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fix(data, map, tiles, engine): see-through cells are left out of colour statistics and Change Detection (#1810) - #1874
A colour raster with alpha (RGBA, or grey and alpha) counted every valid cell in its colour bands' statistics, including the cells its alpha band draws see-through. Those statistics give Raster information's counts and ranges, and every stretch taken from them. So:
The see-through zeros that Project Raster and Clip leave lowered the colour bands' minima and raised their counts.
Change Detection compared see-through cells as colours.
This behaviour predates #1759 and isn't specific to clipping. Now:
Statistics (raster/mod.rs): a colour band leaves out the cells its alpha draws fully see-through, using the rule the map draws by (render/src/raster.rs): an alpha of no value, or one under half a 256th of opaque, which is 0 in 8 bits. This is raster::see_through, with the alpha band and the colour bands it covers from ColorHint::alpha. Opaque black cells still count, and the alpha band counts every cell. Rasters without alpha are unchanged, and so is an RGB image with a fourth band of data (near-infrared). BandStats takes each value's place in the band, so the runs on several threads give the same statistics as one, as before (Tracking: analysis tools on several cores #1252). A reduced overview's colour band with alpha doesn't take GDAL's stored statistics from .aux.xml, because GDAL counts see-through cells in all but 8-bit images (below).
Display range:
The stretches come from those statistics, and so do the like stretch and the Symbology pane's ranges.
A style mask's sampled statistics (RasterMask::stats) leave the see-through cells out too, through Raster::see_through_cells.
A cloud-optimised GeoTIFF shown as a tile layer takes its stretch from 2–98% of its coarsest overview's colour values. It now reads its alpha band with them and leaves out the cells it hides.
Dynamic range adjustment needed no change: the renderer already leaves a see-through pixel's values out of the values in view.
Change Detection gives no-data where either raster is see-through. The second raster's alpha is resampled onto the first's grid as its band is (nearest), so this holds when the second is resampled too.
Writers: the GeoTIFF and COG writers choose bytes from the statistics (geotiff::fits_bytes). Without a change there, a Float32 RGBA image whose see-through cells hold −3.4e38 and whose other cells are whole bytes would have been written as 8-bit. Its 0–1 alpha would then have been copied as bytes without rescaling, which reloads almost fully transparent. fits_bytes now also looks at a colour band's see-through cells, so a file is written in the type it was before.
The data guide says which cells are left out and where.
For comparison, GDAL 3.9.3 (through rasterio 1.4.3, with band 4 marked as alpha) gives a 4 × 4 RGBA band with one opaque black cell, eleven of 100 and a see-through row:
8-bit: min 0, max 100, mean 91.67. It leaves the see-through row out, as its band mask is the alpha. The new data test checks the same mean.
16-bit: mean 70.5. It counts the see-through row, though it reports the alpha mask.
Float32: min −3.4e38. It doesn't take the alpha as a mask at all.
RustGIS draws those cells see-through in every pixel type, so it leaves them out in every type.
Not changed:
Classify, and the sorted samples it uses, still read every valid cell. The map doesn't use alpha for a Classify renderer.
The writers' alpha scaling: a Float32 0–1 alpha band still goes to bytes without rescaling when every band is whole bytes. That was already so for an image without junk in its see-through cells. It's a separate change.
Float32, 8-bit and 16-bit RGBA with see-through cells holding −3.4e38 or a stray 7: each colour band counts 12 cells, min 0 (the black cell), max 100, mean 1100/12, and the alpha band counts 16.
A 16-bit alpha of 100 is see-through, and one of 200 isn't, as the map draws them.
Grey and alpha leave out the same cells.
With no-data 0, an alpha of no value is see-through.
RGB, and RGB with a fourth band of data, count every cell.
Read back from their GeoTIFF, the statistics are the same, and the Float32 image is still Float32, as a GeoTIFF and as a COG.
Reproduced first, on c8e424f with the test added: the Float32 band counted 16 cells, min −3.4e38.
raster::tests::a_masks_statistics_leave_out_see_through_cells (map): a mask hiding 200 leaves the black cell alone (count 1, min 0), and the alpha band counts 16. Reproduced first: 5 cells, min −3.4e38.
cog::tests::a_stretch_leaves_out_what_the_alpha_band_hides (tiles): a 512 × 512 Float32 RGBA COG whose see-through half holds −3.4e38 is stretched within its opaque colours. Reproduced first: (-3.4e38, 201) for each colour band.
