The two rounds were meant to answer the stroke sooner, but a preview cannot be
half a repair: the blurred fill is what a machine without the runtime gets, and
with it on the stage a spot of dirt came back smeared rather than gone — worst of
all on a run of strokes, where each new one cancels the model's round that was
still on its way and leaves the blur standing longest. The repair that works is
the one that waits for the model, and the wait is worth it.
The worker stays available but is switched off with the rest: this reverts the
runtime's proxy along with the second round, so the stage is exactly what it was
before, lag and all.
Reverts 5489114.
SINGLE is where a roll is read one frame at a time, and the step from one frame
to the next was a trip to the strip below the picture and back. The stage now
carries the pair itself, at the edges the eye already reads as "there is more
this way", dimmed at the ends of the roll rather than taken away so the pair does
not jump about. The press stops at the arrow: the zoom, the pan and the open
under it are the picture's.
The phone's full-screen view has no room for a pair, so the same step is the
reader's own finger. A drag that travelled sideways is a step the way the list is
read; one that wandered up and down, and a tap in place, are left alone.
Both walk the list on screen — filters and sort included — so what is drawn after
the step is what stood beside it.
Verified against a local preview with a seeded shelf: the arrows appear, the left
one is dimmed on the newest frame and the right one on the oldest, and a left
swipe on the phone moves to the next frame and back.
The graph is seconds of solid arithmetic however large the crop is, and it ran
where the pointer lives: the brush lagged behind the hand for exactly as long as
the model took. The runtime's wasm provider now works in a worker of its own, so
the page keeps drawing while the repair is thought through.
The wait itself stays — it is the model's, not the page's — so a preview paints
the blurred fill first and lets the model's version of the same mask replace it.
Filing and export still wait for the model: the faster answer is for the eye
waiting on the brush and for nothing else.
Measured on the same photo and stroke, worst main-thread gap 3703 ms before and
487 ms after; previews land at 1.0 s and 5.3 s, and the model's render is the one
left on the stage.
The dust brush filled its hole with a blur of the hole's own rim — the light
beside it, carried in. Right for a speck on a wall, and visibly thin over
anything with structure: a stroke across a shirt came back as the average of a
shirt. The fill is now a learned one.
engine/inpaint.ts runs MI-GAN (andraniksargsyan/migan, the same
`migan_pipeline_v2.onnx` inpaint-web ships) through onnxruntime-web on the
visitor's own machine: 27MB of weights in public/models, WebGPU where the graph
fits the provider, the processor otherwise, one warm-up pass so the first repair
is not the one that pays for the kernels. It is handed the masked crop and
nothing else — the model's mask polarity is 255 KEEP / 0 HOLE, the opposite of
the obvious guess, and the other way round repaints the frame and leaves the
hole (measured).
Step 6e of the renderer cuts the crop at the resolution the model will actually
run at (512 on its longest side — the graph is fully convolutional and would
take a whole frame, and ten seconds over one), builds the mask from the brush's
own circles, and draws the answer into the fill surface at its own place in the
box. The composite, the feathered mask and the untouched frame around it are
unchanged, so nothing outside the mask moves — and when the model cannot be had
the blurred fill is still built first and still stands. The preview gets this
for free: renderPhoto was already async and the preview was already debounced.
Node probe: the model + polarity + read/write path run; heal-check.mjs keeps
measuring the fallback and now asserts the wiring and the polarity. Browser:
engine/inpaint.ts in a real Chromium returns a patch (hole moves, kept pixels
within 0.02 of a level), and the built app renders a 42-spot stroke in 4.7s on
single-threaded wasm with no fallback warning — 1.15s and the warning when the
model is taken away.
The background walk behind a cloud node read its pages after the answer the
screen had already been given, and no one told the screen when the last page
landed: the note went on saying a reading was running for the rest of the
visit. The walk now gives its own last word, with the count it read.
The strip and the wall windows were measured off the node the effect was set
up on. The stage is drawn while a node is open, so a visit that loses its
nodes and gets them back draws a new strip and a new wall, and a window
measured off the old node — a box of nothing, a scroll always nought — never
moved again for the rest of the visit. Both now read the element that is up.
HEAL painted a grey blob over the photo it was meant to repair, and the
cause was one draw Skia gets wrong on this build: a snapshot used as a
SCALED source comes back with the alpha multiplied into its rgb a second
time, so a partly transparent rim — which is what the mask's feather is —
was read as a dark wash. A pyramid of halvings is built of exactly those
scaled draws, which is why the repair's own rim came out grey; the same
source read at 1:1 is exact (measured, tmp-src-probe).
So the fill is now a cascade of blurs, all of them 1:1: the cut frame is
blurred at a few widths, widest first, each finer one drawn over it, the
untouched cut on top. The finest is one brush wide, each next is twice the
last, and the count follows the depth of the hole (the stroke's own
diagonal against the widest brush), which is what keeps the middle of a
long hole filled rather than bare. Nothing is copied from anywhere and the
rim arrives with no seam, which is what the passes were always for.
And the fill is built on the brush's own box rather than the frame, padded
by three sigma of the widest level. The composite reads it only where the
mask is, so this changes no pixel of the result (heal-check measures the
same masks either way) and it is what makes the repair affordable at the
zoom a repair is aimed at: at a 3200px preview a single spot went from
1.7s of frozen main thread to 1.2s, and the heal's own share of that from
0.8s to 0.3s. What is left is the pipeline itself, which is a separate
matter.
The FIX brush outlived its tab. It takes the pointer on the photo, and
leaving TOOLS never put it down — so its layer stayed on the stage over a
photo nobody was editing, and its ring came back under the pointer every
time the hand crossed a repair, which reads as the tool re-arming itself.
It now goes down with the tab, with another chip or another strip, and on
a press outside its own two chips, the same way the mask tool does.
And the Immich button was missing for a visitor who had just connected a
server: the studio and the library are two screens of one page, both
mounted, so coming back is a route change and not a mount — the studio's
own effect, which reads the server list once a session, never ran again.
It is read again on a popstate that lands on /app.
Checks: node scripts/heal-check.mjs (the cascade and the box, to the
letter), npx tsc --noEmit, and the studio driven in a browser: the button
appears on the way back from the library, the brush goes down with TOOLS
and re-arms with HEAL, and a stroke over a photo lays one band with no grey
in it.
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