A section after Looking closer: what it is for, the switch and its wait,
Keep grain, which cameras it takes and where its noise figures come from.
The scene opens the Brooklyn Bridge at ISO 8000 from the face-free demo
set at 1:1, switches it on, waits for the result to land and keeps some
grain, with a still before and after. It waits on the app's own log line
rather than a fixed time: the network takes seconds on a GPU and more on
the CPU, which is where the recording X server leaves it (13 s).
The grain blend replaces the Amount of §7.2, and why its objection to a
blend does not hold for brightness alone; the Hexagon is out (int8 -6 to
-9 dB); §11 holds the data, the noise model taken from the library, the
model, the validation table, the blind estimate's reach and the speed.
A Bayer photograph keeps its mosaic in the session and is offered the AI
Denoise switch. Asked for, the network runs on the decode executor from a
hot-pixel-repaired copy — the app's own pass — with the frame's noise from
its best source, and its progress in the activity bar; the classical
demosaic shows until the result lands, and the finished job says where the
noise figures came from. Keep grain is a GrainBlend of the two, made once
per value; the render draws it as its source and the adjust pass never
knows. demosaiced stays the classical result, so the raw histogram, the
white balance picker, masks and segmentation still read the sensor.
The develop view reconciles on a 250 ms poll rather than on each way an
edit can change (slider, undo, preset, version, a sidecar from another
device): two comparisons when nothing changed, and no path that can forget.
A failure is not retried until the switch is toggled. An export of a
photograph that asks for it waits for a running job or computes it.
Whether to use the learned denoise, and how much grain to keep, are what a
photographer sets, so they travel the one road every setting does: published
as a capability, captured by Preset, stored in the sidecar, replayed by the
undo stack (FR-DEV-3c). Published only on a photograph that can take it, for
the lens switch's reason; the availability is derived from the file and is
not in the state. Off by default, grain 0; a reset returns both.
DemosaicedImage::from_rgb_f32 takes the network's linear camera RGB and
stands it beside the classical source of the same photograph: the matrix,
profile tables and as-shot balance are that source's, the id is new, so
nothing downstream can tell which demosaic ran and every cache keyed on the
source sees a new one.
GrainBlend is the denoise's live control. It returns only the brightness of
the noise the network removed, taken after the as-shot balance and handed
back divided by it, so the grain is neutral in the finished picture; colour
speckle and demosaic false colour stay out. It writes a new source rather
than adding a term to the adjust shader: the blend depends on two images and
one number, a 20 MP pass is milliseconds, and a fresh source id is all the
adjust pass's caches need. The test reads it back: at 0 the network's
result, at 1 the same white-balanced step in every channel.
The probe built one zero tensor from the first input and ran the session
with it. Every model so far had one input; the denoiser has two (mosaic and
sigma), so every rung failed with "Missing Input: sigma" and the role was
left on the CPU: 14.4 s for a 20 MP frame where TensorRT fp16 takes 3.1 s.
Zeros now go to each input by name.
The learned demosaic-and-denoise (denoise.md) runs through the engine like
every other model. fp16 cost it nothing measurable (0.00 dB at every ISO on
validation tiles), so it takes TensorRT's and MIGraphX's fp16 like the
detectors. int8 cost it 6 to 9 dB, far past a 0.5 dB gate, so the Hexagon
refuses the role outright rather than relying on no int8 sibling existing,
and the tablet runs it on the CPU.
The learned demosaic replaces the classical one and takes its input, the
mosaic hot_pixels.wgsl leaves (denoise.md §2), so its training data and its
input in the app must come through that pass and not a lookalike. The pass
was recorded inline in Demosaicer::run; it is now built by hot_pass and
recorded by record_hot_pass, which run still uses unchanged, and
Demosaicer::repair_hot_pixels runs it on its own and reads the mosaic back.
mosaic_dump moves to dr-gpu to call it, records how many photosites changed,
and keeps --unrepaired for a raw readout.
denoise.md §4.4 requires the training repo to read photosites through
dr-decode, not LibRaw, so black and white levels, the active area and the
CFA phase match what the app will feed the network. mosaic_dump reads
`input<TAB>prefix` lines and writes the whole readout as .npy plus a JSON
of what decode and metadata report. The masked border is kept: its
optically black photosites are a free dark frame for the noise profile.
The DCP half that outstanding.md listed as deferred is built (D20).