A 40 × 40 Float32 RGBA orthophoto has −3.4e38 in its see-through columns and black along its top row. It's read from its GeoTIFF, projected (nearest) and clipped to a square.
In each, raster.info gives each colour band as many valid pixels as its alpha shows, within the opaque colours, and the alpha band every cell.
The file's black row counts (min 0).
The stretch shared with like is within the opaque colours.
Reproduced first: the file's colour bands counted 1600 valid pixels, where its alpha shows 1200.
The first raster is see-through in its left ten columns, holding −3.4e38. The second is see-through in its bottom ten rows, holding a stray 7, on the same grid and on one moved 0.4 m.
Each change keeps exactly the 900 cells both show, black ones included, every one 5 apart.
Reproduced first: 1600 cells.
On Windows 11 x64, for 0801276 (751b295 with main at 4b2e903 merged in; no conflicts):
cargo fmt --all --check and cargo xtask layers pass.
The same passed for 751b295 before the merge (1022, 306, 447 and 235 tests).
For the browser, cargo check --locked --target wasm32-unknown-unknown -p rustgis-web with RUSTFLAGS=-D warnings passes, before and after the merge.
5eadd91 changes only the data guide's wording (the see-through rule in every pixel type, from the review), so nothing was built again for it.
e6e518f (from the review): the Change Detection test adds a second raster moved five cells east, see-through across the shift, so its alpha is read from other source columns. With the alpha read at the first's cells instead of resampled, it fails (left: 800, right: 1000); as it is, it passes. fits_bytes scans see-through cells only once the statistics fit. For it, cargo fmt --all --check, cargo clippy -p rustgis-data -p rustgis-map -p rustgis-engine --all-targets -- -D warnings, the data (1049) and map (313) tests and the engine's change_detection and see_through tests pass.
ef68f88: CI's lint (clippy 1.100's needless_range_loop) flagged a loop in the Change Detection test, now an iterator. cargo +1.100.0 clippy -p rustgis-data -p rustgis-map -p rustgis-tiles -p rustgis-engine --all-targets -- -D warnings passes for it, with -A clippy::needless_bool on Windows only, for main's source/shp/cache.rs (its #[cfg(unix)] block leaves a bare if on Windows; Linux CI doesn't see it). The engine's change_detection test passes.
d7a6890 (from the review): the thread-parity test also runs a validity by place (every third cell and each band's last left out) on 1, 2, 7 and 16 threads, against one pass over a NaN-masked copy. With every run's start given as 0, it fails on 2 threads; as it is, it passes with the data tests (1049) and clippy 1.100 on the data crate.
Not run: the whole of cargo xtask ci (the engine's other tests and hostile_params_never_panic among them), the browser build itself, GDAL beyond the comparison above, and Linux or macOS. The app wasn't opened.
UI evidence
No visible UI change. A see-through-heavy Float32 RGBA image is stretched over its opaque colours rather than drawn white, but no control or pane changes.
…ur statistics and Change Detection (opengeos#1810)
A colour band's statistics counted every valid cell, including the
cells its alpha band draws see-through. A Float32 RGBA image whose
see-through cells hold -3.4e38 (as an export from before opengeos#1759 wrote
them) was stretched from -3.4e38 and drew solid white, and see-through
zeros left by Project Raster or Clip lowered minima and raised counts.
- Raster statistics leave out, in the colour bands of a raster with
alpha (RGBA, grey and alpha), the cells the map draws fully
see-through: an alpha of no value, or under half a 256th of opaque.
Opaque black cells count, and the alpha band counts every cell.
BandStats takes each value's place, so the runs on several threads
give the same statistics as one.
- A style mask's sampled statistics and a cloud-optimised GeoTIFF's
stretch (read from its coarsest overview) leave them out too.
- Change Detection gives no-data where either raster is see-through,
the second's alpha resampled onto the first's grid as its band is.
- The GeoTIFF and COG writers choose bytes from the statistics; they
now look at the see-through cells too, so a file is written in the
type it was before.
Raster statistics exclude see-through colour cells using indexed validity checks. Raster construction and PAM updates apply the rule. GeoTIFF byte eligibility also checks hidden values. Tests cover alpha layouts, data types, and GeoTIFF round trips. The documentation describes the transparency rules.
Masked statistics and display stretches crates/map/src/raster.rs, crates/tiles/src/cog.rs, crates/engine/src/tests.rs
Masked statistics and COG stretches exclude colour samples hidden by alpha. Tests cover masked statistics, extreme transparent Float32 values, and statistics and stretches after projection and clipping.
