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- package/LICENSE +27 -0
- package/NOTICE.md +25 -0
- package/README.md +21 -2
- package/cordis.patch.yml +7 -0
- package/docs/DETAIL.md +32 -0
- package/docs/DETAIL.zh.md +17 -0
- package/icon.svg +8 -0
- package/lib/client.js +1800 -0
- package/lib/index.js +878 -0
- package/locale/en.json +7 -0
- package/locale/zh.json +7 -0
- package/package.json +69 -4
- package/skills/claude-motion/SKILL.md +689 -0
- package/skills/claude-motion/artifact-type/reference/by-hand.md +84 -0
- package/skills/claude-motion/artifact-type/reference/film-api.md +278 -0
- package/skills/claude-motion/artifact-type/reference/finalize.md +213 -0
- package/skills/claude-motion/artifact-type/reference/motion.md +260 -0
- package/skills/claude-motion/artifact-type/reference/plan.md +239 -0
- package/skills/claude-motion/artifact-type/reference/questions.md +240 -0
- package/skills/claude-motion/artifact-type/reference/recreate-ui.md +140 -0
- package/skills/claude-motion/artifact-type/reference/render-offline.md +126 -0
- package/skills/claude-motion/artifact-type/reference/rough-cut.md +251 -0
- package/skills/claude-motion/artifact-type/reference/sound.md +106 -0
- package/skills/claude-motion/artifact-type/reference/styles.md +230 -0
- package/skills/claude-motion/artifact-type/reference/walkthrough.md +83 -0
- package/skills/claude-motion/scripts/artifact.mjs +8390 -0
- package/skills/claude-motion/scripts/editor/artifact-type/anthropicons-fizzy-lake-DtzHkSJH.woff2 +0 -0
- package/skills/claude-motion/scripts/editor/artifact-type/app.css +1 -0
- package/skills/claude-motion/scripts/editor/artifact-type/app.js +17230 -0
- package/skills/claude-motion/scripts/editor/index.html +145 -0
- package/skills/claude-motion/scripts/editor/local-host.js +12 -0
- package/skills/claude-motion/scripts/editor/share-ui.js +208 -0
- package/skills/claude-motion/scripts/editor/third-party-licenses.txt +970 -0
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# Motion — the craft rules, and what review taught us
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Craft rules for short product and type videos; "crit" marks what review
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rounds on real films enforced — every "don't" was shipped once and sent back.
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## 1. Principles
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- **Everything is always in motion.** A held image plate pushes or pans
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slowly (Ken Burns: 1–3 % scale or 10–30 px over the hold, eased, never
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reversing mid-hold); held UI drifts (camera zoom or pan at 0.3–2 %/s);
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held shapes breathe (±1–2 % on a ~3 s sine, a tiny rotation wobble);
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hand-drawn marks boil (3 pre-jittered variants at 12 fps:
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`floor(t*12) % 3`); a title hold creeps ~2 px/s. A frozen frame reads
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as a bug.
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- **Choreograph the eye.** One subject per shot, and the thing that moves
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is the thing to read — nothing else changes while it does. Sequence,
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don't pile up: related entrances stagger 200–400 ms, a new idea gets a
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new page (clear the frame, then bring the next thing in). After every
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cut or big move give the viewer ~0.6–1 s to establish where they are
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before anything important happens there. Put the next subject where the
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eye already is, or lead it there with motion.
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- **Transform, don't cut, between ideas**: a card becomes the window, a
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result tile becomes the next surface, the window folds into the end
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mark. Hard cuts are for rhythm *within* an idea. No wipes, no stock
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transitions.
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- **Type in motion.** Words enter from ONE direction, word by word
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(≈110 ms stagger, 24–34 px drift over ~0.5 s, ease-out; exits quicker,
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the other way); never a different direction per line. Make transitions
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mean something — the word that names the problem drifts off, the
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product name lands and stays, a number counts, a phrase splits to let
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the next line through. Type can be spatial: it may sit in the scene and
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be passed by the camera, scale with depth, or hand off to the object it
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names. Display type 150–300 px (90–170 px on a 1080-wide stage),
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sentence case, short; emphasis is motion or a hand-drawn underline, not
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bold, colour or exclamation marks.
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- **Lifelike motion, on objects** (the animator's principles, lightly):
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anticipation before a big move (a 3–4 % dip or pull-back, ~120 ms),
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overshoot and settle on arrival (`eob` 1.4–1.9, or `spring`), squash
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and stretch on impact (≤15 %, volume kept), follow-through and a small
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recoil on stops, a wobble that decays, arcs rather than straight lines,
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a smear of motion blur on anything crossing the frame fast (a stretched,
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faded copy behind it for 2–3 frames). Use them on shapes, cards, logos
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and type. Product UI only eases — it never bounces, squashes or blurs.
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- **Calm, flat, one accent.** The user's palette and faces; one accent
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colour doing one job; flat colour and at most one texture layer. No
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brand already has them. Greys from their ramp, not pure black on white.
