Switch artifact sheets to per-cue chroma keys kept in crops

Drop the two-pass matte pipeline in favor of one chroma-key sheet per
cue: each specialist picks the farthest-hue key, stages larger artifacts
with shadowless crisp edges, reports CHROMA in its reply, and crop records
the hex in cues.json for browser keying downstream.

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
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Abdul Wahab
2026-09-01 10:00:42 +05:00
co-authored by Cursor
parent 7593ec9d93
commit f8981c61dd
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// visual-cues.mjs — crop + compile for document seed visual cues.
// Pipeline doc: skill/reference/visual-cues.md (canonical; this help text is not).
//
// Each cue is a full-bleed hero scene plus an artifact sheet (four objects,
// one per quadrant) rendered twice: on cream and on black. `matte` fuses
// the two passes into one transparent-background RGBA sheet; `crop` cuts
// any sheet into per-artifact PNGs, preserving whatever alpha it carries.
// Each cue is a full-bleed hero scene plus an artifact sheet: four objects,
// one per quadrant, on a single flat chroma-key background. The key stays
// in the shipped crops; the browser canvas removes it downstream, using the
// key hex this script records in cues.json.
//
// node visual-cues.mjs crop <hero.png> <artifacts.png> --slug <two-word-slug>
// [--chroma "#00FF00"]
// [--palette "primary=#RRGGBB;secondary=...;tertiary=...;neutral=..."]
// [--out <dir>] (default: .impeccable/visual-cues)
// Copies the hero untouched to <slug>.png, keeps the sheet it was
// given under <out>/masters/<slug>-artifacts.png, quadrant-crops the
// sheet into <slug>-2..5.png (alpha preserved), finds each planned
// palette hex's closest pixel in the hero, and updates <out>/cues.json.
// Copies the hero untouched to <slug>.png, keeps the sheet under
// <out>/masters/<slug>-artifacts.png, quadrant-crops the sheet into
// <slug>-2..5.png (key background kept), finds each planned palette
// hex's closest pixel in the hero, records the cue's chroma key, and
// updates <out>/cues.json.
// Both inputs must be square: generation happens on a square canvas
// (a size/aspect parameter, not just a prompt line), and a non-square
// input is a generation to redo, not an image to fix up here.
//
// node visual-cues.mjs matte <light.png> <dark.png> --out <final.png>
// Difference matting: the same artifact sheet rendered twice, once on
// the cream backing and once on pure black, fuses into one RGBA PNG
// with a computed alpha channel. For image models that can't emit
// alpha natively (prompting for "transparent" gets a painted
// checkerboard; chroma keys spill). Prints coverage stats so the
// caller can tell a failed matte (background never changed between
// passes / objects moved between passes).
//
// Dependency-free: PNG decode/encode on node:zlib. Rejects interlaced and
// indexed-color PNGs; convert those with sips/ImageMagick/PIL first.
@@ -304,114 +297,12 @@ function snapPalette(img, palette) {
return out;
}
// ------------------------------------------------------------------- matte
// Difference matting (triangulation matting with two known backings).
// An observed pixel is foreground composited over a backing:
// observed = alpha * color + (1 - alpha) * backing
// With the same foreground shot over a light backing L and a dark backing
// D, subtracting the two observations cancels the foreground term:
// observedL - observedD = (1 - alpha) * (L - D)
// so per channel: alpha = 1 - (observedL - observedD) / (L - D), and the
// true color unpremultiplies from the dark observation, whose backing
// contributes nothing: color = darkObs / alpha. No key color means nothing
// to spill (what broke the chroma approach); contact shadows fall out as
// semi-transparent black, a natural drop shadow.
// The model never renders the backing at its exact nominal hex, so read
// the real backing off each image instead: per-channel median of the
// outer border ring, which the sheet's isolation rules guarantee is pure
// background.
function estimateBacking(img, inset = 4) {
const { width: w, height: h, rgba } = img;
const samples = [[], [], []];
const take = (x, y) => {
const o = (y * w + x) * 4;
for (let c = 0; c < 3; c++) samples[c].push(rgba[o + c]);
};
for (let x = 0; x < w; x += 3) { take(x, inset); take(x, h - 1 - inset); }
for (let y = 0; y < h; y += 3) { take(inset, y); take(w - 1 - inset, y); }
return samples.map((arr) => {
arr.sort((a, b) => a - b);
return arr[arr.length >> 1];
});
}
function cmdMatte(args) {
const [lightFile, darkFile] = args._;
if (!lightFile || !darkFile || !args.out) {
fail('usage: visual-cues.mjs matte <light.png> <dark.png> --out <final.png>');
}
const light = decodePng(readFileSync(resolve(lightFile)));
const dark = decodePng(readFileSync(resolve(darkFile)));
requireSquare(light, 'light pass');
requireSquare(dark, 'dark pass');
if (light.width !== dark.width || light.height !== dark.height) {
fail(`size mismatch: light ${light.width}x${light.height} vs dark ${dark.width}x${dark.height}; regenerate the dark pass at the light pass's exact size`);
}
const backingL = estimateBacking(light);
const backingD = estimateBacking(dark);
const meanSpan = (backingL[0] - backingD[0] + backingL[1] - backingD[1] + backingL[2] - backingD[2]) / 3;
if (meanSpan < 96) {
fail(`backings too similar to matte (light ${JSON.stringify(backingL)} vs dark ${JSON.stringify(backingD)}); the dark pass likely kept the light background`);
}
const n = light.width * light.height;
const out = Buffer.alloc(n * 4);
let transparent = 0;
let opaque = 0;
for (let i = 0; i < n; i++) {
const o = i * 4;
// Average the per-channel alpha estimates; channels where the two
// backings barely differ carry no signal and are skipped.
