HEAL draws every repair it holds as the circle the shader fills — the brush's own size at the moment it was laid — so a photo with two repairs has two rings and a photo with twenty has twenty. Each one is loud enough to be the loudest thing on the picture, and none of them is the one the user is looking for: the speck that was mended, and the patch borrowed to mend it, are both inside the ring that covers them. What the ring is for is the spot that is about to be taken hold of, and there is only ever one of those. A repair now wears its circle only while it is the spot in hand — the one the pointer is over, the one just laid, which is the one the user is watching, or the one a press chose, which is the one wearing the ×. The moment the pointer walks elsewhere the ring goes, and what is left is the pair the renderer works with: the patch it borrowed, still dashed, and a soft print of the place it mended. The ring comes back under the pointer, which is where the spot is taken hold of again; the grab was always the geometry — the circle plus a few pixels of slop — and never depended on the ring being drawn, so an idle spot is as easy to move as a ringed one (measured: a 60,40px drag on an idle spot moved it 970.2,390.7 -> 1030.3,430.7). The run a stroke left is the mark of that stroke, so the spots the band stands for keep their boxes and give up their own edges as before, and no print is laid under the band: a row of blurred discs under one translucent band is a second, blurrier band. The one spot of the run that is in hand wears its circle again over the band, because that is the spot a press would take hold of. MOSAIC keeps its rings. Its spots are not repairs to be placed and moved — the circle is the only thing that says where the cover is, and the cover is the edit. ponytail: the print is a blurred translucent disc (14% grey, a soft dark shadow, 1px of blur) rather than a tint read off the pixels under it, so it reads on a photo of any tone without a second pass over the render — the upgrade path, if a print that sits on the repaired pixels themselves is wanted, is the shader the repair already runs through. The ring under the pointer is reported from the pointer's own move events rather than from a hit test per frame, so the one case it does not cover is the pointer that has not moved since the repair landed; that case is covered by the spot just laid being in hand, and a twitch of the mouse covers it everywhere else. The idle/hover split is HEAL's only: MOSAIC's spots keep the border they always had, which is the asymmetry this tool set already had about moving them. Verified: heal-idle-probe.cjs (new, 23 checks) 23 PASS / 0 FAIL on :5199 and on :8090 after deploy — a press on the speck lays one repair and that repair is in hand, so it wears its circle (rgba(255,255,255,0.85)); a repair the pointer has left is idle with the ring given up (rgba(0,0,0,0)), the print of the place it mended left (rgba(127,127,127,0.14)) and the patch it borrowed still dashed and in the same place (640.3,297.9 vs 640.4,297.9); the ring comes back under the pointer; a press chooses it, puts its × on the photo and the × stays while the pointer walks off; laying the next repair takes the choice and the × off the first and gives its ring up; hovering the second leaves the first idle; a drag still takes hold of an idle spot; a run of 13 spots shows the band, no print under it and no ring while the pointer is away, and the spot of the run under the pointer wears its circle again; a MOSAIC spot keeps its ring; 0 page errors. brush-edit-probe.cjs 33/0 — its "every spot of the run gave up its own edge" now reads "but the one in hand", which is the rule this commit adds, and its "a spot with no neighbour keeps its own circle" passes off the repair just laid being in hand. heal-zoom-drag-probe 28/0 (the wheel, the pan, the × and taking hold of a repair, at the fit and at x1.52, unchanged), heal-blotch-lab 12, heal-edge-lab 9, heal-seam-lab 10, heal-skia-lab 28, heal-search-lab 15, heal-probe 49, heal-zoom-geom 5, heal-zoom-probe 8, mosaic-skia-lab 27, mosaic-probe 51 — all green on :8090. Regression: landing-test 172/0, pro-gate-test 27/0, award-column-probe 18/0, otp-code-probe 10/0, tone-curve-probe 42/0, rc=0. Backend npm test 180 passed, 0 failed. npx tsc --noEmit clean.
RecipesCam
RecipesCam is a camera and photo-editing app built around recipes — reusable
looks that carry a film simulation plus a full set of adjustments. You shoot or
open a photo, dial in a look, and keep it as a recipe you can apply again, share
as a .recipe file, or save to your account.
It ships twice from one repository: a React Native (Expo) app for iOS and
Android, and a self-contained web build under docker/ that runs the same
render pipeline in the browser.
What it does
- Shoot with a recipe applied. Live viewfinder, GPS-tagged captures, and the recipe baked into the saved file.
- Film simulations. Built-in looks — PROVIPES, VELVIPES, CLASSIC CHRIPES, CLASSIC NEGIPES, ASTIPES, ETERNIPES, ACRIPES, B&W HIGH CONTRAST and the LC STREETLIFE pair — each with its own grain and tone curve.
- The full adjustment set. Exposure, contrast, highlights and shadows, saturation, colour temperature, clarity, grain, and an HSL mixer with a colour picker that samples straight off the photo.
- Geometry. Crop to a fixed ratio or free-form, quarter turns, and a straighten ruler, plus printed frames (classic border, retro instant, wall frame portrait/landscape).
- Finishing. Watermark and GPS stamp, EXIF carried through the export, JPEG written with a proper 300 DPI JFIF header.
- On-device upscaling. A Real-ESRGAN pass runs locally when an export asks for more pixels than the source has — no server sees the photo.
- Recipes. Save, favourite, export and import
.recipefiles; the web build keeps them in your account, the phone build also keeps them on device.
The two builds
| Build | Where | Stack |
|---|---|---|
| iOS / Android | repo root | Expo + React Native, @shopify/react-native-skia for the render pipeline, NativeWind for styling |
| Web | docker/ |
Vite + React, CanvasKit (canvaskit-wasm) for the same pipeline, Fastify + SQLite API for accounts and recipes |
The render engine is shared by design: the web build compiles the app's own
src/utils/* and type definitions unchanged, with @shopify/react-native-skia
aliased to a CanvasKit shim (docker/frontend/src/engine/skiaShim.ts). A look
looks the same on both because it is the same code.
Running the web build
cd docker
cp .env.example .env
docker compose up -d --build
# → http://localhost:8090
Photos never leave the browser: grading, framing, watermarking and JPEG
encoding all run in the visitor's tab; the API only stores accounts and recipe
JSON. See docker/README.md for the layout and the proxy setup.
Running the app
npm install
npx expo start # Expo Go / dev client
npx expo run:android # or run:ios for a native build
Repository layout
App.tsx, src/ the Expo app: screens, tool rail, viewfinder, shaders
docker/ the web build (frontend + API + compose file)
frontend/shared/ vendored copies of the app's types and utils
frontend/src/engine/ CanvasKit shim, export engine, super-resolution
docs/ privacy policy
THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md licences of the bundled fonts, models and libraries
Licence
See LICENSE and THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md.