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A repair laid on the photo was finished the moment it landed. The brush could
only put more spots down, so a repair aimed one brush-width off the speck was
deleted and laid again, and the patch a spot borrowed — the other half of what
the renderer works with — could not be moved at all. And a drag, which is one
mark of the brush and is drawn as one while it is being painted, came back as
the beads it is stored as: a run of circles a fraction of a radius apart, each
showing its own edge, so a long stroke over a scratch read as twenty repairs.
HEAL's spots can now be taken hold of. A press inside a spot's circle moves that
circle — the hole, or the patch it borrowed, one at a time, since the pair is
the user's to arrange — and the repair is re-rendered under the pointer as it
travels, off the same snapshot the preview and the export read from. A press
that does not travel only chooses the spot, and a chosen spot wears a small ×
just off its circle: click it and that one spot goes, the rest keep their
places, and UNDO takes it back. One gesture is still one step — the undo
boundary is the gesture's first actual change, so a drag is a single step
however far it went and a press that only chose a spot records nothing. The
recipe is written exactly as before, one list of fractions and radii, so a moved
or deleted repair survives a reload, rides UNDO and REDO, and reaches the
exported file through the numbers it always did.
The band a stroke leaves is now read back off the recipe's own spots: the ones
that overlap — which is what a drag lays, one spot every 0.6 of a radius — are
joined into one run and drawn as a single path of the brush's own width, and
only a spot with no such neighbour keeps the circle it is. One path per run
rather than one capsule per pair, because the band is translucent and a pair of
capsules would print a darker patch wherever they meet — which is what a row of
overlapping circles looks like in the first place. Two spots whose circles do
not overlap are two marks and stay two: a band drawn through the gap between
them would be paint that is not there. Nothing about a stroke is stored, so the
band is a reading of the geometry the shader works from, and a saved photo opens
onto the same band it was left with.
Three things came out of the probe rather than out of the design, and all three
are in here because the numbers said so:
- The × first sat on the spot's corner at the brush's own radius. The default
brush is 6px wide and the badge is 18px across, so the badge covered the
circle: the next press on the repair — a user putting the spot down again —
deleted it. Measured: after undo/redo, a press at the spot's centre left one
spot instead of two. The badge now sits on the top-right diagonal at the
circle's edge plus a badge's radius, so it can never take a press meant for
the spot.
- The hit test first took the hole before the patch. On the default brush the
patch the search borrows sits about 8px from the hole it fills — inside any
reach a pointer can use — so dragging the patch's own centre grabbed the hole
and the patch never moved (measured: dragging the patch from (0.331, 0.300)
to the neighbouring speck left it at (0.331, 0.300) and painted a stroke
instead). The nearest circle now wins, and the hole wins a tie with its own
patch.
- The reach was first the circle plus 8px, for a brush turned down to a few
pixels. heal-probe.cjs went to 48 PASS / 1 FAIL: eight clicks on a grid
12.8px apart were meant to lay eight repairs and four of them landed, because
four were within 8px of a patch circle and grabbed the spot instead. The
reach is now the circle plus 4px: the same probe is 49/0 and the patch's
centre is still 0px from the pointer that grabs it.
MOSAIC's spots are deliberately not held, and that is the one asymmetry here: a
repair is aimed, a mosaic cell is part of a region that gets painted over, and a
grab that could take a cell would also be one the user could not paint through.
Its cells are drawn as one band like HEAL's, since a mosaic stroke is the same
kind of mark.
Verified, on the rebuilt app at http://localhost:8090 (docker compose up -d
--build frontend):
brush-edit-probe.cjs (new, 33 checks, 0 FAIL): the band is one path of the
brush's width through all 15 spots of a drag, its length inside 2px of the
polyline the spots stand for, every joined spot's border transparent and a
lone spot's not; dragging the hole moves it to (0.550, 0.550) at the size it
was laid and the speck comes back at (0.300, 0.300), UNDO/REDO move it back
and forth in one step each; dragging the patch onto the neighbouring speck
puts the speck back into the repair (level 5 on a field of 151) and UNDO
returns it; a press chooses a spot and shows the ×, that press records no
step (the next UNDO still takes the last repair back), the × deletes that
spot and no other, and UNDO restores it; a mosaic drag's overlapping cells
are one band and every cell in the run joins it, painting across mosaic
already laid down paints more cells, and no mosaic spot is ever offered an ×.
Unchanged and still green: heal-blotch-lab.cjs 12, heal-edge-lab.cjs 9,
heal-seam-lab.cjs 10, heal-skia-lab.cjs 28, heal-search-lab.cjs 15,
heal-probe.cjs 49, heal-zoom-geom.cjs 5, heal-zoom-probe.cjs 8,
mosaic-skia-lab.cjs 27, mosaic-probe.cjs 51 — all 0 FAIL.
