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dtourolleandClaude Opus 5 b1e56877aa Merge integration into wip/ingest
Brings in the lens-profile and neighbourhood-operation work so the card
import is verified against what it will actually be merged into, rather
than against the tree it was written on.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-22 15:49:51 +02:00
dtourolle c963dafd09 Merge branch 'worktree-agent-afd449f5e7a01e341' into integration
# Conflicts:
#	core/dr-gpu/src/adjust.rs
#	core/dr-pipeline/ops/README.md
#	core/dr-pipeline/src/lib.rs
#	docs/traceability.md
2026-08-22 15:35:29 +02:00
dtourolle 1526c957cf wip: ingest 2026-08-22 15:34:43 +02:00
dtourolle 7f60a2547c Merge branch 'worktree-agent-a75dc051d9bf691de' into integration
# Conflicts:
#	docs/traceability.md
2026-08-22 15:34:29 +02:00
dtourolleandClaude Opus 5 60d5504fb4 Prove on a device that the profile reaches the screen
The unit tests either side of the base curve check halves — that the shipped
database parses and lifts its midtones, and that the generated WGSL evaluates
a curve in the right place. Neither would notice if the two agreed with each
other and both were wrong: a curve packed into the wrong uniform slots, or a
flag read from the wrong component, satisfies both and renders nothing.

So render real pixels. A flat frame through a neutral edit, once with the
Canon EOS 6D's curve looked up by name from the YAML and once with the
identity, asserting what a base curve is actually for — midtones lifted,
black still black, white still white, monotone the whole way — plus the
number an unprofiled body must still produce, so "never worse than today"
is a value rather than a promise.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-22 14:40:51 +02:00
dtourolleandClaude Opus 5 7407a82aa7 Let an operation read the pixel next to it, and settle where sharpening belongs
The fused pass hands a fragment a colour and no coordinate. That is what buys
one dispatch for a whole edit, and it is also a wall: sharpening, noise
reduction, clarity, texture, dehaze and spot removal are each defined by what
the neighbours are doing, and FR-DEV-3 and FR-DEV-8 ask for all six. None of
them could be written at any price.

So there is now a detail stage. An operation implements `Operation` for its
parameters exactly as before — the panel, the sidecar, the history and the
presets all work unchanged — and additionally returns `Affects::Detail` and a
`DetailStage` yielding one pass per dispatch. `Affects` grows the third variant
`docs/requirements.md:250` designed and nothing had cut.

Where the stage sits is a colour-science decision, not an arrangement of
convenience. It runs after every point operation and every mask layer, so an
amount chosen against a tone curve survives the curve moving; in linear sRGB
after the camera matrix, because camera RGB has no luminance to sharpen
against; and before the output transform and the clip, because FR-DEV-2 allows
one quantisation and a highlight clipped before a convolution grows a dark
ring. The fused pass therefore ends one of two ways, and when a detail stage
follows it hands on unclipped f16 and the last detail pass encodes.

At render resolution rather than on the source, which is the whole of FR-DSP-1:
a pass before the framing prologue would cost 24 MP to draw a 2 MP preview.
`RenderScale` is what makes that survivable — a radius is stored as a fraction
of the frame's shorter edge, exactly as a mask feather already is, or as a
count of source pixels, and converted per render. It also reports when a radius
is smaller than a proxy pixel rather than drawing a plausible lie; zooming to
1:1 makes the preview exact with no second path.

`Invalidation` gives FR-DEV-3d something to mean. Moving a detail parameter
leaves the colour key alone, so `AdjustPass` keeps the linear intermediate and
skips the fused dispatch: dragging a sharpening slider costs a convolution.
Moving exposure does re-run the detail passes, because they read what the
colour pass wrote, and there is no arrangement of keys that avoids it while
keeping sharpening after tone.

Validated by a separable box blur that is not a develop operation, behind the
`detail-probe` feature and absent from a shipping build. An abstraction with no
consumer is a guess; a box blur's answer is known in closed form, so the tests
assert every byte of the ramp rather than that the edge got softer.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-22 14:39:35 +02:00
dtourolleandClaude Opus 5 743fefe7f1 Render each body through the profile its own files describe
Colour came from whichever matrix rawler happened to key `D65`, the second
one was discarded, and the rendering was left linear. That is the dcraw
default, and FR-DEV-3e names it as the reason people abandon a converter in
the first hour: correct in the abstract, flat and poor on skin in practice.

The decoder now builds a camera profile.

- `ColorMatrix1/2` and `CalibrationIlluminant1/2`. rawler surfaces these as
  an illuminant-keyed map — for DNGs from the tags, and for native formats
  from its own camera database — so a Canon CR2 arrives with a tungsten
  matrix and a daylight matrix exactly as an Adobe DNG of the same frame
  would. Dual-illuminant support is therefore not a DNG feature here.

- `ForwardMatrix1/2`, read straight from the root IFD, because rawler parses
  them and never surfaces them. Where a file carries both, they replace the
  inverted colour matrix: the same relationship measured in the direction
  rendering actually wants, rather than an inversion that amplifies the
  measurement error exactly where skin lives.

- `AsShotNeutral`, used to estimate what the scene was lit by and to
  interpolate between the two calibrations in mireds. The estimate is
  circular — the temperature needs a matrix and the matrix needs the
  temperature — so it is a fixed point, three rounds, as Adobe's SDK does it.

Bodies calibrated at neither D65 nor A stopped rendering uncalibrated as a
side effect: a Phase One IQ3 carries D55 and D75 and used to get no matrix
at all.

And a base curve, applied per channel in camera RGB between the last
adjustment and the conversion out of camera space — a toe, a steep midtone
and a shoulder, which is the difference between a photograph and a scan of
one. It is not an edit: no slider, nothing in the sidecar, because it
belongs to the body rather than to anything anyone decided, and a sidecar is
shared between bodies. It is not a develop node either, and `ops/README.md`
now records why. It evaluates on the tone curve's own spline rather than a
second copy, so a profile author placing a control point and a photographer
dragging one mean the same thing by it.

The curves are data. `core/dr-decode/profiles/base_curves.yaml` ships inside
the binary as a floor and is superseded by any copy on disk carrying a
higher `version:`, so a body can be added and distributed without a release
— and, under the GPL, contributed. The comparison runs both ways: a stale
pack cannot hold an upgraded binary back at last year's rendering.

Canon EOS 6D and R6, Nikon Z 6 and D750, Sony A7 III and Fujifilm X-T3 ship
with their own curves. Every other body gets a conservative default, which
is much closer to right than the identity is for any of them. A JPEG gets
none — it has already been rendered once, by the camera.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-22 14:37:33 +02:00
dtourolle 735683b849 wip: ingest 2026-08-22 14:12:40 +02:00
dtourolleandClaude Opus 5 125fccbb46 Put an uploaded original in its dated folder
The transport was built and had nowhere to aim: put_chunked has existed since
the connector landed, and the only things pushed through it are thumbnail
shards and the catalog snapshot.

The folder segments arrive already expanded, from dr_ingest::layout, rather
than being re-derived here. That split is what makes FR-NC-7a's first
consequence true — if this module worked out the folders from whatever the
local library happened to look like, two machines with differently organised
libraries would file the same photograph in two different places on one
server.

