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dtourolle 7421837c8a Let an operation say what it is about, so the panel can group without naming
Tool tabs need a taxonomy, and the taxonomy was the problem: a table in
`ui/` mapping operation to tab breaks FR-DEV-3a, and a `group:` field risks
what `ui-refinement.md` condemned `starts-group` for — the core deciding
where the panel draws things.

`Attribute` threads the needle. It says what an operation *is* — tone,
colour, detail, optics, geometry, effect — which is the same category as
`ParamKind` and squarely on the core's side of ARCH §4.3a's line. What is
drawn, where it sits and whether it is visible stay the frontend's. There is
no attribute for "the third tab", the enum's order is declaration order
rather than screen order, and a frontend may render these as tabs, as
headings, or ignore them.

The payoff is that a tab strip can be *derived*: the groups are the
attributes present in the capability list, so the interface names no
operation and needs no table to keep in step. An operation joins the right
group by declaring what it is, which is the one thing its author is well
placed to say.

Plural, because the tone curve is genuinely both — an RGB curve is tonal and
the per-channel curves are chromatic, and filing it under one would hide it
from half the people looking for it.

Required and non-empty, enforced in `build.rs`, and the failure was checked
by removing the line rather than assumed. An operation with no attribute is
invisible to a panel that groups by them; a build that stops costs ten
seconds, a control nobody can find costs more. The vocabulary is closed for
the same reason: a typo would otherwise invent a category holding exactly one
operation, which looks like a deliberate one until somebody counts.

Six tests over the real chain, including the hand-written operations that
`build.rs` never sees and so cannot check.
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id: white_balance
label: op.white_balance
order: 10
attributes: [colour]
doc: |
White balance — temperature and tint, relative to as-shot.
Expressed as an offset from what the camera chose rather than an absolute
kelvin value. Neutral means "as shot", so the control starts where the
image already is and a reset returns there. An absolute scale would make
the neutral position depend on the file, which is exactly the confusion
Lightroom's temperature slider creates on non-raw files.
The as-shot multipliers themselves are applied by the composer's preamble
rather than here — every image has them even when this operation is
neutral, so they cannot live in a fragment that vanishes at neutral.
placement: |
First. It is a correction to how the scene was captured, and every tonal
operation after it should act on a correctly balanced image.
params:
temperature:
label: param.temperature
kind: amount
doc: |
Warmer is positive, matching every other raw developer: dragging right
makes the image warmer, even though that means *lowering* the colour
temperature being corrected for.
tint:
label: param.tint
kind: amount
# Temperature trades red against blue; tint trades green against magenta.
# Both are scaled so the full range is a strong but not destructive
# correction: ±0.5 in log2 at the extremes — half a stop of channel shift,
# which covers ordinary illuminant error without letting the slider blow a
# channel on its own.
uniforms:
mul_r: exp2(temperature / 100 * 0.5)
mul_g:
value: exp2(-(tint / 100 * 0.5))
doc: |
Green is held at unity by temperature, so the control does not double as
an exposure slider — green carries most of the luminance.
mul_b:
value: exp2(-(temperature / 100 * 0.5))
doc: Blue moves opposite red, so a neutral grey stays grey as the control moves.
wgsl: |
c = c * vec3<f32>(mul_r, mul_g, mul_b);
tests:
- name: neutral_is_as_shot
expect: { mul_r: 1.0, mul_g: 1.0, mul_b: 1.0 }
expect_active: false
- name: warming_raises_red_and_lowers_blue
set: { temperature: 100 }
expect: { mul_r: 1.4142135, mul_b: 0.70710677 }
- name: temperature_leaves_green_alone
why: |
Otherwise the control doubles as an exposure slider, because green
carries most of the luminance.
set: { temperature: 100 }
expect: { mul_g: 1.0 }
- name: tint_moves_green_against_magenta
why: Positive tint reduces green, and must not touch red or blue.
set: { tint: 100 }
expect: { mul_g: 0.70710677, mul_r: 1.0, mul_b: 1.0 }
- name: cooling_is_the_inverse_of_warming
why: |
Warming by n then cooling by n must return to neutral, so the two
directions have to be exact reciprocals rather than merely similar.
set: { temperature: -100 }
expect: { mul_r: 0.70710677, mul_b: 1.4142135 }
- name: the_extremes_stay_within_half_a_stop
why: |
A white balance control that can blow a channel by itself is a trap;
correction belongs in a range where highlights survive.
set: { temperature: 100, tint: 100 }
expect_range: { mul_r: [0.70, 1.42], mul_g: [0.70, 1.42], mul_b: [0.70, 1.42] }