What stays open is the profiles directory, which does not sync, and
the profile tone curve and baseline exposure, which are read and not
applied — and which camera-profiles.md §1 measured as where the rest of
the gap to Lightroom's colour is.
Measured after building them, on four of the library's 6D DNGs: Adobe
Standard's tables lower mean saturation by 3-9 % at defaults, and the
look at 200 % lowers it further. The 6D's look table scales saturation
by 0.925 in its darkest value rows; it was tuned to sit under Camera
Raw's default RGB tone curve, which DarkRoom does not apply, and the
dark-tone desaturation is what is left without it. On _MG_9080 the
Lightroom preview measures 0.49, the matrix alone 0.38, the profile
0.35.
So the spec's "that gap is most of why the same file looks flatter"
was wrong: the gap is tone. The tables stay — they put each hue where
Adobe put it — and the spec, D20 and the Vivid file now say so.
"Stronger camera look" is removed: a stronger Adobe Standard look is a
less saturated picture, the opposite of its name. The Vivid presets,
measured at 0.40-0.46 on the same frame, are what answers "more
colourful" today.
The info panel gains a line under the lens: "Adobe Standard · in the
file", the .dcp it came from, "· off" when the photographer switched it
off, or "No camera profile · matrix only" — the ordinary case for a
CR2, worded as a fact rather than a failure. A DNG whose embedded
profile may be copied, for a body with no installed profile, also gets
"Use this profile for every Canon EOS 6D →", which saves it into the
profiles directory; the body's CR2s render through it from their next
decode.
The profiles directory is <data>/profiles, read at start-up on desktop
and Android before anything decodes. The library open path never set
the lens line; it now sets both. Labels: Camera Profile, Use Profile,
Look Amount.
The second half of D20: a camera_profile scene operation at order 25
that converts working colour into linear ProPhoto, runs the DNG SDK's
HSV lookup through the HueSatMap and then the LookTable, and converts
back. Hue and saturation do not change under the uniform gains before
it, so a 2.5-D HueSatMap gives the same answer as straight after the
matrix, and the look sees the photographer's exposure as it does in
the SDK. Two departures for scene-referred values: value is not
clamped on the way out, and a colour outside ProPhoto passes through.
The operation holds only the switch (on by default) and a look
strength of 0-200 %. It is composed while the switch is on — a new
Operation::composes() separates "does something" from "moved from the
defaults", so an untouched raw renders through its profile and still
writes nothing. The tables come from the source: dr-gpu uploads the
ones DemosaicedImage carries into a storage buffer at @binding(8),
whose two-entry header tells the fragment whether there is anything to
apply, and binds a header of zeros for every other source.
apply_reference is the lookup on the CPU. The GPU test holds the
shader to it over 256 colours, through synthetic tables strong enough
that a wrong index shows, and through the library's real Adobe
Standard tables when the 6D DNG is present.
The first half of D20. dr-decode now finds a camera profile's HueSatMap
and LookTable in the order camera-profiles.md §4 gives: the profile a
DNG embeds, then a .dcp in the profiles directory whose
UniqueCameraModel names the body, then none. A .dcp brings its own
matrices, since its tables were measured against its forward matrix.
The HueSatMap is blended for the frame's colour temperature with the
same mired weight the matrices use, once per decode, and the result
rides on RawImage as profile_tables beside color_matrix, so every path
that renders a decoded file gets the same profile without a setter to
forget. Nothing applies the tables yet.
A profile whose embed policy allows copying can be written back out as
a .dcp (rawler's TIFF writer with the RC magic patched in), which is how
the library's 6D CR2s will get the Adobe Standard their DNGs carry. The
table type lives in dr-types because decode, pipeline and GPU all need
its layout. Tests read the library's 6D DNG when it is present.
The library's Canon 6D DNGs were written by Lightroom and embed Adobe
Standard with its HueSatMap and LookTable; DarkRoom renders them through
the matrix alone, which is most of why the same file looks flatter here
than in Lightroom.
camera-profiles.md designs the deferred half of FR-DEV-3e: the tables
applied by a camera_profile scene operation after exposure, the profile
taken from the DNG or from a matched .dcp, tables carried with the
decoded image like the matrix, a look-strength control, and copying an
embedded profile out where its policy allows. FR-DEV-3e gains item 4
and D20 records the placement and what was rejected.
