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V3: tactile editor skin and light theme - #199

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Stacked on #198. Last PR in the V3 stack before #150.

What changes

The editor chrome gets a new, more physical look in both themes, and a light theme ships next to dark.

  • Sliders: 30px rounded tracks with a white handle inset in the track; the handle turns gray at zero. The fill turns orange (#FF4D00) only while dragging or on keyboard focus.
  • Toggles: pills. On is near-black in light and near-white with a dark knob in dark.
  • Dropdowns, buttons, menus: raised surfaces, 34px tall. Menu items are 13px sans instead of 11px mono.
  • Panels: 24px corners on the glass panels. Inside Properties and Scene, each section is a rounded card instead of being split by divider lines.
  • Type: no all-caps labels anywhere. Labels are 13px, and the old 10–12px text is bumped up a step.
  • Light theme: light-gray canvas surround, milky glass panels, neutral gray palette. Toggle it with the sun/moon button in the top bar; the choice is saved in localStorage and applied before first paint.

How it works

  • Everything lives in src/app/theme-skin.css. It is unlayered, so it beats Tailwind utilities, and it is keyed on html[data-theme]. Only the editor route sets that attribute, so community and other pages keep their current styling.
  • Shapes, sizes and type are shared by both themes; each theme only defines color variables.
  • Light flips Tailwind's --color-white and --color-black, so the existing hardcoded white/xx utilities re-ink themselves without editing each component.
  • Components only gained data-ds hook attributes and a --slider-progress CSS variable on the slider.

Checks

  • Typecheck and lint pass.
  • tests/composition/annotations-ui.mjs passes.
  • Light and dark were checked in the running editor: properties, scene settings, layer picker, timeline, export dialog, open dropdown, slider drag.

Not polished yet

The color picker popover, curve editors, community modal and the mobile layout are readable in light, because colors flip, but have not been tuned.

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[Medium risk] Adds light theme and theme toggle to the shader editor.

The PR should not merge until canvas hints remain readable in light theme and mobile users can switch themes.

Summary

The editor adds a saved light theme alongside dark and gives both themes a more tactile look.

  • A sun/moon button switches themes, and the editor applies the saved choice when it opens.
  • Sliders, toggles, buttons, and menus get rounded, raised styles and larger text.
  • Properties and Scene sections appear as separate rounded cards.

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Comment thread src/app/theme-skin.css
Comment thread src/components/editor/editor-topbar.tsx
Comment thread src/components/editor/theme-mount.tsx
…roup failures

Media load callbacks now ignore replaced or removed passes and pending loads are cleared on disposal. Strict-mode pass failures are reported once at the originating pass instead of at every group boundary.
Publishing now drops every descendant of a hidden group and clears the
parentId of any retained layer (the audio source) whose parent was removed,
so the published scene passes hierarchy validation on reopen.
Cap the neighbor row and column search to two cells each side so the
worst-case cellAt count per fragment is 25 instead of unbounded in the
packed minimum-size, maximum-stroke configuration. Mirrored in the
runtime package.
Preset -> Custom shows a Motifs tray under the preset: up to ten images or
SVGs, added several at a time with the + tile or by dropping files on the
tray. Dragging a tile lifts and tilts it while the others make room (the
user's sketch, reference 35); the drop is one undo step and Esc cancels.
Alt+arrows reorder and Delete removes from the keyboard.

Motifs are drawn into an RGBA atlas that keeps their colors, instead of the
presets' thresholded mask. The first motif covers the lightest perceptual
tones and the last the darkest, in equal bands; Invert reverses the order.
The new Motif colors mode draws each motif's own colors over the
Background, and is chosen when the first motifs are added if the mode was
still Source. The other modes tint the motif's silhouette through its alpha.
Bars, Candles and Shapes are unchanged.

