Design with an agent: OIM over MCP
How to connect the OIM MCP connector, what an agent can do, and where its limits are.
Interactive, multilingual, signed images
Articles on interactive images, multilingual design without duplicate files and digital image signing with the OIM format.
Design with an agent: OIM over MCP
How to connect the OIM MCP connector, what an agent can do, and where its limits are.
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Multilingual Markdown: one image, every language
Write your post in Markdown, add one ::oim line and the same image shows its text in the reader's language. No exporting one version per language.
How to embed an interactive image in your website
Steps to add an .oim file to your site with oim-player: plain HTML and CDN, React, key attributes, events and signature checks. Code taken from the guide.
How to check whether an image was altered
What an .oim signature proves and what it does not, how metadata is removed, and how to check it with oim-player or the public key API. A practical guide.
OIM vs SVG, GIF and Lottie: when to use each
An honest comparison of .oim with SVG, GIF and Lottie: when each format fits, what .oim does well, what it does not do, and a table to decide.
OIM editor getting started guide: first steps
First steps in the OIM Studio editor: canvas and layers, two-language text, animations, photos in shapes, masks, accessibility and export to .oim.
Interactive images without frameworks or iframes
Hover, clicks and transitions inside the image itself, with no framework or heavy iframes. How an .oim image responds to the cursor.
Images that adapt to dark mode without duplicates
No second version, no CSS filters: OIM dynamic colors recalculate the image palette for the system light or dark mode, live.
Digital image signatures: how to verify authorship
Metadata gets stripped or forged. OIM signs the image bytes with ECDSA: if anyone alters it, it stops displaying. This is how verification works.
Multilingual images: one PNG for ten languages
Stop exporting one version per language. A single .oim carries live text for every language and shows the right one to each visitor, no duplicates.
What is .oim: an interactive image inside a PNG
An .oim is a normal PNG that carries layers, text in several languages, animations and a digital signature. How it works and why it needs no server.