The Thesis

A look under the hood at how Panel Haus renders, stores, and generates, built for speed and reliable export.

A nine-layer canvas

Everything you make is composited in real time on a fast canvas. Nine layers stack in a fixed order: backgrounds at the bottom, then panels, the images that fill them, content bound inside a panel, the panel borders drawn over that art, floating bubbles and stickers above the borders, page-wide overlays, and finally the two layers of editing handles. The order never changes, which is what keeps a busy page readable and an export predictable. The handle layers are never drawn into an export at all.

Locked dimensions, stable art

Every page locks its size the moment it is created: Square at 700 by 700, Portrait at 490 by 700, Landscape at 700 by 560, Comic Book at 663 by 1025. Positions are stored in absolute pixels against that fixed size, so nothing drifts when you zoom, pan, or come back a week later. What you see is what exports.

Local-first and pluggable AI

Your images live on your own device for instant performance, not a round trip to a server every time you adjust a panel. Generation is pluggable, so the model behind a feature can change without the editor around it changing.