The ordered list is `patternAssetIds` on the layer, so it follows save,
autosave, history, duplication and publishing through
collectReferencedAssetIds. A motif missing on reopen is dropped with
"Missing motif: <file>"; one that fails to decode is reported while the
others still render. The runtime config gains `patternAssets`, with a
distinct /replace/image/ placeholder per motif. The limit of ten keeps a
scene under the community's twelve-asset cap.

pattern-motifs.mjs checks the editor and runtime passes on a tone ramp,
the project path and runtime parity; reversing the bands fails it.
… paths, drag handling

- Keep the motif load warning until a load succeeds (src and runtime pass)
- Treat Motif colors as source color for built-in pattern presets
- Make exported motif placeholder paths unique across all layers
- End the undo interaction when a tile loses pointer capture or is cancelled, outside the state updater
- Check motif capacity after loading and report files that did not fit
Shape -> SVG takes an uploaded file as the layer's asset. The SVG is
rasterized once at 1024 px on its long side with a margin, and an exact
Euclidean distance transform (inside and outside, refined by the
anti-aliased alpha at the edge) turns it into a half-float signed
distance field. The shape shader samples it as kind 7 of the same
branchless shader, so switching shapes still doesn't recompile, edges
stay sharp at any size, and Softness and Outline mean exactly what they
mean on the procedural shapes. A distance field was chosen over
rasterizing like the Image layer for that reason.

Original colors come from a color texture whose colors are dilated
outward, so softness never shows a dark fringe. File colors are listed
from attributes, inline styles, <style> rules, gradient stops and the
implicit black of shapes without a fill, and each can be changed;
recoloring reuses the distance field and only redraws colors. Single
color and Outline use the layer Color.

Because the SVG is the layer's assetId, saving, autosave, history,
duplication, publishing, the Missing asset notice and export work as on
Image layers. Replaced fields are disposed a few frames later so a
texture is never freed while still bound.
…opic edges

- Keep SVG interior opacity through the distance field and color texture
- Preserve alpha when extracting and replacing SVG file colors
- Skip the implicit-fill swatch when a parent group sets fill
- Retry a failed SVG load on the next sync
- Keep the export wait entry until the current SVG request finishes
- Scale sampled SVG distance per axis for stretched shapes
The ramp was a JSON text param, so it could not be animated. It is now one
timeline property, Ramp, with a new "gradient" value type: the diamond next
to "Dark to light" keys the whole ramp, Auto-Key edits at the playhead create
or update keyframes, and without Auto-Key an edit only previews until keyed,
like every other animated param.

Between two keyframes the ramps are aligned stop by stop. With equal counts
the sorted stops pair up and glide in position and color. With different
counts the shorter ramp gains stops at the positions of the unmatched ones
(a monotone matching that minimises position travel), colored by sampling
the shorter ramp itself, so it looks unchanged and nothing pops at either
keyframe; nested presets crossfade exactly. Colors blend in sRGB like the
ramp and color tracks already do, per-keyframe easing applies, and the
alignment is cached per keyframe pair. The same code runs in the editor and
the runtime timeline, so preview, PNG/video export and shader export agree.

The pass rewrites its LUT in place and only when the evaluated ramp string
changes, so static scenes and projects without ramp tracks behave as before.
- Interpolate inserted ramp stops between the adjacent matched stops so overlapping stops keep the correct side of the color change (app and runtime copy)
- Pass onInteractionStart/End through GradientRamp to its ColorPicker so a color drag is one interaction
The roadmap left three Annotations items open: connected dots (reference 21),
placement guided by image regions, and rotating individual elements.

Placement → Regions reuses the 128×72 field Edges already renders and reads
back only when the image changes. A second edge material writes the Sobel
magnitude unchanged plus averaged tone and two chroma axes; the CPU groups
cells into regions with warm-started k-means, a majority filter and connected
components, drops thin slivers, and keeps region ids across frames by overlap,
so marks glide with video instead of blinking. Boxes frame compact regions,
dots, crosses and labels sit on outlines picked by seeded anchors, rings sit
on centers, and every per-region mark uses its own seeded stream so regions
appearing or disappearing do not reshuffle the others.

