Thirteen new diagrams, Split Regions, and a selection that is not region orange
Vector Math gets a diagram per operation, drawn on the standard figures and all
six sharing one pair of vectors. Stroke placement, cap, join and the miter limit
get one each, drawn by handing the real SVG property to the renderer. Split
Curves gets a circle cut by three lines, which shows both that crossings open
into ends and that arcs stay arcs. Select Parents and Select Children get a pane
per press, on the same construction Select Roots uses.
Select Roots is rebuilt: the image on the wiki could not be produced by any code
in the tree, and its scene had been simplified to something its own alt text
contradicted. The selection highlight is now red rather than gold, so it cannot
be read as the region orange of the type colours.
Split (Manual) is retired. It documented a trigger-driven node the app no longer
has, and the Split page told readers to reach for it. The node page is now Split
Regions rather than borrowing the command's Bake. Split Curves gains a command
page ahead of the command landing.
Math's modulo symbol, Move's precedence and bare-point rule, Preview's file
migration and selected-beats-the-eye, and the screen calibration Reset and
drop-the-override rule were all missing and are now documented. Video became
Screencast, to match the app.
The File and View menus get pages for their commands
Every File and every View command pointed at a concept page; neither menu had a
page of its own for anything in it. Ten File pages and ten View pages now cover
them, with the rows, the sidebar and the reading chain wired to match.
Lock Guides was missing from the wiki altogether. Command Descriptions is a
palette setting rather than a View item, and now says so. Mirror moves from
Transform to Construct, where the app puts it. Transform gains the ten align
and distribute commands it had never listed. A duplicate row that sat inside
the Combine breadcrumb is gone.
Node cards regenerated for 21 nodes, five of which had silently stopped
rendering months ago. New pages for Regular Polygon: Edge, Regular Polygon:
Center and Reverse Direction, and new effect diagrams for Schematic, Alignment
Snaps and View Seams.
Docs: American spellings, Explode retirement, new nodes, prose pass
American spellings throughout. 346 replacements across the public text:
centre, colour, grey where it was not the noun, millimetre, behaviour,
organise and the rest. Gray keeps its E, which is how Blossom spells it.
No UI label in the app was ever British, so the wiki and the app agree.
Explode is now one node. node-explode.md is new and answers for every
shape, taking a group apart a layer at a time. The six per-type pages
stay reachable and each carries a retirement notice pointing at it;
documents built with them still open and still work.
Two new node pages, Compare and Select by Condition, both with an icon
pending note for Vera.
Export grouping documented in preferences, export-svg and export-dxf:
Group by Layers and Group by Outline Color, alongside hairline black.
Math gains Absolute Value. Tangent rewritten to the new behaviour:
options shown, nearest one chosen, click again for the other.
Select Parents and Select Children written into selection.md from
Theo's spec, with two rows in menu-select.md and dead icon references.
Not shipped yet. Both ADD to the selection rather than replacing it.
Node prose pass. Every node page now carries at least a short
explanation, on the principle that a reader landed there because the
interface did not explain itself. Command pages are getting the same
treatment, 14 of 34 so far.
First-pattern figures rebuilt. The Slider and Math wires crossed on the
way into Rotate, which made the Home page banner read as though Angle
and Repeat were swapped. They were not; the layout was wrong. Also
dropped a degree sign from the Angle socket label, which the app does
not have.
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.
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.
Add Vera's 11 node icons; drop stale pending markers
Render the last 11 node glyphs (auto-region, group-by-shape, tick,
nearest-point, perpendicular-offset, point-on-curve, point-on-ellipse,
arrow-style, dimension-angle/linear/radial) into images/icons at the
house 180x180 output-type-tinted tile. Remove the now-obsolete
'assets pending' comments — every icon and diagram is in place.
Docs: macOS+Windows support, and click-to-enlarge on diagram images
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.
Edit menu (12 per-command pages incl. Snap to Objects); Node Library prev/next descends into all 79 node pages; enrich menu-select
Node pages: effect diagram before the node card (uniform); drop Triangular Grid label
Add effect diagrams for Polygon, Rectangular Grid, Triangular Grid nodes
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: striking section; Weave/Region/Polygon/Button node pages; Unwire, auto-hide points, Show Point Labels, self-naming sources, trigger type