-**[Pattern Lab](https://patternflow.work/pattern-lab)** is the studio, and where a pattern reaches the hardware. Make variations in batches, with your own Gemini key or through any AI chat, then shape the color ramps and retune the knob ranges. Send it to your Patternflow and it builds into a small `.pfm` module that installs over Wi-Fi in about ten seconds, with no cable, no reflash and no IDE. Graphic Export renders the same pattern as a print-size PNG for a business card or an MP4 loop for a post, in your browser, with nothing uploaded.
+**[Pattern Lab](https://patternflow.work/pattern-lab)** is the studio, and where a pattern reaches the hardware. Make variations through any AI chat, then shape the color ramps and retune the knob ranges. Send it to your Patternflow and it builds into a small `.pfm` module that installs over Wi-Fi in about ten seconds, with no cable, no reflash and no IDE. Graphic Export renders the same pattern as a print-size PNG for a business card or an MP4 loop for a post, in your browser, with nothing uploaded.
Then publish it to the **[Community](https://community.patternflow.work/community)**: more than a hundred patterns, from quiet waves to chaos-theory studies, all playable under the same four knobs. Collect them into a deck and send it to your board in one click. Browsing needs no account, and publishing asks only a username and password, no email. New studies go up on **[Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/patternflow.work)** almost daily; publish something that stands out and it can get featured there, or ask for a collab and I'll post yours with you. The [Make guide](https://patternflow.work/guide/make) walks the whole loop as a tutorial you do as you read, no hardware needed.
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- **`src/lib/pattern/controls.ts`** — knob-scale constants shared with the firmware.
- **`src/lib/pattern/share.ts`** — licence header + attribution footer. The community bakes them into the stored code when a pattern is published or its details are edited (`src/lib/community/license.ts`), so the pattern page shows them, and a download wraps the code it hands out (`src/lib/community/download.ts`). The Live Editor and the Lab never add them while you write.
- **`src/lib/pattern/packs.ts`** — the Basics pack that ships with the firmware (`public/packs/`, built by `firmware/toolchain/make_pack.py`).
-- **`src/lib/ai/gemini.ts`** — bring-your-own-key Gemini generation. The key lives in `localStorage` and calls go straight from the browser to Google; no server proxy, no bundled key.
+- **`src/lib/ai/variantPrompt.ts`** — the prompt the Lab's Copy prompt puts on the clipboard, for whatever AI chat you paste it into. The site calls no AI itself. The Lab's Gemini gallery, which did, came out on 23 October 2026.
## Pattern Lab (`src/app/pattern-lab/` + `src/lib/lab/`)
-A layered, dockable workspace: nine panels over a layer-stack project. A panel is one entry in `panels/registry.tsx` (id, title, component, where it docks by default) plus its component file — the shell derives the dockview component map, the Panels menu and the default layout from that list, and the four heavy editors load on demand. The project is one Zustand store, `src/lib/lab/store.ts`, which the render engine (`engine.ts`) reads imperatively each frame and the panels subscribe to; its actions are composed from one slice per concern under `src/lib/lab/store/` (project, layers, knobs, ramp, director, gallery), with the helpers they share in `store/shared.ts`. Everything the lab keeps in `localStorage` is listed in `src/lib/lab/persist.ts`, with the read/write helpers every persistence site uses. Pixel undo stacks are `src/lib/lab/pixelHistory.ts`.
+A layered, dockable workspace: eight panels over a layer-stack project. A panel is one entry in `panels/registry.tsx` (id, title, component, where it docks by default) plus its component file — the shell derives the dockview component map, the Panels menu and the default layout from that list, and the three heavy editors load on demand. The project is one Zustand store, `src/lib/lab/store.ts`, which the render engine (`engine.ts`) reads imperatively each frame and the panels subscribe to; its actions are composed from one slice per concern under `src/lib/lab/store/` (project, layers, knobs, ramp, director, gallery), with the helpers they share in `store/shared.ts`. Everything the lab keeps in `localStorage` is listed in `src/lib/lab/persist.ts`, with the read/write helpers every persistence site uses. Pixel undo stacks are `src/lib/lab/pixelHistory.ts`.
| Panel | Where | What |
| :--- | :--- | :--- |
| Preview, Layers, Code, Knobs, Color Ramp | `panels/` | The editor proper. Layers are code (JS) or pixel (RGBA buffer, edited in place and versioned by `rev`); ramps are per layer, knobs are one shared set |
| Pixel | `panels/PixelPanel.tsx` + `panels/pixel/` + `lib/lab/pixelTools.ts` | Pixel-art editor. The panel composes one hook per concern (`usePixelToolState`, `usePixelSelection`, `usePixelViewport`, `usePixelCanvases`, `usePixelPointer`, `usePixelKeyboard`) and two toolbar components; `pixelToCode.ts` turns a sprite into standalone pattern code |
-| Gallery | `panels/GalleryPanel.tsx` | Gemini variant generation queue |
| Graphic Export | `panels/CapturePanel.tsx` + `lib/lab/capture/` | Stills and clips at print sizes, rendered by a second engine in a Web Worker (WebCodecs + `mediabunny`, all client-side), plus a GLSL shader twin for posters. `probe.ts` decides whether a pattern can be re-rendered at another size or must be upscaled |
| Director | `panels/DirectorPanel.tsx` + `panels/director/` + `lib/lab/director/` | Knob automation over time — keyframes, bezier eases — baked to `.pfs` show files (`src/lib/pattern/pfst.ts` is the codec) and exported as MIDI. The panel composes `useTransportView`, `useTimelineZoom`, `useShowEditing`, the file helpers and two bars; the lanes are `DirectorLanes.tsx` |
Each panel owns its stylesheet (`panels/- No variants yet — set a count and hit Generate. Click a card to load it into the - active code layer, or +⧉ to stack it as a new layer. -
- ) - ) : ( -- Bring your own Google AI Studio key to generate variations in-app. It is stored only - in this browser (localStorage) and sent directly to Google — never to our servers. -
- setKeyDraft(event.target.value)} - onKeyDown={(event) => { - if (event.key === "Enter") saveKey(); - if (event.key === "Escape") setKeyModalOpen(false); - }} - /> -- Get a free key at aistudio.google.com/apikey. The key never leaves your browser - except to call Google directly. -
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