The Longview Workshop

Good ideas don’t always fit on a game board.

A home for useful tools, experiments, and side projects built out of curiosity—and the occasional “I wish this existed.”

In the workshop · update in development

Better Laser Raster

Prepare images for laser engraving with more deliberate control over contrast, shades, and the details that make it to the material.

An independently built tool, returning with a refreshed Mac interface and new image-preparation features.

Make better use of the available darkness rangeFive source darkness values from zero to 215 are proportionally expanded to zero through 255. White remains white.Source darknessWith Normalize Black054108161215064128191255
Tone-mapping illustration: 0 is white, 255 is full darkness. This illustrates the adjustment, not a physical engraving result.

Small projects. Personal reasons.

The Workshop gives these projects a place alongside Longview’s games, while keeping their own names and purposes. Some will become polished releases. Others will stay experiments worth sharing.