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feat(analysis): Viewshed can read the ground between cells (bilinear heights) - #1789
Visibility Analysis can now read the ground between cells (bilinear heights) as a second way, next to the nearest cell's height, which stays the default. Nearest heights make a smooth slope a staircase, so a ray can be hidden by a step that isn't there, mostly just inside a ridge's horizon.
What changed
viewshed / viewshed_on take a Heights (Nearest, the default, or Bilinear).
Bilinear weighs the cells around a point on the ray by how near it is to each. A ray steps a whole cell along its longer axis, so the point is on a cell's centre line and reads the two cells it falls between: a neighbour of no weight isn't read. The ray-step cap counts a bilinear step as two. If a neighbour of some weight has no data, the point takes the nearest cell's height instead, and that cell is counted.
Each point of a ray is now one division of whole numbers, so it is exact on a cell's centre line: the last step lands on the target cell, and no neighbour gets a weight from a rounding error.
The result says how many cells were seen across ground with no data (taken as hiding nothing, as before; a hidden cell isn't counted, since it would stay hidden whatever the missing ground is), and how many were worked out with a nearest height next to no data. Both are summed across threads, so they are the same on any number.
Radius past the raster: only the radius's cells within the raster are counted and worked out. Before, the square the radius spans was counted, refused past 25 million cells. With an empty radius field the radius is the DEM's diagonal, so any DEM over about 3 million cells was refused ("the radius covers too many cells"). That cap and the overflow guard on the radius are gone: the cells are at most the raster's, already in memory, and the time is bounded by the ray-step cap as before. The window is worked out with saturating arithmetic, so no radius overflows.
Radius given: bounded by the raster's diagonal, the same rule as no radius, so a radius past it covers the whole raster (main cut it to 500 km).
Raster round the Earth: rays don't cross its east–west edge. When the radius reaches the edge, a notice says whether the ground just across it is left out, worked out the long way round through the raster, or worked out only near the observer's row.
Map menu: Viewshed N km Here reads the ground as the Workflows pane's Ground heights says.
analysis.viewshed takes "heights": "nearest" | "bilinear" (any case; missing or null is nearest). Anything else is refused with a message naming the two. When cells were seen across no data, or worked out with a nearest height in bilinear mode, the command says so in a notice and gives acrossNoData / readNearest in its result.
Workflows pane, Visibility: a "Ground heights" choice, "Nearest cell" or "Between cells (bilinear)", with a hover text.
User guide: the Visibility Analysis row says what the two choices do, and what the analysis says about ground with no data.
Inputs now refused
main corrected these silently; they are now refused with a message naming the value (AGENTS.md: never silent). Models, replays or assistant calls that send them will fail:
Input
main
This PR
height 15000 / -1
clamped to 10,000 / 0
refused (0 to 10,000 m)
radius "abc", "", 0, -5
whole raster, or clamped to 1 m
refused (a number of metres above 0)
radius 0.5
clamped to 1 m
taken as 0.5 m
A missing or null height or radius is still the default (1.7 m, the whole raster). The Workflows pane leaves an empty field out.
Checked against known answers
viewsheds_give_the_known_answers_of_flat_ground_a_bowl_a_dome_and_a_wall builds 201 × 201 DEMs of about 30 m cells, with the Earth's curve for visible light (R′ = 7/6 R) in each answer. Cells within 1.5 cells of a boundary aren't counted.
DEM
Known answer
Nearest
Bilinear
Flat ground, eye 0.5 m
horizon at √(2R′h) ≈ 2.7 km
0 wrong
0 wrong
Bowl (z = 4·10⁻⁶ d²)
every cell seen
0 wrong
0 wrong
Dome (z = −10⁻⁵ d²), eye 10 m
seen up to √(h/k′) ≈ 1 km
some wrong, just inside the edge
0 wrong
Wall 1 m high, 600 m out, eye 2 m
the shadow behind it, seen again past it
0 wrong
0 wrong
The wall case counts more than 1,000 cells on each side of the shadow's edge, so it checks both the hidden and the seen-again cells.
Tests
The known-answer test above.
The threads test checks that both modes give the same cells, bit for bit, and the same counts on 2, 7 and 16 threads as on one.
a_viewshed_says_what_ground_with_no_data_it_saw_across checks the notices and the acrossNoData / readNearest counts, and that cells a wall hides behind the no-data ground aren't counted.
a_viewshed_radius_past_the_raster_counts_only_its_cells: a 6,000-cell strip with a radius far past it (a square of 144 million cells), and a radius of 10³⁰⁰ m on cells a millimetre wide.
a_viewshed_with_an_empty_radius_field_sees_the_whole_dem (Workflows pane): an empty or blank radius field sends no radius, and the viewshed of a 4,000 × 2 DEM (64 million cells in its diagonal's square, refused on main) is the one with the farthest radius.
