README

To create/update a background image gallery:

• First arrange the image files in lifat/background/gallery. The alphanumeric sort order of the filenames will become the gallery order.
• Then run make-gallery.js
• That script uses imagemagick to build columns-2.webp and columns-4.webp. These generated images are a montage of thumbnails rendered at 160x90 each in 2 & 4 column grids.
• It also spits out a gallery.json which is an ordered array of image asset URLs corresponding to gallery position.

At runtime:

• When lila starts, it parses gallery.json once and includes that array in all dasher responses.
• The client delegates to old behavior if there's no gallery in the dasher params.
• If there is a gallery image array, the client constructs a URL to the right thumbnail background. Both 2 column and 4 column versions are around 1 kilobyte per thumbnail rendered at 160x90px.
• The client then creates a 2 or 4 column grid of divs that lighten their slice of the parent's gallery grid background image on hover. The divs also handle clicks and outline current selection.