The globe is a UV sphere: towards the poles its triangles narrow to
slivers, and texture coordinates interpolated across them pinched the
map into a star around each pole. Each pixel now computes its own
coordinates from its exact point on the sphere, with seam-safe mipmap
gradients; the map wraps horizontally and gets 8x anisotropic
filtering.
That showed a flaw in the day texture: NASA's mosaic has a lighter
strip at its east edge near the poles, a line from each pole once drawn
exactly. The day texture is now built from NASA's original Blue Marble
(December 2004) by tools/globe/prepare-day-texture.py, which blends
that strip into the map where both sides of the seam agree; same
4096x2048 size, provenance and hashes in SOURCES.md.
globe.gl redrew 60 times a second even when nothing moved; it now draws
only during camera flights, hover pulses, auto-rotation and the
reader's drags, so an idle globe costs no GPU time.
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Builds used to download the Tailwind binary and the daisyUI plugins from GitHub
releases. They are now committed in tools/tailwind/:
- the Tailwind 4.3.3 standalone binary for linux-x64, xz -9e compressed (28 MB);
- daisyui.mjs and daisyui-theme.mjs 5.7.47;
- daisyUI's llms.txt component reference;
- Tailwind's MIT license.
tools/tailwind.sh no longer touches the network. "prepare" checks every file
against its pinned sha256 and unpacks the binary into .tools/. MSBuild reruns it
only when the archive or the script changes. A build from scratch was checked
inside a network namespace with no network at all.
.gitattributes keeps the vendored files byte-exact, and Tailwind no longer scans
tools/, whose llms.txt names every daisyUI class.
Both workflows used actions/checkout, which a Gitea runner downloads from
github.com. They now git fetch the commit from this Gitea, as they already did
for SocialPub.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LsXgEaXee4GCU1hwYgPJXw
tools/tailwind.sh downloads the pinned Tailwind binary and daisyUI's .mjs
plugins into the gitignored .tools/tailwind/, checking each against a pinned
sha256, so neither developers nor CI need Node. MSBuild compiles
Styles/app.css into wwwroot/css/app.css (also gitignored) on every build,
skipping the step when no source changed. The output is added to Content before
ResolveProjectStaticWebAssets, so a clean-clone publish still gets its .gz/.br
copies and a service-worker-assets.js entry.
index.html now loads css/app.css, plus ionicons as its own stylesheet. The old
bundle stays in the tree until the markup is migrated.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LsXgEaXee4GCU1hwYgPJXw
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