The view was the same fraction of each axis, so it kept the frame's
aspect at every zoom: a portrait zoomed on a landscape screen stayed a
portrait strip with the screen's sides empty. Each axis now shows as
much of the frame as the viewport holds at that magnification, capped
at the whole frame, and the render is fitted to the viewed region
rather than to the frame. A redraw re-cuts a zoomed view about its
centre when the viewport or the crop changes shape.
A step along the roll showed up to four pictures: the grid thumbnail,
the previous photograph again (the thumbnail was dropped when the bytes
landed, while the canvas still held the last texture through the decode
and first render), the new one at its defaults when a cached original
beat the sidecar, and then its edit.
The thumbnail now stays up until render_now draws the new photograph's
first frame, and that first frame waits up to 400 ms for the stored edit
before drawing at the defaults. A later arrival still redraws.
A stored edit that arrived after the view had stepped on was applied to
whatever session was open by then — the next photograph's. The wait now
stops once the open it belongs to is no longer the current one.
A queued export could not see the server, so its name check always
answered "free" and the upload PUT over whatever was there: Increment
and Skip behaved as Overwrite on Nextcloud, and two exports of the same
name queued before either uploaded landed on one file.
The batch now names around what the album records of earlier exports
and what the outbox already holds for that folder. The outbox record
carries the policy, and the drain lists each destination folder once
and applies it against what the server holds: Increment steps past a
taken name and re-points the album's row, Skip drops the entry. A
record without a policy (older builds, a merge's composite) is sent as
named, as before. The album is recorded before the drain starts so a
rename has a row to move.
The presets menu at the foot of the tool rail is a PopupWindow, and
showing a popup takes focus off the develop view until it closes. The
menu held nothing focusable, so Android's Back gesture, pressed to
dismiss it, found no focus item, went unanswered, and the platform
closed the application. Slint closes a popup on Escape by itself but
not on Back.
The menu now holds a key scope, as the film list does, that closes it
on Back or Escape. The next Back leaves develop for the grid.
The merge weighted every overlap pixel by its distance from each frame's
edge, a 200 px linear cross-fade. Anything the frames disagreed on —
parallax in the near foreground, grass in the wind, a walker — came out
twice at half strength: a soft double edge at 1:1.
dr_pano::seam picks, per output texel at proxy resolution, which frame a
pixel comes from. Where a new frame overlaps the composite the cost is the
gain-corrected difference plus local detail plus nearness to either
frame's edge, taken as the worst over a small window, and the cut is a
dynamic-programming path across the overlap. merge.wgsl weights each frame
by its tent-filtered share of that map, a 64 px blend that follows the
seam, with the edge feather kept as the fallback. The page's preview uses
the same map, and examples/merge.rs takes --feather-only for comparison.
WhatsApp strips every EXIF tag and names the file "WhatsApp Image
2023-06-15 at 07.00.42.jpeg"; Windows Phone, Android cameras and
darktable's import put the date in the name too. Those images sorted
after everything else and were absent from the timeline.
name_dates reads a date (and a time, when one follows) from the file
name, then from the innermost folder that states one. A sequence number
after a date is not read as a time, and a bare year folder is not a date.
EXIF always wins: only examined rows still undated are filled.
The sweep and the metadata repair fill as they mark an image examined,
and the open backfill fills catalogs examined by earlier builds. On the
reference library that takes 274 undated images to 10; the no-op case is
a seek on images_captured, 0.6 ms an open.
Import was switched off on Android: `imports_supported` was true only for
`target_os = "linux"`, and its comment said Android has no path to read a
card by and nowhere to write the copies. Neither holds. With "all files
access" (MANAGE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE, API 30) an app reads the root of an SD
card or a USB card reader by path, `/storage/9C33-6BBD`, and the importer
only ever writes into its own staging directory, which is a plain
directory on Android too. So the engine runs unchanged; what was missing
was finding the card and the permission.
- The manifest declares MANAGE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE, and
READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE up to API 29 with requestLegacyExternalStorage,
which is the same access on 28 and 29.
- Cards.java lists the mounted non-primary volumes through
StorageManager and opens the system "All files access" page for this
app. dr_ui::cards is the JNI bridge, through saf's helpers.
- The import page on Android asks for the permission with an "Allow
access" button until it has it, rather than showing an empty list that
reads as "no card", and watches for the grant so the list fills in when
the user comes back from settings.