The analysis workflows test runs both modes on a real DEM, checks no notice on a clean DEM, and that "cubic" and 1 are refused.
cargo xtask ci passed locally, apart from three tests that fail on this machine on main too (FileGDB without GDAL, damaged shapefiles, and gpu_fastpath's settling_after_a_camera_animation_re_renders_fully). The wasm build of rustgis-web passed.
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Viewshed analysis now supports nearest-cell and bilinear ground-height sampling. Results include visibility cells and counts for visible rays crossing no-data terrain and rays using nearest-cell fallback. The workflow command and UI pass sampling options and report applicable diagnostics and raster-edge conditions.
Changes: Viewshed Sampling and Diagnostics
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Summary
Height sampling and viewshed results crates/analysis/src/rasterops.rs
The viewshed API accepts nearest or bilinear sampling, clips work to raster bounds, and returns visibility cells with no-data and fallback counts. Tests cover terrain shapes, oversized radii, and thread consistency.
Workflow parameters and result handling crates/engine/src/cmd/workflows.rs, crates/engine/src/tests.rs
The command validates radius, observer-height, and height-mode parameters, passes the selected mode to the viewshed API, and reports applicable radius, seam, and diagnostic conditions. Tests cover results and validation errors.
UI option and user-guide description crates/ui-egui/src/analysispane.rs, crates/ui-egui/src/mapmenu.rs, docs/user-guide/analysis.md
The visibility pane and map-menu path pass the selected sampling mode. The user guide describes sampling, no-data reporting, whole-raster execution, and raster-edge handling.
sequenceDiagram
participant AnalysisPane
participant viewshed_work
participant rasterops_viewshed
AnalysisPane->>viewshed_work: Submit radius and height mode
viewshed_work->>rasterops_viewshed: Pass validated options
rasterops_viewshed-->>viewshed_work: Return visibility cells and diagnostic counts
viewshed_work-->>AnalysisPane: Return visibility and applicable diagnostics
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Possibly related issues
opengeos/RustGIS#1252: The issue lists bilinear height sampling along viewshed rays; this change adds bilinear sampling and fallback reporting.
Possibly related PRs
opengeos/RustGIS#1404: Both changes update the viewshed result handoff, diagnostic fields, and map-menu parameter path.
opengeos/RustGIS#1283: Both changes modify viewshed ray processing and test thread consistency.
Suggested reviewers:giswqs, deniial00
Merge Risk: Low · previous review 1268f
On rasters that wrap around the Earth, viewshed results just across the east–west edge can be wrong. The tool now says so in a notice and in the user guide. This is a bounded, disclosed limitation that the owner can track as a follow-up.
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- Line 1090: Update viewshed_on to detect global geographic rasters and wrap
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Never silent: an explicit radius above 500 km is clamped without a notice. (Confidence: medium)
r.clamp(1.0, 500_000.0) quietly shortens a radius the user typed. Cells past 500 km stay no-data, and nothing says so. The clamp predates this PR, but this PR rewrites the line and documents the limit, so it's the right place to say it. Under AGENTS.md "Never silent", an approximation of a parameter should be reported with what and how much. viewshed_work only gets &Session, so the notice would have to go through the Then closure below (for example, a notice when r > 500_000.0 with the clamped value). A test should cover both the clipped and unclipped cases.
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Fixed in e3bfe74. A radius over 500 km is shortened as before, and now says so: "the radius of 600 km was taken as 500 km, the most a viewshed takes; with no radius it covers the whole raster". The limit is now a named constant (MAX_VIEWSHED_RADIUS_M), and the same test checks the notice.
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Performance: the ray-step cap doesn't weigh bilinear heights. (Confidence: low-medium)
Heights::Bilinear does four r.value lookups per step where Nearest does one, but ray_work counts steps the same either way. A run just under MAX_VIEWSHED_WORK in bilinear mode can therefore take roughly four times as long as the same radius in nearest mode. Cancel is still checked, so this is speed rather than safety. If the cap is meant to bound time, scale the estimate by mode, for example:
let per_step = if heights == Heights::Bilinear{4}else{1};let ray_work = usize::try_from(cells.saturating_mul(longest / 2 + 1).saturating_mul(per_step)).unwrap_or(usize::MAX);
If the cap is only a refusal threshold and not a time budget, a comment saying so would be enough.
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Fixed in e3bfe74. A bilinear step is now counted as four in the ray work, which drives both the cap and the thread count. The refusal message says "(a step between cells counted as four)" when that applies.
I reviewed the 5-file diff (viewshed bilinear heights, the no-data counts, the default whole-DEM radius, the pane control, and tests) against AGENTS.md and the prior threads. The core ray logic checks out: the exact-centre-line arithmetic, the bilinear neighbour weighting, and the Then notice path (it runs in add_made for both the direct and ran routes).
