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First of the "quick wins" toward the three goals. Voice/copy changes — please redline before merge; nothing auto-merges or deploys.

What & why

Goal 1 — make the loop the hero (it was buried).

  • Export and Share menus now lead with the Looping GIF (the shareable artifact), instead of burying it third under a misleading "Image".
  • Reworded in plain language; the still-PNG item is renamed "Still image (PNG) — A single moment, not the loop." so nobody clicks it expecting the animation. Dropped the only jargon in the menu (480px · 25fps).

Goal 1 — cold-start guidance.

  • A prompt now appears over the photo until the first rectangle is drawn: "Drag a rectangle on your photo — that's the part that spirals into itself." (Previously the only hint lived in the preview pane, so a first-timer with their own photo saw two dark panels and no instruction.)

Goals 2/3 — stop hiding the math behind notation.

  • The two math-view rail tooltips go from Pipeline (log · rotated log · tententoon) / Complex playground (f(z) explorer) to plain language borrowed from your explain voice: "See how the spiral is built — log it, bend it, spiral it" and "Playground — bend any image with a complex function."

Scope notes

  • No rendering/export logic changed — only menu order, copy, one overlay, and tooltips.
  • Did not touch the .human-written InfoModal block (its "Read & watch" list is inside it). A standalone /explain link is deferred to the fold-into-one-app work, since that page is folding in anyway.
  • Desktop copy-to-clipboard + a real success card + collapsing the duplicate Export/Share menus → PR-2. Carrying your voice into the in-panel lab labels (β = atan(logS/2π), etc.) → PR-3 (I'll bring the full string list first).

Gate

  • npm run check — 0/0
  • npm test — 44/44
  • npm run build — clean

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… humanize lab tooltips

Quick-wins batch 1 (no change to rendering/export logic — copy + one overlay):

- Export & Share menus now lead with the Looping GIF (the shareable
  artifact), reworded in plain language; the misleading "Image" is
  renamed to "Still image (PNG)" with honest copy; dropped the
  "480px · 25fps" jargon.
- Cold-start prompt over the photo until the first rectangle is drawn,
  so a first-timer with their own photo knows what to do.
- Pipeline / Playground rail tooltips rewritten from notation
  ("log · rotated log", "f(z) explorer") to plain language.

Voice/copy changes — awaiting redline before merge + deploy.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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