fix(analysis): Viewshed counts its ray steps exactly; the guide says a whole-raster run can take long by pick2510 · Pull Request #1835 · opengeos/RustGIS

pick2510 · 2026-11-12T08:01:49Z

Follow-up to #1789, from the github-actions review that came in just before it merged.

What changed

The viewshed's ray steps are counted, not estimated. The work cap took cells × (longest / 2 + 1) as the steps, but a ray's average length over a window is about ⅔ of the longest, so the estimate ran about a third low. A run "estimated" just under the cap could take a third more, and the refusal reported the estimate as a count.
- The count is now: for each cell within the radius (the same hypot(dc·cx, dr·cy) ≤ radius test the viewshed uses), its ray's steps, the larger of its column and row offsets. A cell with no data walks no ray but is counted (finding out which have none would read every cell), so the count is the most the run takes (a ray stops where the ground first hides its cell). The refusal says "takes up to N ray steps".
- The search for a row's last column within the radius is bounded by the window, so a radius or cell size near f64's range (CodeRabbit's 1e150 m cells with a 1e155 m radius) can't make it walk billions of columns. An impossible negative total fails toward a refusal.
- A row's cells within the radius are a run of columns, whose sum has a closed form, so the count is one step a row, not a cell.
- Example: 1,000 × 1,000 cells from the middle take 333,333,500 steps, not the 251 million estimated before. Nearest heights stay under the one-thread cap of 400 million; bilinear heights (counted as two) are refused, as before.
User guide (Analysis › limits):
- The steps are counted before the run, as the most it takes. Only rustgis-cli run typed at a terminal, not one called from another program, is uncapped, as the section above already says.
- Where a run can be refused: the web app, a script, the assistant.
- On the desktop and with rustgis-cli run nothing caps it, so a whole-raster viewshed of a large DEM can take long; its progress shows and Cancel stops it.
Doc comments: viewshed now says only visible cells are counted in through_gaps. Heights::at now says it also returns None between cells, where a neighbour weighed has no data either.

Tests

viewshed_ray_steps_are_counted_exactly compares the closed form with a cell-by-cell count. It covers:
- observers in the middle, at a corner, on an edge and off the middle row;
- square and oblong cells;
- radii from half a cell to 10³⁰⁰ m;
- cells and radii so large the squared radius overflows (1e150 / 1e155 m and 1e182 / 1e200 m), counted in under a second.
a_bilinear_viewshed_step_is_weighed_as_two_in_the_work_cap now expects the exact counts.

cargo xtask ci passed locally, apart from the tests that fail on this machine on main too (FileGDB without GDAL, damaged shapefiles). The wasm build of rustgis-web passed.

Summary by CodeRabbit

Viewshed Analysis
- Work estimates count ray steps for cells within the selected radius, with twice as many steps for bilinear sampling. The estimate is an upper bound when some cells have no data or rays stop early, and is exact when all cells have data.
- Large whole-raster runs may be refused when they cannot be cancelled. Desktop-pane and command-line runs have no ray-step cap, show progress, and can be cancelled.
Documentation
- Clarified how no-data values affect bilinear sampling and how viewshed estimates, limits, progress, and cancellation work.

…rd low; the user guide says a whole-raster run on the desktop can take long

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Viewshed work estimates now count ray steps for cells within the radius and apply a multiplier based on height-sampling mode. Tests compare the count with a brute-force calculation. The user guide describes work limits and execution behavior across contexts.

Changes: Viewshed ray-work accounting

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Count ray steps within the radius `crates/analysis/src/rasterops.rs`	A closed-form calculation sums ray steps for cells within the radius. Tests compare the result with a brute-force count across observer positions, cell aspect ratios, and radii.
Apply the count to viewshed limits `crates/analysis/src/rasterops.rs`, `docs/user-guide/analysis.md`	The work cap uses the radius-specific count, multiplied by two for bilinear heights or one for nearest heights. Refusal messages describe the count as an upper bound. The guide describes no-data counting and execution limits, progress, and cancellation behavior.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Possibly related issues

opengeos/RustGIS#1252 — This PR counts ray steps for bilinear-height viewshed runs. Other items in the issue remain outside this change.
opengeos/RustGIS#1291 — This PR changes how ray steps are counted for the existing work cap. It does not address the issue’s broader cap redesign.