Bugs
No new bugs found in the changed code.
Security
None found.
Performance
Bilinear does about four lookups per ray step, but ray_work counts steps the same in both modes, so a bilinear run under the cap can take roughly 4× as long. Medium-low confidence, see inline comment on rasterops.rs:537.
Quality
The Heights doc comment at rasterops.rs:446 runs past the line width. Left for the release quality pass.
The "use a smaller radius" refusal text is confusing when the user left the radius empty. Low confidence; left for the release quality pass.
acrossNoData / readNearest are absent from the result when zero, not 0. The docs describe this, but API consumers get two shapes. Low confidence; left for the release quality pass.
AGENTS.md
Never silent: an explicit radius above 500 km is clamped with no notice, so cells past 500 km stay no-data unreported. Medium confidence, see inline comment on workflows.rs:1089.
Already raised, left alone (2):
An invalid radius (for example "500km") falls back to the whole raster, and the pane drops non-numeric text. The thread is open and the code is unchanged. Related: inf and NaN parse as f64, then json! serialises them to null, which the default path also reads as whole-raster. I have not posted this separately.
The longitude seam: rays and columns don't wrap across the ±180° seam on global rasters. The thread is open and the code is unchanged. It matters more now that the default radius covers the whole raster.
Two earlier threads are resolved (the empty-radius default and the bilinear wording) and the code matches those fixes.
Verification: I read the diff and the surrounding code only. I did not build or run the tests.
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Bug (new evidence on the earlier "invalid radius" thread): inf, infinity, NaN and 1e400 in the radius field are still silently dropped.
Rust's f64::from_str accepts these, so parse::<f64>() succeeds, and json!(r) on a non-finite f64 produces Value::Null (serde_json). The command reads Some(Value::Null) as "no radius" and runs the whole raster with no notice. The command's own f() rejects non-finite values, so the refusal the reply describes never reaches it. The pane test only covers 500km, so this path is untested.
Suggested fix: only send finite numbers as numbers, and everything else as text for the command to refuse.
Suggested change
r => params["radius"] = r.parse::<f64>().map_or_else(|_| json!(r), |r| json!(r)),
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Fixed in 236c838. viewshed_params now sends a number only when it is finite. inf, NaN, 1e400, -infinity and any other text go as text, so the command refuses them by name instead of reading a JSON null as no radius. The pane test checks all of these.
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Nit (quality pass candidate, no behaviour change): "where where it stands" is a doubled word. Also in this PR: the Heights::Bilinear doc at line 446 and the Heights::at nearest closure run past 120 columns, and the doc at line 1679 ("as is one whose radius spans more cells than a number holds") reads awkwardly. These can wait for the release quality pass.
Medium-high confidence, new evidence on an answered thread. In the Workflows pane, typing inf, infinity, NaN or 1e400 in the radius field is still silently dropped. Rust parses these as numbers, json! turns non-finite floats into null, and the command reads null as "no radius", so the whole raster runs with no notice. The command's own f() would refuse them, but the pane never sends them that way, and the pane test only covers 500km. Posted inline at crates/ui-egui/src/analysispane.rs:411, with a suggested fix.
Low confidence, behaviour change not in the PR description. The ray-work estimate now uses each observer's real distance to the raster edges, not the clamped radius. On a single-thread machine, a default-radius viewshed near a corner of a large DEM that ran on main (for example 1000×1000 cells at 1 km) can now be refused by the ray-step cap. Multi-core runs raise the cap, so the impact is limited. The refusal path itself is sound.
Security
None found. The new heights and radius parameters are validated before the background work starts, and there are no unwraps in non-test code.
Performance
None new. The bilinear step is now weighed as four in the work cap, as the earlier thread asked.
Quality
Nit, quality pass candidate. The doubled word "where where" in a test comment, some over-long doc lines, and an awkward sentence in a test doc. Posted as one grouped inline comment at crates/analysis/src/rasterops.rs:2016.
AGENTS.md
Compliant on the points I checked. Notices are one per kind with a count, and they use format! like the rest of the engine. The new interface strings use tl!. Bilinear and seam behaviour is covered by tests in both modes.
Prior threads: six threads were on the PR. I re-raised one (the invalid-radius thread) because the pane's inf/NaN path is new evidence that the reply does not address. I left the other five alone, since their fixes are in e3bfe74 and c898173 and I found no regression.
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Quality (misleading comment), low-medium confidence. The reason given here is not what the code does. When a radius is given and reaches the edge, the ground across the seam is within the radius the short way round. It is left out only because rays don't wrap across the edge, so the raster-clipped window never reaches it. The "too far the long way round" wording contradicts the radius > to_edge test above it. Suggested wording: // Given a radius, the ground across the edge is left out: rays don't wrap, so the window never reaches it. The matching test comment at crates/engine/src/tests.rs:9336 has the same error.
