docs: README hero + control-demo gallery (ws6) - #75
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Looping montage that grows the tslime logo across the four launch presets (Organic, Constellation, Vinescii, Trademark). Optimized GIF at assets/demos/hero.gif.
Replace the static preset stills with six looping GIFs of the live controls: palette cycling, character sets, preset transitions, randomize, live parameter tuning, and the palette editor.
Suppress transient toasts and ambient parameter readouts for a clean field. Start with --no-notifications; toggle live with Ctrl+N. Guards push_msg and the ambient Tune surface; user-opened overlays (controls, palette editor, dashboard, preset transitions) are unaffected. Listed in the README controls table and the ? hints overlay. Recapture the palette, charset, and randomize gallery demos with notifications suppressed.
The capture .mov is limited-range (tv, 16-235), so the GIF encode lifted blacks (~16->31) and read as gray. Expand to full range (tv->pc) and add a gentle saturation/contrast lift so the GIFs match the on-screen vividness. Deeper blacks, richer color across all six demos.
Apply the same color treatment as the gallery: gentle saturation/contrast lift, 256-color palette, and sierra dithering. Deeper blacks and more vivid color in the settled-preset sections; slightly smaller file.
Deeper blacks exposed the terminal's 150-column render striping. Soften it with a faint gaussian blur, drop the contrast stretch (keep the saturation lift), and use full-palette sierra dithering with lighter lossy compression. Bands gone, logo still crisp, color preserved.
Re-encode from the correct montage source so the ending runs vinescii then trademark (the prior re-encode used an earlier cut with the segments reordered). Keeps the de-banding color treatment.
The vinescii opening renders the logo in crisp green ASCII; sharp quantization made the character grid read as striping. Switch to fine bayer dithering (breaks the grid into a soft glow) with a lighter blur and saturation. Keeps deep blacks and the crisp trademark logo.
Same fix as the hero: switch the gallery encode from error-diffusion to fine bayer dithering, which breaks the terminal's per-cell glyph grid into a soft texture instead of exposing it as striping. Keeps the limited->full range fix and color lift.
switch_preset carried transition prefs across a preset swap but not chrome_style, so a bare preset resolve reset chrome to the preset default and silently dropped fullscreen. Presets with a small min_sim_size (Constellation, Trademark) then fell back to the centered 3:2 layout and letterboxed on switch. Carry chrome_style alongside the transition fields so the active display mode survives the swap.
- regenerate randomize (fire), palette-cycle (vinescii, even tempo), charset-cycle, and preset-transition (3 figlets, all fullscreen) - crop every gallery clip to the hero aspect (480x257) for consistent framing - drop the param-tune demo; restructure the gallery to 5 cells
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docs: README hero + control-demo gallery (ws6)
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Adds the launch visuals to the README.
Hero
A looping montage that grows the tslime logo across the Organic, Constellation,
Vinescii, and Trademark launch presets (
assets/demos/hero.gif), captured liveoff Ghostty.
Gallery
Replaces the old static preset stills with six looping demos of the runtime
controls, each captured live and captioned:
c) — the field recolors instantly`) — same growth, new glyph language1–7) — switch presets with figlet announcement8) — scramble every parameter into a fresh organismp) — reshape a palette by lightness, chroma, hueGIFs are ~480px, ~4.7M total. Ten stale January demo stills removed.
CHANGELOG updated.