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feat(raster): Shaded Relief dims its ambient light by the sky each cell sees (#1782, part 2) - #1871
Part of #1782: part 2, sky visibility. Part 1, the cast shadows, came in #1796, #1823 and #1830; this builds on the same structure.
What it does
Shaded Relief gets one more setting, Sky visibility (raster.symbology"sky", 0 to 1): how much the share of the sky each cell sees scales its ambient light. A valley floor, a pit or the foot of a cliff now gets less ambient light than a plain or a ridge, whatever the sun, so the relief no longer reads flat where the sun doesn't reach.
The colour becomes ambient × sky + direct × shadow, as the issue proposed: the ambient quarter (0.25 + 0.75 h today) is scaled by 1 − sky × (1 − seen), and the direct light and its cast shadows are left as they are.
0, the default, draws exactly today's pixels (tested), so existing projects don't change. It is saved only when it isn't 0.
Left out of raster.symbology, a Shaded Relief keeps its own value, as shadow does; a new one has none.
The Style pane shows it under Cast shadows.
How
rustgis_map::shadow::sky traces each cell's horizon in 16 directions, evenly spread from north, up to 100 cells away (the longer side of one). Like the cast shadows' trace, it steps one column or row at a time and stops once the terrain left can't rise above the angle kept; it reads the two cells either side of each step. Past 31 steps it steps a sixteenth of the distance at a time (2 at 32, 6 at 96): half the reads, with the horizon found to within a sixteenth of its distance.
A cell's sky is the sky-view factor of Zakšek, Oštir and Kokalj (2011, Remote Sensing 3(2), 398–415, doi:10.3390/rs3020398): the share of the half sphere above its horizon, 1 − mean(sin γ), with γ the angle up to the horizon in each direction (0 where the terrain falls away, so a peak sees the whole sky). It is one byte per cell, like the light grid.
Written here from that formula and part 1's trace; no other project's code was followed.
shadow.rs now shares the row loop, the threads and the height reads between the two (each_row, Trace). The sky has its own trace, Trace::skyline: each direction's reads (offsets, weight, 1 / distance) are worked out once for every cell, since they are the same for all.
The heights are read from a copy made once per grid, NaN where a cell is no data or masked, instead of checking validity and the mask at each read. The copy takes 4 bytes a cell while a grid is worked out. The shadows read it too, with the same values as before. Their trace is otherwise feat(raster): Shaded Relief casts soft shadows (#1782, part 1) #1796's (four cells, nearest when one is missing), and the shadows come out the same as before: the export of the measured DEM with shadow 0.8 is the same file (same MD5) from feat(raster): Shaded Relief casts soft shadows (#1782, part 1) #1796's rustgis-cli and from this branch, with the sun at 30° and at 10°.
The sky's own trace reads only the two cells either side of each step, since each step lands on a row or a column. Next to no data, it reads the nearer of the two.
The cache is part 1's.RasterLayer::sky_view goes through the same LightWork jobs as cast_shadows. The key now says which grid it is (Grid::Shadows { azimuth, altitude } or Grid::Sky), and the sky's key has no sun, so moving the sun doesn't work the sky out again (tested). The owner rules ((map.instance_id, layer.instance_id)) apply per kind: an owner's new sun supersedes its unfinished shadow work but not its sky work, and each owner's latest grid of each kind is never evicted.
Drawing (crates/render/src/raster.rs): draw takes Lights { shadow, sky }, and the first pass keeps an ambient plane next to the hillshade only when the sky is drawn; Colorizer::color_lit scales the ambient light by it. Map frames, layouts, exports, PMTiles and the tilted drape all draw through this path.
Exports wait for the sky as they wait for shadows (wait_for_cast_shadows, raster_export), and the map draws again when it lands.
Never silent. The relief is drawn without sky visibility, and a notice names the layer and the reason, in the same cases as the shadows: over 500,000 cells in the browser, a cloud-optimised GeoTIFF read in place with only its overview held, or no memory for the grid. The window's "made without … still being worked out" warning now names sky visibility too.
Measured
Ouro Preto and Serra do Caraça, Minas Gerais: Copernicus DEM GLO-30 in UTM 23S at 30 m, the data #1796 used, cut to 1500 × 1350 cells (2.03 million). The whole DEM was exported at 1600 × 1500 with rustgis-cli run (release), sun 315° / 30°, three runs each, on a 16-thread Windows PC.
--threads
today
sky 1
shadow 0.8
both
1, wall
1.47–1.54 s
9.80–10.28 s
2.92–3.00 s
11.59–11.73 s
1, CPU
0.50–0.53 s
8.88–9.30 s
1.95–2.00 s
10.59–10.66 s
16, wall
1.21–1.38 s
2.30–2.40 s
1.48–1.53 s
2.65–2.77 s
Peak working set
64.9–66.8 MB
67.2–70.9 MB
65.5–70.4 MB
69.3–70.9 MB
(Measured on ca806ec, with about one core busy otherwise.)
So the sky costs about 8.5 s of CPU on one thread and about 1 s of wall time on 16, off the frame. Moving the sun doesn't cost it again.
The export is the same file on 1 and on 16 threads (same MD5), with and without shadows.