Regressions against the rebuilt app, rc=0, 0 fail: landing-test.cjs 172,
pro-gate-test.cjs 27, award-column-probe.cjs 18, otp-code-probe.cjs 10,
tone-curve-probe.cjs 42; backend npm test 180 passed, 0 failed; frontend
tsc --noEmit clean.
ponytail: a stroke is still not stored — the band is derived from the spots that
overlap, so a stroke whose pointer jumped (a coalesced event, a fast flick) lays
spots further apart than the brush is wide and comes back as separate circles,
and a run breaks where the wheel changed the brush size mid-stroke. A stroke id
in the recipe, written once per gesture, is the rung for that, when a photo shows
a run the geometry cannot join. The hit test is the nearest circle within a few
pixels, so a press meant to paint a new repair within that reach of an existing
one moves the existing one instead — a shared modifier to paint regardless is
the rung there. Choosing a spot is an index into HEAL's list, so an UNDO that
changes the list under a chosen spot can leave the × on the spot that took its
place; the × is guarded against an index past the end but not against that. No
keyboard delete: the × is the whole affordance. And the band is drawn only while
the brush is armed — the spots are the recipe's, so nothing outside FX sees
them, which is the same as it was.
RecipesCam web — self-contained stack
A Docker-hosted web build of RecipesCam. Everything it needs is in this folder: move it to another machine, run two commands, and the app is up. It does not need the React Native project around it.
cp .env.example .env
docker compose up -d --build
# → http://localhost:8090
What runs where
| Service | Image | Role |
|---|---|---|
frontend |
nginx:1.27-alpine (built by frontend/Dockerfile) |
Static SPA + /api/ reverse proxy |
api |
node:22-slim (built by backend/Dockerfile) |
Accounts + saved recipes, SQLite on ./data |
frontend resolves api through Docker's embedded DNS and proxies /api/* to
it — that is why the API container is named api and why it is not published on
the host. Only ${WEB_PORT:-8090} is exposed.
Photos never leave the browser. The CanvasKit render pipeline (grade, frame, watermarks, JPEG encode) runs in the visitor's tab; the API only stores recipes as JSON.
Layout
docker-compose.yml the stack
.env.example WEB_PORT
data/ SQLite (created on first run, gitignored)
backend/ Fastify + better-sqlite3 API, own Dockerfile
frontend/ Vite + React + CanvasKit SPA, own Dockerfile + nginx.conf
shared/ vendored copies of the app's types + utils (see below)
src/engine/ skiaShim.ts (CanvasKit) + exportEngine.ts (render pipeline)
+ session.ts (localStorage/IndexedDB studio persistence)
Vendored files
frontend/shared/{types/index.ts,utils/*.ts} are byte-identical copies of
src/types/index.ts and ten src/utils/*.ts files from the React Native
project (@shopify/react-native-skia is aliased to src/engine/skiaShim.ts in
vite.config.ts + tsconfig.json, so those files compile unchanged):
cinemaShader colorUtils defaultRecipes exifWrite frameUtils jpegDpi
paramDefs recipeShare skiaImage toneShader.
The landing page needs no CDN: frontend/public/assets/fonts/*.woff2 are the
seven self-hosted faces behind the three font groups the Themes menu offers
(Plus Jakarta Sans / Inter / JetBrains Mono, Fraunces / Be Vietnam Pro /
Courier Prime, Be Vietnam Pro / Space Mono — all SIL OFL, pulled from Google
Fonts, vietnamese + latin + latin-ext subsets), and
frontend/public/assets/samples/s*.jpg are the six placeholder negatives the
film strip, preset tester and QR card show (swap them for real graded stills
whenever we have them). Its one foreign request is the QR image from
api.qrserver.com, which degrades to an empty slot offline.
When the app changes one of them, copy it back in — the renderer is only "parity" for as long as these stay in sync:
cd <repo>/docker/frontend/shared/utils
cp <repo>/src/utils/<name>.ts .
Operations
docker compose logs -f api # API log
docker compose restart api # after backend/src changes (rebuild: --build)
docker compose down # stop; ./data survives
Backup is the ./data folder — that is the whole database.
Checks
curl -s http://localhost:8090/api/health # {"ok":true}
curl -sI http://localhost:8090/ # 200, index.html
Then open the UI, drop a photo in, and confirm the preview shows the picture and
EXPORT downloads a JPEG that opens. The preview going solid black while the
export still reports a plausible size is the one failure mode worth knowing: it
means the CanvasKit GPU surfaces lost their shared GrDirectContext (see
frontend/src/engine/skiaShim.ts), and with no GPU the raster fallback renders
the same pipeline correctly, just slower.