A name is resolved against one listing rather than a probe per candidate: a
day folder is one PROPFIND and the answer covers every collision in it, where
probing costs a round trip per attempt over a link that may be mobile data.
Two cameras both produce IMG_0001.CR3, and the second must not overwrite the
first.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-22 14:01:01 +02:00
dtourolleandClaude Opus 5 7d1e6f724e Import photographs from a card
Distinct from a scan, and the distinction is the whole reason the crate
exists: a scan catalogues files where they already are, where an import moves
them from a card into the library. A scan that fails halfway has read
nothing; an import that fails halfway has written something.

So the failure paths are the design. Bytes stream at 1 MiB and are hashed on
the way past, so an 80 MB RAW never sits in memory. The second destination
(FR-CAT-10's backup copy) is written from the same read rather than copied
from the primary afterwards — a backup made by re-reading the primary would
inherit a bad write rather than catch it, and re-reading the card doubles the
wear on the one copy that still exists. Verification re-reads the
destination, because hashing what is still in memory would pass on a full
disk, a dying card and a truncated write alike. Anything that fails past the
point of creating the file takes the file back, or the next scan catalogues a
truncated RAW as though it were fine.

Three things the crate refuses to know. It never deletes from the card: a
move-import records what is now redundant and a separate retire() does the
deleting, because on a syncing library "safe" means the upload was confirmed
(FR-NC-7b). It does not decode, so capture metadata arrives through a probe
and a card of unreadable files costs no demosaic. And it does not know what a
duplicate is, since that is a catalog query — FR-CAT-11's two tiers arrive as
one closure asked twice, once before any transfer and once with the digest.

Camera serial would be the stronger metadata key and is absent, because
nothing in the tree reads it yet; make and model plus capture time and the
original filename is what is available, and the digest tier covers the gap.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-22 14:00:47 +02:00
dtourolleandClaude Opus 5 c36d4c80c8 Give the calendar one reading of a capture instant
The era-based conversion sat in library_ui.rs with two readers: the
timeline's month headings and, through format_date, the exporter's {date}
token. Import folder templates are a third, and three copies of a date
calculation that could drift apart is one too many — an image filed under a
date the timeline does not show it on is a file the user cannot find.

Moved to dr_types::time, which is where shared vocabulary lives, and given
the offset-aware reading an import needs: a shot taken at 23:30 in Tokyo
belongs in Tokyo's day, and filing by UTC would split one night's
photographs across two folders at whatever hour the offset happens to be.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-22 14:00:26 +02:00
dtourolle 5bcd0e0269 Merge branch 'worktree-agent-a22a049c461818dbe' into integration
# Conflicts:
#	core/dr-pipeline/tests/mask_sidecar.rs
2026-08-22 13:23:34 +02:00
dtourolleandClaude Opus 5 96a7b405c2 Say which photograph the sliders are pointed at
Selecting a mask layer silently re-points about thirty controls at that layer's
chain. Same panel, same order, same sliders, different meaning — and the only
thing that said so was a sentence in the panel above, which a photographer
reaching for the exposure slider has no reason to read. An exposure change
lands on the whole frame when it was meant for a face, or the reverse; both are
silent, and both are discovered later. `ui-navigation.md` §1.1 calls it the
dangerous one and it is: the others in that document cost time, this one costs
work.

The remedy is the classic one for a modal fault — make the mode visible — and
the application already had the pattern. Crop arms a canvas interaction, draws
an overlay, gives the column one job and is left by the control that entered
it. Local masking is the same animal built as a peer panel, and that is what
created the ambiguity. So `crop-mode` stops being a bare boolean and becomes
one value of a three-state mode, which is the point: two modes could both be on
before, and now that is not a state the interface can be in rather than one it
is tested against.

**One strip, not two.** The mode control was going to sit beside the group
strip that filters the adjustments, which is two controls above one column
answering the same question — what am I working on. They are one control now,
`Crop · Local │ All · Light · Colour`, which is the shape Lightroom Mobile's
bottom strip has for the same reason. The two halves are different kinds of
state and are drawn differently: a mode is a chip that fills with the accent
when it is on, a group is a word with a rule under it. That difference is what
lets both be read at once, which they routinely are — picking Light while a
mask is selected filters *that layer's* chain and does not leave the mode.
Dropping the scope on a group press would be the same fault coming back from
the other end, and would make Light mean two things depending on where it was
pressed.

The strip stays pinned above the develop column rather than moving to the top
of the canvas as the document proposed. The half that filters the column
belongs to the column, and the photograph is the subject. The canvas keeps one
button, which now names the mode it leaves rather than saying "Done" — that was
unambiguous with one mode and would not be with two — because the column can be
closed on a narrow window and no mode may be inescapable.

Entering a mode is a side effect, so Rust owns it rather than the strip writing
the property: crop drops the zoom, local turns the overlay on, and leaving
clears the selection. That last one is the fix. The "Overlay" and "Select"
toggles are gone because they armed things that are simply what the mode *is* —
a mode that has to be switched on separately is one you can enter and have do
nothing. Escape and the Android back gesture join `back_step` as one
`LeaveMode` rather than a second exit concept, and the mode is left before the
zoom is: it was entered later, and it is the bigger step back.

The heading is where the scope goes. Not a caption beside the panel, the
heading *of* the panel that changed — `ADJUST` becomes the layer's name, the
same string the selected row in the stack shows. That is the difference between
describing a hazard and removing it.

**Handles on the photograph.** A linear or radial mask could be created and
then not moved, so a radial sat at the centre of the frame at its default size
for ever. Three faults stood in the way of drawing one.

The first is that a gradient did not render at all until the model had run. The
rasteriser was built on the way out of `segment` and the array's size was read
*off* the segmentation, so a gradient added to an unsegmented photograph
produced nothing — silently, in the same way exports and thumbnails once did:
the shader still emits the layer's block and the empty placeholder multiplies it
by zero. The proxy size is a property of the photograph. Both are derived from
it now, and deliberately at the same size rather than by coincidence, because a
subject's distance field is sampled against that array.

The second is hit-testing. A handle is drawn in output coordinates and stored
in source ones, and between them lie the crop, the zoom, the pan, the
straightening and the turns. `Framing::source_at` is `wgsl_prologue` evaluated
on the CPU, kept in that file beside it so that keeping the two in step is one
file's problem — a handle mapped through anything less drifts off the mask the
moment the view moves, which is exactly what masks are rasterised in source
space to avoid.

The third is that a drag is a displacement, not a destination. Each handle
answers to the movement of the pointer since the press, applied to where the
mask was when the press landed. Snapping the handle to the pointer instead
jerks it by up to half a touch target on the first press, and the target is
finger-sized because a tablet has no hover to reveal a control and no modifier
to qualify it.

A ramp gets three handles — centre, width, angle. An ellipse gets three too:
centre and one per semi-axis, the major one carrying the direction as well as
the length, because where an axis is put says both. It had a fourth, and it is
gone: standing off the shape by a fixed distance, the rotation arm began
outside the photograph at the size a new radial is created at, so the first
thing anyone saw was a control they could not reach without first shrinking the
mask.

Two faults here were found by looking at the screen rather than at the source,
both of the kind that cannot be found any other way. A `1px` rule with a size
and no position is *centred* by Slint, so the seam between the photograph and
the column was a hairline down the middle of the panel, through the histogram
and every slider under it — twice, once in `app.slint` and once in
`AdjustPanel`. And handing Slint a fresh model for the handles on every pointer
event made the repeater rebuild its items, taking the `TouchArea` holding the
gesture with them: the handle jumped once and then went dead under a finger
that was still down. `develop.rs` carries the same warning about the parameter
rows, where it broke slider drags; the model is rewritten in place now.