Change Detection returns NoData for cells that are see-through in either input. It resamples the second raster’s alpha band to the before raster’s grid when needed. Tests cover shifted and unshifted inputs.
sequenceDiagram
participant BeforeRaster
participant AfterRaster
participant ChangeWork
AfterRaster->>ChangeWork: Resample alpha to before grid
BeforeRaster->>ChangeWork: Provide compared-band transparency
ChangeWork->>ChangeWork: Return NoData for transparent cells
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Possibly related PRs
opengeos/RustGIS#1571: Changes four-band RGB raster classification, which determines whether the fourth band is treated as alpha by the alpha-aware logic.
opengeos/RustGIS#1420: Earlier RGBI work that changes four-band raster handling used by the alpha-band classification.
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This change excludes see-through cells from colour statistics, display stretches and Change Detection. No actionable merge-blocking risk remains from the supplied review.
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The only directly linked target is #1810, which is open. Its coding requirements are: (1) Exclude see-through cells from colour-band statistics and display ranges. see_through and ColorHint::alpha…
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Each change maps to #1810 or to a direct consequence of it: - fits_bytes in crates/data/src/raster/geotiff.rs also checks a colour band's see-through cells. Without this, the new statistics would …
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The only directly linked target is #1810, which is open. Its coding requirements are:
(1) Exclude see-through cells from colour-band statistics and display ranges. see_through and ColorHint::alpha in crates/data/src/raster/mod.rs select these cells. BandStats applies them in Raster::new and apply_pam. The stretches, the like stretch and the Symbology ranges use these statistics.
(2) Exclude see-through cells from Change Detection for either input, including a resampled second input. change_work in crates/engine/src/cmd/imagery.rs returns NoData where either compared colour band is see-through. The second input's alpha is resampled onto the first grid before this check.
(3) Preserve opaque black. The data test keeps opaque black cells (min 0). No colour value 0 is used as no-data.
(4) Regression tests cover file-loaded, projected and clipped RGBA rasters with -3.4e38 in see-through cells (engine test). Further tests cover Change Detection, the mask path and the COG stretch path.
The implemented rule is broader than the literal 'alpha 0' in the issue. It also treats missing alpha, and alpha below half a 256th of opaque, as see-through. This matches the map renderer. It is a reasoned reading of the issue and does not contradict it.
Limits: the author-reported test and lint results were not rerun here. The change since the previous reviewed head (ef68f88, a Clippy iterator change in the Change Detection test, and the data guide wording) was not read as a separate diff. The whole-PR summary and the previous conclusion cover these.
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Each change maps to #1810 or to a direct consequence of it:
fits_bytes in crates/data/src/raster/geotiff.rs also checks a colour band's see-through cells. Without this, the new statistics would change the stored type of a written Float32 RGBA file. The change keeps the type the file had before.
crates/map/src/raster.rs (RasterMask::stats) and crates/tiles/src/cog.rs (with_stretch) use the same see-through rule. These are the display-range paths the issue names.
crates/engine/src/cmd/imagery.rs implements the Change Detection requirement.
docs/user-guide/data.md documents the rule and the Change Detection behaviour.
The tests support the acceptance criteria. The position-dependent parallel validity test supports the BandStats change.
Classify, sorted samples and writer alpha scaling are stated as unchanged. They stay out of this PR. No unrelated change was identified in the evidence available. The later commits (Clippy iterator change, data guide wording) were not read as a separate diff. They do not appear to change behaviour outside the paths above.
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Bugs (medium confidence): this stretch treats an alpha value as valid unless it is NaN (!a.is_nan()). The map and Raster::see_through_cells use Raster::is_valid, which also treats the file's no-data value as no value, so an alpha equal to a non-zero no-data (for example 255 in an 8-bit band with no-data 255) is see-through in the map but counted here. The stretch then differs from what is drawn, which is the case this PR is meant to fix.
Suggested fix: pass the layout's no-data into the check, as Info already has layout.nodata:
This needs let nodata = info.layout.nodata.map(|v| v as f32); next to opaque above fetch_bands. A test with a non-zero alpha no-data would show the difference.
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An alpha equal to the file's no-data value already reaches this check as NaN, so it is left out here as it is on the map. The tile reader turns every band's no-data samples into NaN when it decodes a tile, the alpha band among them: the if let Some(nd) = layout.nodata loop at the end of the tile decoder in crates/data/src/raster/cog.rs, as Tile::bands' doc says ("NaN past the image's edge and for no-data"). So !a.is_nan() is the same test as is_valid for these samples, and comparing with layout.nodata again would find nothing. The painter does the same: a NaN alpha hides the pixel (if a.is_nan() || a <= 0.0). I've left it as it is.
