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  • Explode pins a Kind, cluster sockets carry an Order, and a seam is green Theo's v0.3.52 list, twenty-one pages. Explode gains the Kind pulldown and its ten values, an Outputs section split between Auto and pinned, and a section on why you would pin it: a cluster is edited with its inputs empty, so on Auto there are no sockets to wire. Separate XY is deprecated in favor of Explode with Kind set to Point, and documents are converted as they load. The six per-kind banners read Deprecated rather than retired. Cluster Input and Cluster Output carry Order. Cluster Output also gains In, which was missing from the page entirely, and its Outputs now say the node has none on the canvas. clusters.md replaces "drag one up or down to reorder" with the order being a number, not a position, and adds the paragraph on an untouched socket reading its real value rather than zero. Weld Seams gains Across Groups, a boolean on by default, and its alt text no longer calls the seam dashed. Flatten loses the claim that a tiled pattern needs a Flatten in front of Weld Seams, which Across Groups made untrue; the page now says what Flatten is for in general and does not mention Weld Seams at all. Sort gains key 5 Name and a paragraph for each of the six keys, written against sortKey and compareNames rather than from prose. Data Box describes nesting and names, which of the two kinds of name survives a flatten, and what the summary counts. Wallpaper Groups gains the fourth numbered step, which hands the cluster its cell vectors and had never been one, plus the cell-vector figure, the straight edge on a finite block, and cm and cmm counting in twos. Organizing gains a Buses section between Relays and Tidy Layout, covering both commands and why they are a pair, and Tidy Layout gains a paragraph on routing the lanes deliberately. Credits gains an "Ideas, not code" section with two debts that are not libraries. C.a.R., or Zirkel und Lineal, by René Grothmann at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, maintained since 1996: the live-construction model this program starts from, credited for the conventions and the direction. Orbi, by the Grasshopper Collective at Nuremberg Tech, for the named bus that a run of Relays carries. Upright becomes Deskew on three pages, matching the app's own label. Four diagrams rebuilt. The weld seam is solid seam green, not dashed accent blue, and the two cluster cards show the sockets the nodes actually have. Also removes .fuse_hidden0000002c00000001, a bridge artifact committed by mistake in 89f4ea9 on 2026-08-25.

    @blossommerz blossommerz committed Oct 7, 2026
  • 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.

    @blossommerz blossommerz committed Sep 25, 2026
  • 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.

    @blossommerz blossommerz committed Sep 21, 2026
  • Beta 2 docs: Bounding Box, Auto Mirror, Auto Array, and what 0.3.0 changed New pages for the Bounding Box node and the Auto Mirror / Auto Array library clusters, with cards. The symmetry clusters no longer have a Guides output and their Upright input is now Deskew: pages, cards (all seven languages) and the generators updated. Existing pages catch up with the rest of the release: weld seams in line work, Stroke W as a field or list, per-shape SVG line weights, new-file framing and pencil, guide nudging, snap lines finding crossings, multi-select Divide, image References, Inspect keys and ghost colours, and a language change that keeps the drawing.

    @blossommerz blossommerz committed Sep 16, 2026
  • 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.

    @blossommerz blossommerz committed Sep 12, 2026
  • Fix four wording errors in the symmetry pages, plus two clarity passes From the 2026-09-09 wiki review. No diagrams change; all 17 symmetry diagrams, full-form symbols and lattice assignments were verified correct. - Hexagonal summary said mirrors sit in "the two mirror groups". Three of the five have mirrors: p3m1, p31m and p6m. The wallpaper-groups line named all five immediately before saying two. Fixed on both pages. - Dropped "edge-to-edge" from the opening definition. It is a tiling term about tiles meeting along whole edges, and a wallpaper pattern need not be a tiling at all. The condition is translational symmetry in two independent directions, so the sentence is correct without it. - cmm captions said "2-folds off the mirrors". In cmm the perpendicular mirrors cross at 2-fold centres and there are further 2-folds off the mirrors. The diagram already showed both; the caption named one kind. Now "on and off the mirrors", in the heading and both image alt texts. - p4mm was explained as mirrors "through the 4-fold centres and diagonally between them", which implies the diagonals miss the centres. Both families pass through them; they differ by direction. Now "along the cell edges and along the diagonals", which matches the p4m diagram. - Direction symbols: the position names a lattice direction and the reflection sits perpendicular to it, not along it. Reworded, since this sentence is where p3m1 vs p31m confusion starts. - Hexagonal groups were listed in two different orders on one page. The preset list now uses p3, p3m1, p31m, matching every other page.

    @blossommerz blossommerz committed Sep 9, 2026
  • Nav: left-justified plain-text line below breadcrumb, all pages

    @blossommerz blossommerz committed Aug 19, 2026
  • Nav: right-aligned borderless (div align=right) below breadcrumb, all pages

    @blossommerz blossommerz committed Aug 19, 2026
  • Nav bar: breadcrumb left, prev/next hard right; straightedge-compass diagrams under headings

    @blossommerz blossommerz committed Aug 19, 2026
  • Nav right-justified on the breadcrumb line (all pages); straightedge-compass: section-then-diagram-then-text + add-to-system section

    @blossommerz blossommerz committed Aug 19, 2026
  • Add prev/next nav below breadcrumb on all sidebar pages; straightedge-compass: selection figures side-by-side + add-to-system section

    @blossommerz blossommerz committed Aug 19, 2026
  • Breadcrumb + section header on all pages; wallpaper-groups → intro + four lattice pages; remove Fundamental domains

    @blossommerz blossommerz committed Aug 18, 2026
  • Add breadcrumb nav to all content pages; split wallpaper-groups into intro + 4 lattice pages; remove Fundamental domains

    @blossommerz blossommerz committed Aug 18, 2026
  • Split wallpaper-groups into intro/hub + four lattice pages; remove Fundamental domains

    @blossommerz blossommerz committed Aug 18, 2026
  • Terminology: bare 'graph' → 'node graph' across 39 pages (Nodes half of the interface)

    @blossommerz blossommerz committed Aug 18, 2026
  • Add symmetry-notation page + hosted paper; link notation images and intro to it

    @blossommerz blossommerz committed Aug 18, 2026
  • Add symmetry-notation page + hosted Schattschneider paper; link from wallpaper-groups intro and sidebar

    @blossommerz blossommerz committed Aug 18, 2026
  • wallpaper-groups: all 17 groups in three-image layout (clean, cluster node, notation)

    @blossommerz blossommerz committed Aug 18, 2026
  • wallpaper-groups: p3m1 layout — clean, cluster node, notation

    @blossommerz blossommerz committed Aug 18, 2026
  • wallpaper-groups: p3m1 three-image layout (clean, notation, cluster node)

    @blossommerz blossommerz committed Aug 18, 2026
  • wallpaper-groups: full-width clean/notation figures, drop the table

    @blossommerz blossommerz committed Aug 18, 2026
  • wallpaper-groups: add 17-group symmetry catalog (tiling + notation)

    @blossommerz blossommerz committed Aug 18, 2026
  • Publish documentation to the Wiki

    @blossommerz blossommerz committed Aug 7, 2026