With sky 1, 33% of the exported pixels change: valley floors and the foot of slopes get darker; ridges don't change.
The first version took 83 s of wall time on one thread and 11.3 s on 16. The height copy, two-cell reads and the growing steps brought it to about 30 s of CPU. Working each direction's reads out once, with no floor or division per read, brought it to the numbers in the table.
0.5 million cells, the browser's cap, would take about 2.2 s natively on one thread; WebAssembly is likely slower, and I haven't measured it.
UI evidence
The Style pane's Shaded Relief now has Sky visibility under Cast shadows (headless ui_shot capture, sky 1, sun 315° / 30°, Serra do Caraça at 1:50,000):
The same view with sky 0 (left, today's look) and 1 (right): valley floors and the foot of the slopes darken, and ridges and plateaus stay as they were.
Against geometry with a known answer, not another tool (crates/map/src/shadow.rs):
A pit has the sky its depth gives. At the bottom of a round pit with vertical walls (radius 50 cells, depth 0.25, 1 and 2 times the radius), the horizon is the rim at every one of 72 azimuths, 5° apart: depth / radius, the rim taken between 0.1 cell inside and 5 cells outside (the cell it is drawn to, plus the 3-cell step at that distance). The cell's sky is 1 − sin γ within the same bounds.
A tilted plane hides the sky uphill by its slope in each direction (tan β · cos(φ − uphill)) and none of it downhill. Heights between cells are exact on a plane, so the sky is exact, at 6 uphill directions including diagonals.
Cells of 1e308 m (past f64 once squared) end the trace at the raster's side instead of looping: the reads are capped at its longer side, and every cell sees the whole sky (255).
Flat ground sees the whole sky; a tower's top sees all of it and its neighbours less. No data, a masked tower and a missing band hide nothing. A stopped trace gives no grid. One thread gives the same grid as seven.
RasterLayer::sky_view: a sky of 0 starts no work. The sky and the shadows of one owner are both kept and neither stops the other's work (checked while the work is held). Another sun or another strength keeps the same grid. Read in place with only the overview held, it says so.
Drawing: a sky of 0 draws today's pixels with a grid or without, as does a sky with no grid. With no sky seen, only the direct light is left. In full shadow, the ambient quarter is scaled by the sky and its strength (64 → 32 → 0).
An export draws the sky a pit hides (an_export_draws_the_sky_a_pit_hides_and_waits_for_it, engine). The pit's floor is darker with sky 1 than with 0, and the flat ground around it, which sees the whole sky, is the same. The first export with the sky, from a cold cache, is the same image as one drawn once the grid is kept. With the export's wait for the sky taken out, the test fails (the floor is the same, 199 against 199).
raster.symbology keeps sky when it is left out (and shadow), clamps it to 0–1, saves it only when it isn't 0, and a map export with it draws with nothing to say.
The part 1 tests pass unchanged.
Saved files
sky is a new field in a saved project, written only when it isn't 0. FORMAT isn't advanced. shadow (#1796, merged 2026-11-12) isn't in any release yet: git tag --contains 5a694b3e lists none, and v0.6.0, the latest, was tagged on 2026-11-08. So shadow and sky come out together in the next release, and no released RustGIS has written a project with either. A released RustGIS reading such a project draws the relief without them and drops them if it saves it again, as docs/contributing.md describes for additive fields. Whether the next release advances FORMAT for the two of them is the maintainers' call, made once for both.
Limits
Terrain outside the raster, or farther than 100 cells, hides none of a cell's sky. 100 cells is a fixed reach, not a setting; on a coarse raster that is a long way, on a fine one (1 m LiDAR) it is 100 m.
16 directions: a narrow notch between two of them isn't seen. Past 31 cells the steps grow, so a narrow peak far away can be missed.
The sky is the share of the half sphere above the horizon (the usual sky-view factor), not weighted by the angle light comes in at.
Added a Sky visibility control for Shaded Relief, adjusting ambient lighting based on surrounding terrain while leaving direct light and cast shadows unchanged.
Sky visibility is included in map rendering and exports.
Bug Fixes
Shaded Relief settings retain existing shadow and sky visibility values when omitted, and keep both values within the 0–1 range.
Improved guidance when shadow or sky visibility calculations are still in progress.
Documentation
Updated the raster guide with details about Sky visibility, its behavior, and its settings.
…ll sees (opengeos#1782, part 2)
A `sky` setting (0 to 1) on Shaded Relief scales the ambient light by the
share of the sky each cell sees over the terrain around it, traced in 16
directions up to 100 cells away. The colour becomes
ambient × sky + direct × shadow; 0, the default, draws today's pixels.
The sky grid goes through part 1's cache, waits and notices, keyed without
the sun, so moving the sun doesn't work it out again. The trace reads a
height copy, two cells per step and, for the sky, each direction's reads
worked out once: 8.5 s of CPU on one thread for 2 million cells.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Walkthrough
Shaded Relief adds a sky-visibility setting and calculates a per-cell sky grid. The renderer uses sky visibility to scale ambient light. The UI, symbology command, project serialization, and export paths now support the setting.
