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dtourolle 0007fa459f Develop a linear DNG from windows and reduced copies of it
DemosaicedImage::linear_rgb16_window uploads part of a linear DNG, or a
box-reduced copy of it, and says where it sits in the frame; size() now
reports the frame and texture_size() the texels, and the fused pass
writes the window into the shader's uniforms. EditGraph::source_region
finds the part of the source a view reads, and tiles::plan cuts a render
too large for one texture into halo-grown, grid-aligned tiles.

The GPU test renders frames a tile at a time from their own windows and
compares them with the whole: identical for point operations, within one
code value when straightened with clarity on.
2026-09-27 17:35:16 -04:00
dtourolle 8cdad3863d Keep only where two selections agree, as a third way to join a mask part
A layer's parts could be added to the mask or taken out of it, and nothing
else. The selections that need composing most are the ones that are
neither: the sky that is also bright, the subject that is also skin. With
union and subtract alone, "this and that" had to be spelled as "this minus
everything that is not that", which needs a second part that selects the
complement and rarely exists.

Join gains Intersect, stored as "intersect" in the part block of a sidecar.
It is the product of the two coverages, dst * src, which is one more
fixed-function blend state beside union's max and subtract's
dst * (1 - src) (mask-editing.md 5.2): the same scratch texture, the same
three vertices, no shader arithmetic. The product equals the minimum
wherever either side is fully in or out, and is the softer reading where
two soft edges overlap. Join::apply spells the three operations on the CPU
so the GPU tests can be held to one definition.

A layer that intersects with a part covering nothing now reports that it
covers nothing, so it is not rasterised as an empty slice. Old sidecars
never contain the word, so they read as before; a build from before this
reads "intersect" as a union, the existing unknown-join fallback, which
keeps the part visible rather than dropping it. Join::ALL keeps union and
subtract at indices 0 and 1 so a stored panel index still means the same
join.
2026-09-24 21:25:48 -04:00
dtourolle 4574c35236 Let a part be left out of a mask without being taken out of it
A layer built from parts was missing the one control a correction most
often wants: seeing what it did. The question a subtracted gradient
raises is whether it took only the sky, and the question a stroke raises
is whether it filled the shoulder — and the only way to ask either was
to remove the part and look, which answered the question and lost the
part. The layer's own ring answers a different question, about the
adjustment, and hiding eight layers to check one correction is not an
A/B anybody performs.

So a part carries `hidden`. It is an edit and a history step, as the
layer's switch is, and it is folded into the render fingerprint because
hiding a part changes the mask as surely as removing it does. Where the
mask is built the shown parts are walked rather than the parts, which
is what makes a hidden base hand the fold to the first part that is
shown — and a revealed layer whose every part is hidden clears its slice
rather than leaving whatever the last rasterisation put there to be
read back. `covers` asks the same shown parts, so a layer whose only
adding part is hidden costs no slice at all.

In the sidecar the key is `hidden`, in the part's block or, for the
base, in the mask block — under a word that cannot be confused with the
layer's `enabled`, which has always meant the layer. Absent means shown,
so no file written before the switch existed reads any differently.

The row wears the same ring the layer does, one row down, because it is
the same question about a smaller thing.
2026-09-12 01:08:10 +02:00
dtourolle c045702a47 Show the photographer the mask they are shaping
Nobody can refine an edge they are not being shown. The only thing drawn on
the canvas was the region overlay — a false-coloured picture of what the model
*detected* — which knows nothing of a layer's feather, its falloff, its
morphology, its invert or its opacity, and nothing at all about a gradient, a
range or a stroke. Every control added for mask editing therefore acted on
something invisible, which is why the whole feature reads as absent rather
than as unfinished.

A layer's finished mask now draws over the photograph in one of three styles:
a tint for whether the right thing is selected, an alpha for where the edge
is, an outline for whether that edge is registered against the detail the
other two hide.

The hard part is not the shader. A selection with no adjustment on it changes
no pixel, so it is not active, so it holds no slice of the mask array and is
never rasterised — and that is exactly the layer somebody wants to look at,
for the whole of the time between choosing a subject and deciding what to do
to it. So `MaskStack::rendered` is `active()` plus the layer being looked at,
and the rasteriser, the composer and the distance-field builder all index by
position in it. Which is also why the design's "two uniforms, no recompile" is
not available: a uniform can select a slot, it cannot conjure one.

