thank you so much!! it means a lot to hear that this concept still resonates well. the concept this has turned into in my head is a little more Shape-Shepherd involved now, and i'd like to get started on it soon.
also, i'm sorry to hear about the technical difficulties here... do they show up as corrupted files or do they just not open in anything at all? on my end they seem to at least open in photo browser/internet browsers by dragging and dropping the files. feel free to DM me though if there's anything specifically weird going on.