Changes: Shaded Relief Sky Visibility
Layer / File(s)
Summary
Sky grid model and calculation crates/map/src/raster.rs, crates/map/src/shadow.rs, crates/map/src/qgis/*
Shaded Relief adds a sky setting and a separate sky-grid request. The calculation traces terrain in 16 directions and returns sky-visibility values. Shadow and sky work use distinct grid types and status messages.
Lighting composition and rendering crates/render/src/raster.rs, crates/render/src/lib.rs, crates/map/src/raster.rs, crates/render/src/layout.rs
Raster drawing accepts shadow and sky grids. Sky visibility scales ambient light; the shadow grid continues to scale direct hillshade. Rendering tests and fixtures use the updated inputs.
The UI and symbology command accept, retain, and clamp sky values. Export paths request sky grids and report pending or unavailable work. Tests cover command behavior and export; the guide describes sky visibility.
sequenceDiagram
actor User
participant Pane as SymbologyPane
participant Command as RasterSymbology
participant Layer as RasterLayer
participant Sky as SkyGridCalculation
participant Renderer as RasterRenderer
User->>Pane: Set sky visibility
Pane->>Command: Submit sky value
Command->>Layer: Update Shaded Relief setting
Renderer->>Layer: Request sky grid
Layer->>Sky: Calculate sky visibility
Sky-->>Layer: Return sky grid
Layer-->>Renderer: Provide sky grid
Renderer->>Renderer: Scale ambient light
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Possibly related issues
opengeos/RustGIS#1782: Requests sky visibility through raster.symbology, which this change adds.
Possibly related PRs
opengeos/RustGIS#1796: Adds the cast-shadow setting and grid infrastructure that this change extends with sky grids.
opengeos/RustGIS#1830: Changes the export shadow-wait and notice path, which this change also extends for sky grids.
opengeos/RustGIS#1823: Changes export shadow waiting, which this change extends to include sky grids.
Suggested reviewers:giswqs, deniial00
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Sky visibility is opt-in and defaults to 0, so existing relief output is unchanged. No merge-blocking issue remains after review.
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Bug (hang / unbounded memory on a hostile raster), confidence: medium.reads only stops when n * metres > reach, and neither side is bounded. cell_size() is the raw pixel size from the file, so a projected raster with pixel size around 1e308 m gives reach = 100 * 1e308 = inf. Way::new also squares step * cx, which overflows to inf for pixel sizes above roughly 1.3e154, so metres becomes inf. Then n * metres <= reach stays true (inf <= inf) for every n, and the loop keeps pushing Reads until memory runs out. Nothing reaches this loop with a bounded input, because the trace never reads past the raster's longer side. Suggested bound, which needs no signature change; 2^20 steps is far past any raster side and the loop then adds about 200 reads per direction:
Suggested change
while n asf64* way.metres <= reach {
while n <= 1 << 20 && n asf64* way.metres <= reach {
Please add a regression test (per AGENTS.md, every crash fix needs one), for example a raster with pixel size 1e308 in a projected CRS: sky() must return, with no notice needed because the sky is simply unseen.
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Confirmed and fixed in 3a6ad27. reads now takes a step cap, the raster's longer side (r.width.max(r.height)): no trace goes past it, whatever the cell size says, so this is tighter than 2^20 and needs no new constant. With cells of 1e308 m, metres and reach are both infinite. The reads stop at the cap, every tangent is 0, and the sky is seen whole, so there is nothing to report. Regression test: shadow::tests::huge_cells_end_the_sky_trace (a 20 × 20 raster with 1e308 m pixels in EPSG:31983: reads gives at most 20 reads and sky() returns). The shadows' trace was already bounded, because it stops at the raster's edge one column or row at a time.
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AGENTS.md: cite the published method, confidence: medium. AGENTS.md says implementing a published algorithm is fine but the paper or standard must be cited. The doc comment calls this "the usual sky-view factor" without a reference. Please add the reference for the 1 − mean(sin γ) formula to the doc comment (the standard sky-view factor literature, e.g. Zakšek et al. 2011, if that is the source the implementation followed), and name any project whose code was followed in the PR description.
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Done in 3a6ad27. The doc comment of shadow::sky now cites Zakšek, Oštir and Kokalj, "Sky-View Factor as a Relief Visualization Technique", Remote Sensing 3(2), 398–415, 2011 (doi:10.3390/rs3020398), the source of 1 − mean(sin γ). The horizon is traced with part 1's trace, written here; no other project's code was followed. The PR description now says so.
crates/map/src/shadow.rs:126 — reads() can loop forever. The loop is bounded only by n * metres <= reach. A projected raster with pixel size near 1e308 makes reach infinite, and Way::new overflows metres to infinity for pixel sizes above about 1.3e154. The loop then keeps pushing Reads until memory runs out. Suggested bound: while n <= 1 << 20 && …, plus a regression test per AGENTS.md. Confidence: medium (the arithmetic is clear; I did not run it).
Security
None found.
Performance
None beyond the above. The 16-direction read tables and the early exit in skyline look sound.
Quality
Nits, left for the release quality pass: the horizon doc comment wraps mid-sentence; panes.rs overrides "sky" after building the JSON with a which == 4 special case; raster_export.rs builds an error fragment from a what string.