The reveal is never on the graph. It reaches the pipeline as an argument to
`compose_revealing`, and `compose_for` — which the exporter, the thumbnail and
the neutral probe all call — has no way to ask for one. A flag on the graph
would have been shorter, would have type-checked, and would have been one
forgotten reset away from a red tint baked into an exported file.

And the tools that shape a mask now arm. `Masking.tool` is an `in` property
only Rust may write, and the handler wrote nothing back, so the strip reported
"Select" however many times Paint was pressed and the paint area was never
enabled — the brush, the parts and the whole of FR-DEV-19b reachable from no
control in the application.

The region overlay stands down while a mask is being shown, and its button now
says what it hides: two overlays that look alike and mean different things is
worse than either.
2026-09-10 20:28:06 +02:00
dtourolle df741a8a49 Let one mask be built from more than one selection, and paint into it
A mask the model draws arrives approximately right — stopping inside a
shoulder, leaking into the hair — and FR-DEV-3's edge controls move the
*whole* boundary, so no value of feather or dilation fixes two errors that
go opposite ways. What fixes them is a second selection joined to the first,
and a layer that held exactly one source had nowhere to put one. The brush
the core has had all along was reachable from no control in the application.

A layer is now an ordered list of parts. Each names a source and how it
joins the mask before it — added to it, or taken out of it — and carries its
own edge treatment, because a model's soft coverage and a stroke painted
where it stopped short do not want the same feather. Invert and opacity stay
on the layer, where the composed shader already reads them.

The sidecar grows `[part]` blocks and nothing else. A layer of one part
writes exactly the bytes it always did; a mask block with no part blocks
after it reads back as one part; and a stroke, a join or a source this build
cannot read costs that part rather than the layer. So every sidecar in every
library still parses to the edit it always was.

On the device the parts fold into the layer's one slice, so eight layers
still cost eight channels: union is a `max` blend and subtraction is the
erase blend the brush already used. A part is drawn into a scratch texture
before it is joined, and that is not incidental — an erase stroke means a
hole in *that part*, not a hole in the mask, and drawn straight onto the
accumulator it would punch through the subject underneath. A layer of one
part skips all of it and takes the path it always took.

In the interface: a part list under the selected layer with a chip saying
which way each joins, Add and Subtract beside it, a Select/Paint/Erase strip
with the brush's size, hardness and flow, and a drag on the photograph that
paints. Pressing Paint on a mask that cannot hold a stroke joins a part that
can, rather than explaining that a subject is not a brush. A whole stroke is
one step in the history.

The edge controls now shape the part that is selected rather than the layer,
which is the one behaviour change to an existing control: with a correction
selected, the feather slider softens the correction and leaves the model's
mask alone.
2026-09-07 20:00:40 +02:00
dtourolle 68ebf5d78b Let a mask start from a tone or a colour, not only a shape
Every local adjustment began from a shape: painted, drawn with a handle, or
found by a model. So the only way to hold back a sky was to draw a line near
where it ended, and the only way to warm skin was to paint round it — both of
which put the edit's edge where the photographer put a gesture rather than
where the picture changes. A gradient across a treeline halos, and an
adjustment traced round a face stops on the outline of a hand.

MaskSource grows two variants that select by what a pixel *is*. Luminance
carries two bounds on the perceptual tone scale plus a softness; Colour carries
an arc of hue, a range of chroma, and one softness for every edge of both. Five
floats and three, so they diff, sync and merge per field under FR-NC-9 exactly
as a gradient's geometry does — the property a stored raster has none of, and
the reason the model's coverage had to sit beside its source rather than inside
it.

The pixels are the shader's business and nowhere else's. `mask.wgsl` takes the
demosaiced source as a sixth binding and two new modes read it: decode, balance,
pull a clipped photosite back to neutral, apply the camera matrix, then weigh
the band. Nothing crosses to the CPU but the numbers and the matrix, and each
mask texel averages its own footprint in the source, so a band lands on the tone
an area is rather than on whichever texel a proxy grid happened to land on.

The photograph it measures is the one the camera recorded, before this edit. A
band over the edited result would slide out from under the edit as the edit was
made — raising the highlights would change which pixels counted as highlights,
and the slider would chase its own mask.