Google Play restricts this permission to file managers and the like;
DarkRoom is sideloaded, so that does not apply.
A crop handle straddles the picture's edge. With the photograph fitted
to the whole canvas, the bottom handles sat in the photo roll's band,
whose swipe handler takes every press inside it, and the bottom-left
one under the "Done Composing" row, which is declared after the overlay
and whose buttons press 44px tall. Both were drawn and could not be
grabbed: on a laptop-shaped window, one or the other for nearly any
photograph.
While composing, the canvas box is inset 16px from its clip and stops
above the band, the row's margin and the row's hit height. The band is
measured once, on the canvas, and the row reads it from there.
The panorama scene now ends in the grid, on the composite in its wide
cell beside the twelve frames it was made from, with the thumbnail the
merge made: the picture is taken straight after the merge, before any
rescan could have found the file. The manual's library section says how
a panorama's cell is sized and packed, and its panorama section that the
composite is in the grid the moment it is written. panorama.md §9 records
the race that kept it out, the catalogue-then-register path that
replaced it, how the thumbnail is developed, and the layout's classes.
A design draft for the learned stage outstanding.md §3 lists as missing:
a joint demosaic-and-denoise network that runs on the mosaic, in the
slot architecture.md §5.2 reserves for it, with its result kept as a
cache rather than a new file in the library. It covers the model and
tiling, synthetic training pairs from the library and a per-body noise
calibration, evaluation on real pairs, the Amount control, speed on the
tablet, X-Trans, and the decisions still open. Nothing in it is built;
figures marked "estimate" wait for the measurements that replace them.
presets-film.gif came from the tree before preset-tree landed, so it
opened a flat list; the scene now walks Film › Black and white under
the folders, on the scene-referred pipeline. presets.png and
presets-menu.png re-recorded identical: preset-tree recorded them on
D19 already.
A 22 927 × 8966 Lightroom panorama of a glacier, opened in develop:
the wheel in from fit to the peaks, a slow pan along the ridge at that
zoom, back out, then 1:1 with a double-click and fit with another. The
scene borrows the file from outside the demo library, copies it into a
panorama folder, restarts so the scan finds it, and deletes it and the
sidecar the app writes beside it before restarting again; it is
registered last so no other scene sees it.
The film is fine ice and rock in every frame and was 22 MB at the
usual 960 px and ten frames a second, so a scene can now name its own
GIF size (GIF_SIZE, read by record.sh through `scenes.py gif`); this
one is 640 px at eight, 8.7 MB.
D19 changed how every raw photograph renders, so every picture was
stale; all forty are recorded again from this tree. Beside the ones
already in the page there is now one for Tone Mapping: an alpine frame
whose clouds sit near white, its White Point raised to bring them back
and lowered for a brighter picture, its Contrast raised, then Before.
The panorama film unticks the first frame and ticks it back, so the
Frames list and the re-solve show; it no longer films minutes of
"Reading the frames", cutting from the first seconds of the job to the
alignment. The manual's presets menu opens beside the rail, not beside
the photograph.
The develop paragraph counted eighteen operations fused into one
dispatch, before the view transform made nineteen and a detail stage
made the fusion two passes, and said nothing of editing on the scene
with Tone Mapping last. Presets are now a menu on the tool rail, a
panorama frame can be left out, and a linear DNG larger than one
texture develops. The requirement count and coverage are
traceability.md's (193, 85.5%), and tiled rendering is no longer
wholly unbuilt. outstanding.md gains its sweep note for 0.19.0 and
says in §11 what the frame choice changed.
ARCH §5.3 still described only a tile cache nobody built; it now says
what 0.19.0 tiles and what it does not: a linear DNG past PROXY_EDGE
opens on a reduced copy, a finer render samples a full-resolution
window, and the export is cut into halo-grown tiles. display-and-
extension.md's FR-DSP-2 row said absent, outstanding.md said the halo
had nothing to read it and that such a file fell to the embedded
preview.
rawler now builds from third_party, which ARCH's stack table and §3.2,
the root Cargo.toml's comment ("two upstream crates ... for Android")
and third_party/README.md's bump procedure did not know; the README
also names each vendored crate's licence. panorama.md and the manual
say a composite this wide develops and exports.
panorama.md still had a frame that did not fit end the job, and FR-MRG-5
still said the merge stops; since 621a6b83 the frame is named on its
row and unticked, and the rest are solved again from the pairs already
matched. §15 records the split of align into match_pairs and solve and
why re-aligning a subset from scratch moved every RANSAC seed, and the
rule e98b1def gave a blown sample, which §8's "nothing about being a
RAW is lost" now mentions. The manual says where the boxes are and
what an unplaceable frame does to Merge.