AGENTS.md
crates/map/src/shadow.rs:90 — the sky-view formula is not cited. AGENTS.md asks for the paper or standard when a published algorithm is implemented. Confidence: medium.
The PR body has no screenshots. AGENTS.md requires them for any visible change: "after" for the new Style pane control, and before/after for the changed relief render. Confidence: high.
Not raised: the sky field is added without advancing FORMAT. docs/maintaining.md allows this for an optional field whose loss costs a setting rather than data, which matches the shadow precedent.
Checked: the render-side closures compile as written (shadows_landed is an fn item), the grid-job eviction keeps each owner's latest grid of each kind, the in-place path passes light through, and the Pass1 indexing matches the shadow path.
Prior review threads: none on this PR, so no concerns were skipped.
Change size
Compared: the whole PR against main (merge base ce27286 to PR head 4ffd5d9).
…ite the sky-view factor
A cell size too large to be a number of metres (1e308 m) made the reach and
the step length infinite, so the reads of a sky trace never ended. They now
stop at the raster's longer side, which no trace goes past. The sky-view
factor's paper (Zaksek, Ostir and Kokalj 2011) is cited.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Saved format, AGENTS.md "Never silent", confidence: medium-high.sky is an additive field that an older RustGIS parses without error and drops on resave: RasterRenderer has no deny_unknown_fields, so an older reader draws the relief without sky visibility and writes the project back without sky. docs/contributing.md (Saved-file compatibility) says this case is one where FORMAT must advance: "This includes additive fields that parse successfully but disappear when an older writer saves." The PR keeps FORMAT at 1 by pointing to shadow in #1796. If #1796 has shipped in a release, shadow already breaks that rule and sky should bump FORMAT too. If it hasn't, the two can ship together, but the PR should say so explicitly, because the rule as written doesn't allow an exception.
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Checked: #1796 (5a694b3, merged 2026-11-12 UTC) is in no release. git tag --contains 5a694b3e lists nothing, and v0.6.0, the latest, was tagged on 2026-11-08. So shadow and sky come out together in the next release, and no released RustGIS has ever written a project with either. The case docs/contributing.md describes, a released version dropping them when it saves again, applies to both fields at once, from the next release on. Advancing FORMAT once for the two of them before that release is the maintainers' call; this PR leaves it at 1, as #1796 did, and the description now says so.
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Changed shadow output at no-data edges, confidence: medium. The old four-cell fallback, when any corner is missing, returned the nearest corner. This branch now interpolates between the two cells on the row (or column) whenever both are present, even if the neighbouring row is no data. So a Shaded Relief with shadow > 0 gets different pixels next to no data, in projects that aren't touched by the sky change. The PR text says "the result is the same wherever the cells hold data; next to no data, the nearest of the two is read", which doesn't describe this case, and the part 1 tests don't cover it. Either keep the old fallback when a corner of the four is missing (so the output stays bit-identical), or say the change in the PR and add a test for a row beside no data, with the expected values.
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Right, and the sky didn't need it: it has its own trace (Trace::skyline). Fixed in ca806ec. between, which only the shadows use, is #1796's again: four cells, and the nearest when one is missing. The only change left is x as usize for x.floor() as usize, which is the same here because both are at least 0. The height copy reads the same values, NaN exactly where is_valid or the mask said no. As a check, the measured DEM exported with shadow 0.8 is the same file (same MD5) from #1796's rustgis-cli and from this branch, with the sun at 30° and at 10°. The PR text now says the two-cell read is the sky's only.
Reviewed PR #1871 (sky visibility for Shaded Relief) against the full diff, pr-context/AGENTS.md, and the surrounding code. I checked the trace (reads, skyline, horizon), the cache keying and eviction, the render and export wiring, the in-place path, and every ShadedRelief construction site (all updated). I found no crash path, no unbounded loop, and no thread or cancel problem. The two earlier concerns (the trace bound and the citation) are fixed and I checked both fixes, so I left them alone. Two new findings are posted inline.
Bugs
crates/map/src/shadow.rs:316: the rewritten between changes existing cast-shadow output next to no-data. When the neighbouring row is missing, the old code took the nearest corner, and the new code interpolates the two present cells. The PR text describes this case differently, and no test covers it. Confidence: medium.
Security
None found.
Performance
None found. The two-cell reads and the height copy are fine, and the sky runs off the UI thread with per-row Cancel.
Quality
Nit: is_no_shadow (crates/map/src/raster.rs:1153) now also guards the sky field. shadow_warnings in share.rs also keeps its old name. Both could take neutral names.
Nit: new notice strings are built with format!, not i18n::fmt. The existing notices do the same, so this is consistent with the surrounding code.
The citation for the sky-view factor (Zakšek et al. 2011) is present, and the PR states that no other project's code was followed. That meets the rule.
Already raised, left alone: 2 (the trace-bound concern and the citation concern, both answered and fixed in 3a6ad27).
Change size
Compared with main (merge base ce27286 to PR head 3a6ad27).