Feather, falloff and morphology stay off a range layer, which is what
`shapeable` already meant. All three are functions of the signed distance from
a boundary, and a range has no boundary to be at a distance from; its edge is
the softness of its own band, in the band's units. Offering them would be four
controls that move and change nothing.
2026-09-06 19:01:48 +02:00
dtourolleandClaude Opus 5 86260b5028 Bind a category layer to its own distance field
A category mask showed nothing and its adjustment covered the whole
photograph. Both from one line: the loop in `MaskPass::rasterise` picks a
distance field by matching `layer.source`, that match named only `Subject`,
and a `Category` layer fell through to `_ => (&self.empty_subject, 0)` — a
1x1 placeholder. No field, so nothing to draw and nothing to confine the
adjustment.

The comment three lines above the arm I missed describes the failure I then
shipped:

    an absent mask that defaults to "everything" would apply the
    adjustment to the whole photograph

There are *two* matches on `layer.source` in that loop — one choosing the
field, one building the params. Adding the category to the second and not
the first compiles, runs, and is wrong in exactly the way the first one
warns about.

## Also: a missing mask must still be the right size

Both model-backed arms of `ensure_subject_fields` used `unwrap_or_default`,
which yields an empty `Vec` when the coverage is gone. `SubjectMasks::upload`
rejects a wrong-sized field and fails the whole batch, so `self.subjects`
becomes `None` and *every* layer in the stack loses its mask — one stale
reference silently unmasking the others.

Pre-existing, and it mattered less when the only model-backed source was a
subject: an instance index goes missing rarely. A category name goes missing
whenever the descriptor is edited, which is a thing the descriptor exists to
allow. A full-size empty field costs one layer instead of all of them.

Neither of these is reachable from a test on this machine — both live past a
GPU adapter and a real segmentation — so they surfaced the only way they
could, by someone opening the app and looking.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-30 14:28:27 +02:00
dtourolleandClaude Opus 5 763dfd353a Weigh the categories in the same precompute, and mask with them
The scene model shipped with a decoder and no caller. This runs it.

## Beside the instance pass, not instead of it

`compute` now does both on the same upright frame and lays both back down
the same way, so instance masks and category masks index into one grid —
the sensor's. A failure in the scene half is logged and dropped rather than
propagated: no scene model is an ordinary state, and a photograph that can
still be masked by subject should not become unopenable because the
categories are missing.

Categories under half a percent of the frame never reach the cache. A
control that does nothing when moved is worse than an absent one, and each
one it skips is a proxy-sized buffer not allocated.

## The shader needed nothing

A category reaches `dr-gpu` as a soft coverage buffer at proxy resolution,
turned into a distance field — which is exactly what a subject is. So they
share `MODE_SUBJECT`. That is not a shortcut taken for speed: the shader has
no way to tell them apart and no reason to want one. What differs is only
which model produced the coverage, and that has already happened by then.

Feather, falloff, dilation and erosion therefore work on a category on the
day it arrives, because they were never subject-specific.

## Where the weights come from

`scene-model` compiles the graph in and the desktop app takes it; Android
leaves it off and reads the copy `install_bundled_models` unpacks, because
24 MB of constant is worth avoiding in a mobile install and not worth the
plumbing to avoid on a desktop one. Embedded is tried first — a build that
has the weights compiled in should not be silently overridden by a stale
file in a data directory.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-30 14:02:22 +02:00
dtourolleandClaude Opus 5 c75849040c Format the tree the way the gate asks for it
`cargo fmt --check` is a required step and had drifted across 45 files. Most of
it arrived this week: several operations were written in parallel worktrees and
merged by hand, and a hand-merge resolves conflicts without ever running the
formatter over the result.

No behaviour changes — this is `cargo fmt --all` and nothing else, kept as its
own commit so the next reader can skip it wholesale rather than search it for
one that matters.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-22 21:16:34 +02:00
dtourolleandClaude Opus 5 c396a22dfd Paint a mask without ever rasterising one on the CPU
The last line of FR-DEV-3, and the mask ARCH §5.4 was written for. darktable
rasterises drawn masks on the CPU and users call the result unworkable; the
architecture's answer is that a stroke arrives as *parameters* and the device
draws it. This is that, from the model through the sidecar to the pixels — but
not the finger: the canvas is somebody else's change, and this leaves it a
seam rather than reaching into it.

**A stroke is a swept disc along a polyline**, plus erase, radius, hardness and
flow. `MaskSource::Brush` holds an ordered list of them, and the order is the
mask: an erase after an add takes it away and the same pair reversed does not.
Nothing about it is pixels, which is what makes a mask that costs a line of
text, diffs by the gesture, and survives a crop, a straighten and an export at
any size — the properties a stored raster has none of, and the same argument
the region ids were chosen for.