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Docs (high confidence): "under half a 256th of opaque in a 16-bit image" reads as if the rule only applies to 16-bit images. The code (alpha_max per pixel type, through see_through) applies it to every type: only alpha 0 in 8-bit, below about 128 of 65535 in 16-bit, and below half a 256th of 1 in Float32. Suggested wording:
"alpha 0 in an 8-bit image, or under half a 256th of opaque (about 128 of 65535 in 16-bit, and under 0.002 of 1 in Float32)."
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Fixed in 5eadd91. The guide now says the rule holds in every pixel type: an alpha of no value, or one under half a 256th of opaque, which is alpha 0 in an 8-bit image, 128 or less of 65535 in a 16-bit one, and under about 0.002 of 1 in a Float32 one. I checked those against see_through: 128 of 65535 rounds to 0 and 128.6 to 1, and the Float32 threshold is 0.5/255 ≈ 0.00196.
I read the full diff, the base-branch AGENTS.md, and the surrounding code in raster/mod.rs, geotiff.rs, cogwrite.rs, cog.rs, imagery.rs, rasterops.rs and render/src/raster.rs. There were no prior review threads, so no earlier concerns were left alone. I could not build or run the tests here. Two inline comments are posted.
Bugs
crates/tiles/src/cog.rs:817: the COG stretch treats an alpha value as see-through only when it is NaN. The map and Raster::see_through_cells also treat the file's no-data as no value. An alpha equal to a non-zero no-data is hidden in the map but counted in the stretch. Confidence: medium.
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None found.
Performance
imagery.rschange_work runs one extra full nearest-neighbour resample of the second raster's alpha band on each run, even when the grids already match. This costs time, not correctness, and is small next to the colour resample. Confidence: low.
Quality
The engine test see_through_cells_are_left_out_of_an_rgba_rasters_statistics only removes its temp directory when every assertion passes, so a failing run leaves files behind. Confidence: high. This is a quality point, so per AGENTS.md it can wait for the release quality pass.
Raster information now shows counts without the see-through cells and gives no note of how many were left out. AGENTS.md's "never silent" rule covers readers and tools, so this may not apply. Confidence: low. Worth a decision from the maintainers.
AGENTS.md
docs/user-guide/data.md:1207: the "16-bit image" wording suggests the threshold rule applies only to 16-bit. The code applies it to every pixel type. Inline comment posted. Confidence: high.
Regression tests are present for the crash-free and see-through cases, and no unwrap appears in non-test code. The writer's Float32 alpha scaling is a pre-existing issue that the PR itself mentions as out of scope, so I did not raise it.
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Check hidden UInt16 values before choosing COG sample types.
If an RGBA raster reports data_type == "UInt16" and holds a hidden colour value of 65536, this predicate removes that value from the band range. cogwrite::fits_shorts then accepts the range, and cogwrite::tile_samples clamps the exported value to 65535. The export silently changes the colour data. Extend the COG writer’s 16-bit eligibility check to inspect hidden values, as the byte eligibility check now does. (raw.githubusercontent.com)
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- Line 43373: The current gt.origin_x += 0.4 case does not change sampled source
columns, so it cannot verify alpha resampling. Keep it for subpixel-shift
coverage and add a case in the surrounding change-detection test where the
horizontal displacement maps destination pixels to different source indices and
the second raster’s alpha has a boundary along that direction; assert the
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- Line 1210: Update the alpha-band count statement in the Change Detection
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with valid alpha values; clarify that NaN and no-data alpha cells are excluded
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Performance (high confidence on the mechanism, moderate on impact):see_through_bytes is a let, so its full scan of the band (see_through_cells plus the per-cell byte check) runs on every fits_bytes call, even when whole_bytes is already false. Most Float32 colour bands fail that first test, and fits_bytes is called several times per write (plan's sample_of, the RGB branch's bytes(0..3), as_bytes). A closure keeps the scan behind the cheap tests:
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Fixed in e6e518f. The scan is now a closure, called only once the statistics fit, and never for an 8-bit band. It gives the same result, and the data tests (1049) pass, the test that a Float32 image with −3.4e38 in its see-through cells is still written as Float32 among them.
