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fix(render): Shaded Relief blends its light between cells with Bilinear (#1880) - #1905
A Shaded Relief layer with Resampling › Bilinear now blends its light between cell centres, as it already blends its values. Each pixel takes the lights of the four cells around it (the direct light, hillshade × what the cast shadows leave, and the ambient light the sky visibility of #1871 leaves) and mixes them bilinearly. Nearest draws exactly the same pixels as before.
Pass1::rows worked the hillshade out from the pixel's own cell and read the cast-shadow grid at that cell, so the light was one value per DEM cell whatever the resampling. At a large scale, a high DPI or in a tilted view, where a cell covers many pixels, the relief came out in squares even with Bilinear set.
How
Pass1::light works out one cell's lights (Lit { direct, ambient }): the hillshade of its 3 × 3 window times what the cast shadows leave, and the ambient light scaled by the sky the cell sees. The old inline code moved there unchanged, so Nearest calls it once per pixel and draws the same pixels as before.
Pass1::quad_lights gets the lights of the four cells around a point; blend mixes them with the bilinear weights. Each screen row keeps the last four lights, so the pixels that fall between the same four cell centres (most of them, when a cell covers many pixels) reuse them, and moving one cell east or west keeps two of them.
Where one screen pixel spans a cell or more (from the last pixel on the row, or the next one on the row's first), the 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.
A cell outside the grid, with no data or masked has no light: it is left out and the other weights are scaled up. At the raster's edge that is the same as clamping, and the edge of a clipped DEM, or the cells next to a masked value, don't darken toward the hole. A column past the edge of a grid spanning one whole turn wraps, as the band sampling does.
At a cell's centre the blend is that cell's light exactly, so Bilinear and Nearest agree there.
The user guide (Data › raster styles, after Cast shadows) says what Bilinear does to a Shaded Relief layer.
Choices
The light is interpolated, not the heights. Hillshading bilinear heights would change the light everywhere, not only between centres.
Only with Bilinear. Nearest stays as it is, so existing projects drawn with Nearest don't change. Making Bilinear the default for Shaded Relief would be a separate decision.
Cost
CPU time of the whole rustgis-cli run exporting a Copernicus 30 m DEM (1924 × 1829 cells) with Bilinear, main against this branch, release builds. The PC was busy (16 threads, other builds running), so the times are indicative:
The flat export got cheaper: main worked a cell's hillshade out again for every pixel, and the row cache works the four lights out once for all the pixels between the same four cell centres. Where a cell is about a pixel across, the cost is about +20–30%, north-up, turned or tilted; at a cell of a pixel or less it is main's (the export is byte-identical to main's there). The prototype in #1880, without these caches, measured about +10–15% flat and +55% tilted.
Flat map, 1:8,000, 288 dpi, Bilinear; before (left) and after (right).
Tilted 65°, 288 dpi, a close crop; before and after.
Tests
bilinear_relief_blends_the_light_between_cell_centres: a relief whose slope grows eastward, drawn across 6 cells of 100 px. Nearest keeps one light per cell; Bilinear equals it at each centre and in the outer half of the edge cells, and rises steadily (at most 2 levels per pixel) between centres, strictly between the two centres' lights halfway. The same relief stored right to left, read westward, draws the same pixels.
bilinear_relief_keeps_the_cells_light_when_a_cell_is_a_pixel_or_less: at 1 and 1.5 cells a pixel, Bilinear draws Nearest's pixels; at half a cell a pixel it blends.
bilinear_relief_blends_across_a_whole_turns_seam: a 0–360° grid whose cast-shadow light differs on either side of the seam darkens steadily across it, and both pixels next to the seam blend. It fails without the short-way column count in the pixel span (a 1 px stripe) and without the column wrap in cell_light (a step at the seam).
bilinear_relief_leaves_a_hidden_cell_out_of_the_blend: the same relief with one column as no data, then masked instead. Next to it the light is the neighbouring cell's own, not darker.
bilinear_relief_blends_the_cast_shadows_too: one column in full cast shadow; Nearest steps at its edge, Bilinear dims gradually and matches Nearest at both centres.
bilinear_relief_blends_the_sky_too: the same with one column that sees no sky, at full sky strength.
The existing relief, cast-shadow and sky tests (all Nearest) pass unchanged.
Locally (Windows), cargo xtask ci on 8a225dd: fmt, clippy and layers pass, and every render test passes. Outside render, the failures are this PC's, seen in other branches here too: gdal_formats_open_when_gdal_is_installed needs GDAL 3.8 (this PC has 3.7.1), and portable_projects reload::wrong_geometry_missing_file_and_missing_chosen_table_leave_the_layer_unchanged loses its temporary file; mbtiles_archives_frame_the_map_on_their_bounds and ui-egui explore_click_asking_only_wms_clears_without_a_notice fail only in a full workspace run and pass alone. Since the merge of main, filegdb::tests::reads_what_gdal_writes_when_gdal_is_installed fails here too: GDAL 3.7.1 writes the date field with a time.
Shaded Relief now blends lighting between neighboring cell centers when using bilinear resampling, including hillshade, cast shadows, and sky visibility.
Nearest resampling continues to use a single light value per cell. Bilinear blends exclude cells with no data, masked cells, and cells outside the grid.
Documentation
Updated the raster guide to describe how lighting behaves with bilinear and nearest resampling.