…1796 did
The two-cell read on a row or column also changed the shadows next to no
data: with the other row missing, they interpolated the two cells instead of
taking the nearest of the four. The shadows' read is opengeos#1796's again; only the
sky's own trace reads two cells.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Quality (stale doc), confidence: high.sky does not read heights as light does. Trace::skyline reads only the two cells either side of each step (the nearer one where the other is no data), not the four-cell bilinear between. This comment says otherwise, and line 93 ("with the horizon traced as [light] traces it") has the same problem. The PR description already says the two-cell read is the sky's only. Suggested fix for these two lines:
Suggested change
/// read between cells as [`light`] reads them; cells that are no data or masked see the whole sky
/// read from the two cells either side of each step, the nearer one where the other is no data;
/// cells that are no data or masked see the whole sky and hide none of it. Threads, `stop` and
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Fixed in 0313ec1. The doc of shadow::sky now says the heights are read from the two cells either side of each step, the nearer one where the other is no data. The citation line no longer says the horizon is traced as light traces it, and the module doc says the same.
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Performance (browser responsiveness), confidence: medium. On wasm, start_light runs the trace inline (crates/map/src/raster.rs, the #[cfg(target_arch = "wasm32")] run(); branch), so a 500,000-cell raster with sky above 0 holds the page for the whole trace on its first frame. This cap was sized for shadows. By the PR's own numbers, the sky costs about five times the shadows (about 8.5 s against 1.7 s of CPU on 2.03 million cells, one thread). At the cap that is roughly 2.2 s native, and probably several seconds in WebAssembly, against about 0.4 s for shadows. The PR says WebAssembly is not measured. Suggest measuring it in the browser before merging, or giving the sky its own, lower browser cap. AGENTS.md treats the browser as out of scope for the background-work rule, so this is a responsiveness concern rather than a rule violation.
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Leaving it as is, by design. The browser has no threads, so the grid is worked out inline there (AGENTS.md puts the browser outside the background-work rule). The cap of 500,000 cells with a notice above it is what #1782 proposed for both grids. Measured natively on one thread, the sky took 8.9–9.3 s of CPU for 2.03 million cells, so about 2.2 s at the cap. WebAssembly isn't measured; if it runs 1.5–2× slower, that is about 3–4.5 s on the first frame that draws the layer, once per band, Z factor and mask (not per sun), against about 0.5 s for the shadows. A lower cap only for the sky in the browser is a one-constant change if a maintainer wants it once it is measured there.
Bugs: No new bugs found. I checked the sky trace bounds, the reads for huge cells, the in-place path, and the cache eviction and superseding logic (rivals). The Pass1 ambient write uses the same index as the shade write. shadows_landed is a fn item, so passing it twice is fine. The in-place parts path only runs when the overview is held, which is exactly when the light grids return Unavailable, so dropping light there is consistent.
Security: None found.
Performance:
Browser responsiveness (crates/map/src/shadow.rs:27), confidence medium. On wasm the trace runs inline on the UI thread, and the 500,000-cell cap was sized for shadows. The sky costs about five times the shadows, so a first frame at the cap could hold the page for several seconds. The PR doesn't measure WebAssembly.
Quality:
Stale doc in shadow::sky (crates/map/src/shadow.rs:88), confidence high. It says heights are read as light reads them, but skyline reads two cells per step. Line 93 has the same problem.
Nits, left for the release quality pass: the generic struct Read in shadow.rs could be renamed (e.g. SkyRead); the thread-local SHADOW_NOTICES now also holds sky notices; the which magic numbers in panes.rs could become named constants.
AGENTS.md:
Nothing new that breaks a rule. Citation, saved-file and the cache-test rules are satisfied. Browser responsiveness is the only open point, noted above.
Prior concerns: I left 4 earlier threads alone and did not re-raise them. The citation and the between fallback were fixed in ca806ec. The unbounded reads loop was fixed with a step cap and a regression test. The saved-format question was answered by the PR author and I had no evidence contradicting that answer.
Change size
Compared with main (merge base ce27286 to PR head ca806ec), the whole PR.
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Bug (silent flat sky on non-finite cell size), confidence: medium.Raster doesn't check that its pixel size is finite (cell_size only takes abs()), so a file whose geotransform is NaN or infinite reaches here. With both sides NaN, reach is NaN, reads returns nothing, and every cell sees the whole sky. With an infinite size, the axis directions get metres = 0 or NaN and the rest get per_metre = 0, so again every cell sees the whole sky. Nothing is said, which breaks the "Never silent" rule (unusable results are errors). Suggested guard, before reach is computed:
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let reach = SKY_REACH*cx.max(cy);
if !(cx.is_finite() && cy.is_finite()){
returnErr(Unlit::Failed);
}
let reach = SKY_REACH* cx.max(cy);
The shadows' light has the same gap, so it would be worth covering both in the same change, but that can stay out of this PR if the maintainers prefer.
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Not changing this here. A non-finite geotransform doesn't reach this point from a real file, and if a forged one does, the whole relief is already wrong (placement, hillshade, cell size), not just the sky. Checking the geotransform belongs in the raster reader, once for every use; it is outside this PR.
