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Permanently, or only for that session until you close and reopen the app? Mine will do that for the rest of a session (usually, not always) but each restart it begins again.

No, the former, mostly. I was confusing myself with VSCode's workspace feature.

thought there was a way to save files in a group, then open that group all at once. however, it's been a rough coupla months and my brain is barely functioning, so who knows. maybe, you?

Is this for Publisher? Assuming, but it's not explicit.

Excellent. Just seeing the calcs for Negation, it already makes more sense.

And 5 years later on, I'm still searching for the math behind Glow, Negation, and Reflect. Most tools and sites don't acknowledge the existence of these blend modes. Obviously, the Affinity engineers know what these three are doing, and even perhaps clarify Difference, for which I find differing and incompatible calculations. I plan to play around and fully understand the blend modes as intuitively as I can, and it actually helps me to know the math.

always delighted to come looking for an answer and boom! there it is. never once saw the Context setting for gradients.

For the moment, I'm perfectly happy with the fairly minor limitation regarding curves. My IG feed is private but here are a few examples. All three came from playing with a single curve, resized/reshaped in ways the work to power-dup curves.

This being Opposite Day, I'll have that ready Real Soon . . .

The point is, I don't want to specify the target image. The artistic process here is to create small changes and watch them propagate toward some unknown result.

There may be a reason that's what Adobe uses. (Or maybe not.) JavaScript is my kryptonite. Maybe I'll create a Py/js transmogrifier thingy.

Cool function, but not what I'm looking for. A blend tool fills in. What I do is make a change (or changes) and extend them to see where they go.

Back when I used to have to produce results, that's how I worked. These days, the process is what has value to me, and the result gets posted to Instagram and mostly forgotten. With Photoshop, I used to do some pretty cool things with svg text and JavaScript. Eager for the day we can use Python with Designer

What I want is the opposite, usually. Keep a consistent 2px or whatever width, regardless of scale.

Worth remembering, because I hadn't. I'll be working with shapes for now, but the conversation is still interesting.

@javiersc Voy a tener que probar esto cuando mi cerebro funcione un poco mejor. Muy nublado hoy. Gracias por un concepto muy interesante para seguir.

ah, sadly it's from the perspective duplication. I need to be able to control the line width, either constained to a single width or scaling with the object.

@thomaso very nice. is the blurring of later layers a video artifact or a result of the duplicated perspective? plan on trying this right now but interested in your answer

this would seem to require changing all 4 corners at the same time, which would not allow lean the top of the left side farther left lengthen it some arbitrary amount, from some arbitrary anchor point lean the top of the right side some independent distance farther right lengthen it some arbitrary amount, from some arbitrary anchor point modify the top to match the endpoints of the new farther-outward-leaning-and-longer sides same with bottom two corners. or if I'm working with a hexagon or something shaped like my left hand or Antarctica, I don't see it working.

(1) results in the attached, definitely requiring (2) for which I cannot imagine a macro that would correct the gap for, say, 500 iterations. because my goal is the enjoyment of the process for the sake of entertaining relaxation, automation using svg isn't a good solution for me.

um, yes, that's one I created, so I already know how to do that part. trying to nail down for sure whether curve node adjustments can be power duplicated, and if so, how, since my usual method with shapes isn't working with node-adjusted curves.

my question was the short version. I was hoping the answer would include how to do it, since the operation I've used successfully for regular shapes doesn't seem to be working. also @JimmyJack says no it can't. please prove him wrong by 'splaining me how to do it.

Please see the edit of the original post. Short version: can curves be power duplicated, in Photo OR Designer?

The diamond shape is simply a special instance of a parallelogram. My shape has no parallel sides. Power duplicating a curve does not work, which is why I'm asking the question in the first place.

Duplicate. Transform. Duplicate again repeatedly to create a pattern.