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Performance (medium confidence): when the second raster has an alpha band and the bands are on different grids, resample_to runs its per-cell reprojection once for the colour band and again here for the alpha band, and holds a second n-float buffer. For an RGBA second raster, that roughly doubles the resampling cost of the change. It is correct as written, so this is not blocking: resampling the colour band and its alpha band in one pass over the cells (or skipping the alpha pass when the grids already match, as resample_to's fast path does for the colour band) would avoid the second reprojection.
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Only when the grids differ. On one grid, resample_to takes its fast path for the alpha band as it does for the colour band, so the alpha is a copy, not a second reprojection. On two grids it's a second pass and a second buffer of n floats for an RGBA second raster, as you say. The result is correct either way, and the change runs on its own thread with Cancel. Resampling the band and its alpha in one pass would need a two-band resample_to in rasterops, so I've left it for the release quality pass.
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Quality (nit, high confidence): the existing /// #348: values a mask lists… doc comment now sits above the new a_masks_statistics_leave_out_see_through_cells test, so masks_hide_values_and_their_statistics (below it) loses its doc and the new test gets #348's. Moving the #348 line down to just above fn masks_hide_values_and_their_statistics fixes it. This is a quality point, not a blocking one.
I found no correctness bugs. The see-through rule matches the renderer (round(alpha / opaque × 255) == 0), and the stats, writer, stretch and change-detection paths apply it consistently. I checked the earlier cog no-data thread against crates/data/src/raster/cog.rs:638: tile decoding turns no-data into NaN in every band, alpha included, so the author's reply holds and I did not re-raise it.
Bugs: none found.
Security: none found.
Performance
fits_bytes computes see_through_bytes eagerly, so a full band scan runs even when the band already fails whole_bytes. It is called several times per write. Posted inline with a lazy-closure suggestion, crates/data/src/raster/geotiff.rs:1632. Confidence: high on mechanism, moderate on impact.
Change detection reprojects the second raster's alpha band as a separate pass when the grids differ, roughly doubling resampling cost for an RGBA second raster. Posted inline, crates/engine/src/cmd/imagery.rs:892. Confidence: medium.
Quality
A misplaced doc comment: the /// #348: line now documents the new test, and masks_hide_values_and_their_statistics lost its doc. Posted inline as a nit, crates/map/src/raster.rs:2512. Confidence: high.
Grammar nit, crates/data/src/raster/mod.rs:896: "as a colour band's take its alpha band's values" should read "as a colour band's does". Not posted separately.
AGENTS.md
Change detection now returns no-data for see-through cells without a count notice. The data guide documents where, but not how many. The rule is about data that is dropped, and these cells have no meaningful colour comparison, so I think this is acceptable. Confidence: low. Not posted.
Checked and fine: no new unwrap/expect in non-test code, no new background commands or tools, no new UI strings, wasm guards hold (threads_for returns 1 on wasm), and the new writes and stats are tested both ways.
Prior reviews: 2 existing threads. I left both alone: the cog no-data thread was answered by the author and verified, and the docs thread was fixed in 5eadd91.
Not checked: I could not compile or run tests (no shell), so compile and fmt status rests on the author's Windows run.
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…s; review points (opengeos#1810)
- The Change Detection test adds a second raster moved five cells east,
see-through in its own right ten columns, so its alpha is read from
other source columns than the first's: resampled, the change keeps
columns 10 to 34 (1000 cells); read at the first's cells, it would
keep 10 to 29 and compare see-through 7s.
- fits_bytes scans a colour band's see-through cells only once its
statistics fit (and never for an 8-bit band).
- The data guide says the alpha band counts every alpha with a value.
- The opengeos#348 doc comment is back on its test.
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Quality / behaviour (low-medium confidence, about 40%): in this branch stored is dropped, so a reduced overview's colour band with alpha takes its range, mean and spread from the overview's own cells. Before, only the count came from the overview and the range, mean and spread came from the whole band's statistics. Overviews are usually averaged, which narrows the range, so the stretch of an RGBA overview layer may differ from the full image's stretch as the user zooms. The PR body explains why GDAL's stored values can't be used, but not this consequence. Either state it in the doc comment and in docs/user-guide/data.md, or check that the stretch of an overview layer still matches the full-resolution one.
I checked the diff, the prior threads and the surrounding code. The core change looks correct, and the prior concerns are either fixed or answered. I confirmed the answered !a.is_nan() thread: the tile decoder (crates/data/src/raster/cog.rs, the no-data loop) turns no-data samples into NaN, so the answer holds. I also traced Change Detection's resampled alpha (fast and per-cell paths, NODATA outside the grid), the fits_bytes scan, the parallel run offsets in on_runs_beside, and the COG stretch index mapping (shown_from, rposition). I found no crash path, no silent data loss within the scope of the change, and no wasm or layering problem.