This is a comment-accuracy point, so it may wait for the release quality pass if the maintainers prefer.
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Fixed in 737a04a. The comment now gives the real reason: rays don't wrap, so the ground across is reached only through the raster, when the radius reaches the far edge. The test comment matches.
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Bug (accuracy of a user-visible notice), medium confidence.round_the_earth (line ~455) only checks that the raster is 360° wide in longitude. It doesn't check where the grid starts. A grid stored from 0° to 360° has its seam at 0°/360°, not at ±180°, so this notice names the wrong meridian for it. Suggested wording: …but the viewshed's rays don't cross its east–west edge: ground just across it is {across}. Update the seam text in the test at crates/engine/src/tests.rs:9326 to match. Add a 0°–360° case to that test so the new wording is pinned.
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Never silent (pre-existing, touched by this PR), low confidence.num(&w.number, 1.7) turns an observer height the user typed as text, such as abc or 1,7, into 1.7 m with no message. This function now sends the radius as text so the command refuses it by name, and the same viewshed_params should do that for a non-empty height. Otherwise the answer is computed from a height the user never entered. One option: send a non-empty number as-is when it fails to parse, so the command's own height handling refuses or reports it. Blank still means the default 1.7 m.
This line was already there before the PR. It is in the function this PR rewrites, so I am raising it here.
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Fixed in 737a04a. The pane now treats the height like the radius: an empty field means the command's 1.7 m, and any other text is sent as text. The command now refuses a height that isn't a finite number from 0 to 10,000 m, naming it, instead of defaulting or clamping it silently. The params help gives the range. The pane test checks abc, 1,7 and -3.
Three inline comments are posted. The core viewshed math held up under reading: the ray stepping, the bilinear weights, the no-data counting, the thread-summed counters and the radius window bounds all check out. I found no crash path in non-test code.
Bugs
The seam notice names the wrong meridian for 0°–360° grids.round_the_earth checks only the 360° width, not where the grid starts, so the "±180° edge" wording is wrong for a grid whose seam is at 0°/360°. Posted at workflows.rs:1161. Confidence: medium.
Security
None found.
Performance
None found. The bilinear cost weighting from the earlier thread is in place.
Quality
A comment gives the wrong reason for leaving seam ground out. The code says the across-seam ground is "too far the long way round", but when radius > to_edge that ground is within the radius the short way. It is left out only because rays don't wrap. The same mistake appears in the test comment at tests.rs:9336. Posted at workflows.rs:1156. Confidence: low-medium. This is a comment-accuracy point and can wait for the release quality pass.
AGENTS.md
Never silent, pre-existing but in a function this PR rewrites.num(&w.number, 1.7) turns a typed observer height such as abc into 1.7 m with no message, while the radius is sent as text so the command refuses it. Posted at analysispane.rs:407. Confidence: low. My suggested fix is incomplete: the command's own height handling (f(p,"height").unwrap_or(1.7)) also defaults silently, so the command would need to refuse a non-number too.
Earlier concerns
I left 9 earlier review threads alone. They cover the seam limit, the silent radius clamp, the bilinear cost weighting, non-finite radius input, the empty-radius default, invalid radius text, bilinear estimate wording, and doubled-word and line-length nits. Each is resolved or answered by the author with a fix in the PR. CodeRabbit's follow-up question about a seam-wrapping issue is unanswered, but the author's notice-based answer is already in place, so I did not raise it again.
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Behaviour change: a blank-radius viewshed can now be refused on capped paths for large rasters. (Confidence: medium)
The blank radius used to be the diagonal clamped to 500 km, so the work was about the 500 km window. Now it is the whole raster, and ray_work is estimated from the raster's real extent. Example: a 1000 × 1000 DEM at 1 km cells, observer near a corner.
main: radius 500 km, rad_c = 500, cells = 1001² ≈ 1.0e6, steps per cell ≈ 251, so about 2.5e8. Under the 4.0e8 one-thread cap, so it runs.
This PR: window = raster (1.0e6 cells), longest = 999, steps ≈ 500, so about 5.0e8. Refused on one thread with "give a radius".
Desktop background runs are uncapped, so this hits the cap-limited paths (the CLI, the browser, one-thread settings). Neither the PR description nor the user guide says that blank-radius runs on large rasters can now be refused there. Either state it in the PR and the docs, or confirm it is intended.
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Yes, it's intended: with no radius the viewshed is the whole raster, and its work is bounded by the ray-step cap, not by a radius it never got. It's documented now (6b9b1b5): in the web app, a script or the assistant, a whole-raster viewshed of a large DEM can be refused, and a smaller radius, the desktop pane or rustgis-cli run gets it through. The refusal says "the whole raster (no radius given) takes …; give a radius". Since 95e1829 a bilinear step counts as two, not four, which halves the gap for bilinear runs.
