Cut panorama overlaps along seams instead of averaging them

The merge weighted every overlap pixel by its distance from each frame's
edge, a 200 px linear cross-fade. Anything the frames disagreed on —
parallax in the near foreground, grass in the wind, a walker — came out
twice at half strength: a soft double edge at 1:1.

dr_pano::seam picks, per output texel at proxy resolution, which frame a
pixel comes from. Where a new frame overlaps the composite the cost is the
gain-corrected difference plus local detail plus nearness to either
frame's edge, taken as the worst over a small window, and the cut is a
dynamic-programming path across the overlap. merge.wgsl weights each frame
by its tent-filtered share of that map, a 64 px blend that follows the
seam, with the edge feather kept as the fallback. The page's preview uses
the same map, and examples/merge.rs takes --feather-only for comparison.

docs/dev/panorama.md

@@ -367,7 +367,7 @@ Built, on branch `merge/panorama`, in the order §10 gave:
 | The camera-space tap | `OutputMode::CameraLinear`, `AdjustPass::render_camera_linear` | Done, `rgba32float`, tiles by view rect |
 | Linear DNG writer, streamed | `dr_export::write_linear_dng` | Done; rawler reads it back |
 | A three-sample `RawImage` re-entering the pipeline | `dr-decode`, `DemosaicedImage::from_linear_rgb16` | Done |
-| Warp, accumulate, resolve, chunk by chunk | `dr_gpu::MergePass`, `merge.wgsl` | Done; feathered blend, scalar gain |
+| Warp, accumulate, resolve, chunk by chunk | `dr_gpu::MergePass`, `merge.wgsl` | Done; seams (§11.1) over a feather, scalar gain |
 | The job: load, proxies, align, gains, confirm, merge, provenance | `dr_ui::merge` | Done; `examples/merge.rs` drives it headless |
 | The page: table, preview, projection, Merge/Stop/Back; the grid's button | `merge.slint`, `merge_ui.rs` | Done; `DARKROOM_START_MERGE=a.CR2,b.CR2` lands on it |
 | Placement beside the sources through the outbox, rescan | `merge_ui.rs` | Done, untested against a server |
@@ -385,9 +385,11 @@ half.
    the file carries the black border. The largest inscribed rectangle over
    the coverage, then the DNG's `DefaultCropOrigin`/`DefaultCropSize`, so
    nothing is thrown away and the develop view opens on the picture.
-2. **Seams and the pyramid** (§10 step 5). The feather hides exposure and
-   small misalignment; parallax on the near slope will show as a soft
-   double edge at 1:1.
+2. **The pyramid** (§10 step 5). Seams landed 2026-09-30 (§11.1); the
+   blend across them is one width for every frequency, so an exposure step
+   the gains leave is narrowed to the seam's 64 px rather than hidden over
+   the old 200. A Laplacian pyramid would blend low frequencies wide and
+   detail narrow.
 3. **Vignetting in the tap.** The lens profile's distortion is applied
    before the fetch; its vignetting is an operation and is not. Frame edges
    are darker than their centres by the lens's falloff, and the feather
@@ -402,6 +404,35 @@ half.
    catalog's `content_hash` is null for most images most of the time. The
    hash can join it when the catalog has one.
 
+### 11.1 Seams — 2026-09-30
+
+The feather averaged every overlap over 200 px, so anything the frames
+disagreed on — parallax on the near slope, a walker, wind in a branch — came
+out twice at half strength: a soft double edge at 1:1, reported as a glitch.
+
+`dr_pano::seam` now chooses, per output texel at proxy resolution, which
+frame it is taken from. Frames are laid down nearest-first; where a new one
+overlaps the composite, each texel costs the gain-corrected difference
+between the two, plus the detail either has there, plus nearness to either
+frame's edge (vignetting, the lens correction's fringe), taken as the
+**worst** over a 4-texel window so the path stays a blend radius clear of a
+difference rather than grazing it. The cut is a dynamic-programming path
+across the overlap, perpendicular to the line from the composite's frames to
+the new one: §4's per-column seam, not a graph cut. The map is computed per
+projection, for the page's preview and again for the merge.
+
+`merge.wgsl` weights a frame by its tent-filtered share of the label map
+about each pixel (`SeamMap::share`, repeated verbatim), over a window
+`seam_blend_px` wide (64, capped at 4 texels either side). The edge feather
+remains underneath as a factor and, with a 1e-4 floor, as the answer where
+the map names no frame that reaches the pixel. `--feather-only` on
+`examples/merge.rs` merges the old way, for comparison.
+
+Known limits: one axis per new frame, so in a multi-row set a frame
+overlapping its left neighbour and the row above is cut along a compromise
+direction; the cost reads grey proxies, so a difference in hue alone is
+invisible to it.
+
 ## 12. Filling the border instead of cropping it — MI-GAN, read and measured 2026-09-19
 
 Raised after the first merges: the ragged border a cylinder leaves could be