The tests worth having are the ones about ambiguity and about the map. That the
same row reads the frame's value, then the layer's, then the frame's again is
§1.1 in one assertion. That dragging a handle onto another gradient's matching
handle *produces* that gradient closes the loop between the two directions of
the framing map, through a view that is cropped, zoomed, panned, straightened
and quarter-turned at once — a one-legged map is invisible when the framing is
neutral, because then both legs are the identity.

Not done here: the histogram still reports the whole frame while the sliders
edit a layer. That disagreement is real and is N3's, which this unblocks. The
strip has room for a Brush entry beside Crop and Local when the painted masks
land in the core, and it needs nothing here but the canvas interaction.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-22 13:20:41 +02:00
dtourolleandClaude Opus 5 c75863c93f Give a gradient the angle it was asked for
A linear mask at 45° was not at 45°, and a radial with equal radii was an
ellipse. Both on every photograph that is not square, which is all of them.

The geometry is stored in normalised coordinates so that a mask survives a
crop, a zoom and an export at another size — that part was right. What was
wrong is that a *distance* was being measured in those coordinates too, and a
fraction of the width is not the same length as a fraction of the height. So
`dot(uv - centre, axis)` measured the ramp in a space one of whose axes is
squashed against the other by the aspect ratio, and the iso-lines came out
sheared: on a 3:2 frame a ramp asked for at 45° arrives at about 34°.

Nothing announces it. The stored numbers are exactly what was written, the
shader is doing exactly what it says, and the only place the fault exists is
between the photographer's intent and the picture. It has been invisible so far
because there is no way yet to place a gradient by eye — the handles that make
it visible are what turned it up.

So distances and angles move into the frame's own isotropic units: y spans
`0..1` and x spans `0..aspect`, which makes a circle round and 45° a real
diagonal. The centre stays a plain fraction of each axis, because it is a point
and a point has no such problem — and because that is the space a click arrives
in. `frame_delta` is the one conversion and must stay the only one; the mask
array's own dimensions carry the aspect, so it costs no uniform.

The sidecar format does not change. What changes is what the numbers mean, and
the only geometry in the wild is a default that has never been movable.

The two tests are at 96×64 rather than square, which is the whole point: on a
square target this bug cannot be reproduced, and every existing mask test was
square. Both fail without the conversion — the radial reaching 28px sideways
where it reaches 19px down, and the diagonal landing on the wrong side of the
line it is supposed to lie along.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-22 13:19:55 +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 1d7106c94d Apply the masks to the thumbnail and the export, not only the screen
Reported as a thumbnail bug; the export had it too, which is the serious
half. You would have exported a photograph missing every local adjustment.

Both called the unmasked `render`, and the failure is silent by
construction: the generated shader always declares the mask binding and
always emits a block per active layer, so binding the empty placeholder
multiplies each of them by zero. No error, no warning, no missing texture —
the adjustments are simply not there. From inside either path there is
nothing to see.

Every path that produces pixels now goes through one helper that binds the
array, and that is the point of it being one helper rather than three
correct call sites. The array is rasterised in source space at proxy size
and sampled through the framing map, so one array serves every output size:
a 256px thumbnail and a 24 MP export bind the same texture.

Three tests, and the first is the fault stated directly — render the same
edit with and without the array and assert they *differ*. If binding it ever
stops mattering, the masks have stopped reaching the shader. The third
checks the masked share of the frame is the same at 32px and 128px, because
"both non-empty" would pass while a mask that scaled wrongly still ruined
every thumbnail.
2026-08-22 10:38:49 +02:00
dtourolle 924a837389 Group the panel by what operations say they are about
A strip of groups over the adjust panel — Light, Colour, Detail — derived
from the attributes the operations declare. `adjust.slint` names none of
them: the strings arrive resolved and the panel only draws them, so a new
operation joins the right group by saying what it is and this file does not
change (FR-DEV-3a).

A group nothing carries is not offered, so a tab never opens onto nothing.
Geometry is left out because its one operation prefers an on-canvas widget
and is skipped by the row builder — a Geometry tab would be empty while
`GeometryPanel` holds the real controls. The strip appears only when there
is more than one group to choose between; a single tab is a control with one
option.

The selected group is underlined rather than filled. The accent means
*modified* everywhere else in this interface, and spending it on "which tab"
would blunt the one signal the panel has.

**The trap, and it nearly bit again.** `op_index` on a row counts over every
capability, not over the ones a filter kept — it is how a row routes back to
the core. Renumbering it while filtering would make a slider drive a
different operation, which looks like a rendering fault rather than a
routing one. `rows_filtered` keeps `enumerate` over the full list and only
`group_head` is a position within the emitted rows; a test moves a value
through a filtered row and checks it lands where it was asked to.

Six tests, including that a nonsense index falls back to showing everything
rather than to showing nothing.
2026-08-22 10:22:47 +02:00
dtourolle 7421837c8a Let an operation say what it is about, so the panel can group without naming
Tool tabs need a taxonomy, and the taxonomy was the problem: a table in
`ui/` mapping operation to tab breaks FR-DEV-3a, and a `group:` field risks
what `ui-refinement.md` condemned `starts-group` for — the core deciding
where the panel draws things.

`Attribute` threads the needle. It says what an operation *is* — tone,
colour, detail, optics, geometry, effect — which is the same category as
`ParamKind` and squarely on the core's side of ARCH §4.3a's line. What is
drawn, where it sits and whether it is visible stay the frontend's. There is
no attribute for "the third tab", the enum's order is declaration order
rather than screen order, and a frontend may render these as tabs, as
headings, or ignore them.

The payoff is that a tab strip can be *derived*: the groups are the
attributes present in the capability list, so the interface names no
operation and needs no table to keep in step. An operation joins the right
group by declaring what it is, which is the one thing its author is well
placed to say.

Plural, because the tone curve is genuinely both — an RGB curve is tonal and
the per-channel curves are chromatic, and filing it under one would hide it
from half the people looking for it.

Required and non-empty, enforced in `build.rs`, and the failure was checked
by removing the line rather than assumed. An operation with no attribute is
invisible to a panel that groups by them; a build that stops costs ten
seconds, a control nobody can find costs more. The vocabulary is closed for
the same reason: a typo would otherwise invent a category holding exactly one
operation, which looks like a deliberate one until somebody counts.

Six tests over the real chain, including the hand-written operations that
`build.rs` never sees and so cannot check.
2026-08-22 10:10:00 +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 b1433ad4a9 Give a mask an edge treatment, and find out the watershed has none worth having
Two things, and the second is why the first matters more than expected.

Mask layers gain a feather, a falloff curve and a morphology, all defined
against a signed distance from the boundary rather than as separate
features — one exact distance field answers "how soft" and "how far" at
once, so dilation is a threshold at -r, erosion one at +r, and closing and
opening are one of each in sequence. The compound pair costs a second
distance field, which is why they are named rather than presented as a
radius that happens to be signed. Types, defaults and sidecar round-trip
only; the field itself is next.

`edge-feather` and `edge-falloff`, not `feather` and `falloff`, because a
radial mask already writes `feather` for the fraction of its radius it
ramps over. Same word, different quantity, different units — sharing the
key would have made an existing file ambiguous.

The diagnostic that provoked this is committed as an ignored test, because
"does the ladder land on things a person means" is the question S15 exists
to answer and it should not depend on whoever still has the script. On
bus.jpg it answers badly: 35,075 regions at blur 2 over an 810x1080 frame,
and cutting that to 400 gives *one* region covering nearly the whole
picture plus 399 noise specks. Not over-segmentation — collapse. Almost
every saddle is near zero, so the merge order joins everything meaningful
before it joins anything spurious, and a global cut spends its entire
budget on grain.