Behaviour change (medium confidence): a blank-radius viewshed on a large raster can now be refused on capped paths (CLI, browser, one thread). The old 500 km clamp kept the estimate near 2.5e8 steps for a 1000 × 1000 DEM at 1 km cells, under the 4.0e8 cap. Whole-raster work now estimates near 5.0e8 from a corner observer. Posted inline at crates/analysis/src/rasterops.rs:542. The PR body doesn't mention it.
Security
None found. Input is checked: the radius and height must be finite and in range, and heights is a closed set. Text that isn't a number is refused by name.
Performance
None new. The ray-step cap now counts bilinear steps as four, and the thread count follows the cap.
Quality
Nit (low): for a radius just over 500 km (for example 500,000.04 m), the notice reads "the radius of 500 km was taken as 500 km". metres() rounds to 0.1 km. Left for the release quality pass.
Nit (low): read_nearest counts hidden cells while through_gaps does not. Both are documented, so I am noting it rather than requesting a change.
AGENTS.md
Checked: no panics or unwraps in non-test code, notices go through Session::notify with one notice per kind, the viewshed remains on the background path, and the UI strings use tl!. The engine uses no i18n, so its English notices are consistent. Long lines are string literals, under the 140-column rustfmt setting.
Earlier concerns left alone: 14 threads already raise concerns on this PR. 13 are resolved or answered by the author. The seam-wrap thread is still open, but the author answered it with the seam notice, so I did not repost it.
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I ran this against main with scratch tests (bilinear and nearest, same DEMs). The exact ray placement is a nice change. A few things I'd look at:
The work cap counts a bilinear step as four reads, but a step reads at most two. Since steps = max(|dc|, |dr|), the long axis always lands on a cell center, so one of tx/ty is always 0. Counting inside Heights::at on a noisy 61×61 DEM from three observers, no step read more than 2 cells and none had both tx and ty non-zero. On an 800×800 DEM, one thread, observer in the middle: nearest takes about 128.6M steps, so bilinear really costs at most about 257M, under the 400M cap. But the PR refuses it: "the radius takes 514560000 ray steps (a step between cells counted as four), more than the 400000000…". per_step = 2 (rasterops.rs around 541) and "counted as two" would be accurate. (It also means the doc comment's "weighs the four cells around a point" is really a two-cell interpolation along the short axis.)
The "long way round" notice can be untrue with a typed radius. Raster of 4 columns of 90° by 3 rows of 0.1° at the pole, observer at column 0 row 0, radius 3·cx + 1 m: the notice says the ground just across the edge is worked out the long way round, but the far-edge column is worked out only on the observer's row; rows 1 and 2 are no-data (both_edges, workflows.rs around 1112, only measures that row). With no radius it's true.
Inputs that used to be corrected are now refused. Same DEM and observer:
input
main
this PR
height 15000
ok, clamped to 10,000
error
height -1
ok, clamped to 0
error
radius ""
ok, whole raster
error
radius "abc"
ok, whole raster
error
radius 0
ok, clamped to 1
error
radius 0.5
ok, clamped to 1
ok, used as 0.5 m
Refusing fits "never silent", but existing models, replays and assistant calls that send these will start failing, so it may be worth saying in the PR. The 0.5 m case is the odd one out: it's neither refused nor clamped any more.
A typed radius covers less than a blank one. On a 2° whole-globe DEM with the observer at (1°, 1°): a blank radius works out all 16,200 cells; a radius of 1e9 or 2,000,000 works out 21 (cut to 500 km). The notice does say "with no radius it covers the whole raster", so it isn't hidden, but someone typing a big number to mean "everything" gets the opposite. Bounding a typed radius by the raster's diagonal, the same rule as the default, would remove the special case.
The map's "Viewshed N km Here" ignores the pane's ground heights. mapmenu.rs around 214 sends no heights, and only the pane's viewshed_params (analysispane.rs around 418) adds "bilinear", so the right-click run is always nearest, while its progress shows in the same Visibility pane set to bilinear. Not something this PR broke, but it's where the setting was added.
Separately, not from this PR: nearest-cell rounding uses .round() on absolute col/row, so exact .5 ties always go toward +col. On a mirror-symmetric 21×21 test (one wall cell below the observer), 10 cells differ from their left-right mirror, on main and here alike. The exact d*s/steps placement just makes those ties exact more often.
…nd across the edge is worked out only near the observer's row, bounds a radius given by the raster's diagonal; Viewshed Here reads the pane's ground heights
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@flight1973 Thanks for running it against main, that was very useful.
Right, a bilinear step reads at most two cells (the long axis always lands on a cell centre, and Heights::at skips a neighbour of weight 0). It is now counted as two, with a test on the refusal. Your 800×800 case runs again.