Possibly related PRs

opengeos/RustGIS#1789 — This PR uses the bilinear height mode and its two-step weighting in the viewshed work count.
opengeos/RustGIS#1283 — This PR changes the work-count calculation used in the viewshed limit logic.

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Merge Risk: Minimal · up to b473e

The viewshed work estimate now counts ray steps within the radius, and the earlier concerns about unbounded search and overstated documentation have been fixed. No actionable merge-blocking risk remains in the reviewed changes.

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_{A rabbit counts the rays that run,
Through cells within the radius spun.
Two steps where bilinear heights are found,
One for nearest, measured round.
The work cap knows the count it sees.}

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github-actions · 2026-11-12T08:04:07Z

-    let ray_work = usize::try_from(cells.saturating_mul(longest / 2 + 1).saturating_mul(per_step)).unwrap_or(usize::MAX);
+    // Each cell within the radius walks a ray back to the observer, one step a cell along its
+    // longer axis: the steps counted exactly, a row at a time, not estimated.
+    let ray_work = usize::try_from(ray_steps((oc, or), (left, right), (first, last), (cx, cy), radius_m).saturating_mul(per_step as u128))


The count is an upper bound, not exact, when the window has no-data cells. The main loop skips a target cell with no data (let Some(zt) = r.value(b, col, row) else { continue };, about line 627), so it walks no ray for it. ray_steps counts every cell within the radius, so it overstates the steps of a DEM with holes.

Failure scenario: a 1,200 × 1,200 DEM from the middle with about half its cells no-data. ray_steps gives about 576M steps, over the 400M one-thread cap, so the run is refused as "takes 576000000 ray steps". The walk would take about 288M steps and pass.

The refusal is conservative, not unsafe. But the PR text and the user guide ("counted exactly before it starts") are wrong for such rasters. Either say "an upper bound, exact where no cell in the window is no-data" in the docs, or skip no-data cells in the count. A test with a holed DEM would pin whichever is chosen.

Right. Fixed in c7f43ac by saying so, not by reading the cells: finding out which cells have no data would read every one before the run. The count is now documented as the most the run takes, exact where every cell has data (the doc comment, the user guide and the PR text), and the refusal says "takes up to N ray steps". On a holed DEM it refuses on the safe side.

github-actions · 2026-11-12T08:04:09Z

+        }
+        // The farthest column offset within the radius on this row, put right at the edge.
+        let reach = ((radius_m * radius_m - (dr as f64 * cy).powi(2)).max(0.0).sqrt() / cx).floor();
+        let mut k = if reach.is_finite() { reach.min(i64::MAX as f64 / 2.0) as i64 } else { i64::MAX / 2 };


The k search is unbounded, so pathological input can hang it. For a huge radius, radius_m * radius_m overflows and reach becomes i64::MAX / 2. The decrement loop then walks k down one column at a time until within(k, dr) holds. With a cell size near 1e182 m and a radius near 1e200 m, that is billions of iterations on the first row.

Clamping k to the window span gives the same result, since lo and hi are clamped to left/right anyway:

let span = (oc - left).max(right - oc); let mut k = reach.min(span as f64) as i64;

With that, the loops are bounded by the window width per row. The is_finite branch can go too. Please add a regression test with a huge cell size or radius.

Fixed in c7f43ac as suggested: k is clamped to the window's widest column offset, so both correction loops are bounded by the window, and the is_finite special case is gone. The test now counts your case (1e182 m cells, a 1e200 m radius) and CodeRabbit's (1e150 m, 1e155 m) against the brute force, in under a second.

github-actions · 2026-11-12T08:04:11Z

+            up_to(-lo, a) - up_to(-hi - 1, a)
+        };
+    }
+    u128::try_from(total).unwrap_or(0)


unwrap_or(0) fails open. If the conversion ever failed, the cap check would see 0 steps and allow the run. The cap is the guard here, so an impossible error should fall to the refusal side:

u128::try_from(total).unwrap_or(u128::MAX)

usize::try_from then yields usize::MAX, which is above the cap, so the run is refused.