D19 retired the per-body base curve, moved the matrix ahead of the
edits and the film into the view transform's place, but a dozen doc
comments still listed the curve among what a pixel passes through, or
said the film skipped it. The detail stage's module doc still drew the
matrix after the edits and the last detail pass encoding, which the
view pass took over. The film crate's README gave the base curves as
its reason for being data, and the ops README's list of hand-written
nodes had neither the view transform nor three of the five kernels.
FR-MRG-2 gave the base curve as why the merge cuts below the profile;
the view transform is why now. The decision table still said colour
defaults were a per-body curve, and FR-DEV-3j said only the default
view transform skips a JPEG, where the node skips one whatever its
sliders say. frame-budget.md records the view pass as unmeasured.
The presets menu and sheet listed every preset under flat section
headings, seventy rows to scroll past. They now list folders, closed
until opened, with how many presets each holds; opening one shows what
is inside it, folders and presets indented beneath.
A category is spelled in the name: "Portraits/Warm skin" is Warm skin
in a Portraits folder under Yours. The file format does not change, so
an older build lists the whole path as the name; renaming a preset is
how it moves, and saving or renaming into a folder opens the way to it.
A Lightroom import names what it reads after the folders below the one
chosen, and a "/" in a displayed name becomes "∕" so it files nothing.
The shipped film sections become Film › Colour, Cinema and Black and
white.
The tree is built and flattened in Rust (PresetTree), each row carrying
its depth, and which folders are open is remembered for the session.
A PopupWindow keeps the size it was shown at, so a folder opened in the
menu pushed its contents under "Save or manage…"; the menu is shown
again after each toggle to take its new height. That is a function on
the rail because Slint 1.17 generates Rust that does not compile for a
popup's close() reached from inside the popup. The sheet's list takes a
preferred height of up to 400px, since a Flickable reports next to
nothing and an opened folder showed three rows.
The manual describes the folders and naming. Its pictures show the menu
with Film › Colour open, and a black-and-white stock applied from Film
› Black and white; the scenes aim popup rows from the rail's entry, and
pick the menu's "Film" over the develop column's film chooser.
FR-DSP-2 and NFR-RES-2 said tiling was unbuilt; the export half of it
now exists for a linear DNG past one texture. The interactive path and
spike S6 are unchanged.
A 22927×8966 Lightroom panorama opened as its embedded preview with
develop withheld, because no texture could hold it. DevelopSession now
opens a linear DNG past PROXY_EDGE (8192) on a box-reduced copy, and
keeps the full resolution on the CPU. The canvas at fit, the thumbnail,
the histograms and the masks work from the copy; a render finer than
it — the canvas zoomed in, a tile of the export — samples a window cut
from the full resolution, kept while the view stays inside it. The
export renders in halo-grown tiles of 4096 and assembles them.
On the panorama: decode 1.6 s, open 210 ms, canvas 37 ms, a zoomed
window 130 ms, the full-size export 5.9 s.
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.
A frame fraction was taken of the render's short edge, and render_scale
folds the zoom into the region the render stands for. Zoomed to 1:1 on a
corner, clarity, texture and dehaze drew a quarter of the halo the export
gets, though the docs promise they preview honestly at any zoom.
RenderScale now carries the whole framed frame (within), and a frame
fraction is measured against it; at fit nothing changes.
A photograph larger than one texture has to be developed from a part of
it or from a reduced copy of it. The generated prologue measured the frame
by the bound texture, so either would have moved every crop, warp and
grain seed. Two uniform vec4s now say which part of the frame the texture
holds and how large the frame is; the sampler maps into the texture
through to_window, and a texture holding the whole frame samples exactly
as before ((uv - 0) / 1 is uv to the bit).
The Light group gains `Tone Mapping`, and a film stock now takes its
place at the end of the chain rather than sitting after exposure (D19).
Say what the two sliders do and why every adjustment above them works on
the scene, highlights beyond white included. The pictures still show the
old rendering and are re-recorded separately.