Right as well. The notice now looks at every row in which the radius reaches ground across the edge. It says "worked out the long way round" only when the far column is reached in all of them, "left out" when it isn't reached even on the observer's row, and otherwise "worked out the long way round near the observer's row and left out farther from it". Your 4 × 3 polar case is in the tests.
Yes, that is on purpose (never silent), and I added it to the PR description. 0.5 m is a valid radius now: it's a number of metres above 0, so it is taken as given. With cells larger than 1 m it only covers the observer's own cell, the same as 1 m did.
Agreed. A typed radius is now bounded by the raster's diagonal, the same rule as the default, so 1e9 covers the whole raster. The 500 km cap and its notice are gone, and the ray-step cap still guards the work.
Fixed: Viewshed N km Here now reads the ground as the Workflows pane's Ground heights says, with a test.
The .5 tie rounding is older than this PR. I left it out here, it's worth an issue of its own.
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Spurious seam notice when the seam path is never shorter (correctness, medium-low confidence).
seam fires whenever the radius passes the near edge, even when the rays across it can't gain anything. With an odd-width global raster and the observer in its middle, e.g. 5 columns at 2° and observer in column 2 (near == far == 2), a radius of 2.6 cells sets seam, and reaches(far, 0) is true, so the notice says the ground across the edge is "worked out the long way round". But the cell across the edge is column 4, two cells away directly, and the viewshed already computes it at its true distance. Nothing is worked out the long way round, so the notice is a false positive.
The seam only matters when the path across is strictly shorter than the raster path, i.e. near + 1 <= far (a tie is still flagged, which the test at tests.rs for columns 1 of 4 relies on). Suggested change:
let seam = round_the_earth && near + 1 <= far && radius > (near asf64 + 0.5)* cx;
I checked the seam tests in tests.rs against this condition by reading them; they still take the seam branch, and the mid-way case with a short radius still says nothing. Not run here. Add a case for the odd-width middle observer that expects no notice.
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Fixed in 6b9b1b5, one step stricter than suggested: the notice now comes only when near + 1 < far. On a tie the cell just across the edge is the same number of cells away through the raster, and so is every cell past it (across: far + k, through: far − k), so nothing is lost there either. The tests cover a tie (column 1 of 4) and an observer in the middle of an odd width (column 2 of 5), with and without a radius, and expect no notice.
Low: the seam notice in viewshed_work fires when the path across the edge is never shorter than the raster path. Example: an odd-width global raster with the observer in the middle (5 columns, observer in column 2, radius 2.6 cells). The notice says the ground across was "worked out the long way round", but nothing was. The fix is near + 1 <= far in the seam condition. The inline comment is posted at crates/engine/src/cmd/workflows.rs:1105. Confidence: medium-low. Not run; checked by reading the seam tests.
Security
None found. Inputs (radius, height, heights) are validated, junk is refused by name, and no new unwrap or panic appears in non-test code.
Performance
None found. Bilinear is weighed as two steps in the cap, the window is clamped to the raster, and the counts are summed atomically, so they match on any thread count.
Quality
None raised. The long-line nits from earlier threads are already fixed, and rustfmt's max_width is 140.
AGENTS.md
Checked: no new unwrap or panic in non-test code; errors go through the command result; notices go through Session::notify, one per kind with a count; new UI strings use tl!; background paths are used (made_or_ran, run_elsewhere) with Cancel through pace.stop; the docs were updated; the hostile-parameter paths are covered by the refusals.
Already raised, left alone (9 threads)
The blank-radius refusal on capped paths (rasterops.rs, thread still unanswered) is still true in the new code. I did not re-raise it.
The rest were answered and fixed, or are about the seam approach, which the author declined to wrap.
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Bug: the seam notice can fire when no ground across the edge is within the radius (medium confidence).
The threshold (near + 0.5) * cx is the distance to the edge line, but the cell just across the edge has its centre (near + 1) * cx from the observer. For a 2° global raster with the observer in column 0 (near == 0, cx ≈ 222 km at the equator) and a 150 km radius: 150 > 111, so seam is true and the notice says the ground across is "left out of the viewshed". The across cell is 222 km away, so nothing within the radius is lost.
Suggested change, using the same distance the viewshed measures:
Suggested change
let seam = round_the_earth && near + 1 < far && radius > (near asf64 + 0.5)* cx;
let seam = round_the_earth && near + 1 < far && (near asf64 + 1.0)* cx <= radius;
The existing seam tests still hold with this (the 600 km case at column 1 and the 350 km / 2.5-cell polar cases are above (near + 1) * cx). Please add a case with a radius between 0.5 and 1 cell from the edge that expects no notice.
