Document Tree of Art layouts, colour helpers, deep-links, and caption i18n.

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>

Documentation/basics.md

@@ -44,7 +44,6 @@ Gallery/
 │   │   ├── components/PaintingDetail.tsx    # Detail view + debug panel
 │   │   ├── components/ArtistBio.tsx         # Biography + portrait debug panel
 │   │   ├── components/DebugSearchResultsModal.tsx  # “More” search picker (20 results)
-│   │   ├── components/Timeline.tsx          # Era bar, year ticks, event markers
 │   │   ├── components/Timeline.tsx            # Classic horizontal era bar
 │   │   ├── components/VerticalTimeline.tsx    # Bottom-up vertical era rail
 │   │   ├── components/MovementBands.tsx   # Movement flow (SVG streams + branches)
@@ -61,13 +60,14 @@ Gallery/
 │   │   ├── pages/AuditPage.tsx              # Admin curator activity reports
 │   │   ├── components/ToursPopup.tsx        # Public published-tours modal
 │   │   ├── i18n/                            # react-i18next bootstrap
-│   │   └── locales/{en,ru}/                 # UI chrome strings
+│   │   ├── locales/{en,ru}/                 # UI chrome strings (incl. timeline layout + captions)
 │   │   ├── data/historical-events.ts     # Timeline event markers (UI)
 │   │   ├── data/movement-lineage.ts       # Curated movement predecessor links (UI)
 │   │   ├── utils/parquetFloorTexture.ts     # Procedural parquet floor
 │   │   ├── utils/debugMode.ts               # Debug mode + “Show more” localStorage prefs
-│   │   └── utils/timelineView.ts          # Shared zoom/pan math for timeline + movements
+│   │   ├── utils/timelineView.ts          # Shared zoom/pan math for timeline + movements
-│   └── dist/            # Production build (served by API when present)
+│   │   ├── utils/movementColor.ts         # Shared vivid/shade hex helpers for all movement charts
+│   │   └── utils/movementTree.ts          # View-independent Tree of Art layout engine│   └── dist/            # Production build (served by API when present)
 ├── scripts/             # Seed, bios, catalog expansion, image fetch, checkup tools
 │   ├── seed-wikipedia.js
 │   ├── seed-catalog-data.js
@@ -174,23 +174,25 @@ Implementation: `goToTimelineHome()` in `HomePage.tsx` — do not use the browse
 
 ## Timeline and movement flow
 
-The home page shows two linked views over the **same year window** (`viewStart` / `viewEnd` in `HomePage.tsx`). A header link switches between layouts:
+The home page shows linked era + movement views over the **same year window** (`viewStart` / `viewEnd` in `HomePage.tsx`). Header links switch among three layouts; the active layout is also deep-linked:
 
-| Layout | Era rail | Movement flow | Time direction |
+| Layout | Era rail | Movement flow | Time direction | URL |
-|--------|----------|---------------|----------------|
+|--------|----------|---------------|----------------|-----|
-| **Classic** (default) | `Timeline.tsx` (top bar) | `MovementBands.tsx` | Left → right |
+| **Classic** (default) | `Timeline.tsx` (top bar) | `MovementBands.tsx` | Left → right | omit or `?layout=classic` |
-| **Vertical** | `VerticalTimeline.tsx` (left rail) | `VerticalMovementBands.tsx` (streams + lineage branches; no portraits) | Bottom → top |
+| **Vertical** | `VerticalTimeline.tsx` (left rail) | `VerticalMovementBands.tsx` (streams + lineage; no portraits) | Bottom → top | `?layout=vertical` |
-| **Tree of art** | `VerticalTimeline.tsx` (left rail) | `MovementTree.tsx` (lineage as a growing tree; no portraits) | Bottom → top |
+| **Tree of art** | `VerticalTimeline.tsx` (left rail) | `MovementTree.tsx` (lineage as a growing tree; no portraits) | Bottom → top | `?layout=tree` |
 
-Deep-link: `?layout=tree` (or `vertical` / `classic`) is read on load and updated when switching layouts.
+`HomePage` reads `?layout=` once on load and calls `history.replaceState` when the user switches. Classic clears the param so the default URL stays clean. Alias `horizontal` maps to classic.
 
 | View | Component | Purpose |
 |------|-----------|---------|
 | Era bar / rail | `Timeline.tsx` / `VerticalTimeline.tsx` | Historical eras, major event markers, click-to-zoom |
-| Movement flow | `MovementBands.tsx` / `VerticalMovementBands.tsx` | Streams per movement, artist portraits (classic also draws lineage branches) |
+| Movement flow | `MovementBands.tsx` / `VerticalMovementBands.tsx` / `MovementTree.tsx` | Streams or tree limbs per movement; classic also places artist portraits |
+| Stream colours | `utils/movementColor.ts` | Shared `vividMovementColor` / `shadeMovementColor` for all three charts |
+
+Hint captions under each rail/chart (`captionClassicTimeline`, `captionClassicFlow`, `captionVerticalTimeline`, `captionVerticalFlow`, `captionTreeFlow`) live in `locales/{en,ru}/home.json` and follow the EN|RU toggle.
 