Fixed in c7f43ac: unwrap_or(u128::MAX), so an impossible negative total is refused, not let through.

github-actions · 2026-11-12T08:04:12Z

+the observer, counted as two with bilinear heights): with no radius it covers the whole raster, so on a large one it
+can be refused in the web app, a script or the assistant, which can't cancel a run. A smaller
+radius, or a run from its pane on the desktop or with `rustgis-cli run`, gets it through. There
+nothing caps it, so a whole-raster viewshed of a large DEM can take long (the steps grow with the


Grammar and sense: "There nothing caps it" does not read as English. "Nothing caps it there" is what is meant. Also, "the steps grow with the cells times the raster's longer side, not the radius" is misleading. The radius does set which cells count. The bound is cells within the radius times their longer offset, at most cells × longer side. Lines 108–109 also run well past the file's usual wrap width, and the "counted exactly" claim there needs the no-data qualifier from the rasterops.rs comment.

Fixed in c7f43ac: "Nothing caps it there", and the bound now reads "its steps are at most its cells times the raster's longer side (counted twice with bilinear heights)". The paragraph is rewrapped to the file's width, and the count is described as the most the run takes, exact where every cell has data.

github-actions · 2026-11-12T08:04:19Z

Code review

The closed-form ray-step count is correct. I checked it by hand against the viewshed's own radius test and ray walk, and the brute-force test covers the cases that matter. The problems are in the claims about it and in some hardening.

Bugs

The count overstates work when the window has no-data cells (rasterops.rs:591, medium-high confidence). The viewshed loop skips no-data target cells, but ray_steps counts them. A 1,200² DEM that is about half no-data is refused as about 576M steps when the walk takes about 288M. The refusal is conservative, not unsafe, but the "counted exactly" claim is wrong for holed rasters.
The k search has no bound (rasterops.rs:531, low-medium confidence). reach overflows to i64::MAX / 2 for huge radii, and the decrement loop can then run billions of times. This needs a pathological cell size or radius, but the repo's hostile-input rule applies. Clamping k to the window span gives identical output and removes the loop bound.

Security

None found.

Performance

None significant. ray_steps is O(rows in window), which is negligible next to the viewshed itself.

Quality

u128::try_from(total).unwrap_or(0) fails open (rasterops.rs:549, medium confidence). It should fall to the refusal side with u128::MAX. The error is unreachable with the current arithmetic, so this is hardening.
Nits, left for the release quality pass: the parentheses in (oc.saturating_sub(k)).max(left) are redundant, and ray_steps takes five parameters, including three tuples, which is hard to read. The test suite does not cover no-data rasters, which is why the "exact" claim went unnoticed.

AGENTS.md

The Heights::at doc (rasterops.rs:467-468) says None occurs "between cells, where a neighbour weighed has none either". In fact it returns None only when the nearest cell also has no data. The fallback to the nearest cell is not mentioned. Low confidence, documentation only.
The user guide (docs/user-guide/analysis.md:112) has an ungrammatical "There nothing caps it", a misleading "not the radius" clause, and lines past the file's usual wrap width (lines 108–109). Inline comment posted.
The no-silent-data-loss and Cancel rules are not affected: the viewshed still reports through_gaps and read_nearest, and the new count sits before the work begins.
Unchecked, because I have no shell: cargo xtask ci, cargo fmt --check for the 140-column limit, and the wasm build.

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Four inline comments are posted: rasterops.rs lines 531, 549 and 591, and docs/user-guide/analysis.md line 112.

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…the window, says "up to" for rasters with no-data cells, and fails toward a refusal

github-actions · 2026-11-12T08:42:06Z

+    /// no data. `None` where the point's own cell has no data, and so, between cells, where a
+    /// neighbour weighed has none either.


Doc overstates when at returns None (Quality, confidence ~85%). Between cells, at falls back to the nearest cell when a weighed neighbour has no data (None => return nearest(true)), so a neighbour with no data alone does not give None. None needs the nearest cell to have no data too. The doc's "and so … where a neighbour weighed has none either" reads as the reverse. Suggested wording:

Suggested change

/// no data. `None` where the point's own cell has no data, and so, between cells, where a

/// neighbour weighed has none either.

/// no data. `None` where the point's own cell has no data, and so, between cells, where a

/// neighbour weighed has none and the nearest cell has none either (a neighbour with no data

/// alone falls back to the nearest cell's value).