So the granularity ladder does not currently work on a photograph, and the
region masks built on it inherit that. Recorded rather than worked around:
the next commits move local masking onto the model's instances, where the
edge treatment above is what makes a quarter-resolution mask usable.
2026-08-22 08:39:17 +02:00
dtourolle 5ecb35864f Put the region map behind the sliders that were already there
A mask layer holds a real develop chain, so the develop panel can edit one
with no new controls: select a layer and the same sliders read and write
its chain instead of the graph's. An operation declared in `ops/` tomorrow
becomes locally adjustable by existing, which is the payoff for making a
layer a chain rather than a handful of special-cased parameters.

`segmentation.rs` joins the two arms into the one thing the view needs.
The model reads the image through a neutral graph rather than the edited
one, so a segmentation survives an exposure change instead of being
invalidated by every slider. Arm B failing is not fatal: a missing or
unreadable model leaves a working watershed map, because refusing to
segment at all would trade a working feature for a strict one.

The overlay colours groups by a golden-angle walk over hue. Deterministic
rather than random, so a region keeps its colour across a level change and
the eye can track it; boundaries drawn black over the fill, because two
adjacent groups landing on near hues read as one region and telling them
apart is the whole reason to look at it.

Clicking the photograph creates the layer if none is selected — that is how
a local adjustment begins, and making the user press "add layer" first
would be a step with no decision in it. Shift-click extends, and clicking a
region already selected removes it, so one gesture both adds and corrects.

`segment-readback` is a new dr-gpu feature and not a loosening of
`readback`. The region-graph transfer is once per image on a worker; the
one AC-8 forbids is per frame in the render loop. Sharing a switch would
have forced a build wanting local masking to unlock the other. F3 still
stands and the feature name says so.
2026-08-22 08:39:17 +02:00
dtourolle 94cfea4748 Keep the mask when the app closes, and when two devices disagree
The sidecar is authoritative — the catalog is a disposable index and the
RAW is never written — so a mask that does not round-trip is not a
persistence bug, it is lost work.

Layers get their own `[mask <version> <id>]` blocks rather than being
flattened into dotted keys. A layer is not a scalar: it carries a
selection, a geometry and a chain of its own, and encoding a region set as
`m1.region.0 = 12` would be neither readable nor mergeable. The version
uuid is repeated in the header instead of relying on the block following
its version, because "belongs to whichever version appeared above me" is a
relationship that hand-editing, merging and older builds each break
quietly.

Region ids sort and deduplicate on read rather than being trusted from the
file. The mask's identity is the *set*, so two devices writing the same
selection in different orders must produce the same mask rather than
argue about a difference that is not one.

Masks merge by layer id under FR-NC-9, which is the disjoint-survives rule
the parameters already follow one level up: a layer added on the phone and
one added on the desktop both survive. A layer *both* sides edited resolves
wholesale to the higher revision, because half of one selection plus half
of another's opacity is a layer neither person made. A remote deletion is
honoured, or a mask the user removed returns on every sync.

An unknown mask source is skipped rather than guessed at. Applying a newer
format's mask type as the nearest one this build knows would put a
confidently wrong adjustment on the photograph, which is worse than
applying none.

29 new tests. The interesting ones are about silence: a maskless version
clearing the previous image's layers, a bare selection persisting even
though it renders nothing, and a mask naming a version that is not in the
file being dropped instead of landing on whichever block was open.
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
dtourolle 0da8271836 Let the model say what a thing is and the watershed say where it ends
Local masking needs to know where an image's regions are. The watershed
spike (S15 arm A) found the boundaries but had no idea what any of them
enclosed; its coarse levels were geometric accidents. This adds the other
half and the thing that joins them.

`core/dr-segment` is where region reasoning now lives — the hierarchy moves
out of `dr-gpu`, which keeps only the pixel passes that are genuinely
shaders. The new crate is device-free and, without its default features,
model-free too: 20 of its tests need neither an adapter nor 11 MB of
weights.

Arm B runs YOLO26n-seg through `ort`. D13 framed inference as a choice
between `ort`'s C++ runtime and the pure-Rust dependency policy; that was a
false choice. `ort`'s `alternative-backend` feature unlinks the C entirely
and `ort-tract` supplies the API from tract, which is pure Rust. Measured
before committing to it: zero unsupported operators, 420 ms for 640x640,
and correct masks on bus.jpg. No NDK problem to solve, so D13's largest
tolerated exception is not needed.

Arm C is `prior.rs`, and it ships because the two arms fail in opposite
directions. Instance membership re-weights the merge saddles, so region
pairs the model believes share an object merge early and pairs straddling
its edge merge late. No boundary moves — only the order in which they
dissolve — which is how the result stays pixel-accurate at every level
while its coarse levels become named things.

Two things the spec assumed that turned out to be false, both recorded in
models/LICENCE.md: there is no usable ADE20K-trained YOLO, so the shipped
vocabulary is COCO's 80 subjects and *stuff* like sky and foliage must come
from arm A; and tract cannot parse a dynamic-shape export, so the graph's
input is fixed and tiling is the only route to more semantic resolution.

Weights are AGPL-3.0, which GPLv3 §13 permits and which makes the combined
work effectively AGPL. Deliberate, not accidental. They live in Git LFS,
and a build script fails with an instruction rather than embedding a
pointer file when the clone lacks them.
2026-08-22 08:39:16 +02:00
dtourolle ecd6df686c Read the defect map a raw file carries
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First step of dead pixel removal, and the one that decides whether the
rest is worth building: where the map comes from.

`rawler` is no help. It knows `OpcodeList1/2/3` exist — it copies them
through when *writing* a DNG — but it never decodes them, and the
`dng_tags` map it exposes is only ever filled by callers, never by a
decoder. So the bytes are read from the IFD directly, which this module
was already walking for previews, including the SubIFDs where a DNG keeps
its raw IFD.

`OpcodeList1` specifically: lists 2 and 3 run after demosaic and after the
colour transform, so neither can carry a correction that has to happen on
the mosaic. Two opcodes describe defects — `FixBadPixelsList`, which is
explicit coordinates plus whole dead rows and columns, and
`FixBadPixelsConstant`, which names a sentinel value rather than any
coordinates and is left unimplemented until there is a stage to consume
it. A half-implementation that guessed at coordinates would be worse than
the absence, because it would look like it worked.

Two things the tests pin down because both are silent when wrong: a point
is stored (row, column) and reading it the other way round lands the
correction on the wrong photosite — invisibly, on a square crop — and
opcode payloads are big-endian whatever the container's byte order is, so
a little-endian TIFF still writes these the other way round.

An unknown opcode is stepped over using its declared length rather than
abandoning the list, because a camera that corrected its lens as well as
its sensor writes both, and losing the map whenever a warp is present
would be losing it on most files that have one.

Includes `--example defects`, because whether any of this fires is a
question about a particular library rather than about the specification.
2026-08-21 23:00:10 +02:00
dtourolleandClaude Opus 5 ca833b6d2b Give every colour band its own compiled shader
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The colour mixer emits a code block and a uniform only for the bands that
are set, so which bands are adjusted is part of the shader's structure. The
pipeline cache key was not: it hashed the set of *active operations*, which
is "colour_mixer" whichever band that is.