Two things keep the point count honest. While the finger is down, a position
closer to the last than an eighth of the radius is dropped: a touch screen
reports 120 a second, so a finger held still for five seconds is six hundred
points in the same place, and simplification would only remove them once the
gesture had ended — after every frame in between had drawn all of them. When
it ends, Douglas–Peucker at an eighth of the radius removes what a disc that
wide cannot express: a swept circle moved by r/8 moves its own edge by r/8,
which is inside the soft part of any brush. Coordinates snap to a
ten-thousandth of the frame on the way in *and* are written at that precision,
so a round trip is exact rather than nearly exact — a file that drifts in the
sixth decimal every save is a per-field merge conflict a day, over nothing.

**Cost is why the strokes are not drawn by the full-screen triangle the other
masks use.** A swept disc is the minimum distance to any of its segments, so a
stroke over the whole frame costs `pixels × segments` and both terms grow
together — the quadratic that is darktable's problem moved onto the GPU rather
than solved. Each stroke is instead drawn over its own bounding box, grown by
the radius, so the rasteriser never invokes the shader for a pixel the stroke
cannot reach: `area(box) × segments`, which for a dab or a swipe is a small
fraction of the frame. A gesture past 256 points continues as a second stroke
for the same reason, since a shorter stroke has a smaller box.

Add and erase are `dst + a(1 - dst)` and `dst(1 - a)`, which are exactly a
source-over and a one-minus-source blend — so they are blend state, not
arithmetic, and no pass ever reads the slice it is writing. That is what
permits one draw per stroke at all. Within a stroke the coverage is the
*minimum* distance over its segments rather than a sum: a path that crosses
itself must not build up where it did, or every circle and every scribble
would be blotchy wherever consecutive dabs overlap, which is everywhere.

Not a distance field, deliberately. `dr-segment`'s transform documents the two
conditions that make CPU work right there — once per mask edit, over input
already CPU-side — and a stroke fails both: it changes while the finger moves,
and its input is a handful of coordinates that never needed to be pixels. It
also needs no transform, because the distance to a swept disc is closed form.
A stroke is the one mask whose distance field is known without computing one.

An unpainted brush layer is inactive rather than empty, which is not an
optimisation: `invert` turns empty into everything, so a layer created with
invert already set would apply its adjustment to the whole photograph before a
single stroke was made. That is the loud, confident kind of wrong this codebase
refuses everywhere else a mask can go missing, and there is a rendered test for
it.

The tests read pixels back off a device rather than checking that the two
halves agree with each other. What they pin down is what is silent when wrong:
the y flip between mask space and clip space, which a centred stroke would not
notice; a bounding box not grown by the radius, which makes a tap draw nothing
at all; an aspect ratio ignored, which makes a dab an ellipse on any frame that
is not square; a stroke doubling back and building up; and an erase that lost
its place in the order and put back paint the user had taken off.

Not done here: the interaction. The canvas needs to begin, extend and end a
stroke on the active layer, and `DevelopSession::rasterise_masks` still returns
early without a segmentation — it takes the proxy size from one, and a brush
needs no model to have run over the photograph first.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-22 12:37:42 +02:00
dtourolle ec713585a5 Measure the distance to the edge, and get four controls for one transform
Feathering, growing, shrinking, closing and opening are the same number
read differently. With the signed distance from the boundary in hand,
dilation is the set where d >= -r, erosion where d >= +r, and a feather of
any shape is a function of d. So the field is computed once and the
controls are arithmetic on it.

The **field** is what reaches the GPU, not a finished alpha, and that is
the point: growing a mask or changing its falloff then costs a uniform
upload and no recomputation, which is what makes them live controls rather
than ones that stall on every drag. Only closing and opening rebuild,
because after the first threshold the shape has changed and the old
distances describe the old one.

Exact Euclidean, via Felzenszwalb's separable transform — not a chamfer
approximation, which leaves a mask visibly octagonal once grown more than
a few pixels. A test asserts the diagonal is √2 rather than 1 or 2.

It runs on the CPU, which ARCH §5.4 forbids for masks. The rule is about
brush lag — a stroke rasterised per frame — and this is a different
operation: once per mask edit, on input the model already produced here,
producing a field the GPU then samples for free. What it buys is exact
determinism, which matters because masks reach the sidecar as indices and a
field that varied by vendor would mean a mask meaning one thing on the
desktop and another on the phone.