Fixed in b473e82: it now says None where the point's own cell has no data, and that between cells a weighed neighbour with no data falls back to that cell, so None comes there too only when it has none.

github-actions · 2026-11-12T08:42:09Z

+        // squared radius past f64's range reaches all of it), put right at the edge: both
+        // corrections stay within the window's width.
+        let span = (oc - left).max(right - oc);
+        let reach = ((radius_m * radius_m - (dr as f64 * cy).powi(2)).max(0.0).sqrt() / cx).floor();


The column search still walks columns before any Cancel check when the squared radius overflows (Performance, confidence ~60%, low severity). The earlier thread is answered and the walk is now bounded by the window. But when radius_m * radius_m overflows (radius past about 1.3e154 m), reach is inf, so k starts at span and the decrement loop walks down to the real edge on every row. When (inf − inf) occurs, .max(0.0) gives 0 and the forward loop walks up instead. Either way the cost is O(window cells), not O(ray steps) as the comment at line 585 says, and it runs before control::begin. Example: 1e150 m cells, a 1.5e154 m radius, a 20,000 × 20,000 window, about 1e8 hypot calls before refusal. Computing the reach in cell units avoids the overflow. I have not run this; the brute-force test should confirm it:

Suggested change

let reach = ((radius_m * radius_m - (dr as f64 * cy).powi(2)).max(0.0).sqrt() / cx).floor();

let (rc, yc) = (radius_m / cx, dr as f64 * cy / cx);

let reach = ((rc - yc) * (rc + yc)).max(0.0).sqrt().floor();

Fixed in b473e82 with your reformulation: the reach is worked out in cells (radius / cx and dr · cy / cx), so a radius near f64's range no longer overflows when squared, and the corrections only undo rounding. The test now also counts 1e150 m cells with radii of 1.5e151 and 1.5e154 m against the brute force.

github-actions · 2026-11-12T08:42:11Z

+        // The run's offsets from the observer's column, within the window.
+        let (lo, hi) = (i128::from((oc - k).max(left) - oc), i128::from((oc + k).min(right) - oc));
+        let a = i128::from(dr.abs());
+        total += if lo <= 0 && 0 <= hi {


Dead branches and a dead NaN guard (Quality, confidence ~90%; nit, can wait for the release quality pass). lo = max(oc − k, left) − oc is always ≤ 0 and hi always ≥ 0, because k ≥ 0 and the observer's column lies inside [left, right]. So the lo > 0 and else arms never run, and the lo <= 0 && 0 <= hi test can be dropped to total += up_to(hi, a) + up_to(-lo, a) - a;. Likewise reach.is_nan() cannot be true for cx > 0 (which viewshed_on checks), since .max(0.0) never yields NaN. If the guard stays for cx == 0, say so in the doc comment. Also, the timed assertion in viewshed_ray_steps_are_counted_exactly (under one second) is a flakiness risk on slow CI.

Fixed in b473e82: the observer's column is always in the window, so the sum is now the one case, up_to(west, a) + up_to(east, a) - a, and the NaN guard is gone. The timed assertion is gone too; the overflow cases stay as plain comparisons with the brute force.

github-actions · 2026-11-12T08:42:12Z

+is the most it can take, and exact where every cell has data. With no radius it covers the whole
+raster, so on a large one it can be refused in the web app, a script or the assistant, which can't
+cancel a run; a smaller radius, or a run from its pane on the desktop or with `rustgis-cli run`,
+gets it through. Nothing caps it there, so a whole-raster viewshed of a large DEM can take long:


"Nothing caps it there" is inaccurate for rustgis-cli run called from another program (AGENTS.md / docs accuracy, confidence ~75%). Earlier in this section, rustgis-cli run called from an agent or CI job is listed among the runs that cannot be stopped and are capped. Only rustgis-cli run typed at a terminal is uncapped. The "gets it through" clause has the same problem, and the earlier list of refused contexts (web app, script, assistant) omits it. Suggest: "a run from its pane on the desktop, or rustgis-cli run typed at a terminal, gets it through. Nothing caps it there".

Right, fixed in b473e82: the paragraph now says it can be refused where a run can't be stopped (the list above it, which includes rustgis-cli run called from another program), and that its pane on the desktop or rustgis-cli run typed at a terminal gets it through.

github-actions · 2026-11-12T08:42:19Z

Code review

I found no correctness bugs in the new ray-step count. The closed-form row sum matches the brute-force count, the observer's own cell is counted correctly, and the main loop's radius test is the same expression as ray_steps's within. I did not run the tests; I checked the numbers by reading.

Bugs

None found.

Security

None found.