So a red adjustment and a blue one hashed alike. The second render was handed
the first's compiled pipeline while its uniform was uploaded into a slot that
shader had assigned to another band — whichever band compiled first kept
acting on every subsequent move, and every other slider did nothing at all.
Red is the first band declared, and the one reported as the only one working.

The hash is now taken over the generated WGSL, because the source is what
gets compiled and therefore is the structure. A summary of what went into it
has to be kept in step with every operation's code generation by hand, and
this one had fallen out of step. Values still do not enter it: no operation
writes a parameter value into its source, so a slider drag regenerates
identical text and reuses the pipeline, and one that did inline a value would
have to recompile to be correct anyway.

`each_colour_band_gets_its_own_pipeline` in dr-gpu renders a blue pixel
through one pass with red set first and then blue, and fails on the old hash
with the reported symptom — the blue slider returning the pixel unchanged to
the byte.

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2026-08-18 15:23:04 +02:00
dtourolleandClaude Opus 5 f76e024f41 Straighten a portrait frame in the frame the user is looking at
The framing prologue built the centred position `p` by scaling with the
source's aspect, then straightened, then permuted the quarter turns. On a
landscape frame those are one space and it worked. Once a turn has swapped
the axes — the rotate button, or a file whose EXIF tag says the camera was
held sideways — they are not: `p` was measured with the source's ruler on a
frame that is no longer that shape, stretching one axis against the other by
(w/h)², which is 2.25 on a 3:2 photograph.

The quarter-turn permutation happened to undo that stretch, so rotation alone
looked right, which is how this survived. The straighten in between did not,
and a rotation in a space whose axes carry different scales is a shear.

`p` is now built in `frame_aspect` — the frame as the user sees it — and the
permutation becomes the one place the two rulers meet: each axis divided by
the aspect it is read from, multiplied by the aspect it is written to.

Asserted on pixels rather than on the generated WGSL, because reading the
shader and reasoning about which space `p` lives in is how the wrong formula
got written in the first place: a disc, straightened by 20° on a turned 3:2
frame, must come back circular by every route to a swapped frame — the
button, the tag, and the two composed.

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2026-08-18 15:17:54 +02:00
dtourolleandClaude Opus 5 02d629922f Draw the date histogram over the collection you are looking at
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The timeline counted the whole library whatever the grid was showing, so
opening a collection left a fortnight in Arosa as one column of a
fifteen-year axis — an axis describing photographs that were not on
screen.

Scope the buckets and the span to the same collection and rating filter
the grid uses. `timeline_range` counts `images` alone and cannot express
the membership join, so the scoped query lives beside the other scoped
readers in the UI and shares their descendants-of-scope rule.

`catalog_span` now delegates to the same scoped reader. Zoom and scrub
measured the full library while the bars were scoped, so a scrub could
land on an instant the collection did not contain and send the view
somewhere the user had not asked to go.

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2026-08-17 22:15:59 +02:00
dtourolleandClaude Opus 5 b0206cbc7a Let a sub-collection stay under its parent through a sync
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The merge inserted every incoming collection with `parent_id = NULL` and
never set it on update, so the hierarchy flattened on each round trip: a
collection nested on one device came back from the server at the top
level. `r.parent_id` was selected and then not read.

The id could not be copied — row ids are local, and the remote's integer
names a different collection here, or none. So carry the parent's uuid
and resolve it locally, in a second pass: rows arrive in whatever order
the query returns, and a child can precede its parent.

Guard the resolution against cycles. Each tree is acyclic alone, but the
union need not be — we may hold A above B while the remote holds B above
A — and closing that loop would make every tree walk spin.

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2026-08-17 21:55:09 +02:00
dtourolleandClaude Opus 5 5700c37016 Look before overwriting the file we are asking about
The probe PUT its bytes first and read the outcome, which answers the
question by destroying the evidence: pointed at a real sidecar it would
replace an edit with the word "probe", and on success delete it outright.

PROPFIND first. Permissions and status usually settle create-versus-update
on their own, and a path that already exists is now reported and left
alone. `--write` still forces the update test for a file worth losing, and
the cleanup DELETE fires only for a path the probe itself created.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-17 20:40:36 +02:00
dtourolleandClaude Opus 5 18f20170b3 Ask the file, not its folder, why the write was refused
The 403 probe read `oc:permissions` off the parent collection and warned
when `W` was missing. But Nextcloud reports `W` on files and `CK` on
collections, so a directory legitimately lacks `W`: the warning fired on
a healthy share and pointed at a mount that was fine.

Probe the file itself. Its permissions answer the question that matters,
and the status distinguishes the two cases the parent could not: a 404
means the sidecar does not exist and the refusal was about creating it,
while a 200 without `W` means it exists and cannot be updated.

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2026-08-17 20:38:48 +02:00
dtourolleandClaude Opus 5 6621c11ad6 Diagnose the refused sidecar: the library mount is create-only
Ratings and edits made on the tablet queue and are then refused on reconnect,
on a credential that pushes the catalog to the same library root in the same
sync pass. Chased on the device, since that is where the account lives.

A failed PUT now logs the server's own words, and on a 403 asks the parent
what rights it reports. The answer:

    PUT .../PhotosRaw/2026/2026-08-03/_MG_9221.drsc -> 403
      <s:exception>Sabre\DAV\Exception\Forbidden</s:exception>
      parent permissions: MGNVCK

`M` mounted, `G` readable, `N` renameable, `V` moveable, `CK` create files and
folders. Absent: `W`, update an existing file, and `D`, delete. So `PhotosRaw`
is a mounted share that accepts a file once and refuses every change to it
afterwards.

That is the whole bug, and it is not one this side can retry its way out of. A
sidecar is rewritten on every rating and every edit, so the first judgement on
a photograph is written and every later one is refused — which reads as sync
being broken rather than as a share missing one permission. **The fix is to
grant update, and ideally delete, on that mount.**

`PermissionDenied` now says so, rather than "not allowed to write here", which
sent the reader to re-check a login that was working. Its test asserts the
intent — points at the folder, never at the credential — rather than a
phrase, so saying it better cannot read as a regression.

Also adds a `put_probe` example that makes the same request from a stored
session, for diagnosing this from a desktop when one is signed in.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-17 20:19:27 +02:00
dtourolleandClaude Opus 5 71554714e7 Log why the server refused a write, in its own words
A queued sidecar fails to upload with 403 on a credential that pushes the
catalog to the same library root in the same pass. `map_status` reduces every
non-success to a typed error, which is right for the application and leaves
nothing to work from: a read-only share, a file access control rule and a lock
all arrive as `PermissionDenied`.

Sabre says which in the response body. It is now logged on any failed PUT —
the URL, the status, and the first line naming the exception or message,
capped at 300 characters because an error page can be a whole document. Only
on failure; a success has no body worth reading.

Also adds a `put_probe` example that makes the same request from a stored
session and prints the reason, for diagnosing this from a desktop rather than
from a tablet's logcat. It needs a session on the machine it runs on, which is
why the log line above exists as well.

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2026-08-17 20:08:07 +02:00
dtourolleandClaude Opus 5 dea826811e Render a blown highlight white instead of magenta
Every clipped sky came out bright pink. Measured, not guessed: developing
_MG_8596.CR2 and looking at the export, the subject renders correctly and only
the saturated region is wrong.

A fully clipped pixel reaches the shader as (1, 1, 1) — three photosites that
stopped counting, carrying no colour at all. The as-shot multipliers are not
neutral, so balancing sends it to (1.93, 1.00, 1.68) on this body, and the
camera matrix turns that into R 2.88, G 0.51, B 2.03. Red and blue clip at
one; green, whose matrix row is far less positive-heavy, does not. Red and
blue high with green low is magenta.

