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New tools for Y2K, 3D-abstract and pixel-glitch posters, plus five animated poster scenes made with them. Each scene was compared with a reference poster and tuned until it read the same way.

Gaps found

Compared with the reference set (chrome and inflatable tubes, topo-line puffs, speckled foam, pixel debris, stepped pixel badges, glowing blobs), the app was missing:

• a way to draw a pen line on over time (tubes drawing themselves);
• pixel debris breaking off type, and torn scan lines;
• surface marks on Puffy: topographic contour lines and speckles;
• a keyframe that waits and then makes a move (every loop was a constant swing or ramp).

Already possible, now with recipes: stepped pixel badges (Weight + Pixels), glow clouds (Glow gradient), chrome tubes (Liquid chrome on a pen line), spiky chrome stars (Starburst + a chrome ball).

New tools

• Line › Start / End / Slide (engine Trim on pen lines): draw only part of a line. Each one has a keyframe diamond, so End draws a line on and Slide runs a stretch round a loop. Subpaths draw one after another, or all at once with Every part at once. Works with every material. Ribbon colours stay put while a line draws.
• Glitch modifier (Texture): square pixel debris that breaks off the outside of the whole form, measured from its silhouette so letter gaps and counters stay clean. It also takes the odd bite out of edges and tears horizontal bands sideways by whole blocks. Fields: Debris, Block size, Reach, Tear, Band height, Seed. As Debris grows, the same blocks stay and more are added, so debris gathers instead of reshuffling.
• Puffy › Surface: Contour lines (level curves of slow noise, lifted by the puff so they wrap round the form) or Speckles. Mark colour, amount, size, line width, and a Flow setting that can be animated.
• Hold keyframe mode: waits at its value, then goes to To and comes back. Use it for wiping a line off and drawing it on, a puff, or a burst of debris. At rest the design shows its own value, so thumbnails and stills look complete.
• Recipes: Glitch, Pixel debris, Torn scan, Pixel badge.

Materials (from a parallel pass on the remaining gaps):

• Form › Tube on Liquid chrome and Puffy: a new height profile that rounds every part across its own width, so spikes shade as cones and strokes as tubes. It's off by default, so existing designs don't change.
• Inflatable vinyl: saturated blow-up plastic lit through the skin, crisp softbox highlights, room reflections, pinched rings (round the centre or across the tubes), wrinkles, an edge seam, and a clear-plastic mode that bends what's behind.
• Flat › Glow: a bloom in the fill colour with a glowing edge, for neon clouds and stars.
• Folded paper: creases, crumples, mottling and grain. With the paper turned off, it folds a whole poster laid underneath.
• Photo › Print screen: halftone dots, gritty dither or line screen, per channel or in the duotone's two inks.
• Presets for each one (Lime vinyl, Pinched hash, Clear vinyl, Chrome spikes, Lime glow, Folded poster, and more).

Scenes (Templates › Learn)

• Animated · Y2K set: topo-line puffy blob, a spiky chrome star shaded as cones (Form › Tube), speckled foam, a chrome flower tube and a script stroke drawing on, around pixel and serif type.
• Animated · Inflatable: Inflatable vinyl tubes: a pinched "#" wiping off and drawing back on, a pink arrow, a ringed silver star whose pinch breathes, and thin black type.
• Animated · Global trend: heavy type shedding and gathering pixel debris with jolts of tear, italic outline type, glowing clouds and stars.
• Animated · Pixel badge: script words on stepped pixel badges that break apart and build back.
• Animated · Tube burst: soft green tubes growing out one after another, turning slowly beside big thin type.

Tests

• Rust: trim windows, wrapping, subpaths in order or each; glitch debris, tear and growth.
• TS: line keyframes in geoMotion, Hold in motion.
• npx tsc --noEmit -p ui, npx vitest run, cargo test -p morpho-core, npx vite build and npm run test:e2e pass locally.

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