- A catalogue of what can be chosen: no effect, blur, and two shipped
backgrounds, the app's own gradients flattened onto its canvas colour.
Their ids are what a saved choice stores, so they are named for the
pictures.
- One setting for the choice, typed as the ids an effect can have and
defaulting to blur for anyone who had it on. A stored value we no
longer ship, or one that isn't even a string, reads as no effect: it
comes from storage another build or a hand may have written.
- The pipeline follows it, switching in place to a picture as readily as
to blur, and the camera menu's blur toggle reads and writes it.
- So does Settings' blur checkbox: a picture reads as blur off, and
checking it replaces the picture with blur. The old on/off setting is
only read, to carry blur over. First tests for the Settings modal,
which fail with the checkbox on the old setting.
- The transformer's own init loads a picture chosen before it was built,
as the base init does and it had not: the first effect always is, and
the picture was drawn black.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
It turns out that for a blurry gradient background, low-res raster images look very convincing when scaled up and interpolated. That means that we can rasterize our gradient SVGs for improved paint performance when resizing the window, while still keeping them quite lightweight (just a couple of kilobytes each).