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Test coverage (quality), confidence: high. The doc comment says that with 1e308 m cells "the sky is seen", but the test only checks the length of the grid. With those cells every direction's per_metre is 0, so the expected result is exactly 255 everywhere. Asserting that makes the regression test check what its comment claims:
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assert_eq!(sky_of(&r,1).len(),400);
assert!(sky_of(&r,1).iter().all(|v| *v == 255),"the sky is seen whole");
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The test is there to show that the trace ends: before the fix, sky() never returned on this raster. Asserting the values (255 everywhere, since every per_metre is 0) is a fair addition, and I'll add it in the quality pass, or with the next push that happens for another reason, along with the doc line. I won't push now just for this, to avoid restarting CI.
sky() in crates/map/src/shadow.rs:97 ignores a non-finite pixel size. The reader doesn't check it, so a NaN or infinite geotransform gives a sky that is silently all 255, with no notice. This breaks the "Never silent" rule. Inline comment posted with a guard that returns Unlit::Failed. Confidence: medium (needs a hostile file that reaches the reader).
No other defects found. I checked the trace bounds and the reads step cap, the two-cell read, the Way direction and orientation, the cache rivals and eviction, the draw_with/Pass1 ambient indexing, color_lit (0 gives the old pixels), draw_in_place, and the export and wait paths. The 1e308 overflow from the earlier thread is fixed by the step cap.
Security
Nothing found. The new input is one clamped sky parameter and a file-derived raster, which the sky code bounds (steps capped at the longer side, try_reserve_exact, get() indexing).
Performance
The heights copy in each_row is 4 bytes per cell per job, and the author discloses it. Nothing else is notable. The browser cost is already covered by the earlier thread.
Quality (grouped nits, suitable for the release quality pass)
is_no_shadow (crates/map/src/raster.rs:1153) now also serves sky. Rename it to a neutral name such as is_zero_f64. Confidence: high.
crates/map/src/shadow.rs:12 is overlong and the reads doc (line 130) reads "steps of the steps". The sky doc (line 87) reads "in steps [SKY_SPREAD] spreads". Confidence: high.
crates/ui-egui/src/panes.rs:6784-6788 maps the Sky slider through a _ => fallback and then overrides "sky" after the fact. A five-element tuple is clearer. Confidence: high.
crates/ui-egui/src/mapview.rs:1541 says casts_shadows covers cast shadows only, but it now also covers sky. Confidence: high.
LightWork::was_stopped(&str) detects a stopped grid by comparing error strings. A typed flag would be sturdier. Confidence: medium.
AGENTS.md
New notices in render/src/raster.rs and render/src/lib.rs are built with format!, and the existing shadow notices are plain English literals. AGENTS asks for tl! or i18n::fmt. The sky notices copy that pattern, so this is pre-existing and low priority. Confidence: low.
The per-job heights copy is scratch memory outside memory::thread_scratch. The PR discloses the 4 bytes per cell, but the rule names thread_scratch. Confidence: low (about 30%).
Already raised (left alone, 5 threads)
Citing the published method: answered and resolved in the PR.
The FORMAT question for additive fields: answered with the release-timing argument.
The browser cap at 500,000 cells: answered by design, with no new measurement.
The 1e308 trace bound: fixed and outdated.
The four-cell fallback change: fixed in ca806ece.
The stale two-cell doc: fixed in 0313ec1.
Two inline comments were posted (the bug and the test assertion). The rest are in this summary.
Change size
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Nit (quality), confidence: high.sky reuses is_no_shadow as its skip_serializing_if predicate. The behaviour is right (both mean == 0.0), but the name now describes neither field. A neutral name such as is_zero would read better, applied to both fields. This can wait for the release quality pass.
I found no bugs or security problems in the changed code. I checked the sky trace bounds, the edge reads, the cache keys and eviction, the render and export paths, the serde default, the UI slider index mapping, and the shadows_landed reuse (it is a fn item, so it is Copy). The changes follow the AGENTS.md rules I checked: background work through start_light, Cancel checks per row, threads from rustgis_data::threads, tl! strings, and notices through CastShadows::Unavailable.
Bugs: none found.
Security: none found.
Performance
light_grid builds LightKey with self.style.mask.clone() on every call, before it looks for an existing job (crates/map/src/raster.rs:791). Frames now call it for both shadows and sky, so a large mask is cloned twice per frame. Low-to-medium confidence, and it is a pre-existing pattern; a cheap fix is to look up by reference first.
The height copy takes 4 bytes per cell, allocated directly rather than sized through memory::thread_scratch. It is one allocation per grid and the PR documents it, so this is low confidence and a question more than a defect.
Quality
sky reuses is_no_shadow as its skip predicate. Posted inline (crates/map/src/raster.rs:1369, nit, high confidence).
Doc comments and notice names still say "cast shadows" where they now cover sky too: crates/render/src/layout.rs:77, crates/ui-egui/src/layoutview.rs:70, and crates/render/src/lib.rs:6398-6400. Nit, medium confidence.
AGENTS.md: no violations found.
Earlier concerns: I left 8 alone because they were already raised: the citation (answered), the FORMAT question (answered), browser cost of the sky (answered), non-finite cell size (answered), the test asserting only length (author will add it in the quality pass), the unbounded trace on 1e308 m cells (fixed in 3a6ad27, and the cap is in place), the changed shadow output at no-data edges (fixed in ca806ec, and the two-cell read is confined to the sky), and the stale doc (fixed in 0313ec1). I found no evidence that those answers fail.
