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Mote on video, feature by feature.

Everything here is recorded in the real app, with a drawn cursor. Only calculation times are left out.

Videos recorded before the modes were renamed. At the top of the screen: Stochaster → Spora, Dotraster → Puncta, Pointillist → Linea, Coloraster → Chroma, ASCII → Glypha, Labo → Prisma, Video → Kinema. What’s new →

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Seven modes

A tour of the app, tab by tab, then six photos in six modes: what each one does, on real images.

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A poster, start to finish

A screened tiger cut out with the lasso, a background out of nothing, a title: a real poster, without leaving Mote.

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Ctrl+K

Everything can be searched from the keyboard: type a word, Enter, it’s applied. Then the slow tour: a photo becoming a finished image without touching the panel.

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Searching without knowing

Ctrl+K with no clear idea: no, clear it, start again, and it eventually comes.

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Surprise

A recipe drawn at random when you have no idea, then editable effect by effect. Then no more adjusting: just drawing, in four modes.

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It was better before

Drawing once more, overshooting the right result, and going back to find it.

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One recipe, several images

The same recipe on different subjects: what it keeps from each, and what it makes of it.

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Your own recipe

A find on one image, saved, then one click replays it on all the others.

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Before / after

The photo and the result side by side: slide the line to compare.

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History

Try anything: Ctrl+Z takes you back, with nothing lost.

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Layers and inks

Each ink turns off and on: you see what the image is made of.

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From one mode to another

One mode’s render becomes the next one’s starting image: Spora, Prisma, Chroma, Puncta, with adjustments at each step.

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A background changing modes

A background computed in Prisma moves to another mode and changes nature there.

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One image, several natures

Recipe after recipe, the same portrait changes material: photo, ink, screen.

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How far one setting goes

Pushing a single slider all the way, to see everything it holds.

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Three stacks, one photo

Three effect stacks built on the same image, each finished by a stroke of chance.

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The same effect, twice

An effect laid over itself, barely offset: the pattern doubles and gains depth.

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Backgrounds out of nothing

An empty canvas to begin with, no photo: fully computed textures, ready to serve as backgrounds.

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One pattern, several inks

The same pattern in several colourways: that is often where it becomes usable.

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Export

SVG and PDF to print without limits, or an image up to four times its size.

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Shortcuts

Everything also works from the keyboard, and the list is one Ctrl+K away.

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White or black

The interface changes, the image stays the same.

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Presentation mode

The captions in these videos: zones you write, move and tighten on top of the app.

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