Parts Catalog

Workshop: write a prompt for a new part, generate it anywhere, then bring the image back and trace it into the scene's origami format.

1 · Prompt

Describe the part the scene needs: a character, or a landscape piece for a new scene. The prompt asks for flat colours on plain white so it traces cleanly, in the cast's papercraft style or the lake scenery's flat vector style. Characters are posed so they can be cut into moving pieces; ground pieces (shores, streams, hills) come as wide strips with a flat bottom edge so they sit on a scene's ground line.

Pieces this will be cut into

2 · Import & trace

Drop the generated PNG (or JPG). It is traced here in your browser, the same way puppet-refs/doe-pilot/trace.py does it: every pixel snaps to a small palette, the white background drops out, and each colour becomes one flat path.

Original
Traced
Next to

The origami entry is { vb, fills, body, parts }, the shape origami-art.js uses. parts stays empty until step 3 cuts it; as it is, it draws as a still figure.