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DarkRoom/core/dr-pipeline/ops/film_sim.yaml
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dtourolle 657f8f19ff Develop the film last, in the view transform's place
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.
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id: film_sim
order: 190
# What this node is *about* is not written here, and cannot be: a `rust:` node
# publishes its own descriptor, so `attributes:` in this file would be read,
# validated and then ignored. See `Attribute::Effect` on `FilmSim`'s descriptor
# in `../src/ops/film_sim.rs`.
rust: FilmSim
why_rust: |
It carries a stock's measured tables — an exposure matrix, three
characteristic curves and a density lookup — which are not parameters and
which no `uniforms:` expression could produce. Its neutral is "no stock
loaded" rather than a set of values, and it is the one node that declares
`Operation::renders`, so the composer omits the camera profile's base curve
and the conversion out of camera space on its behalf.
placement: |
Last, in the view transform's place (D19, FR-DEV-3j), after every other
operation and after the detail stage.
Before D19 it sat at order 25, after white balance and exposure, and every
decision below it acted on the film's output, as though the frame had been
scanned and then worked on. That put a display-referred rendering in the
middle of the chain, which is what D19 removes: every operation is now handed
the scene, and the film is the last thing that happens to the picture — an
edit is a decision about the exposure the negative receives. `Stage::View`
is what puts it there; this number only places it in the panel's order.