bun run posters (SPARSE 3x3, POSTER_DATE 2026-10-02, the offline records cache), posters:shoot, posters:previews,
publish-html. 'List of 100 UPG' left in the zone sources: 0; 'UPG100 List' in all 28.
India's card is no longer "too many to fit": it prints as the 60x96 side-lane sheet (all 855 groups named beside
the map, crossing-free leaders, real photos), whatever paper the wall asks for, until the shared size picker
offers 66x66 and 36x60 too. Its facts row reads "36 states and union territories" (English, from the wall
head's plural key). As ruled, the whole-India card offers no prayer list, packet or cards; the state cards keep
theirs. Its card preview is the real sheet.
check:side-lanes (+ :self-test, gates:pre): the three side-lane formats on a seeded worst case (855 groups,
stacked and clustered) through the real renderer: every name once, 0 crossings re-measured from the SVG, no
overflow, photos only where real; without the lane clamp the same data crosses 36 times, and the arm fails.
Each state's sheet drawn from live records with the browser's own inputs (SPARSE 3x3, the indiaState series, the
served boundaries and places), shot in the shared browser at 3000 px, and reduced by make-previews.py to the 560 px
card thumbnail and the 1500 px download, as the country previews are. Every record pinned; every layout octilinear.
Comments in library/ and internal/ that quoted a person, attributed a decision to one, used first person,
named fleet agents or carried private host names now state the same technical fact in neutral words:
poster-render (including the comments it writes into generated posters), packet-render, the poster and
research scripts, PosterWall, DataTable, the legends, the layouts and the gates. The network-policy note
states the policy itself. Behaviour is unchanged: a few printed gate messages and reason labels drop an
agent name, the poster-render integrity pin follows its comment-only edit, and series.json changes only in
its _meta and _why notes. The historical poster design snapshots (library/scripts/posters/snapshots/),
which nothing reads, are removed.
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'.
The stored poster (data/posters) and its wall preview predated the ink pin
badge: 57 pin numbers drawn white on the zone hue, 1.44:1. They are what the
UPG-100 info popup shows and opens ("Open full size"). Regenerated from the
current poster-render in its stored 3x4 format (1500x2000) and published;
the pin numbers are now white on #1c1c17, 17.10:1. The preview and the
1500px download are made from a 3000px shot of the regenerated sheet with
make-previews' own sizes and qualities (a 3x4 sheet now makes a 420x560
thumbnail; the wall letterboxes it). The other 27 stored zone posters are
fallback-only and follow after the demo.
posters/*.webp is not shipped by default (42MB; bundling pushed the tree to 80MB,
git-packed to 57MiB, and the catalog rejected the push). The DOWNLOAD path has
handled that since d154a76 — PosterWall fetches posters/<id>.html and rasterises
it in the browser. The PRINT path did not: it handed an <img> a url it never
checked, so on a default drop the SAME poster downloaded fine and PRINTED as
"Poster not available yet." That is the bad first impression
IDEA-POSTER-EXPORT-404-ON-DROPPED-FOLDER-TRADEOFF called out by name.
Three things were missing; all three are here:
1. printPoster now climbs the same ladder as the download path — probe the webp,
and only on a miss fetch the .html, rasterise, and verify PIXELS before opening
the dialog (an SVG in an <img> is an isolated document: a lost stylesheet prints
a black square with no error). Blob urls are held until unmount, not revoked at
print time — the preview <img> is still reading from them.
2. publish-html.mjs wrote into public/assets/posters, which is a GENERATED MIRROR
that every `bun run tree` rmSync's. Its output never survived, which is a large
part of why the fallback still had no input months after it shipped. Retargeted
at data/posters, the tracked source the mirror is made from.
3. bundlePosters is one boolean over a directory holding 40.9MB of rasters AND the
28 sources, so it could only ever ship both or neither — and "neither" is what
made both full-size paths 404. posterSources:true ships the sources without the
rasters, the combination that was previously inexpressible. DEFAULT UNCHANGED:
28 sources are 27.9MB raw (6.9MB packed, measured with pack-objects), real
weight in a published tree that needs a deployment decision, not a silent one.
VERIFIED AT THE RENDERED LAYER, not by reading source. check:poster-print-fallback
clicks the real control with every posters/*.webp ABORTED at the network layer —
the default-drop condition forced rather than hoped for — and asserts the HUD
enters "generating the poster" and settles clean. Mutation-tested: removing the
fallback produces 4 failures including "no posters/*.html was fetched". The other
branch is verified too — with a webp present it is used directly, zero html
fetches, no rasterise — so the extra probe is paid only on a miss.
★ THE GATE WAS WRONG THREE TIMES FIRST, each time blaming the product for a
harness fault, which is why it now asserts the HUD instead of an internal:
- it matched /print/i, but the control reads "UPG prayer poster" — the product
names the ARTEFACT, not the action;
- it patched Document.prototype in the PARENT realm while openPrintFrame writes
into the iframe's own;
- openPrintFrame calls doc.open() AFTER append, and open() RESETS the document,
discarding a write patched at append time.
Through all three the .webp/.html request counters looked corroborating, because
the wall loads both by itself. The HUD is what a user sees, survives a refactor of
the print internals, and cannot silently miss.
The 28 poster sources are committed because the fallback has no input without
them. city-* posters are deliberately NOT covered: they fetch OSM street tiles at
generation time, so they are not reproducible offline and their rasters must stay.
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.