Performance

The column search still walks columns before any Cancel check when radius_m * radius_m overflows (radius past about 1.3e154 m). The cost is bounded by window cells rather than ray steps, which the comment at rasterops.rs:585 gets wrong. Low severity, ~60% confidence. Inline comment posted with a cell-unit reformulation to try.

Quality

Heights::at doc (rasterops.rs:467-468) says None follows when a neighbour has no data, but at falls back to the nearest cell, so None needs the nearest cell to be empty too. ~85% confidence. Inline suggestion posted.
Dead code in ray_steps (rasterops.rs:546-552): lo ≤ 0 ≤ hi always holds, and the reach.is_nan() guard is unreachable for cx > 0. The timed assertion in the new test is also a flakiness risk. Nit. Inline comment posted.

AGENTS.md

The analysis.md:113 sentence "Nothing caps it there" is wrong for rustgis-cli run called from another program, which the same section lists as capped. ~75% confidence. Inline comment posted.
ray_steps has a row loop with no Cancel note in its doc comment. Minor; left for the release quality pass.

Already raised (left alone): 5 earlier threads. Four were answered by the author and fixed in c7f43ac (no-data upper bound, unbounded k search, unwrap_or(0) fail-open, analysis.md grammar). The fifth (clamp suggestion) was addressed alongside them. The residual overflow cost above is a new angle, not a re-raise.

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github-actions · 2026-11-12T09:58:54Z

Code review

Bugs: None found in the new code. I checked ray_steps against the walk in viewshed_on: the per-cell step count max(|dc|,|dr|) matches the walk, the in-radius test uses the same floating-point expression, the closed-form row sum is correct, and the overflow paths are guarded. The 1,000 × 1,000 middle-observer figure of 333,333,500 checks out by hand. Confidence: high. I could not compile or run the tests here, so the build and test results are unverified.

Security: None found. Confidence: high.

Performance:

Residual of the earlier column-walk thread (low severity, confidence ~40%). With subnormal cell widths, rc - yc becomes inf - inf = NaN, and .max(0.0) turns that into 0. The forward loop then walks the full window span on every row before Cancel is checked. It is bounded by the window, so it is slow rather than a hang. Inline comment posted at crates/analysis/src/rasterops.rs:537, with a fallback suggestion.

Quality:

The PR title, the PR body and the test name say "exactly", and the body says "exact where every cell has data" and "take 333,333,500 steps". The revised docs say the count is the most the run takes, because a ray stops early where the ground hides its cell. The body is out of date, so it should be reworded to match. Confidence: high. This is the PR description, not code, so there is no inline comment.

AGENTS.md: No violations found. The change adds no commands or background tools, so the cancel and hostile-input registries need no update. The no-data caveat, the uncapped desktop and terminal-CLI claims, and the refusal wording all match parallel.rs, apps/rustgis-cli/src/main.rs and the code. Confidence: high.

Prior threads: I left 9 earlier concerns alone. They were already raised and answered, or resolved, and the code they point at does not still have the problem. I re-raised only the narrow residual of the column-walk thread, because the reformulation in b473e82 still has an inf - inf path for subnormal cell widths.

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Files changed	2 (0 added, 2 modified, 0 removed, 0 renamed)
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Size after	280.5 KB
Total size change	+5.6 KB

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`crates/analysis/src/rasterops.rs`	134.5 KB	139.7 KB	+5.1 KB
`docs/user-guide/analysis.md`	140.4 KB	140.9 KB	+456 B

fix(analysis): Viewshed counts its ray steps exactly, not about a thi…

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…rd low; the user guide says a whole-raster run on the desktop can take long

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fix(analysis): Viewshed's ray-step count bounds its column search by …

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…the window, says "up to" for rasters with no-data cells, and fails toward a refusal

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fix(analysis): Viewshed's ray-step count works its reach out in cells…

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…, is described as the rays' full lengths; the guide names the CLI typed at a terminal

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pick2510 merged commit 30393b6 into opengeos:main Nov 12, 2026
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Tracking: analysis tools on several cores #1252

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		/// no data. `None` where the point's own cell has no data, and so, between cells, where a
		/// neighbour weighed has none either.

	let reach = ((radius_m * radius_m - (dr as f64 * cy).powi(2)).max(0.0).sqrt() / cx).floor();
	let (rc, yc) = (radius_m / cx, dr as f64 * cy / cx);
	let reach = ((rc - yc) * (rc + yc)).max(0.0).sqrt().floor();

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