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Fixed in 1268f47, as suggested: the seam needs (near + 1) * cx <= radius, the centre of the cell just across the edge, with <= as the viewshed's own radius test. The test now has your case: 2° globe, observer in column 0, 150 km, no notice.
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Quality (coupling): the no-radius message is rewritten by matching the error text (high confidence in the mechanism, low in impact).
e.starts_with("the radius takes") and replacen / replace depend on the exact wording in viewshed_on. If that message changes, the rewrite stops without any failure, and the user gets the "radius" wording for a whole-raster run again. The given.is_none() branch is known before the call, so the message could come from the caller (or viewshed_on could take a short subject like "the radius" / "the whole raster (no radius given)"). Not a blocker; I'd fix it in this PR since the message is user-facing.
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Fixed in 1268f47. The engine no longer rewrites the text. viewshed_on says "the whole raster takes …; give a radius to cover only part of it" itself when the radius reaches the raster's farthest corner from the observer (always so with no radius, which is the diagonal), and "the radius takes …; use a smaller radius" otherwise. The work-cap test checks both.
format!("{dem_name}: {read_nearest} cell(s) of the viewshed were worked out with the nearest cell's height next to ground with no data, not between cells"),
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Quality (accuracy of a notice; low confidence, may wait for the quality pass):read_nearest counts every cell whose ray took a nearest height, including cells that end up hidden (rasterops.rs:612 increments it regardless of visible). The notice says "of the viewshed", while the seen-across count (through_gaps) counts only visible cells, on purpose. Either drop "of the viewshed" from this text, e.g. "{read_nearest} cell(s) were worked out with the nearest cell's height next to ground with no data, not between cells", or count visible cells only, to match. The test at tests.rs:9300 pins the current wording and would need the same change.
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Fixed in 1268f47: the notice now says "N cell(s) were worked out with the nearest cell's height next to ground with no data", without "of the viewshed". It does count hidden cells too, and the user guide now says so. The test is updated.
I read the full diff, the base-branch AGENTS.md, and the 17 existing threads. The core ray walk holds up on the points I checked. Bilinear reads at most two weighted cells per step, so counting a bilinear step as two is accurate. steps is max(|dc|, |dr|), so the on-centre-line exactness claim holds. f() drops non-finite values, so "inf" is refused rather than taken as the diagonal. viewshed has no other callers. Workflow is never serialized, so the new field is safe. I found no unwrap, panic, or unsafe in non-test code, and no security issues.
Bugs
workflows.rs:1109: the seam notice can fire when nothing across the edge is within the radius. The threshold uses the edge line, (near + 0.5) * cx, not the across cell's centre, (near + 1) * cx. Medium confidence. Inline comment posted with a suggested fix.
Quality
workflows.rs:1147: the no-radius message is rewritten by matching the error text, which couples it to the wording in viewshed_on. High confidence in the mechanism, low in impact. Inline comment posted.
workflows.rs:1182: read_nearest counts hidden cells too, but the notice says "of the viewshed", while through_gaps counts only visible cells. Low confidence, and AGENTS.md allows it to wait for the release quality pass. Inline comment posted.
Nits for the quality pass: the docs/user-guide/analysis.md Visibility row is a single table cell over 1,000 characters. The Heights::at doc says it returns None only where the point's own cell has no data, but in bilinear mode it also returns None when a weighted neighbour and the nearest cell are both no-data.
Performance
Low confidence: with no radius, a desktop run now covers the whole raster and is uncapped. Previously a large DEM was refused quickly. It is cancellable, so this is a cost to be aware of rather than a defect. Estimated cost is cells × average ray length, which for a 10,000 × 10,000 DEM could run for tens of minutes on several threads. Nothing in the notices or docs warns about the expected time.
AGENTS.md
No violations found. Notices go through Session::notify with one per kind, both lossy and clean inputs are tested, the new strings are wrapped in tl!, and screenshots are attached.
Prior reviews: I left 17 earlier threads alone. Each was answered or fixed, and the code they point at has not regressed. The new seam finding is a different failure of the same check the tie thread (workflows.rs:1105) covered, so it is raised as new.
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Bugs: None found. I checked the ray walk, the bilinear sampling (weights, exact centre-line steps, fallback counting), the atomic counts across threads, the seam notice logic, the radius/height/heights refusals, and the pane's parameter handling. None produced a wrong result or a panic in the code as written. I could not compile or run the tests here; the claims rest on reading the code and the PR's own test descriptions.
Security: None found. Layer names reach notices as text only, and no input reaches a path, shell or network call.
Performance:
The no-radius default now covers the whole raster instead of a 500 km window. On a 10,000 × 10,000 DEM at 1 km cells, that is roughly 3 × 10¹¹ ray steps against about 2.5 × 10⁸ before, a rise of over a thousand times. The desktop run is uncapped, so Cancel is the only bound. The PR says time is "bounded by the ray-step cap", which doesn't hold on that path. Posted inline at crates/engine/src/cmd/workflows.rs:1091 (medium confidence). It may be an intended trade-off, so the author should decide whether to document it or report the estimate first.