Bugs
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Security
None found.
Performance
None new. The earlier fits_bytes scan concern is fixed, and the change-detection double resample was already answered.
Quality
crates/data/src/raster/mod.rs:185 (low-medium, about 40%): a reduced overview's colour band with alpha takes its range, mean and spread from the overview's own cells, so stored is dropped. Overviews are usually averaged, so the overview layer's stretch may differ from the full image's. This is posted inline.
Nit, grouped: the engine test see_through_cells_are_left_out_of_an_rgba_rasters_statistics removes its temp directory only on success, so a failed assertion leaves it behind. Left for the release quality pass.
AGENTS.md
Low confidence, about 30%: Change Detection now leaves cells out without a notice giving the count. The rule ("a tool that drops data says how much") is arguably met by the documented no-data rule. Left as a note, not a finding.
Prior concerns left alone: 6 threads already raised (cog.rs nodata, change-detection performance, the data-guide wording, the fits_bytes scan, the mask doc comment, and the test shift). All are answered or fixed, and I did not re-raise them.
Change size
Compared with main (merge base 4b2e903 to PR head e6e518f), 7 files changed: 0 added, 7 modified, 0 removed, 0 renamed.
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Test coverage (medium-low confidence, about 60%): the parity test passes a validity closure that ignores the cell's place (|_, v| value(v)), and the new engine test is 1,600 cells, below PARALLEL_VALUES (1 << 20), so it runs on one thread. Nothing checks that a place-dependent validity, such as the see-through test, gives the same bits on several threads. The run offsets (k * size) and the valid(start + j, v) calls are new, so this is the path the "same output as one thread, bit for bit" rule depends on.
Suggested addition: a second loop after this one, with a validity that depends on the place, compared across thread counts:
let by_place = |i:usize,v:f32| value(v) && i % 3 != 0;for(name, data)in&bands {let want = BandStats::compute_on(data, by_place,None,1);for threads in[2,7,16]{assert_eq!(bits(&BandStats::compute_on(data, by_place,None, threads)), bits(&want),"{name} on {threads}");}}
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Added in d7a6890. A second loop in band_stats_on_several_threads_are_one_threads gives the same bands a validity by place: every third cell, and each band's last cell, are left out. It checks 1, 2, 7 and 16 threads against one pass over a copy with those cells set to NaN, so the reference doesn't share the code under test. Count, range, mean and spread are compared to the bit, and the histogram and distinct values too. Leaving out the last cell catches a run that starts off by one.
I checked that it catches a wrong start. With every run given 0 as its start (map(|(_k, run)| (0, run))), it fails on 2 threads at its first band (left: (1333335, …), right: (1333334, …)), and the value-only loop above it passes. As it is, it passes, with the rest of the data tests (1049) and clippy 1.100 on the data crate.
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Performance (medium-low confidence, about 50%): the earlier concern about scanning when whole_bytes is false is fixed by the closure. The remaining cost is for bands that do pass the cheap tests, such as Float32 colour bands whose visible values are whole bytes. Each such band is scanned in full by every fits_bytes call, and a write calls it several times per band (plan's sample_of, the bytes closure at geotiff.rs:1719, the all(...) checks at geotiff.rs:1789 and :1818, and cogwrite.rs:118). On a 100-million-cell RGBA, that is several full passes with a closure per cell.
The verdict depends only on the band, so it could be worked out once: for example, a flag beside the statistics, computed in the same pass as BandStats (where the see-through cells are already visited), so fits_bytes reads it. Not a blocker, since the output is correct.
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Right: a Float32 colour band whose shown values are whole bytes is scanned once per fits_bytes call, and a write makes a few of them. The output is correct, and the scan only runs for a colour band of a raster with alpha that passes the cheap tests. A flag worked out with BandStats in the one pass would change Band's fields, which every reader and writer builds. I've left it for the release quality pass.
None found. I checked the stats and see-through rule against the renderer's painter (crates/tiles/src/cog.rs:1317), the COG decoder's no-data-to-NaN step (crates/data/src/raster/cog.rs:638-645), the Change Detection resample (NODATA is -3.4e38, so hidden cells always map to see-through), the on_runs_beside offsets, and the apply_pam ordering. All are consistent. Confidence: high.
Security
None found.
