One lookup, natural_span, maps a photograph's aspect to the columns its
cell spans, and the same number names its thumbnail class, Wide2, Wide3
or Wide4, 512 pixels of long edge per column, so a 4:1 panorama is as
sharp across four columns as a frame is in one. The boundaries are
where the two neighbouring cells would leave the same share of
themselves undrawn, sqrt(s(s+1)): 2.45 and 3.46, with the first at 1.9
so a 3:2 frame stays a frame. A grid too narrow for the class falls
back to the widest that fits, the tablet gives the whole row, and a
cell asks for the class it is actually drawn at: its span, but never
more than its own class. The merge renders each wide class up to the
composite's own, which covers every fallback.
A 4:1 composite drawn in one square cell is a strip a few pixels high.
A photograph about twice as wide as it is tall (1.9 and up) now spans
two columns, three from 2.9, with a thumbnail class of its own whose
long edge is sized for that width; on the tablet, or where the columns
are too few to put it beside anything, it takes the whole row.
Rows are computed in one place, library_ui::layout. The grid is a
lattice of slots: each cell is drawn at the slot Rust gives it, and a
wide cell that would not fit in what is left of a row starts the next
one, leaving the gap empty so the grid still reads in capture order.
The scrollbar spans the slots, a scroll reports a slot that the layout
turns back into an ordinal, and scrubs, restores and the cursor go
through the same conversion. Up and down step by rows through the
layout rather than by a row's worth of ordinals; left and right, a
shift-click's run, burst folding and the timeline are ordinal-based
and unchanged.
The window's own read carries each photograph's w and h, so the cells
know their shape with no query per cell. Where the wide ones sit in
the whole list is one query, run when what the grid lists changes or
when a window finds the layout out of date, and a library with no
panorama answers it from a partial index created on first use
(images_wide), not a schema bump. The merge makes the wide thumbnail
for a wide composite along with the others.
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