Controlling Mutations

There are a series of sliders in the Mutation window that can be used to control how the mutations are created. In general, if the slider is to the left, then that minimizes these specific changes, while to the right maximizes them (so if all sliders are to the left, all the mutations should look like the selected recent image).

1. Parameters controls how much the various parameters of each node in the structure of the image are changed. Locked parameters are never changed.

2. Nodes controls the chance of a node being replaced with a similar node, for example, changing rotation to skewing.

3. Colors controls how much node color controls are changed. If nothing in the document is a colorizer node, then no changes will happen (since the colors aren't generated from external colors). For example, this can create a completely different gradient.

4. Styles controls the node style changes, for those nodes in the image that have styles. For example, this may change the tiling style of a Wallpaper Tiler, or the underlying shape in a Regular Shape Texture.

5. Wiring controls the chance that some of the connections in the structure will be "re-wired", which can produce surprising (or boring) results.