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Keyboard shortcuts

KeyAction
1 / 2 / 3Toggle the Lens / Source / Hybrid placement tool (click a plane viewer, or on a computer the image, to place)
4Toggle the Mask tool (while a Delensed image view is open, §7)
CToggle critical curves and caustics
IShow lensed image (exit any quantity map)
KConvergence κ map
GShear γ map
MMagnification |μ| map
ADeflection |α| map
TFermat potential φ contour map
PParity map
NImage number map
UDelensed background image (§7)
HHide / show the selected object
OClear all objects from the selected plane
XDelete the selected plane
[ / ]Select the previous / next plane (along the z-sorted plane list)
, / .Previous / next panel of the right-hand icon bar (Object, View, Colors, …), wrapping around (computer)
RStart / stop live recording
LToggle ruler mode (arm / disarm the ruler)
DToggle dark / light theme
?Show the in-app keyboard-shortcut overlay (also the Shortcuts button)
Cmd/Ctrl + clickAdd an object to the selection or take it out (drag a box on the image to select several; computer)
Cmd/Ctrl + C / VCopy the selected object / paste a duplicate in place
Cmd/Ctrl + Z / Shift+ZUndo / redo the last scene edit
↑ ↓ ← →Nudge selected object (hold for acceleration)
Delete / BackspaceDelete the selected object, or the selected ruler measurement
EscapeDeselect the selected ruler, else disarm the ruler tool, else switch off the active plane-viewer tool, else deselect the object