Nothing upstream was at fault, which is why the two previous attempts missed
it: the white balance is correct, the matrix is correct, and the sensor
normalisation is correct. The input simply was not a colour, and correct
arithmetic on a non-colour produces a confident wrong answer.

So saturation is detected before the balance is applied — the last 1.5% of
range, smoothstepped rather than switched, because a hard threshold draws a
visible rim around every highlight and a backlit edge on skin is where that
shows. Above it the pixel is pulled to the neutral of its own brightness, so
it keeps its luminance and loses only the cast.

Verified end to end on the file itself: the sky is white, the skin, the black
dresses and the stone are unchanged.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-17 13:17:15 +02:00
dtourolleandClaude Opus 5 31e20399c8 Read the true white level, and clamp the sensor stage at both ends
Two corrections to the sensor stage, found while chasing magenta highlights.
Neither is the cause of that — see below — but both are wrong on their own
terms.

`white_level` took the *first* of rawler's per-channel saturation points. On a
Canon 6D that reports 15070 while the data reaches 16383, so every sample
above it was treated as brighter than white. It takes the maximum now.

The normalisation clamped its floor and not its ceiling, so those over-white
samples passed through as values above 1.0. Clamped at both ends.

**This does not fix the pink.** Measured on _MG_8596.CR2, exported and looked
at: the subject renders correctly and only the blown sky is magenta. A fully
clipped pixel is (1,1,1) in raw, the as-shot balance multiplies it to
(1.93, 1.00, 1.68), and the camera matrix turns that into R 2.88, G 0.51,
B 2.03 — red and blue clip at one, green does not, and the result is magenta.
It is correct white balance applied to already-saturated data, which is the
classic highlight-clipping cast and needs highlight desaturation to fix: a
pixel at saturation carries no colour information and must be rendered
neutral, not balanced.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-17 13:13:17 +02:00
dtourolleandClaude Opus 5 7d0fb710a6 Bound a readback by time, so a full-resolution export can finish
Exporting a real 20 MP CR2 failed every time with "readback did not
complete", while the copy itself was perfectly healthy.

The bound was 100,000 non-blocking polls. That sounds generous and is not: a
`Poll` that finds nothing returns immediately, so the loop spent its entire
budget in a few milliseconds. Small transfers — the histogram's 4 KB, a
viewport-sized frame — happened to land inside it. An 80 MB frame never could.

It is a deadline now, thirty seconds, which is the only thing the bound was
ever for: catching a lost device that will never deliver the callback. A
one-millisecond pause after the first sixty-four spins stops the loop
saturating a core for the length of the copy, while keeping a small transfer
as immediate as it was.

Found by developing /home/dtourolle/Downloads/_MG_8596.CR2 through the export
example: 5472×3648 renders in 127 ms and writes all five formats.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-17 13:13:17 +02:00
dtourolleandClaude Opus 5 f1f528fc42 Stop rendering a missing white balance as neutral, which came out pink
🐳 Android image / Build and push (push) Successful in 1s
Build and test / android-image (push) Successful in 2s
Build and test / Desktop (Linux) (push) Failing after 57m10s
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`sane_wb` replaced any coefficient it could not use with 1.0. That reads as a
safe default and is not one. A Bayer sensor's green photosites collect roughly
twice the signal of its red and blue, so unbalanced data is strongly green —
and the camera matrix is built assuming the data reaching it has already been
balanced. Fed green-heavy input it subtracts green as designed, overshoots,
and the frame lands in magenta. Bodies whose as-shot coefficients rawler does
not report came out pink, and nothing anywhere said why.

The fallback is now the camera's own response to daylight, which
`cam_to_srgb_from` was already computing on its way to balancing the matrix
and then discarding. `daylight_wb` exposes it, and both callers read the same
matrix through the same illuminant preference — so the multipliers neutralise
exactly the white the matrix expects to be neutral, by construction rather
than by coincidence. With no matrix either, the body is unknown and neutral is
the honest answer: uncalibrated beats wrong in a specific direction.

A test caught me returning the response rather than its reciprocal, which
inverts the correction — a sensor is *least* sensitive to the channel needing
the largest multiplier, so that version boosted precisely the wrong one. The
doc comment now says which of the two it returns, because they differ by an
inversion and look alike.

Four tests, on a real matrix (Canon 6D, D65) rather than a contrived one: the
fallback is nowhere near neutral, lifts both red and blue against green, stays
green-normalised, and — the property that makes it consistent rather than
merely plausible — balancing by it and then applying the matrix maps the
camera's white to a neutral sRGB.

`daylight_wb` is also the anchor the white-balance presets need: a preset in
kelvin requires an absolute illuminant to be a preset *of*, and the temperature
control is currently a relative offset from whatever the camera chose.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-17 13:03:03 +02:00
dtourolleandClaude Opus 5 654c11300e Pin the framing geometry on pixels, not on the generated shader
Chasing a reported shear on rotate and straighten. Two tests, and what they
prove is that the pipeline is not where it comes from.

A circle is the shape that makes anisotropy unmissable: any transform scaling
the axes unequally returns an ellipse, and the ratio of its axes is the error.
Both a quarter turn and a 20° straighten, on a 3:2 frame, return a circle
within 8%.

Worth recording because I had a confident and wrong hypothesis first. The
quarter turn carries `* aspect.x` on one component and `/ aspect.x` on the
other, which reads like an anisotropy of a-squared, and the reasoning that
`p` is already isotropic is plausible enough that I changed it. The existing
`a_quarter_turn_corrects_for_aspect_across_the_swap` caught that immediately,
and these tests then showed the original was right all along: the crop rect is
expressed in the *turned* frame and the output axes swap with it, so the
factors are the conversion between those spaces rather than a mistake.

Reading the shader and reasoning about which space `p` lives in is exactly how
a plausible formula gets written twice. These assert on real pixels off a real
adapter instead, so the next person to suspect this transform can rule it out
in one command.

The shear is therefore in the display path — the fit from the framed size to
the viewport, or the crop overlay's uncropped render — and not in the geometry
the pipeline computes. Not yet fixed.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-17 12:46:17 +02:00
dtourolleandClaude Opus 5 02ae92ba0d Tidy what the seven-branch merge left behind
Build and test / Desktop (Linux) (push) Failing after 57m16s
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Three lints, all from merged work rather than from any one branch:
`terrace` and `disc` were steps on the way to the ramp the plateau test now
uses, and the reasoning that discarded them lives in docs/segmentation.md §12
rather than needing the code; two mechanical clippy suggestions in segment and
cache.

1176 tests pass, clippy and fmt clean, traceability regenerated.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-17 12:36:15 +02:00
dtourolle 4e62b89d17 Merge branch 'android-collections'
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Touch multi-selection in the grid, filing a selection into a collection
without a drag, and taking a collection offline from a held row.
2026-08-17 12:27:49 +02:00
dtourolleandClaude Opus 5 d913e50948 Select photographs with a finger, and take a collection with you
Two things a tablet could not do. Both existed for a pointer and had no
touch form at all, which on Android meant the collection sidebar was
somewhere to look at rather than somewhere to file into.