The half-pixel in `signed_distance` is not a detail, and a test caught it.
Measuring to the nearest opposite pixel *centre* puts the smallest
magnitude at 1 either side, so the boundary is nowhere and **eroding by
less than a pixel removes nothing**. A control whose first notch does
nothing is a broken control. Half a pixel off each side puts the boundary
where it physically is, and eroding by 1 takes exactly the outermost ring.

Every falloff curve is 0.5 at the boundary by construction, asserted for
all five: changing the curve should change how the transition looks and
never where it sits.
2026-08-22 08:39:17 +02:00
dtourolle ee10097435 Mask the subject the model found, not the regions underneath it
The watershed hierarchy does not survive a photograph, so local masking
stops depending on it. A layer can now be one recognised object, and the
object's own coverage is the mask.

`Options::watershed` defaults off. It costs ~80 ms plus a full-resolution
readback to produce a ladder that collapses, and paying that on every
photograph buys a control that misleads. Kept switchable rather than
deleted: the passes and the hierarchy are correct in themselves and it is
the merge criterion that fails, which is a change to one function.

Masks now rasterise in **source** space at proxy resolution and are sampled
by the composed shader after the framing map. That fixes a real bug: they
were rasterised in output space, so zooming slid the photograph underneath
a mask that stayed pinned to the viewport, and cropping moved every
adjustment to a different part of the picture. Doing it this way also
leaves the framing map in exactly one place — a second copy in the mask
shader would have been a second thing to keep in step, failing only when
straightened.

A subject is stored as identity, not pixels: the mask is megabytes and is
reproducible by running the same model over the same image, so the sidecar
carries the index, the class and the score, and the session carries the
pixels. The class is there to be checked — if instance 3 comes back a "car"
where it was a "dog", something changed and the layer is stale rather than
silently masking the wrong thing.

The overlay now draws instances and is transparent everywhere else. The
region version covered every pixel and so hid the photograph it was drawn
over; the question it exists to answer is whether an outline follows the
subject, which you can only answer by seeing both.

`examples/local.rs` is the worked example: subject in colour with the rest
monochrome, and the subject lifted out of its background. Run on a 5472x3648
CR2 it finds two people and two cars, and the colour-pop keeps her hat and
hair while the wall and grass behind go grey.
2026-08-22 08:39:17 +02:00
dtourolle c6a846a1f9 Brighten her face without touching the sky behind her
A mask layer is an ordinary develop chain plus a rule about where it
applies. Nothing in the chain knows it is being masked, so every operation
that works globally now works locally and a newly declared op in `ops/`
arrives with local support already done.

The composer emits each layer after the global chain and before the
conversion out of camera space, which is what a photographer means by "and
*then* lift the shadows on her face". Op fragments write to a `c` they
expect to own, so a layer block shadows it and copies the result back out
through a carrier — assigning the outer one from inside is impossible
precisely because it is shadowed. The fused dispatch survives: three global
adjustments and two masked ones remain one shader, one read, one write.

Masks rasterise on the GPU and never exist in CPU memory (ARCH §5.4). That
is the whole reason darktable's brush masks lag, and it is architectural
rather than tuning, so it is not a thing to inherit and fix later.

The rasteriser is a render pass rather than the compute shader it obviously
wants to be, and the format is why: R8Unorm is not a core storage format,
so a compute path has to widen masks to four bytes per pixel — 768 MB
across eight layers of a 24 MP export, against 192 MB at one byte. A colour
attachment takes R8Unorm happily. The array slice comes from the attached
view, so no slot uniform exists to disagree with where the pass writes.

Region masks index a compacted label field rather than the watershed's raw
basin roots, because a root is a sparse index into pixel space and
indexing a per-region array by one would need a table the size of the
image. Changing a selection then costs a few kilobytes, not a re-upload.

Stored as region ids, not as pixels: diffable, mergeable per-field under
FR-NC-9, and cheap in a sidecar. The ids only mean anything alongside the
segmentation that produced them, so each layer carries that signature and
is treated as stale rather than applied when it does not match — a
confidently wrong mask being much worse than an absent one.

Seven device tests render actual frames and read them back. The unit tests
either side check halves that would both pass if the two agreed with each
other and were both wrong; a mask sampled with x and y swapped satisfies
them and fails these.
2026-08-22 08:39:16 +02:00