The tone curve clamped its input to [0, 1] and its output back to 1.0
around a 2.2 gamma, mid-chain — master and per-channel both. So any
edit with a curve made every scene value above 1.0 the same number
before the view transform ever saw it: D19's fourth finding. Beyond its
last point the curve now continues along its last span, whose secant
is the tangent the spline already gives that point, so the join is
smooth and an identity curve stays the identity to any height. The only
clamp left is the floor at zero, where there is no light to curve.
FR-DEV-2's acceptance test is how the rule stays true.
`scene_referred_until_the_view` wraps every point operation, at
non-neutral settings, between a gain of sixteen and one of a
sixty-fourth, with an identity in the view transform's place, and
renders a ramp from 0.4 to 15.2 times sensor saturation through it. The
output must still increase with the input and still separate the top of
the ramp. Run against the previous commit's tone curve it fails with
[21, 29, 33, 33, 33, 33, 33, 33]; every other operation already passed.
It renders on a device because dr-pipeline has none, and the spec's
pointer to it says so.
A film stock ran at order 25, after white balance and exposure, and
everything after it — contrast, the curves, the colour mixer, the
grading, every mask layer's tone — acted on the film's display-referred
output, as though the frame had been scanned and then worked on. That
was a display-referred rendering in the middle of the chain, which D19
removes (FR-DEV-3f, FR-DEV-3j).
`film_sim` is now in `Stage::View` beside `view_transform`. While a
stock is loaded the composer emits it in the view transform's place and
not the sigmoid; otherwise the sigmoid. So every edit is a decision
about the exposure the negative receives, and the film is the last
thing that happens to the picture — after the detail stage too, in the
view pass, which already binds the film's tables, the mask array and
the grain's source position. Its per-layer settings blend there as they
did in the fused pass.
`op_renders` goes: a rendering is chosen, not suppressed, and the only
render with no view transform is the camera-space tap. The YAML order
moves to 190 so the panel reads in pipeline order; the stage, not the
number, is what places it.
Existing edits that combine a stock with tone or colour operations now
render differently: those operations used to act on the print, and now
act on the scene.
The fused pass stops at "linear working values" when a sharpener, a
blur or a repair follows, and the detail passes convolve what it hands
on. Until now it handed on the rendering: the base curve, and since the
last commit the view transform, ran before the store. So every kernel
worked on display-referred values while its comments promised the
opposite — D19's second finding.
A fused pass composed for a detail stage now stops before the view
transform, and carries a second shader, `ComposedShader::view`, composed
from the same inputs. It runs the same prologue, for the positions a
fragment reads (a film's grain seeds from `source_px`) and the corners
it blacks out, takes its colour from the detail stage's result bound
where the sample cache would be, and runs the view transform, the
output transform and the mask reveal. `render_detailed` dispatches it
after the last detail pass, in the same encoder.
So no detail pass encodes any more. Every pass writes an intermediate,
the last one included, which retires three things that existed only to
make the last pass encode: `writes_output` and the runner's second
layout, the body-less resolve pass for an active kernel with nothing to
draw at this scale, and capture sharpening's pass-through, which now
emits no pass at all. An empty chain is a whole render: the view pass
reads the fused result directly. The detail stage no longer takes an
output space either, so `compose_detail_for` folds into
`compose_detail` and the space is named once, on the fused half.
The cost is one full-render read and write per frame when a detail
stage exists, and a third intermediate for a one-pass chain.
FR-DEV-3j gives the view transform two controls, contrast and the white
point in stops above middle grey, persisted and held per mask layer like
any other setting. A scene-referred pipeline whose white point cannot be
moved hands the photographer a shoulder they cannot place.
`view_transform` is a hand-written node in `Stage::View`, a new stage
the composer emits last and emits whatever the node's state: a neutral
operation is otherwise left out of the shader, but a photograph with no
view transform is a scan. "Active" keeps meaning "moved from the
defaults", so an untouched photograph writes nothing for it and
`every_node_starts_neutral` still holds. A caller whose chain holds no
view operation gets a default one.
The composer's loop becomes an ordered list of steps — camera nodes, the
matrix, scene nodes, layer-only nodes, the view — so each is emitted in
exactly one place. The base curve could not be a node because it
belonged to the camera; the ops README records why that argument went
with it (D19). The panel shows it in the Light group as "Tone Mapping".
Tests that counted the blocks of a neutral graph now count one, the
view transform, and the two chain-wide tests that load a film expect the
view transform to be absent, since a stock replaces it.