Performance
fits_bytes rescans the whole band on each call for bands that pass the cheap tests, and a write calls it several times per band. Inline comment at crates/data/src/raster/geotiff.rs:1633. Confidence: medium-low (about 50%).
Quality
Test gap: the parity test uses an index-agnostic validity, and the new engine test is below PARALLEL_VALUES (1 << 20), so place-dependent validity never runs on more than one thread. Inline comment at crates/data/src/raster/mod.rs:1619. Confidence: medium-low (about 60%).
Nit, left for the release quality pass: the alpha-band lookup alpha.as_ref().filter(|(_, colour)| colour.contains(&i)).and_then(|(a, _)| bands.get(*a)) is repeated in Raster::new, apply_pam and see_through_cells. cog.rs:617-621 also keeps its own copy of the ColorHint::alpha match, which predates this PR.
AGENTS.md
No violations found. No unwrap/expect/panic in non-test code, no new UI strings, no new background command (so the cancel-list test needs no change), and the docs match the code: the data.md wording is correct for every pixel type, and the Change Detection and alpha-count statements match.
Already raised, left alone (8 earlier threads): the COG NaN question (answered; the decoder does convert no-data to NaN, as the author said), the imagery.rs second-resample cost (answered), the overview range concern at crates/data/src/raster/mod.rs:185 (still open, not re-posted), the data.md wording, the fits_bytes scan (the earlier version is fixed; the new comment covers the residual cost), the doc-comment placement, the shifted-alpha test, and the alpha-count wording (all fixed or answered).
Change size
Compared: the whole PR against main (merge base 4b2e903 to PR head ef68f88).
Bugs: None found. I checked the new see_through rule against the renderer (crates/render/src/raster.rs:719) and the tile pen (crates/tiles/src/cog.rs:1320), and it matches in every pixel type. The run offsets in on_runs_beside are correct for uneven splits. Change Detection's alpha resample, the 0.4 m and 5-cell shift tests, and the see_through_cells / of_band index handling all agree on out-of-range alpha. Confidence: high.
Security: None found. The new code only reads bounded slices through get(). Confidence: high.
Performance: No new concerns. The fits_bytes rescans and the second alpha resample were already raised and answered, so I left them alone. Confidence: high.
Quality:
crates/engine/src/tests.rs (see_through_cells_are_left_out_of_an_rgba_rasters_statistics): remove_dir_all runs only when the test passes. A failing assertion leaves rustgis-see-through-<pid> in the temp directory. Trivial. Confidence: high. Can wait for the release quality pass.
docs/user-guide/data.md: the Change Detection sentence follows the see-through paragraph with no blank line, so it renders as one run-on paragraph. Nit. Confidence: high. Can wait for the release quality pass.
AGENTS.md: Nothing violated that I could find. Non-test code has no unwrap, expect or panic. Change Detection's new work sits inside its existing background closure. The new tests cover lossy and clean input in both directions, and the thread-count test checks place-dependent validity. I did not compile or run anything, so the PR's own test results are the evidence for build and clippy. Confidence: medium-high.
Prior threads: 10 threads were already on this PR. I left all 10 alone:
Three were answered and I have no new evidence against the answers. The COG NaN-alpha claim holds: crates/data/src/raster/cog.rs:638-645 turns no-data into NaN in every band, alpha included.
One is still open and unanswered: an overview's colour band with alpha drops GDAL's stored statistics (of_band, crates/data/src/raster/mod.rs). The code is unchanged, so I did not post it again.
Six were fixed in the PR.
No inline comments were posted: nothing new survived verification.
Change size
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Summary
A colour raster with alpha (RGBA, or grey and alpha) counted every valid cell in its colour bands' statistics, including the cells its alpha band draws see-through. Those statistics give Raster information's counts and ranges, and every stretch taken from them. So:
This behaviour predates #1759 and isn't specific to clipping. Now:
raster/mod.rs): a colour band leaves out the cells its alpha draws fully see-through, using the rule the map draws by (render/src/raster.rs): an alpha of no value, or one under half a 256th of opaque, which is 0 in 8 bits. This israster::see_through, with the alpha band and the colour bands it covers fromColorHint::alpha. Opaque black cells still count, and the alpha band counts every cell. Rasters without alpha are unchanged, and so is an RGB image with a fourth band of data (near-infrared).BandStatstakes each value's place in the band, so the runs on several threads give the same statistics as one, as before (Tracking: analysis tools on several cores #1252). A reduced overview's colour band with alpha doesn't take GDAL's stored statistics from.aux.xml, because GDAL counts see-through cells in all but 8-bit images (below).likestretch and the Symbology pane's ranges.RasterMask::stats) leave the see-through cells out too, throughRaster::see_through_cells.geotiff::fits_bytes). Without a change there, a Float32 RGBA image whose see-through cells hold −3.4e38 and whose other cells are whole bytes would have been written as 8-bit. Its 0–1 alpha would then have been copied as bytes without rescaling, which reloads almost fully transparent.fits_bytesnow also looks at a colour band's see-through cells, so a file is written in the type it was before.For comparison, GDAL 3.9.3 (through rasterio 1.4.3, with band 4 marked as alpha) gives a 4 × 4 RGBA band with one opaque black cell, eleven of 100 and a see-through row:
RustGIS draws those cells see-through in every pixel type, so it leaves them out in every type.