**Selecting more than one.** Ctrl-click and shift-click are the only ways
into a multi-selection, and touch has neither. Holding a cell now enters
selection mode, where a tap toggles — reported to Rust as a ctrl-press, so
it goes through the same `apply_press` as everything else rather than
growing a second copy of the selection rules. A double tap takes the run
between where selecting began and there: the touch form of shift-click,
and the reason the anchor from *before* the double tap has to be
remembered, since both of its taps move the anchor onto the cell being
tapped. A "Select" button does the same thing where a gesture would go
undiscovered (FR-UI-4).

**Filing without a drag.** A one-finger drag beginning in the grid belongs
to the Flickable that scrolls it — that is the arbitration working, not a
bug to route around — so the selection can now be filed from a sheet
listing the sidebar's own rows. Copy by default, as the drag has always
been; moving out of the collection being shown is a switch, because it is
the one that takes something away.

**Taking a collection offline.** The machinery was there and reachable only
by scoping the grid to a collection and finding a button behind a
disclosure. Holding a collection's name now asks the question directly, and
the tray on a row and the header button ask the same one — three
affordances doing two different things is how a user comes to avoid all
three. The question is asked rather than a toggle flipped because both
answers are expensive: one downloads gigabytes, the other deletes them, and
the counts and sizes go in the buttons where they are read before the tap.

`Cache::release` is new and is the destructive half `unpin` deliberately is
not. "Remove the local copies" is asked by someone whose device is full,
and withdrawing a promise while leaving the bytes for a future eviction to
notice is not an answer to it. It unpins before forgetting, or the next pin
fetch would dutifully download everything it just deleted.

The sidebar's trays read `tier_actual`, never `tier_desired`: the question
is whether these will open on the aeroplane, and a pin whose download has
not run yet answers no.

TRACES: FR-CAT-7 | FR-NC-6a | FR-NC-6b | FR-NC-6c | FR-UI-2 | FR-UI-3 | FR-UI-4

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-17 12:27:29 +02:00
dtourolle 76bb6b2847 Merge branch 'worktree-watershed-plateaux' 2026-08-17 12:25:41 +02:00
dtourolleandClaude Opus 5 0b20436445 Prove the plateau pass does nothing, and stop paying for it
Picks up the lower-completion work a crashed session left mid-debug, with one
failing test and no diagnosis.

The diagnosis is that the pass is a no-op. Not "does not reduce basin count" —
it changes *no pixel's basin at all*, zero of 9216, comparing one plateau
iteration against sixty-four. That assertion is the substance of this commit:
the original test asserted a consequence (fewer basins) which a working pass
need not produce, so it could have been satisfied by weakening it. A no-op
check cannot pass vacuously, and it is what turned an opinion into a fact.

Three candidate causes were tried and none was it. Exact float equality is
genuinely wrong and is fixed regardless — a gradient computed from 8-bit
samples is never exactly equal across a region the eye calls flat, so `==`
never fires and `<` fires everywhere; `LEVEL_EPS` now sits behind all three
comparisons. The test image is not it either: a flat disc, a terraced disc and
a constant-slope ramp all behave the same.

The finding worth keeping is about the domain rather than the code. On a
gradient-magnitude watershed every flat region of the picture is at gradient
zero, the global minimum, and a plateau with no descending exit is a minimum —
one basin already, nothing to resolve. The plateaux lower-completion is defined
for are regions of constant non-zero gradient, which are rarer in a photograph
than F1's phrasing implies. That may be the whole answer, or it may be hiding
a fourth cause; I could not close it.

So `plateau_iterations` defaults to 0. The implementation stays, correct as
far as it goes and costing nothing until someone finishes it; the test stays,
ignored with its reason; docs/segmentation.md §12 records what was ruled out so
the next attempt starts further along than this one did.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-17 12:25:28 +02:00
dtourolleandClaude Opus 5 a8b28136a6 Merge the batch export, and settle the seven-branch merge
Resolves the last of the parallel work. Two conflicts worth recording,
because both were semantic rather than textual:

`render_for_export` gained a colour space on master while the batch branch
was rewriting the single-image export path around it. Kept both: the batch
request supersedes the synchronous path, and the space still has to be chosen
at render time because the conversion happens in the shader before the clip to
0..1. `render_open_frame` takes it as an argument rather than reaching for a
controller it does not hold.

The map-wait moved into `readback::await_mapping` on one branch while another
was editing the constant it used, so `READBACK_POLL_LIMIT` survived the merge
with no callers. Removed rather than left for clippy to find later.

1164 tests pass, clippy clean, fmt clean. Traceability 53.0% -> 54.3%.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-17 10:11:44 +02:00
dtourolle cfff6a3302 Merge branch 'zero-copy-display'
# Conflicts:
#	core/dr-gpu/src/adjust.rs
#	ui/dr-ui/src/develop.rs
2026-08-17 10:04:14 +02:00
dtourolle 9fc8721fa8 Merge branch 'histogram'
# Conflicts:
#	ui/dr-ui/src/lib.rs
2026-08-17 10:00:27 +02:00
dtourolleandClaude Opus 5 0233df4bf2 See what the highlights are doing: a live histogram (FR-DSP-7)
Exposure, blacks and whites were set by eye. Nothing said a highlight had
blown — the canvas shows white where a channel is at 250 and white where it is
at 255, and the difference is the whole question.

**Counted on the GPU, not on the readback.** There is a full frame sitting in
CPU memory on every canvas update right now — `AdjustPass::read_output`, the
bridge spike S1 removes — and walking it would have been thirty lines and no
shader. FR-DSP-7 states the mechanism and not just the feature: "these derive
from a GPU-side reduction into a small buffer. Per-frame CPU readback of image
data is prohibited." A histogram founded on the bridge would be correct today
and deleted by S1, and would meanwhile be the reason the bridge could not go.
What crosses the bus here is 4104 bytes whatever the image size.

The reduction tallies into workgroup memory first and merges once per
workgroup. A photograph is not noise: a clear sky puts tens of thousands of
adjacent pixels in one bin, and contending for that single global atomic
serialises the dispatch.

**On the settled frame only.** `render_now` already knows whether a gesture is
still moving — `draft` is the flag `redraw` derives from `was_coalesced` — so
the dispatch and its transfer happen once when the slider stops rather than on
each of the forty frames a drag emits. Nothing is lost: a histogram flickering
past under a finger is not a reading anyone takes. FR-DSP-7 requires exactly
this, that it not extend the FR-DSP-3 frame budget.

Luma is weighted in 8.8 fixed point — 54, 183, 19, summing to 256 exactly —
rather than in floats. Not thrift: it makes the shader's arithmetic
reproducible bit for bit, which is what lets the test below be an `assert_eq`
against a CPU count rather than a tolerance. ARCH §6.13's line about integer
state, applied where it happens to also be free.

**What the numbers were checked against.** A flat frame must put all 4096
pixels in one bin and one only. A 256-wide ramp must occupy every level with
exactly the same count, which is what catches an off-by-one in the
quantisation — a `floor` where a rounding was needed shifts the whole
photograph one bin left and looks like nothing at all. And a 101x37 frame of
seeded pseudo-random pixels — deliberately not a multiple of the 16x16
workgroup, so the edge tiles run off the image — is compared slot for slot
against a second, obvious CPU implementation. Exact equality, no tolerance.
The CPU version is a deliberate reimplementation rather than shared code: the
bugs worth catching here are ones shared code would commit identically on both
sides.