Connected Dots draws small constellations: a minimum spanning tree over a few
seeded nodes plus occasional second-neighbour links, respecting every
placement and drawn last so the element budget drops it first. Rotation
Jitter turns rings, crosses and boxes by a hashed angle, and Align to Edges
turns them along edge tangents or each region's long axis; text, rulers and
metadata stay upright.

Every new control starts off and draws from separate random streams, so saved
projects keep their exact layout; a golden digest of legacy layouts computed
from the previous code guards that. Plain Edges keeps its original material
and field.
…sts in the harness

The Annotations region study seeks through aura.mp4 72 times. Chrome aborts in-flight media range requests on every seek, which the harness counted as a failed request. Only media requests aborted by the element itself are ignored now; every other failed request still fails the run.
… edge angles, spread sparse marks

- Annotations pass redraws its output once the edge/region readback completes so still texture sources no longer keep seeded marks
- Edge tangents are converted from the 128x72 grid to the composition aspect before rotating marks
- eachRegion spreads limited marks evenly across regions instead of filling the first IDs
- Mirrored into packages/shader-lab-react
Lumen Print's grain is static and tied to the print look; the user asked for grain as its own layer so photos and video can get real film grain that moves. Grain is one cheap pass: three rotated lattices of a small shared noise texture (bilinear with smoothstep weights) give isotropic, clumpy grain skewed toward dark silver specks instead of symmetric TV static, sized in document pixels so every export resolution matches. Chroma adds per-layer color grain with zero luma, so it never changes brightness. Response weights the midtones like film, and Soft Light and Overlay scale the pixel uniformly so grain keeps its hue, while Add behaves like sensor noise. Speed steps to a new pattern 24 times a second at 1 instead of sliding, derived only from the clock time so preview and export agree; at Speed 0 the layer is static and joins the reusable static prefix. Five styles follow references 31, 22, 06/12 and 07 plus a digital sensor look.
The Grain check renders three illustrative video frames through a video layer. SwiftShader can't import decoded video frames, so those renders are black there and their paired validation errors don't always balance. They are only artifacts, so they now render on hardware adapters only.
- GrainPass advances its frame from the timeline time so preview and export agree
- Scale the chroma offset so no channel clips below zero and shifts brightness
- Render 30 timing frames per style instead of 150 in the grain composition test
The roadmap left snapping the dots to the image's edges open, and the
user asked for it: reference 21 reads as a portrait because its dots
and links follow the jaw, eyes and hair. Edge Snap moves each cell's
site toward the strongest edge inside its cell, so contours come out
as rows of dots and links, and Mesh triangles line up with silhouettes.

A small parallel pass scores a 4x4 set of candidates per cell (luma and
alpha gradient plus a dark-ridge term, so thin dark lines pull points
onto the line instead of its flanks, above a noise floor so grain does
not move sites). The site pre-pass then pulls the jittered site toward
the proximity-weighted centroid of the strong candidates, scaled by how
localized the edge is, so smooth gradients do not collapse the jitter
into a grid. The main shader is untouched for Graph, Blobs and Plexus.

Mesh now reads its points from the same pre-pass instead of recomputing
36 sites per pixel, and the mesh and dot shaders are built separately
so neither carries the other's registers. At Edge Snap 0 every existing
style renders pixel-identical to before (checked at 1080p and on two
other inputs); Mesh is about twice as fast and Edge Snap costs well
under 0.2 ms at 1080p. Contour Graph and Facets are new styles that use
it; existing styles keep it at 0.
Control descriptions moved from captions under each label to an info
icon that shows them on hover, and the explanations under each effect's
Style picker went into the same icon.

Controls in the new V3 layers now follow the order you work in: mode
first, then geometry, then output and finishing. Controls that do
nothing in the current mode are hidden, and a control whose parent
toggle is hidden now hides too, so Plotter's Cross Angle no longer
shows outside Hatch mode.