Not changed:
Testing
raster::tests::see_through_cells_are_left_out_of_colour_statistics(data):Reproduced first, on c8e424f with the test added: the Float32 band counted 16 cells, min −3.4e38.
raster::tests::a_masks_statistics_leave_out_see_through_cells(map): a mask hiding 200 leaves the black cell alone (count 1, min 0), and the alpha band counts 16. Reproduced first: 5 cells, min −3.4e38.cog::tests::a_stretch_leaves_out_what_the_alpha_band_hides(tiles): a 512 × 512 Float32 RGBA COG whose see-through half holds −3.4e38 is stretched within its opaque colours. Reproduced first:(-3.4e38, 201)for each colour band.Engine
see_through_cells_are_left_out_of_an_rgba_rasters_statistics:raster.infogives each colour band as many valid pixels as its alpha shows, within the opaque colours, and the alpha band every cell.likeis within the opaque colours.Reproduced first: the file's colour bands counted 1600 valid pixels, where its alpha shows 1200.
Engine
change_detection_leaves_out_see_through_cells:Reproduced first: 1600 cells.
On Windows 11 x64, for 0801276 (751b295 with
mainat 4b2e903 merged in; no conflicts):cargo fmt --all --checkandcargo xtask layerspass.cargo clippy -p rustgis-data -p rustgis-map -p rustgis-tiles -p rustgis-engine --all-targets -- -D warningspasses.cargo test -p rustgis-data --lib(1049),cargo test -p rustgis-map --lib(313) andcargo test -p rustgis-tiles --lib(447) pass.see_through,change,clip,raster_process,project,stretch,colour,rgb,alpha,info,imagery,export,cogormosaicpass.For the browser,
cargo check --locked --target wasm32-unknown-unknown -p rustgis-webwithRUSTFLAGS=-D warningspasses, before and after the merge.5eadd91 changes only the data guide's wording (the see-through rule in every pixel type, from the review), so nothing was built again for it.
e6e518f (from the review): the Change Detection test adds a second raster moved five cells east, see-through across the shift, so its alpha is read from other source columns. With the alpha read at the first's cells instead of resampled, it fails (
left: 800,right: 1000); as it is, it passes.fits_bytesscans see-through cells only once the statistics fit. For it,cargo fmt --all --check,cargo clippy -p rustgis-data -p rustgis-map -p rustgis-engine --all-targets -- -D warnings, the data (1049) and map (313) tests and the engine'schange_detectionandsee_throughtests pass.ef68f88: CI's lint (clippy 1.100's
needless_range_loop) flagged a loop in the Change Detection test, now an iterator.cargo +1.100.0 clippy -p rustgis-data -p rustgis-map -p rustgis-tiles -p rustgis-engine --all-targets -- -D warningspasses for it, with-A clippy::needless_boolon Windows only, formain'ssource/shp/cache.rs(its#[cfg(unix)]block leaves a bareifon Windows; Linux CI doesn't see it). The engine'schange_detectiontest passes.d7a6890 (from the review): the thread-parity test also runs a validity by place (every third cell and each band's last left out) on 1, 2, 7 and 16 threads, against one pass over a NaN-masked copy. With every run's start given as 0, it fails on 2 threads; as it is, it passes with the data tests (1049) and clippy 1.100 on the data crate.
Not run: the whole of
cargo xtask ci(the engine's other tests andhostile_params_never_panicamong them), the browser build itself, GDAL beyond the comparison above, and Linux or macOS. The app wasn't opened.UI evidence
No visible UI change. A see-through-heavy Float32 RGBA image is stretched over its opaque colours rather than drawn white, but no control or pane changes.
Related issue
Closes #1810
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