This adds another color-modifying button, "Mono", which makes the fill and stroke colors a minor variation of the background. This makes the composition as a whole monochromatic, hence the name.
In practice, this is just tinting the background by black (stroke) and white (fill) a tiny bit. The color transformation could be used, for instance, to turn a cluster (even a simple one that is essentially just a single symbol) into a background for another cluster. (Note that there's not currently an easy way to actually compose multiple compositions like this, though I'd like there to be!)
This adds a "B&W" button to the colors area in the cluster and mandala pages. Clicking it will reset the background, stroke and fill colors to their monochromatic defaults.
I'm calling the button "B&W" for now to minimize the amount of space the button takes up, since I'd like to add at least one more to that area. At some point we might want to use a UI that scales a bit better, like a dropdown button.
This fixes#213. It is not particularly accessible, but since it (hopefully) shouldn't be displayed too often, I'm going to merge it anyways for now--better an inaccessible modal than failing silently.
This fixes#222. Note that it only renames it in the UI, not in the code or the TOML metadata, as that would require a ton of changes, and possibly break old links.
This adds thumbnails to the gallery (#26). Mandalas are not currently animated (I'm worried that doing this for lots of mandalas would severely impact performance). It also adds a loading throbber for the gallery page.
If a gallery item can't be deserialized, a sad face is shown in place of a thumbnail, with a more detailed explanation on mouseover.
Currently the implementation is not as clean as I'd like. I'll clean it up in a separate PR, as it will involve factoring out logic from the creature and mandala pages (similar in concept to #189 / #190), which would add lots of noise to this diff.
This implements an _extremely_ basic Firebase-powered gallery (#26). At present it's just a list of links to creatures/manadalas that open in new tabs, without preview thumbnails. Or the ability to submit new entries. These features will be forthcoming in future PRs.
As with #215, this decouples the view logic from Firebase so we can use something else in the future if we want.
This adds GitHub login via Firebase, as a foundation for adding a gallery (#26). Currently it just adds a login/logout button to the Debug page.
At an architectural level, this adds an `AuthContext` React context, whose interface is generic enough that it's not coupled to Firebase or GitHub. In fact, the default context is a "null context" whose operations are all no-ops.
This adds a new `useRememberedState()` React hook that effectively allows us to have user interface elements that "remember" their most recent value, even if the UI itself was unmounted at some point. (It only works for the lifetime of the page, however, so it doesn't remember values across page reloads; this is intentional, as I didn't want to have to worry about serialization or schema migration.)
The hook is now used in the randomizer widget and for some of the creature page widgets, to ensure that their settings are preserved more often than not.
The creature state stored in #210, while quite compact, is also very fragile, because any minor change in our creature generation algorithm or even vocabulary will completely throw off existing serializations.
This attempts to serialize the actual _creature_ created by the generator rather than its random number seed, which will be a larger serialization but also one that is more resilient to future changes in the algorithm and/or vocabulary. It should also pave the way for tweaking generated creatures.
Note that the previous `v1` schema implemented in #210 is no longer supported--i.e., links that use it will now be broken. Hopefully this is OK because it hasn't been around for very long, but it was just way too much work to migrate that schema to the new `v2` format.
This is an attempt to help with #61 by storing the creature state in the querystring.
However, a crucial issue with this implementation as it stands is that it stores the random number seed used to generate the creature. This is great for representing the state in a compact form, but it's also likely to break easily as the vocabulary and randomization algorithm changes.
So, in the future, we might want to represent the creature state by enumerating the actual structure of the creature, which is likely to be a bit more future-proof. (It also makes it possible for us to add features in the future that allow users to tweak the randomly-generated creature.)
But for now at least, this will allow users to use the back and forward buttons in their browser to navigate between creatures, so that if they click randomize and skip past something that looked cool, it's easy to go back and visit it.
Fixes#191.
Currently the implementation is fairly naive, in that a really large value for `creature_frequency_multiplier` will not be handled terribly efficiently, but we can optimize later if needed.
Atul Varma