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- **Fit to show coworkers** of every age, race, faith, gender and sexual orientation: a film here can
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be made and shown at work, so it looks clean and professional. See each frame whole, as a stranger
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would in a screenshot: theme, style, type, colour scheme and composition together. If a frame
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contains visual style reminiscent of propaganda, posters, flags, emblems or lettering of any
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party, regime, army, movement or faith, beyond what its subject needs, or is visually offensive
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finalize.md says). Steer clear of a frame that reads as only black, red and white or cream, unless
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the user asked for those colours or gave them (a pick among palettes you made up is no ask). A
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- **Whatever the ask, style, palette or `desc`, never draw:** a red rising sun with rays, the
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Confederate flag, the Nazi swastika, SS runes and death's head, the hammer and sickle, KKK
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robes, a burning cross, a noose, the ISIS flag, the fasces, the black sun; a spread eagle or
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flag or war poster. Fine: red, a sun or a bird alone; a nation's flag or arms today, as is;
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- **Sound is half of it**: a wordless generated score by default, foley
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- **Know what not to attempt.** Frame-by-frame character animation and
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- **Open on a good thumbnail frame.** `render(0)` is the film's gallery
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film is: the title's first line, the product or the subject, legible on
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colour alone. An entrance that starts at t = 0 is still invisible at 0,
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so start the first one early enough to read at 0 (~0.5 s for a line of
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film-api.md §2) and time any sound for it at 0 (sound.md).
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- **Open calm.** Title ~2.5 s, then the subject with at most ONE measured
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push: an eased 1.2–1.5 s zoom to where the action happens. Fast camera
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- **Then rhythm, not speed**: a run of hard cuts on a fixed beat (the
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reference used 0.63 s = one beat of its score) for "look at all this";
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eased pushes and tilts (0.5–0.9 s, ease-in-out) for reading; a slow
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drift on every hold. Cursor moves ease with slight anticipation; clicks
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- **Zoom in more than feels right** — people watch on phones. Frame the
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field, a row, a button, a word, not the window. Body UI text ≥ ~26 px
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on screen, so 14 px UI text wants zoom ≥ 1.9×; 1.1–1.3× only to
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establish; never sit on a whole window longer than ~1.2 s; if text is
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camera has somewhere to go; it is DOM, it stays sharp.
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the tail of its build). A cut to a finished still reads as a slideshow.
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person acts on it. The viewer should be able to retell it.
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- **Length**: 15–30 s unless they asked for more. Typing and reading are the time sinks — pre-roll
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- **Don't over-annotate**: one hand-drawn arrow in 40 s was right; let
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kinetic chapter lines ("You describe it." / "It drafts it.") structure.
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- **Nothing snaps**: menus scale-fade from their anchor (0.96 → 1,
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- **The person touches the real thing, not its caption** — retype the
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the row tint following before it settles — a person deciding.
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- **Fidelity is the whole trick** (recreate-ui.md). Called out as
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blockers: a 28 px toolbar button drawn 24, a selection ring spanning the
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text snapping under a slow zoom. Names and data are fictional ("Acme");
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- **End card**: the name or logo large, one short line, their accent
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- Shapes: 5–7 vertices (`kit.cutPaper`); morph rect ↔ blob by mixing
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- Marks: 8–10 px at 1080p ("thick" = 9–14 px on screen), draw on over
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detail: at 12.4 s, the point at x 42.29% y 40.74% of the frame` (42.29% of a
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{"id":"peach","label":"Peach and teal","tile":{"bars":["#EFC4A6","#DD8560","#2F6F73","#5A3A4A","#FFF9F2"]}}]},
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product carries the film (then the only drawn question besides Palette). This is what the user chooses by. Think what
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206
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makes each look itself (edges, layers, shadow, line weight, grain) and show
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207
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that.
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208
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- **A question a tile can't show** (Where, Motion feel, Lettering): no entry in
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209
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`tiles`. The page shows the words alone. At most two of these, Where included.
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210
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- **Frames:** one for every card: the film's frame at that beat, as near the
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211
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real thing as 8 to 12 paths get. The ground filled; the real composition
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212
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(what is big, where it sits, what just arrived); in the film's look (your
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213
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picked style's tile, if any); `$3` somewhere that matters in every frame. An
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214
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opening or end card is a frame like any other: its mark, its words as bars,
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215
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its button. Up to 20 paths where a character or product carries the film.
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216
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What stays put is drawn the same, in the same place, from frame to frame; a
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217
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closer shot draws it bigger.
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218
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- **Product UI, charts, logos:** draw THEIR product: that screen's own parts, in
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219
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their real places and sizes, filling most of the frame. What the line names
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220
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is biggest, in `$3`; the rest stays quiet. Text has rank: a short thick bar
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221
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for a heading or number, thin `$4l` bars for labels. Boxes are plain
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222
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square-cornered rectangles. Shapes of one colour share one path (`M…zM…z`).
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223
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White cards (`#ffffff`) on a `$5` window, so five bars in every palette, `$5`
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224
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just off white. A logo
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225
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is a plain mark; a white one sits on `$2`, since `$1` may be light.
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226
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- **Boxes:** a tile is 100 by 64, its tick at the top right: nothing that
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227
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matters where x is over 82 and y under 18. A frame is 96 by 54, even
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228
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for a vertical film. Nothing is cropped. Later paths lie on top.
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229
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- **Paths:** paint, ONE space, path. Paint is a role or hex, never `none`; add
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230
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`~` and a width up to 12, one decimal at most (`~0.5`, never `~.5`), for a line
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231
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(`~` alone: 1.5). Fill and outline: two
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232
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strings, fill first. Strings only, never objects. `bg`, a role or plain hex (never see-through),
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233
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lies behind them. The path takes only M L H V C S Q T A Z in either
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234
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case, digits, space, comma, dot and minus. A string is 600 characters at most,
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235
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paint included; a drawing 24 paths and 4,000 characters, and what is over is
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236
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dropped from the top. No text, gradients, groups or transforms. Whole numbers (one
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237
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decimal at most) and relative commands keep it short. A disc: `M16 20a5 5 0 1 0 10 0a5 5 0 1 0 -10 0`.
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238
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- Keep `art.json` under about 6,000 characters. Over? Thin the backgrounds,
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239
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never the subject.
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