Quality: Nothing that needs fixing now. The long seam-logic block in viewshed_work is dense but commented. Any wording or style nits can wait for the release quality pass.
AGENTS.md: No violations found in non-test code. There are no unwrap/expect/panic calls outside tests. New UI strings use tl!. Viewshed is already on the background path, with per-row Cancel checks. Silent losses now have notices, and invalid heights and radii are refused by name.
Earlier concerns: I left 21 earlier threads alone. All were either resolved or answered by the author, and none still applies to the current code. The one new concern above concerns run time, which no earlier thread raised.
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Ray-work estimate runs about a third low (crates/analysis/src/rasterops.rs:545, inline comment posted). longest / 2 + 1 underestimates the average ray length, so the cap and the "takes N ray steps" message understate the work. The test's own 1,000 × 1,000 middle case is about 333 M nearest steps, not the 251 M in its doc comment. Confidence: medium-low on impact, high on the arithmetic.
Security
None found. No new input reaches a path that isn't validated. Invalid height, radius and heights values are refused by name, and non-finite pane input is sent as text.
Performance
Not raised again. The whole-raster default and the "bounded by the ray-step cap" wording on the uncapped desktop path were already raised in unanswered threads, and the code still has both.
Quality (nits, for the release quality pass)
The viewshed doc (rasterops.rs:505-508) says "the cells whose rays crossed some are counted". Only visible cells count in through_gaps, so the doc contradicts the field doc. Confidence: high.
The Heights::at doc says it returns None "where the point's own cell has no data". That holds only for Nearest. In bilinear mode it also returns None when a weighted neighbour and the nearest cell both lack data. Confidence: high.
The analysis.md sentence "refused where nobody can stop the run" is unclear. The intent is that these paths can't be cancelled. Confidence: medium.
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No violations found. Notices fire on every path because add_made runs Then, covering the background and ran routes. The new strings are wrapped in tl!. No new dependency. The rustfmt max width is 140, so the long lines are within the gate. The only callers of viewshed are updated.
Already raised, left alone: 9 earlier threads. Several are resolved and confirmed by the author. The unanswered ones are the whole-raster performance thread and the "bounded by the ray-step cap" wording.
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Part of #1252 (Ready item 2, Viewshed accuracy).
Visibility Analysis can now read the ground between cells (bilinear heights) as a second way, next to the nearest cell's height, which stays the default. Nearest heights make a smooth slope a staircase, so a ray can be hidden by a step that isn't there, mostly just inside a ridge's horizon.
What changed
viewshed/viewshed_ontake aHeights(Nearest, the default, orBilinear).maincut it to 500 km).analysis.viewshedtakes"heights": "nearest" | "bilinear"(any case; missing or null is nearest). Anything else is refused with a message naming the two. When cells were seen across no data, or worked out with a nearest height in bilinear mode, the command says so in a notice and givesacrossNoData/readNearestin its result.Inputs now refused
maincorrected these silently; they are now refused with a message naming the value (AGENTS.md: never silent). Models, replays or assistant calls that send them will fail:main"abc","", 0, -5A missing or null height or radius is still the default (1.7 m, the whole raster). The Workflows pane leaves an empty field out.
Checked against known answers
viewsheds_give_the_known_answers_of_flat_ground_a_bowl_a_dome_and_a_wallbuilds 201 × 201 DEMs of about 30 m cells, with the Earth's curve for visible light (R′ = 7/6 R) in each answer. Cells within 1.5 cells of a boundary aren't counted.The wall case counts more than 1,000 cells on each side of the shadow's edge, so it checks both the hidden and the seen-again cells.
Tests
a_viewshed_says_what_ground_with_no_data_it_saw_acrosschecks the notices and theacrossNoData/readNearestcounts, and that cells a wall hides behind the no-data ground aren't counted.a_viewshed_radius_past_the_raster_counts_only_its_cells: a 6,000-cell strip with a radius far past it (a square of 144 million cells), and a radius of 10³⁰⁰ m on cells a millimetre wide.a_viewshed_with_an_empty_radius_field_sees_the_whole_dem(Workflows pane): an empty or blank radius field sends no radius, and the viewshed of a 4,000 × 2 DEM (64 million cells in its diagonal's square, refused onmain) is the one with the farthest radius."cubic"and1are refused.cargo xtask cipassed locally, apart from three tests that fail on this machine onmaintoo (FileGDB without GDAL, damaged shapefiles, andgpu_fastpath'ssettling_after_a_camera_animation_re_renders_fully). The wasm build ofrustgis-webpassed.Screenshots
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