Above that, the presentation arithmetic is unit-tested headless, because it is
where a wrong answer is invisible. A histogram of the wrong shape looks exactly
as plausible as one of the right shape. So: 64 columns because it divides 256
and an uneven fold draws an even ramp as a comb; the peak excludes the end
columns, or a night scene scaled against its own black spike is a flat line
with no information in it; heights are clamped into the plot; and "0%" is kept
distinct from "<0.1%" and from "—", since an indicator reading "clipped" over
a figure reading "none" is a panel contradicting itself.

Clipping counts a *pixel* with any channel at an extreme, not a channel. Any,
because a blown red has no gradation left in it however much green and blue
still hold — and it is the saturated highlight, the sunset and the red jersey,
that clips first and recovers worst. Per pixel, because counting channels can
report 200% of a frame clipped, and a percentage above 100 is a readout nobody
trusts again.

Two affordances for it, which NFR-A11Y-3 asks for: a bar standing at the end
of the plot the tones are piling against, and a figure saying how much. Either
alone reads.

The panel sits directly under the capture metadata and above every control,
because it is what the controls are judged against. It is hand-built rather
than generated, and ARCH §4.3a is untroubled: a histogram is not an operation
— no parameters, changes nothing, answers a question rather than asking one —
and nothing in it reads a parameter out of a descriptor.

Three plot colours and a neutral luma trace join the palette. That is the
swatch's exception rather than a second one: a per-channel histogram has to
say which channel, and no achromatic treatment distinguishes red from blue, so
the hue is data exactly as the image beside it is. Held well back from full
strength for the reason the theme preamble gives.

The bounded, non-parking map wait moves out of `AdjustPass` into
`readback::await_mapping`, shared with the histogram's transfer. Thirty lines
of load-bearing reasoning about frozen interfaces and lost devices, and two
copies of it would have drifted.

The histogram describes the frame on the canvas, so it is in the output colour
space FR-DSP-7 asks for, and when zoomed it describes the visible region — a
photographer inspecting a highlight at 4x is asking about that highlight. A
device that cannot build the reduction loses the histogram and keeps the
photograph.

Still to do for FR-DSP-7: the pixel colour readout under the cursor.

324 tests pass, clippy and fmt clean.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-17 09:55:40 +02:00
dtourolleandClaude Opus 5 cf8f5b632f Show the develop frame itself, instead of a photocopy of it
The oldest open item in the project (ARCH §6.1, spike S1, AC-8). Every frame
in develop was read off the GPU into a `SharedPixelBuffer` and handed back to
Slint to upload again: ~7 ms at 4K against a 0.28 ms compute pass, 96% of the
frame spent carrying pixels to the CPU and back so they could be drawn where
they already were.

Slint 1.17 will adopt a `wgpu::Texture` directly, and the whole of what that
needs is arrangement rather than code.

**One device, made before the window.** A texture belongs to the device that
allocated it, so the compute passes and the compositor cannot each open their
own. `GpuContext::new_shared` opens one and hands back the instance and
adapter alongside it; `dr_ui::shared_gpu` gives all four to
`BackendSelector::require_wgpu_29(WGPUConfiguration::Manual { .. })`. That
call has to come before the first window, because creating one selects a
backend for you — which is why the GPU is now opened at the top of `run`
rather than two hundred lines down beside the other controllers.

dr-gpu still names no UI type. It hands out raw wgpu and does not ask who is
compositing (ARCH §6.5a).

**Vulkan only on the shared path**, where headless keeps its GL fallback.
wgpu's GL backend reaches its display through EGL at instance creation, and
before a window exists there is no display handle to give it — so a GL
instance cannot later produce the window surface Slint needs from it. A
machine with no Vulkan gets no shared device and browses without develop,
which is the same degradation as no adapter at all.

**`renderer-femtovg` becomes `renderer-femtovg-wgpu`.** The old one is FemtoVG
over OpenGL and cannot be handed a wgpu texture at all. It is not kept
alongside as a fallback: FemtoVG-over-GL has no branch for an imported
texture, falls through to "render this image into a buffer", gets nothing, and
draws nothing — a blank canvas with no error, which is worse than the failure
it would be papering over. The consequence is stated plainly in the manifest:
the desktop app now needs a working wgpu adapter to open a window.

**Two output textures, not one, and this is the part that is not obvious.**
Slint repaints when the image property *changes*, and it decides that with
`PartialEq` — which for two images over the same `wgpu::Texture` says
"unchanged". A pass that reused a single target would have rendered every
slider move correctly on the GPU and shown none of them: right, and invisible.
`AdjustPass` alternates between two targets, so consecutive frames are
genuinely different values. It also settles the read-while-write question that
one queue was already answering.

`RENDER_ATTACHMENT` is added to both render targets. Neither pass uses it;
Slint rejects an imported texture without it, on the reasoning that a
compositor handed a texture may need to draw into it.

**`AdjustPass::read_output` is deleted rather than gated.** It and
`export_pixels` were the same transfer under two names, and the comments
explaining why they were separate are the point of the whole criterion:
reading pixels back to *display* them is the defect, reading them back to
*encode a file* is the only way a file is made. The display twin is now gone
outright, which is stronger than a feature flag — it cannot be turned back on.
`export_pixels` is untouched and still ungated. The `readback` feature comes
off dr-ui, darkroom-desktop and darkroom-android; it stays in dr-gpu, where it
still gates `RenderTarget::read_pixels` and the segmentation field readback.
`examples/develop` moves to `export_pixels`, which is honest — it writes a
PPM — and so no longer needs the feature.

Four tests, each named for what it protects and each of which fails without a
screen if the property it guards breaks:

- the adjust target satisfies every condition Slint's import checks, asserted
  in the crate that owns the descriptor, because a descriptor that drifts
  fails at runtime on a real display and nothing else would notice;
- consecutive renders are different textures, and the third is the first
  again, so the alternation is a rotation and not an allocation per frame;
- the develop canvas has no CPU pixel buffer and does have a wgpu texture —
  AC-8 itself, in the terms Slint uses;
- consecutive frames compare unequal as `slint::Image`, which is the property
  the repaint actually depends on.

The zoom test's readback moves into the test module. It has to: there is no
library function that copies a displayed frame to the CPU any more, and that
is the point — the round-trip now exists in the test binary and nowhere a
shipping build can reach.

**What is not proven.** No GUI was run. What is verified is that the texture
satisfies the import contract, that the import succeeds, that the canvas is a
texture rather than a buffer, and that consecutive frames are distinguishable.
What is unverified is everything that needs a display: that Slint's FemtoVG
wgpu renderer adopts the Manual configuration on a real surface, that the
picture appears the right way up and the right colour, and the frame timing
that motivated the whole exercise. Android is untouched by testing — the
android backend routes a WGPU29 request to Skia, whose wgpu surface does
handle imported textures, but that is read from the source, not observed.

56 dr-gpu tests and 255 dr-ui tests pass, clippy clean under `-D warnings`,
fmt clean.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-17 09:54:00 +02:00
dtourolleandClaude Opus 5 4b36ca66aa Render an export into the colour space its file will claim
The colour-managed export branch left one call site deliberately unfixed, and
this is it. `render_for_export` composed with the default sRGB shader, so a
Display P3 export failed with an accurate error rather than producing a
mislabelled file — the right way to leave a half-finished path, and no way to
leave it.

The space is chosen at render time because that is the only time it can be:
the conversion happens in the shader, before the clip to 0..1, so by the time
pixels reach an encoder they are in exactly one space and the only honest
thing left is to label them. `Frame::in_space` carries which, and a mismatch
between what was rendered and what was asked for stays a typed error.

Also regenerates the traceability matrix over the four merged branches.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-17 09:34:57 +02:00