Draft for human review (#237 must be approved and closed by a human).
- Removed the full-screen amber wash, sun-shaft bands and vignette: they
turned the user's theme beige (muddy brown on dark) and lowered contrast
everywhere. The leaves carry the season on their own. Also removed the
dust motes (invisible specks) and the now-unused keyframes.
- Gust: every 42 s (first ~8 s after load) five leaves blow across the screen
together, rising and spinning, in ~5 s. Linear timing — an eased curve is
applied per keyframe segment and made them hang mid-air for a second.
- Softer flutter (leaves flattened into slivers mid-flip), stronger leaf
colour (opacity 0.58–0.73, less pale gold tip), brighter on dark themes.
- Reduced motion on phones: no icon rail there, so the resting leaves tuck
further off-edge and smaller instead of landing on the timeline icons.
- Settings swatch: new optional `preview` prop on seasonal overlays; Autumn
draws a warm backdrop with arranged leaves (the reduced scene rendered in
the tile as a black square with two edge fragments).
Rendered and inspected: light/dark/phone at 10/15/20 s, reduced on desktop
and phone, gust tracked frame by frame, the Settings swatch; 60 fps with the
theme on vs off (p95 frame 16.7 ms both).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01PPmy3tPq869XDW4njjVaKA
Draft for human review (#237 must be approved and closed by a human).
- Bug: every falling leaf sat in a leaf-sized wrapper pinned at the top of
the screen with `contain: layout paint style`. Paint containment clips
children to that box, so a leaf stopped being drawn as soon as it fell out
of its first ~40 px: the animated theme showed almost nothing while the DOM
reported 10–16 leaves on screen. Now `contain: layout style`.
- Leaf shapes: a flag-style maple (bold lobes, stem) that stays recognisable
at 30 px (the old outline read as a star/splat), an oak with a stem, and an
aspen; gradient body with darker veins.
- Palette: crimson, pumpkin orange, gold, russet, burnt orange (was muted
tans that read as beige on the light theme).
- 12 leaves at 28–52 px, opacity 0.5–0.65 so text under a passing leaf stays
readable; brightened on the dark themes, where they sank into the wash.
- Reduced motion: resting leaves moved into empty layout areas (middle of
the left rail, under the member list), partly off-edge, instead of on the
sidebar, members, composer and corner controls.
Rendered and inspected at 10/15/20 s in light, dark, phone and reduced
motion (screenshots on #237).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01PPmy3tPq869XDW4njjVaKA
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