Replaces the gradient, frosted-glass look with flat warm ink, hard
black edges and offset shadows, a clashing lime/pink/sky/tangerine
palette, and self-hosted Archivo Black, Atkinson Hyperlegible and Space
Mono (Inter is gone). Stickers, slight tilts, a marker-style heading,
a barber-pole progress bar, wiggling icons and chattier copy give it
some restless energy; reduced-motion users get none of the animation.
Toolbar buttons are now labelled chips in consistent groups (Open;
2D/3D/City; Fit/Layers/Code/palette; Lines/Refs), and the city bar is
one even row: Heli, Walk, Fly, then Tour and Copy link with shortcuts,
help text underneath and the address moved to the top right. Copy link
feedback no longer wipes the button's icon.
A tab half way down the sidebar's left edge (or [) folds the sidebar
away and back, remembered per device. The local folder option is
hidden unless the server reports it enabled. Canvas text, posters and
signs switch to the new fonts once loaded, and the city's ground, fog,
grid, pavements and wall are warmed to match.
The diagonal stripe graphic started left of the paper and long titles
or unbreakable words (repository and file names) overflowed the sides
and bottom. Posters are now clipped to the paper, and text is fitted:
the largest size at which it wraps within the width, line limit and
remaining height; words too wide even at the smallest size are
shortened individually with an ellipsis so the rest of the text stays.
A 14 m concrete wall now encloses the city 24 m beyond its outermost
blocks. It is in the collision index (not the pick index), blocked on
the navigation grid so residents and routes stay inside, and walk/fly
positions are clamped within it so nobody leaves by flying over.
Posters are pasted on the city side at random spots, sizes and tilts
(up to 25 degrees), one per ~35 m, overlapping like a real hoarding.
They are painted into one atlas from civic slogans plus facts about the
loaded codebase (welcome, tallest tower, largest district, most
connected file), seeded by the repository name so each city's wall is
stable. The wall shader draws concrete courses and joints with a lit
coping, and the minimap outlines the wall. README covers routes,
residents, the wall and security alerts.
After a GitHub snapshot loads, the viewer's code scanning and Dependabot
alerts are fetched and grouped by file. In the city, affected buildings
smoke, and those with a critical or high alert also burn: GPU particles
whose age derives from time and seed, so emitters upload once. Hazard
tape runs diagonally across every wall, yellow DEPENDABOT ALERT rising
and red CODE SCANNING ALERT falling, crossing as an X when a file has
both; the tape tiles a striped label cut to the wall's diagonal.
The minimap marks alert buildings, the coverage panel shows the alert
count (or why none could be loaded, e.g. signed out or no permission),
and a selected file lists its alerts with severity and GitHub links.
Blades named the file they were attached to. They now act as street
signs: for each corner of a folder's block, the building nearest that
corner gets a green blade on each wall facing the corner's two streets,
near the corner end, reading the folder path (shortened from the left
when long; the repository name at the root). Neighbouring blocks each
sign their own corner, so an intersection shows a different folder on
every side. Courtyard walls set back from the street are skipped, and
blades still shorten or disappear when a neighbour is too close. File
names remain on the flat wall and roof signs.
City labels were a 2D overlay that showed through buildings at street
level. labels.js rasterises each label once into a shelf-packed atlas
(partial texSubImage uploads, mipmapped for grazing angles), and a new
instanced quad pass draws them depth-tested but not depth-writing.
District names float above each district's tallest tower facing the
camera, file names sit on roofs near the focus, walls facing a walker
carry name signs repeated every 24 m, and street names are painted on
nearby kerbs. Walking up to the building in the crosshair shows its
source on the facing wall. Signs rebuild only when the focus, heading
or selection changes; an overflowing atlas is cleared and refilled with
the nearest labels first. Placement helpers are unit tested.
Andy Dixon