Annotations had two preset pickers; the one in Text now fills Words and
Metadata, and its palette and brush tools sit under Color and Placement.
Connected Dots' palette sits under Color. Paint brushes use a
full-width Edit button with a trash button beside it.
…ha edges

Disable edge snap when the edge target would exceed 8192 pixels, such as
Ultra exports at minimum spacing.
Score edges with alpha-weighted darkness so light cutouts over transparent
black snap to the opaque side.
The editor chrome was dense: hairline sliders, uppercase section labels
and 10-11px mono text in menus. The new skin makes the controls feel
physical: 30px rounded slider tracks with an inset handle, pill
toggles, raised dropdowns and buttons, sections as rounded cards inside
the glass panels, 24px panel corners, sentence-case headers and larger
sans type. Orange #FF4D00 only marks the slider being dragged and
keyboard focus.

A light theme ships next to dark, switched from the top bar and kept in
localStorage. Light flips the Tailwind white and black colors, so
hardcoded white/xx utilities re-ink without touching each component.

The skin lives in one unlayered stylesheet keyed on html[data-theme],
which only the editor route sets, so community pages keep their look.
Components only gain data-ds hooks.
The top bar, the timeline bar and the restore and draft notices were
fully rounded pills. Their radius is now the icon button radius plus
the bar padding, so the corners follow the buttons inside them; the
undo and zoom trays use the icon radius plus their own padding and
border. Both come from new tokens exposed as Tailwind classes:
rounded-toolbar, rounded-group, p-bar and p-bar-group.

Every size in the skin stylesheet is now a variable: type scale, radii,
control, track, handle and toggle sizes, and paddings. Buttons inside a
toolbar match the icon button height.
The community index, scene and profile pages were dark-only, with tiny
uppercase labels, bordered chips and flat grids. They now follow the
editor's skin and theme choice:

- a floating community toolbar (Shader Lab, Scenes, Effects, theme,
  Open Shader Lab) replaces the scattered back links
- the hero is a framed rounded canvas with the most-liked scene as a
  glass pill
- effect filters sit in a button tray, scene cards are raised cards
  with concentric thumbnails, and tags are pills
- the scene viewer, its details and the profile header are rounded
  cards, and profile stats are tiles

Text over scene imagery uses an on-media token scope so it stays light
in the light theme. The toolbar reads the path inside Suspense so the
partially prerendered routes stay cacheable. The effects pages get the
same cards and toolbar clearance.
Community: the Most liked banner and the profile header use large
cropped stat numbers; scene cards get bigger radii, grouped labels and
matched insets; the effect page is one banner with the preview beside
the copy. Effect copy is now just the catalog line; the template
sentence appended to every page is gone, and the catalog descriptions
are rewritten in plain language. Discontinued layers (Basic Blur,
Directional Blur, Fluted Glass, Progressive Blur) are no longer listed
and their effect pages redirect to Blur.

Thumbnails: new effect thumbnails under /examples/effects, compressed
to WebP (lossless for the pixel-pattern effects). The new path keeps
cached copies of the old images from being served. Bloom gets one.

Editor: a blank project in light mode has a background matching the
workspace and no artboard shadow; switching theme on an empty default
project swaps it, but only after autosave restore so it cannot skip
the session. The empty state has an Add layer button. Layer rows use a
raised selected state with concentric radii. The drag status box and
the drag-handle tooltips are gone.

3D gizmo: rings scale with the model, fade their far halves, thicken
on hover and hide the rest while dragging. Hit areas follow the
strokes, so the view ring no longer swallows clicks on the axis rings.
…color restore

- Mark the drop hint and boot loader as ds-on-media so they stay light on the dark canvas in the light theme
- Add the theme toggle to the mobile actions panel
- Restore the shared theme-color meta content when ThemeMount unmounts
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