The landing card sells "35mm & 120 Film Grain — authentic grain structures plus halation bloom, tuned per stock rather than one global overlay", and the engine printed one field for everything: a width/1080 cell, one spread, no bleed. `shared/utils/grainShader.ts` (new, the web fork of the phone's src/utils/grainShader.ts) now carries the stock table — format, cell, spread, octave mix, halation, halo radius, halo tint — and `grainStockFor( recipe.baseFilter)` picks the one this recipe prints. FORMAT. 35mm cells are the 1.0 reference the knob was tuned at (classic-negative 1.15, B&W high contrast 1.25); the 120 emulsions sit at 0.55-0.72 and open their base octave (mix 0.55/0.30/0.15 -> 0.62/0.26/0.12), so the same knob prints a finer, smoother texture on the bigger negative. Measured on a flat 128 grey at a 3200px preview (cells 3.41px vs 1.63px), GRAIN 10, luma residual against a 17px box: 35mm CLASSIC NEGIPES r1 0.793 keeps 0.976 35mm CLASSIC CHRIPES r1 0.744 keeps 0.931 35mm B&W HIGH CONTRAST r1 0.812 keeps 1.002 120 PROVIPES r1 0.423 keeps 0.728 120 VELVIPES r1 0.313 keeps 0.672 120 ACRIPES r1 0.543 keeps 0.794 r1 is the lag-1 autocorrelation of the residual — how coarse the clumps are — and "keeps" is the residual sd after a 2x box downscale over the sd before, i.e. how much of its texture a print at half size holds on to. Every 35mm stock beats every 120 stock on both, and VELVIPES (0.55 cell) is finer than PROVIPES (0.62) inside 120, so the format is a look and not a label. Raw sd is NOT the measure: the knob drives one alpha for every stock, so a stock's amount follows its cell and mix rather than the order anyone assumed. HALATION. A new pass 6b thresholds the print (T0 0.62, T1 0.92), tints what is left the stock's halo colour — red, because red is the light the emulsion passes and the backing returns — blurs it at the stock's own radius and screens it back at `halation * grain/10 * 0.6`. Riding the GRAIN knob keeps today's contract: OFF is still a clean frame, the OFF/WEAK/STRONG chips still mean 0/3/6, and a sensor stock carries none at any amount. Measured R-B of the ring around a white block on black, GRAIN 6 minus GRAIN 0 (mean, and the ring's reddest pixel): CLASSIC NEGIPES 7.87 (peak 0 -> 14) VELVIPES 3.71 (0 -> 13) CLASSIC CHRIPES 2.91 (0 -> 10) PROVIPES 2.01 (0 -> 7) B&W HIGH CONTRAST 0.61 (0 -> 5) ACRIPES 0.24 (0 -> 3) LC STREETLIFE CLASSIC 0.09 (0 -> 0) which is the table's own halation column (0.45 > 0.30 > 0.25 > 0.18 > 0.15 > 0.12) in order: the colour negative halates hardest, the B&W emulsions barely, Acros — no colour layer to bleed — least of all, and the sensor not at all. The colour negative's own grade leaves its ring blue at GRAIN 0 (-5.96 there), so the statistic is the change and not the absolute channel; in a crop of the block the bloom itself is unmistakable at GRAIN 6 and 10 and absent at 0. GRAIN_SEED moves here from exportEngine.ts so the roll is still one per page load, and still shared by the preview, the compare copy and the file. Checked: tsc --noEmit clean; grain-stock-test 53 PASS / 0 FAIL; sims-test 31/0, fx-mono-test 15/0, grain-size-test 12/0, grain-analog-test 7/0, wm-font-test green. ponytail: halation rides the GRAIN knob instead of a control of its own, since the card promises no more than "tuned per stock". Add a HALATION chip when the phone grows one. ponytail: `grainCell`'s 1px floor is the aliasing guard, and it also hides the format ratio under a ~1600px preview. Nothing to add: the exported file is always wide enough, and the harness renders at 3200 to see it.
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.