The country poster previews were the dense layout -- small facts table, both
vision columns, a smaller map -- while every UPG-100 thumbnail is SPARSE. Now
that the click-time print is SPARSE too, the stored country previews have to be,
or the card and the print disagree.
Generated with SPARSE=1 and checked BEFORE any browser time:
· the generator's own layout guards: 173 of 173 ok, octilinear, 0 diagonals.
· SPARSE on all 173: 0 sheets draw a dense-table element; all 173 carry the
bold "N UPG's" count.
· real values: 0 sheets show 0, NaN or blank population. Worst cases by UPG
count: Sudan 105 / ~20.7M, Brazil 103 / ~63K, Laos 95 / ~968K.
Shot on the fleet's shared Chromium (no private browser), one page at a time:
173 of 173, 0 failed, all 3000x3000, none blank. Smoke-tested and looked at
first: Sudan shows the bold facts row, no vision columns, "1 of ~170 maps".
ALL 173 CHANGE: 173 source thumbnails, 173 full-size and 173 served previews
differ from development, 0 strays, nothing written to a stray library/ path.
China is deliberately NOT here: its thumbnail stays the dense "map 174 of 174"
it has tonight. Its print becomes SPARSE with "map 1 of 1" via the small-total
guard. The remaining numbering difference is R-CHN-SERIES-TIER, a product call
after the demo.
The poster walls' card THUMBNAILS are stored WebP files, not generated at the
click, and all 174 were last shot on 09-25 -- teal. Since the region hue
landed, the PRINT has been hued, so both Country Posters and the Regions tab
showed a teal thumbnail above a hued poster. The Experimental section shows on
Deep Research, so that mismatch was visible.
Shot in one pass on the shared browser: 174 of 174, 0 failed, 0 retries,
23:00:37-23:10:07Z, one engine, DSF 2. Measured by the shooter: none blank (at
least 1,000 distinct colours each), and the count of sheets by their --zc hue
matches the region census exactly -- 41 Africa, 27 Asia, 27 Europe, 21 Middle
East, 18 Other, 17 Oceania, 14 North America, 9 Latin America. Asia is 27, not
28, because India has no sheet.
★ ALL 174 CHANGE, and that is the check that matters here. make-previews used to
write one directory too high (library/plugin-designs/..., library/data/posters)
while reporting success, so a reshoot could complete, look complete, and change
no served file at all. With that fixed, 174 of 174 source thumbnails, 174 of
174 full-size sources and 174 of 174 served previews differ from development,
with 0 untracked strays.
China was regenerated first with the whole-series count: 'map 174 of 174' and
'one of a 170-map set', where it had printed 'map 1 of 1' and 'a 0-map set'.
posters/ (42M webp set the poster walls fetch) and tables/ (the merged served
table set — its index.json is the merge; per-profile data/tables remain the
build-time sources) now live in data/ with build copy-steps. Byte parity
verified; served paths unchanged. public/ is now FULLY regenerable — every
source-of-truth folder has a home outside the web-root.