The base curve was a five-point spline on the unit square, flat past its
last point: every value above 1.0 left it as the same number, per
channel. Exposure and highlight recovery put values up there, and the
curve threw them away, then handed the result on as though it were
still scene-linear. The six per-body curves were also, by their own
file's account, hand-tuned shapes rather than measurements, and not
enough is known about where they came from to keep them (D19).
In their place, one view transform for every body (FR-DEV-3j): a
log-logistic sigmoid per channel, with the middle channel put back
between the other two so a hue survives the shoulder. Its two free
constants are solved from two conditions rather than set: scene grey
0.13, where the retired default curve put it, lands on display 0.18,
and the scene white four stops above grey lands on 1.0. So a highlight
a stop past sensor saturation still rolls into white, and the midtones
stay within 0.26 EV of the retired default between scene 0.03 and 1.0.
`dr_pipeline::view` holds the CPU reference and the WGSL, and the tests
there are FR-DEV-3j's acceptance criteria.
It is still fixed and still in the fused pass's tail, so a detail stage
still sees rendered values; the next commits make it an operation and
move it after the detail stage. It is skipped for a JPEG, as the base
curve was, and absent from the camera-space tap.
The base curve's database, its lookup and its twelve uniform slots go.
`RawImage` and `DemosaicedImage` lose the field, and the GPU test that
proved a curve reached the shader is replaced by one that renders the
view transform against the CPU reference and shows two highlights above
1.0 still render apart. The JPEG-and-sensor test now asserts the two
differ by exactly the view transform, where before an identity fixture
curve had made them match.
Every point operation ran in camera RGB and the camera matrix came after
them all, against the order ARCH §5.2 draws. So `luminance()` applied
Rec.709 weights to a body's own primaries, a band in the colour mixer
was a different hue on every make of sensor, and the vibrance skin guard
tested channel order in a space where skin does not have one.
Operations now declare a `Stage`. White balance is the only camera-stage
node — its multipliers scale the sensor's channels, and after a matrix
that mixes them the same numbers are a different correction — and says
so with `stage: camera` in its YAML, a key both the build-time generator
and the load-time declared op read. The composer emits the camera nodes,
then the matrix, then the rest, each group in graph order; an empty
chain still gets the matrix.
Film simulation stops converting out of camera space itself, since it is
now handed working-space colour like every other scene node. The base
curve stays where it was, after the operations, and so now acts on
working-space colour; the next commit replaces it (D19).
The spec missed Ansel, and with it Aurélien Pierre's argument that a
display-referred curve early in the pipeline throws away what every
later stage needs. Read against that argument, the code broke it four
ways: the base curve was flat past its last point and so clipped every
recovered highlight; the detail stage was handed curved, clipped values
while its comments promised linear ones; the edits ran in camera RGB
because the matrix had drifted to after them, against ARCH §5.2; and the
tone curve clamped to [0, 1] around a 2.2 gamma mid-chain.
D19 records the decision: unbounded scene-linear colour from the matrix
to one view transform, last, after the detail stage. FR-DEV-3j specifies
that view transform as an adjustable operation (contrast, white) with a
default fitted to where the retired default curve put middle grey.
FR-DEV-3e retires the per-body base curves, whose own file called them
hand-tuned shapes of unknown provenance. FR-DEV-3f makes a film stock
the view transform when one is chosen, instead of a rendering at order
25 that the later edits acted on. FR-DEV-2 gains the acceptance test
that holds the rule, and ARCH gains §6.14 and the corrected §5.2 order.
A frame that did not fit ended the job with its name, and the only way
on was Back, a smaller selection and every frame read, demosaiced and
searched for keypoints again. Each row on the page now has a box. An
unticked frame is left out and the rest are solved again from what the
first pass measured.
dr_pano::align is split for it: match_pairs does the matching and the
pairwise RANSAC once over every frame (about 5 s for twelve), and solve
takes a subset of the frames and uses only the links among them (about
0.1 s). Solving a subset by re-aligning it also moved every RANSAC seed,
which are keyed on frame position, and on the fixture set that was
enough to lose a marginal link and strand a neighbour of the frame left
out.
A frame that cannot be placed no longer stops the job either. Its row
names it and Merge stays off until it is unticked; the headless example
leaves such frames out the same way, and takes --leave-out N to try it.
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