 All three layouts share zoom/pan behaviour via `client/src/utils/timelineView.ts` (`zoomTimelineView`, `panTimelineView`, `chooseTimelineTickInterval`, `createViewChangeScheduler`). The home page uses a **fixed viewport** (`100vh`). Classic stacks timeline above movements; vertical and tree place the year rail beside the flow (`home-timeline-stack-vertical`). The tree layout keeps its horizontal geometry fixed across zoom — rules in [movement-tree.md](movement-tree.md).
-
 ### Catalog search (timeline header)
 
 `CatalogSearchBar.tsx` calls `GET /api/search?q=…` (public, no login). The dropdown is stacked above the timeline (`z-index` on `.site-header`) so results are not hidden by movement bands.

Documentation/i18n-russian.md

@@ -25,6 +25,16 @@ Timeline header: **EN | RU** toggle (`LocaleSwitcher`).
 - Passes `?locale=ru` on catalog API requests
 - Refetches bootstrap catalog when locale changes
 
+Timeline **layout** chrome and chart hints are also localised in `home.json`:
+
+| Key | Where |
+|-----|--------|
+| `layoutHorizontal` / `layoutVertical` / `layoutTree` | Header layout switch |
+| `captionClassicTimeline` / `captionClassicFlow` | Classic era bar + movement streams |
+| `captionVerticalTimeline` / `captionVerticalFlow` | Vertical rail + streams |
+| `captionTreeFlow` | Tree of Art chart |
+
+Shareable layout URLs (`?layout=tree` etc.) are language-independent; captions follow the active locale.
 ---
 
 ## Setup (dev)

Documentation/movement-tree.md

@@ -81,6 +81,15 @@ change.
 Clicking any limb or label opens the movement's artist picker and then its 3D movement
 gallery, exactly as the other two layouts do.
 
+## Colours and captions
+
+- Limb fill/shading uses [`utils/movementColor.ts`](../client/src/utils/movementColor.ts)
+  (`vividMovementColor`, `shadeMovementColor`) — the same helpers as the classic and
+  vertical charts. Malformed catalogue hex falls back to the input string; values longer
+  than six digits keep the first six (`#rrggbbaa` → `#rrggbb`).
+- The chart hint under the canvas is `captionTreeFlow` in
+  `locales/{en,ru}/home.json` (same pattern as the other layouts).
+
 ## Tuning
 
 All constants sit at the top of the two files and are safe to tune:

README.md

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Art Gallery
 
-Interactive virtual art gallery: zoomable historical timeline with era click-to-zoom, major event markers (vertical guides into the movement flow), branching art-movement streams (click a movement name to enter its **3D movement gallery** — photorealistic period interiors with painted walls, stone, and wood textures; chronological wings with up to ~55 works each, side-wall windows, wing navigator), one 3D hall per artist (parquet floor, movement-tinted walls, black/gold frames by review status, corridor layout for large catalogs, museum-style exit doors, golden influence lamps, canvas placeholders for missing works, influence-linked exits), painting detail with art-history annotations, prev/next catalog browsing and fullscreen lightbox, **curator-gated** debug-mode image audit on painting detail and artist bio (**Checked** / **Fix it** / **More** / **Clear** / **Upload**; painting detail also **Remove entry**), optional **Show more** auto-opens the search picker, Checkup page, preserved gallery camera on return, and Wikipedia-sourced artist biographies. Anonymous visitors browse freely; curators sign in via **Curator login** in the header.
+Interactive virtual art gallery: zoomable historical timeline (classic left→right, vertical, or **Tree of Art** lineage chart — shareable via `?layout=`) with era click-to-zoom, major event markers (vertical guides into the movement flow), branching art-movement streams (click a movement name to enter its **3D movement gallery** — photorealistic period interiors with painted walls, stone, and wood textures; chronological wings with up to ~55 works each, side-wall windows, wing navigator), one 3D hall per artist (parquet floor, movement-tinted walls, black/gold frames by review status, corridor layout for large catalogs, museum-style exit doors, golden influence lamps, canvas placeholders for missing works, influence-linked exits), painting detail with art-history annotations, prev/next catalog browsing and fullscreen lightbox, **curator-gated** debug-mode image audit on painting detail and artist bio (**Checked** / **Fix it** / **More** / **Clear** / **Upload**; painting detail also **Remove entry**), optional **Show more** auto-opens the search picker, Checkup page, preserved gallery camera on return, and Wikipedia-sourced artist biographies. Anonymous visitors browse freely; curators sign in via **Curator login** in the header.
 
 ## Documentation