Change size
Compared: the whole PR against main (merge base ce27286 to PR head 0313ec1).
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- Around line 3603-3604: Extend the export test around `map_png` to use known
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The engine test now exports a pit with sky 0 and 1: its floor is darker
with the sky, the ground around it the same, and the first export from a
cold cache is the image drawn once the grid is kept. The huge-cell test
checks the sky is seen whole.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Bugs: No new bugs found. I checked the sky trace's read stepping (weight, the row/column choice, edge exits), the grid index in the ambient pass against the hillshade lookup, the 1e308-cell termination and the 0×0 early returns, the per-kind superseding and eviction in cast_shadows/sky_view, the export and cancel waits, the Lights threading in draw_in_place, and the serde default for sky. I could only read the code, not compile or run the tests, so these are checks by reading. Confidence: high that nothing blocks merge.
Security: None. The new input is the sky parameter, which is clamped and tolerates junk. There is no unsafe, and the new non-test code has no unwrap/expect/indexing panics.
Performance:
The sky trace's early exit compares against the raster-wide maximum height (Trace.top), not the maximum within reach. On high-relief DEMs, most traces will run to the full 100-cell reach. A windowed bound could cut the work. The PR's measurements suggest the current cost is acceptable, so this is not blocking. Confidence: low (about 0.3).
Quality:
Nit, grouped: raster_export.rs's lit helper takes a grammatical fragment ("cast shadows weren't") as a parameter, which couples the message wording to the call site. Several new doc lines in shadow.rs's module doc run past 100 columns. Both can wait for the release quality pass. Confidence: high.
The is_no_shadow predicate reused for sky is already raised in a thread and left alone.
AGENTS.md: No new violation found. Not re-raised, because the existing thread already covers it:
The FORMAT question for the additive sky field: the author answered it, and I have no new evidence that the answer misses the point.
The browser cap for the sky, and the non-finite geotransform: both answered by the author.
Nothing from the earlier threads was re-posted. Of the 10 prior threads, 5 are answered or deferred to the quality pass and are left alone, and 5 are fixed in this head (the citation, the stale doc, the unbounded trace with its regression test, the between change, and the export sky test). I verified the fixes in the diff. I posted no inline comments, because none of the new points met the bar.
Change size
Compared: the whole PR against main (merge base ce27286 to PR head 347454a).
Keeps both new Shaded Relief paragraphs in docs/user-guide/data.md (sky
visibility from opengeos#1871, bilinear light from this PR). In raster.rs the sky
lookup takes the pixel's cell (cell.0, cell.1), as this PR no longer
names it (ci, ri), and this PR's tests pass the new Lights and sky field.
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…ngeos#1880)
Pass1::light now gives a cell's direct light (hillshade times what the
cast shadows leave) and its ambient light (scaled by the sky it sees,
opengeos#1871) together, and the bilinear blend mixes both with the same weights,
so sky visibility no longer draws in cell squares under Bilinear. Nearest
works both out as before and draws the same pixels.
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…ar (#1880) (#1905)
* fix(render): Shaded Relief blends its light between cells with Bilinear (#1880)
With Bilinear resampling, a Shaded Relief pixel now takes the light of the
four cells around it (hillshade times what the cast shadows leave) and
blends them bilinearly, as the band values already are. A cell outside the
grid, no data or masked is left out and the other weights scaled up; a
whole-turn grid wraps. Each screen row keeps the last four lights. Nearest
draws the same pixels as before: one cell's light now comes from one
helper, Pass1::light, which the blend calls for each of the four cells.
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* perf(render): bilinear relief light where cells are small or neighbours (#1880 review)
Where one screen pixel spans a cell or more, Bilinear Shaded Relief takes
its own cell's light, as before: the blend can't be seen there, and each
pixel would work out four new lights. Between cells, moving one cell east
or west keeps two of the last four lights. A whole DEM fitted in a
1600 px export now costs what main does; at a cell of about 1.3 px the
cost over main falls from about +60% to about +20%.
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* fix(render): bilinear relief blends across a whole turn's seam (#1880 review)
The pixel span that turns the light blend off counted columns the long
way round across a 0-360 degree grid's seam (35.95 to 0.05 as 35.9 cells),
so the pixel just across it took its own cell's light: a 1 px stripe on
global DEMs. Columns are now counted the short way round. A test crosses
the seam of a whole-turn grid whose cast-shadow light differs on either
side; it also covers the column wrap in cell_light.
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* feat(render): bilinear relief blends the sky's ambient light too (#1880)
Pass1::light now gives a cell's direct light (hillshade times what the
cast shadows leave) and its ambient light (scaled by the sky it sees,
#1871) together, and the bilinear blend mixes both with the same weights,
so sky visibility no longer draws in cell squares under Bilinear. Nearest
works both out as before and draws the same pixels.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Co-authored-by: elpidioassinaturas <elpidiofilho@gmail.com>
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Part of #1782: part 2, sky visibility. Part 1, the cast shadows, came in #1796, #1823 and #1830; this builds on the same structure.
