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The visual surface

Every diagram, video loop, and category image used across Funky India. Indexed so we can spot what's broken before you do.

Editorial diagrams

6 · SVG · inline

Six server-rendered SVG diagrams — no client JS, no external scripts. Used on /about, /methodology, every region, and every mood.

CuratorCadence

/about · sequence

Nothing on FI is older than six months without being checked again. The dashed loop is the discipline that keeps it that way.

CitySelectionFlow

/about/methodology · flowchart

Cities flow through five fixed stages. The shortlist filter is the strictest — fewer than 1 in 4 candidates clears it.

SightScoringRubric

/about/methodology · quadrant 2×2

Only top-right and top-left quadrants make the index. Photogenic-but-shallow sights are skipped; iconic-and-deep ones become detail pages.

HotelTierPyramid

/about/methodology · pyramid

Hotels distribute across four tiers. Heritage at the top is the smallest pool but the strongest signal: places that wouldn't exist if their building didn't.

RegionLayers (north)

/regions/north · layer stack

MoodCompass (spiritual)

/moods/spiritual · quadrant 2×2

Every FI mood sits somewhere on the same map. Use it to pair (e.g. spiritual + wellness) for an itinerary that doesn't fight itself.

Hero video loops

20 planned · Seedance bytedance:2@2 · 5s 864×480

Five-second ambient video loops, one per region, one per mood, one per top city. Generated via Runware Seedance and served from com27.s3.eu-west-2/fi/video-loops/. Each surface degrades gracefully to a still photo when the loop isn't present.

Regions

region-north.mp4

region-south.mp4

region-east.mp4

region-west.mp4

region-northeast.mp4

Moods

mood-spiritual.mp4

mood-heritage.mp4

mood-wellness.mp4

mood-foodie.mp4

mood-beaches.mp4

mood-mountains.mp4

mood-wildlife.mp4

mood-palaces.mp4

mood-colonial.mp4

mood-coastal.mp4

Top cities

city-delhi.mp4

city-mumbai.mp4

city-jaipur.mp4

city-goa.mp4

city-varanasi.mp4

Sight-kind heroes

10 planned · Runware FLUX · 1024×1024

One hero image per sight category. Filter chips on the sights index use these as their backgrounds. Generated via Runware FLUX, served from com27.s3.eu-west-2/fi/sight-kinds/.

monument
temple
fort
palace
beach
mountain
market
garden
museum
religious-site

How the site stays durable

Every photograph on Funky India is mirrored to s3://com27/fi/ (eu-west-2) at five sizes — 340 / 640 / 1024 / 1280 / 2000. If Unsplash changes their CDN tomorrow, FI keeps rendering. The S3-first resolver in src/lib/img.ts falls back to the original Unsplash URL only when a doc hasn't been synced yet.

The bucket policy PublicReadFi allows public reads on fi/* — matching the PublicReadXmas precedent used across the fleet.

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