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Quick Start

For image [Fold Type], select two images.

For text [Fold Type], enter two texts.

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Table of Contents

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The Trinary Approach

Transparency

Nothing about the process Trinary uses to is a secret; it's happily explained, so you don't have to wonder what's actually happening behind the scenes.

For images, ideally both pages would be the same size/shape. But since you guys are unpredictable, I do some resizing to match their heights, then I cut each one in half width and stick them together. It makes more sense if you just use similarly sized images.

For text I use a monospaced font so that I can keep everything lined up and just work with the text you provide by counting characters.

For randomness, Trinary uses the Mersenne Twister ↗︎ pseudorandom number generator. It's seeded using the current time, a high-resolution timer (and where applicable, your statement of intent) combined.

Authenticity

That's the best approximations I could provide for folding paper online.

Privacy

Your text and images are always private!
(We never save, store, or read them).

Images are not uploaded to my server, your own browser uses them right from your device.

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Methods & Options

Fold Type gives you the option to use images or text.

Image folds give you an optional line separating them.

Text folds gives you the option to set the width of the fold (half page), colors for text, line breaks, and Spacing.

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Background & Practice

Fold-ins are done by folding two pages of text with the same line-spacing in half vertically, and combining them together to read across from one page to the next (Like in The Third Mind). It creates a new text with a new meaning from existing texts.

It was developed together by William S. Burroughs and Brion Gysin, and is closely related to the cut-up technique.

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Complete Guide: Fold-In Technique

Basics
  1. Fold two images together by adding them.
  2. Or fold two blocks of text together by inputing them.
  3. Now you have an amalgam of both.
Fold Type
Switches between Image and Text modes.
Image 1
Click to add your first image.
[Not actually uploading to the server, but allows you to use an image from your device.]
[Image mode]
Image 2
Click to add your second image.
[Not actually uploading to the server, but allows you to use an image from your device.]
[Image mode]
Line
The color and opacity of the line dividing the two images.
[Image mode]
Download
Download the folded image.
[Image mode]
1/2 Page
Define the number of characters that constitute half a "page" of text.
[Text mode]
Text 1
The color for the first block of text.
[Text mode]
Text 2
The color for the second block of text.
[Text mode]
Line Breaks
Whether or not you want to preserve the original line breaks you entered.
[Text mode]
Spacing Helper
Helps with formatting your text.
[Text mode]
Copy
Copy the newly arranged text to your clipboard.
[Text mode]

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