spaced hyphen everywhere else. The
Previous/Next angle quotes and the breadcrumb arrows become < and >, the menu
path triangle becomes >, arrows spell out as -> and <->, the ellipsis becomes
three periods, and the en dash and minus sign become a hyphen.
Two characters do two jobs and are split by context. The middle dot is a pipe
where it separates links and " x " where it is multiplication, as in Min + k x
Step and Radius x cos(Angle). The degree sign becomes " degrees" after a digit
and is dropped after a letter, where it was a stale reference to the Rotate
node's Angle socket, which no longer carries one.
Also: superscript two becomes 2, the square root sign becomes sqrt, the
division sign becomes /, less-than-or-equal becomes <=, and the decorative
emoji in Home, the footer, the sidebar, community and licensing are removed.
Kept: the command, shift and option key glyphs in the shortcut lines, and the
Greek letters used as math notation.
Verified: no file changed its line count, and no markdown table row changed its
cell count.
Docs: macOS+Windows support, and click-to-enlarge on diagram images
Field nodes: add Related sections cross-linking the value-field pages
Random, Image Sample, Graph Mapper, and Image each gain a bottom Related section pointing to the other value-field sources plus Field-aware nodes and the halftone pipeline — the field concept only makes sense across these pages together.
Node pages: describe every input and output socket; fix circle menu order
Every node page now carries a short description on each Inputs/Outputs socket (was ~237 bare across 59 pages), so a reader knows what each port takes or produces.
Also: document the working-unit warning in Preferences (the node graph is always millimeters; a stripe appears on the node pane when the working unit is not mm). Expand Random Per-Point (index-keyed value field, field-aware inputs only, deterministic). Fuller socket prose on Polygon (list in via Collect), Divide (list out via Item at Index), Perpendicular Bisector and Tangent (segment-or-points; the Side toggle).
Reorder the circle nodes to Center Point before Center Radius in the sidebar, the Primitives list, and prev/next nav, matching the app menu.
Node pages: effect diagrams for Separate XY, Image Sample, Graph Mapper, Mark as Seam; refine Length
Edit menu (12 per-command pages incl. Snap to Objects); Node Library prev/next descends into all 79 node pages; enrich menu-select
Breadcrumb + section header on all pages; wallpaper-groups → intro + four lattice pages; remove Fundamental domains
Add breadcrumb nav to all content pages; split wallpaper-groups into intro + 4 lattice pages; remove Fundamental domains
Docs: node diagrams for Combine/Construct/Data/Display/Fields/Transform (47) + special renders (Math pulldown, Realize/Preview tab, Graph Mapper body)
Docs: add input-type sections to type-polymorphic nodes
Icons: switch node-doc icons from SVG to transparent PNG (reliable GitHub rendering)
Docs: node page titles match category pattern — inline 60px icon, baseline, spaced
Docs: app icons on node pages — category/node chips replace bullets, title badges
Docs: full node library — 69 per-node pages by category, Clusters section, Fillet/Chamfer as nodes