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The base layer shipped last commit was nine POINT SAMPLES of the child, one ring out at TONE_BASE_RADIUS. A ring is not an average, and on a frame with texture at the ring's own scale it is worse than one: the nine lumas differ, the sample pattern beats against the texture, and the base field comes out aliased. The gain the pixel then rides, o(base)/base, is a function of the base with a kink at every knot — so each alias of the base becomes an alias of the gain, and the reconstruction paints it straight back over the detail it was supposed to leave standing. Reported on a waterfall: grey patches loose on a mountainside, a smear across the face of the falls, and plateaus in cloud and sky (the pass runs whole-frame, so its base is read in the bright end too). Measured, 1160x774 at SHADOW +100, the high-frequency part of the gain field (9px high-pass, where a real base can hold none): 0.0627 for the ring, 0.0048 for a blur of the same radius. Thirteen times. The fix is not more taps — a 7x7 at a third of the step is still point samples, only smaller — it is to stop sampling: the caller blurs. So the base is now a second CHILD of the tone pass, the frame blurred by Skia's own MakeBlur (blurredBase in exportEngine.ts, the draw drawBlurred already made for the sharpening pass) at TONE_BASE_RADIUS of the frame width and sigma TONE_BASE_SIGMA of that radius — a box's equivalent at the radius, so the neighbourhood is the one the radius always named and the cuts are smooth instead of hard. The shader reads it ONCE per pixel and baseLuma loses its loop and its `bx`. That is also the cheaper pass: nine child evals walked the exposure/matrix chain nine times, one eval does not. A caller with no frame to blur hands in the image it is already shading as the base. The tap then lands exactly on t and the ramp is the global move again — a mask's degenerate bx of zero, spelled as a child that IS the source, which is what gradientMask.ts's own call (base == t) already meant. Checks: tone-base-check.mjs is new — SkSL is only compiled at runtime and nothing here compiled TONE_SKSL whole, so the pass is compiled and rendered for real, with the frame and the base held at two flat values a little apart: the pixel has to land on the value the ramp over THAT base predicts (171 for a 128 pixel over a 76 base), and a base equal to the pixel has to be the identity. highlight-knee-check now pins the one tap, the absence of `bx`, the blur, and the two-child wiring. 9/9 pass, build clean. Skipped: no guided filter proper — the base is a plain blur, so a strong edge is no longer held out of it the way the range weight held it (a dark rock a blur's width from the water reads a lifted base and keeps its own darkness). Add when a frame shows the halo; the doc asks for a plain blur and this is one.
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.