Layers

In the Studio every state is a stack of layers combined into the frames you ship.

• Drawn: frames you paint by hand.
• Recipe: a procedural generator such as Thinking pulse, Orbit or Rain, with live parameters. Engine recipes such as Lava lamp, Hourglass or Robot eyes also take a variant, the named effect they draw.
• Mask: a single static shape; dots can only light inside it.

Each layer combines with the ones below it using a blend rule: union lights a dot if either layer does, difference if exactly one does, intersect only if both do. Freeze a recipe layer to turn it into Drawn frames you can edit.