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dotCooCoo a1a23c46e4 Warp: the Warp effects bend an image's pixels with its frame
A Warp effect on an image, or on a group that holds one, bent the image's
frame but drew the pixels unbent, cut by the bent frame. The image now
bends with the frame as a raster mesh warp, as an envelope bends it: after
the last effect in the list, the image is cut into 10 x 10 cells of two
triangles, each a clipped piece of the image under its own affine map,
through every Warp it took and the Transform moves between them. Effects
after a Warp reshape only the frame, and a placed gradient on a group
that holds the image follows the group's bounds as the pieces draw them.
The image itself is unchanged, so editing or removing the warp redraws
it. The images stay unbent when their pieces would make the art pass 2
million objects, and an image stays unbent when its clipping frame keeps
its shape because the warp would pass the effects' anchor budget.

- SVG export writes the image once and draws the pieces with <use> when a
  group holds pieces of one image clipped by triangles. PDF, EPS, .ai and
  PNG exports write the bent pieces.
- Envelopes: a grayscale image's fill color now colorizes the pieces an
  envelope cuts. Before, the pieces drew the gray image.
- Geometry effects: an image under any geometry effect keeps its fill
  color and its smoothing setting. Before, it drew the gray image,
  smoothed.

Docs: Warp params text, docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
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