Scenes

Screen faces

Turn a placed piece's biggest flat face into a small live screen of the scene.

Screen is the fourth choice on a placed copy’s Surface row. It turns the piece’s biggest flat face into a small screen that shows the scene itself (a boxy fig with Screen on its front is a TV).

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Chunky TV in the scene
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The Surface row on a placed copy's page.

The Surface row

Tap the copy on the Figs tab and find its Surface row: Matte, Mirror, Water, or Screen. The first three are covered in Shiny surfaces . A screen glows instead of reflecting. The row is not offered on a copy hung on a wall, or on a cutout from a photo.

What the screen shows

The screen is a live view of the scene, drawn at about 96 cells along its longer side. The app selects the biggest flat face automatically. Flat faces on the same plane count as one.

The limit

Screens count toward the shiny limit: two shiny or screen copies per scene. Ask for a third and the hint says to set another one to Matte first.

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