Let clarity's base be computed where it is still fully determined
Clarity's Gaussian sigma is 1.2% of the frame's shorter edge, so its radius is a property of the viewport: 52 render pixels at 4K, two separable passes of 105 taps each over 8.3 M pixels. That measured 33.9 ms — seven times the entire fused point chain, for one slider — and is docs/technical-debt.md TD-4. A detail pass may now declare `output_scale`, and clarity's base is computed on a grid a quarter the size on each axis. The pass that combines needs the blur *and* the full-resolution colour, and a colour that has been through a quarter-scale target is no longer full resolution. So a scaled pass cannot simply join the ping-pong: there are two chains now. The full-resolution one carries the colour and no scaled pass touches it; the reduced one carries the base and reaches the combining pass through a second binding as `reduced_at()`. The reduce is a dispatch of its own rather than something the first blur half does on the way past, and that is the whole difference between this and the strided kernel the module documentation rules out. A stride samples an image that is not band-limited and aliases high-frequency content down into the base, which is then subtracted, and arrives in the output as mottling across smooth gradients. This band-limits first and samples after. What is discarded is content the base could not represent at any resolution, because a Gaussian at sigma = 26 px holds nothing above one cycle per 26 px and the quarter-scale grid carries one per 8 — so the reduced base is not an approximation of the full-resolution one, it is the same function sampled where it is still determined. Which is also why the scale belongs to the band rather than to the stage. Texture's sigma is a decade finer, so the reduce pass's own box would be wider than the Gaussian it was prefiltering; texture never reduces. And clarity steps 4 -> 2 -> 1 as sigma falls, because a quarter of a small sigma is not a Gaussian either — the case that gives up is the one that was already cheap. `radius` stays in each pass's own pixels and `ComposedDetail::radius` multiplies it back up, so 13 reduced pixels at scale 4 still report the 52 render pixels a tile would have to be grown by. The halo a scheduler sees does not move. The halo tests pass unchanged, which was TD-4's stated bar; they render at 1024 px and so exercise the reduced path rather than stepping around it. Added `crossing_the_reduction_threshold_does_not_change_the_picture`, because nothing yet compared the reduced form against a *less* reduced one — every other test measures one form against itself. It renders the same edit either side of the 4 -> 2 step-down and holds the peak excursion to 0.03 stops and the reach to 2% of the frame. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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ComposedDetailPass {
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output_scale: 1,
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label: "test/instances".to_string(),
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source,
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uniforms: vec![SIZE as f32, SIZE as f32, 1.0, 0.0],
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