let sum = 0;
let used = 0;
for (let c = 0; c < 3; c++) {
const span = backingL[c] - backingD[c];
if (Math.abs(span) < 48) continue;
sum += 1 - (light.rgba[o + c] - dark.rgba[o + c]) / span;
used++;
}
let a = used ? Math.round(255 * Math.max(0, Math.min(1, sum / used))) : 255;
// Snap the ends: generation noise leaves alpha a few counts off the
// rails, which would otherwise put a faint film over the whole
// background and pinholes inside solid objects.
if (a <= 16) a = 0;
else if (a >= 240) a = 255;
if (a === 0) transparent++;
else if (a === 255) opaque++;
for (let c = 0; c < 3; c++) {
// Recover true color from the dark pass, removing its (near-black)
// backing contribution before unpremultiplying.
if (a === 0) { out[o + c] = 0; continue; }
const fg = dark.rgba[o + c] - ((255 - a) / 255) * backingD[c];
out[o + c] = Math.max(0, Math.min(255, Math.round((fg * 255) / a)));
}
out[o + 3] = a;
}
writeFileSync(resolve(args.out), encodePng(out, light.width, light.height));
console.log(JSON.stringify({
ok: true,
out: resolve(args.out),
width: light.width,
height: light.height,
// Callers judge the matte from these: a healthy four-object sheet cuts
// out to a mostly-transparent canvas with solid object cores. Tiny
// transparentPct means the dark pass never replaced the background;
// tiny opaquePct means the two passes disagree everywhere (the model
// moved or redrew the objects between passes).
transparentPct: Math.round((100 * transparent) / n),
opaquePct: Math.round((100 * opaque) / n),
partialPct: Math.round((100 * (n - transparent - opaque)) / n),
}, null, 2));
}
// ---------------------------------------------------------------- cues.json
// Reads the existing cues.json (if any) and merges this cue in, so cropping
// the six concepts one after another accumulates into one shared manifest
// instead of each crop overwriting the last.
function updateCuesJson(outDir, slug, artifactIds, palette) {
function updateCuesJson(outDir, slug, artifactIds, palette, chroma) {
const path = join(outDir, 'cues.json');
let data = {};
if (existsSync(path)) data = JSON.parse(readFileSync(path, 'utf8'));
@@ -423,6 +314,11 @@ function updateCuesJson(outDir, slug, artifactIds, palette) {
data.palette = data.palette || {};
data.palette[slug] = palette;
}
if (chroma) {
// The key the browser canvas keys out of this cue's artifact crops.
data.chroma = data.chroma || {};
data.chroma[slug] = chroma;
}
writeFileSync(path, JSON.stringify(data, null, 2) + '\n');
return data;
}
@@ -492,7 +388,16 @@ function cmdCrop(args) {
let palette = null;
if (args.palette) palette = snapPalette(hero, parsePalette(args.palette));
updateCuesJson(outDir, slug, artifactIds, palette);
// --chroma records the sheet's key color so the browser canvas knows
// what to key out of the artifact crops; the crops themselves keep it.
let chroma = null;
if (args.chroma) {
const m = /^#?([0-9a-fA-F]{6})$/.exec(args.chroma.trim());
if (!m) fail(`bad chroma "${args.chroma}" (expected #RRGGBB)`);
chroma = `#${m[1].toUpperCase()}`;
}
updateCuesJson(outDir, slug, artifactIds, palette, chroma);
console.log(JSON.stringify({
ok: true,
@@ -501,6 +406,7 @@ function cmdCrop(args) {
artifacts: keptSheet,
files,
palette,
chroma,
cuesJson: join(outDir, 'cues.json'),
}, null, 2));
}
@@ -510,8 +416,7 @@ function main() {
const args = parseArgs(rest);
try {
if (cmd === 'crop') cmdCrop(args);
else if (cmd === 'matte') cmdMatte(args);
else fail('usage: visual-cues.mjs <crop|matte> ... (see reference/visual-cues.md)');
else fail('usage: visual-cues.mjs crop <hero.png> <artifacts.png> --slug <slug> [options] (see reference/visual-cues.md)');
} catch (err) {
fail(err.message);
}