What it does
Shaded Relief gets one more setting, Sky visibility (
raster.symbology"sky", 0 to 1): how much the share of the sky each cell sees scales its ambient light. A valley floor, a pit or the foot of a cliff now gets less ambient light than a plain or a ridge, whatever the sun, so the relief no longer reads flat where the sun doesn't reach.ambient × sky + direct × shadow, as the issue proposed: the ambient quarter (0.25 + 0.75 htoday) is scaled by1 − sky × (1 − seen), and the direct light and its cast shadows are left as they are.raster.symbology, a Shaded Relief keeps its own value, asshadowdoes; a new one has none.How
rustgis_map::shadow::skytraces each cell's horizon in 16 directions, evenly spread from north, up to 100 cells away (the longer side of one). Like the cast shadows' trace, it steps one column or row at a time and stops once the terrain left can't rise above the angle kept; it reads the two cells either side of each step. Past 31 steps it steps a sixteenth of the distance at a time (2 at 32, 6 at 96): half the reads, with the horizon found to within a sixteenth of its distance.1 − mean(sin γ), withγthe angle up to the horizon in each direction (0 where the terrain falls away, so a peak sees the whole sky). It is one byte per cell, like the light grid.shadow.rsnow shares the row loop, the threads and the height reads between the two (each_row,Trace). The sky has its own trace,Trace::skyline: each direction's reads (offsets, weight, 1 / distance) are worked out once for every cell, since they are the same for all.shadow0.8 is the same file (same MD5) from feat(raster): Shaded Relief casts soft shadows (#1782, part 1) #1796'srustgis-cliand from this branch, with the sun at 30° and at 10°.RasterLayer::sky_viewgoes through the sameLightWorkjobs ascast_shadows. The key now says which grid it is (Grid::Shadows { azimuth, altitude }orGrid::Sky), and the sky's key has no sun, so moving the sun doesn't work the sky out again (tested). The owner rules ((map.instance_id, layer.instance_id)) apply per kind: an owner's new sun supersedes its unfinished shadow work but not its sky work, and each owner's latest grid of each kind is never evicted.crates/render/src/raster.rs):drawtakesLights { shadow, sky }, and the first pass keeps an ambient plane next to the hillshade only when the sky is drawn;Colorizer::color_litscales the ambient light by it. Map frames, layouts, exports, PMTiles and the tilted drape all draw through this path.wait_for_cast_shadows,raster_export), and the map draws again when it lands.Measured
Ouro Preto and Serra do Caraça, Minas Gerais: Copernicus DEM GLO-30 in UTM 23S at 30 m, the data #1796 used, cut to 1500 × 1350 cells (2.03 million). The whole DEM was exported at 1600 × 1500 with
rustgis-cli run(release), sun 315° / 30°, three runs each, on a 16-thread Windows PC.--threadssky1shadow0.8(Measured on ca806ec, with about one core busy otherwise.)
sky1, 33% of the exported pixels change: valley floors and the foot of slopes get darker; ridges don't change.flooror division per read, brought it to the numbers in the table.UI evidence
The Style pane's Shaded Relief now has Sky visibility under Cast shadows (headless
ui_shotcapture,sky1, sun 315° / 30°, Serra do Caraça at 1:50,000):The same view with
sky0 (left, today's look) and 1 (right): valley floors and the foot of the slopes darken, and ridges and plateaus stay as they were.Elevation: Copernicus DEM GLO-30 © DLR e.V. 2010–2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014–2018, provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA.
Tests
crates/map/src/shadow.rs):depth / radius, the rim taken between 0.1 cell inside and 5 cells outside (the cell it is drawn to, plus the 3-cell step at that distance). The cell's sky is1 − sin γwithin the same bounds.tan β · cos(φ − uphill)) and none of it downhill. Heights between cells are exact on a plane, so the sky is exact, at 6 uphill directions including diagonals.f64once squared) end the trace at the raster's side instead of looping: the reads are capped at its longer side, and every cell sees the whole sky (255).RasterLayer::sky_view: a sky of 0 starts no work. The sky and the shadows of one owner are both kept and neither stops the other's work (checked while the work is held). Another sun or another strength keeps the same grid. Read in place with only the overview held, it says so.an_export_draws_the_sky_a_pit_hides_and_waits_for_it, engine). The pit's floor is darker withsky1 than with 0, and the flat ground around it, which sees the whole sky, is the same. The first export with the sky, from a cold cache, is the same image as one drawn once the grid is kept. With the export's wait for the sky taken out, the test fails (the floor is the same, 199 against 199).raster.symbologykeepsskywhen it is left out (andshadow), clamps it to 0–1, saves it only when it isn't 0, and a map export with it draws with nothing to say.Saved files
skyis a new field in a saved project, written only when it isn't 0.FORMATisn't advanced.shadow(#1796, merged 2026-11-12) isn't in any release yet:git tag --contains 5a694b3elists none, and v0.6.0, the latest, was tagged on 2026-11-08. Soshadowandskycome out together in the next release, and no released RustGIS has written a project with either. A released RustGIS reading such a project draws the relief without them and drops them if it saves it again, asdocs/contributing.mddescribes for additive fields. Whether the next release advancesFORMATfor the two of them is the maintainers' call, made once for both.Limits
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