…ar (opengeos#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.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Walkthrough
Bilinear raster resampling now blends hillshade, cast-shadow, and sky lighting from surrounding cells when a screen pixel spans less than one raster cell. Invalid cells are excluded, and remaining weights are renormalized. Nearest resampling and larger pixel-to-cell spans retain per-cell lighting.
Changes: Relief lighting
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Summary
Source-position and pixel-span tracking crates/render/src/raster.rs
Pass1 tracks wrapped source positions and measures distances between valid pixels. For full-turn grids, it uses the shorter cyclic column distance.
When bilinear resampling spans less than one cell per pixel, rendering blends valid surrounding cell lights. Tests cover excluded cells, cast shadows, sky lighting, the threshold, mirrored grids, and full-turn seams. The guide describes the behavior.
Bilinear Shaded Relief should now render smoother lighting between cell centres, while Nearest keeps its existing per-cell lighting. No concrete merge-blocking risk remains in the supplied review evidence.
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The title names the change: Shaded Relief blends its light between cells when Bilinear resampling is selected. The raw summary and PR objectives both describe this as the main change, and the title's #1880 reference matches the linked issue. The title is 79 characters, which is slightly long but still clear and specific.
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Only #1880 is directly linked. Its requirements are coding requirements. The whole-PR summary (merge base dc225c2, head 8a225dd) and the current PR description show the following in crates/render/src/raster.rs. (1) [#1880] With Bilinear, Shaded Relief blends the light of the four cells around a sample point with bilinear weights. Heights are not interpolated. (2) [#1880] Nearest keeps the per-cell light, so its pixels are unchanged. (3) [#1880] Pass1::light is the single helper for a cell's light (hillshade times cast-shadow light, plus ambient light scaled by sky visibility). The blend reuses it, so the #1871 sky light is smoothed too. (4) [#1880] Cells outside the grid, without data, or masked are left out, and the remaining weights are scaled up. At the raster edge this gives the same result as clamping. (5) At a cell centre the blend equals that cell's light. (6) Cast-shadow light is blended with the hillshade. The tests named in the PR cover interpolation between centres, the one-cell-or-less fallback, the whole-turn seam, hidden cells, cast shadows, and sky light. Limits: this review used the whole-PR summary and the PR description. It did not read the diff hunks at head 8a225dd. The previous reviewed heads (e81310d, ff3d849, caceef7 ) are not read here, so incremental changes are assessed only through the whole-PR summary. The test results in the description are author-reported and were not rerun.
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The whole-PR summary lists two changed files. crates/render/src/raster.rs holds the Bilinear blend for Shaded Relief: the span measurement, the per-row cache of four cell lights, Pass1::light, the cell-light helper, the quad-light helper, the blend, and the whole-turn column handling. The column handling applies only to the Bilinear path and is needed to blend across the seam (#1880 edge and wrap behaviour). docs/user-guide/data.md documents the Bilinear behaviour for Shaded Relief. The PR does not make Bilinear the default and does not add supersampling, both of which #1880 lists as separate alternatives. No unrelated change appears in the summary. Limits: the diff hunks were not read in this review, so the conclusion rests on the summary and the PR description.
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A rabbit watched the hills glow bright, As blended cells softened the light. Through shadows and sky, the colors flow, Past masked-out cells, the weights still grow. Across the seam, the soft lights meet, The raster rests beneath my feet.
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Performance (medium-low confidence): the quad cache holds only the last quad, so each new anchor recomputes four full lights (36 value reads and 4 hillshades). Pixels move to a new anchor whenever they cross a cell centre, so when cells are about a pixel across, most pixels miss and light work is roughly 4× the old per-pixel cost, not the +10–20% measured for the tilted case. Moving one cell east keeps two of the four lights, so a small per-row cache of recently computed cell lights (keyed by cell, e.g. the last two columns of lights) would avoid most of the repeats. The measured numbers don't cover this case, so it may be worth a quick benchmark at a zoomed-out view of a fine DEM. Not a correctness issue: the blend, the Nearest path and the edge handling look right to me.
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Confirmed by measurement, and fixed in e81310d. CPU time of the whole rustgis-cli run, Bilinear Shaded Relief of a Copernicus 30 m DEM (1924 × 1829 cells), 1600 × 1100 px at 96 dpi, 6 runs each, release builds, busy 16-thread PC, so indicative:
Your suggestion for the cells between: moving one cell east or west keeps two of the four lights, so only the other two are worked out. The flat, tilted and 1:90,000 exports are byte-identical to the first push's, and a right-to-left grid (read westward) is checked against the left-to-right one.
The large-scale exports in the description stay where they were (flat 1:8,000 cheaper than main, tilted 65° within the noise); the table there is updated.
I found no correctness bugs, security issues or AGENTS.md violations. I checked the Nearest path against the old code and it is bit-identical: the hillshade is already a rounded u8, so the single final round gives the same result. The blend's weights are exact at cell centres, and the edge, wrap, masked and no-data handling all line up with value and sample.
Bugs
None found.
Security
None found.
Performance
The per-row quad cache holds only the last quad, so a new cell anchor recomputes four lights (36 value reads and 4 hillshades). When cells are about a pixel across, most pixels miss, and the light work could be around 4× the old per-pixel cost. The PR's measurements cover the tilted case, where cells span several pixels, so they don't show this. Inline comment posted at crates/render/src/raster.rs:750. Confidence: medium-low.
Quality
None raised. Naming and docs are accurate. The blend doc says "from the first", which is a bit ambiguous, but it's a nit for the release quality pass.
AGENTS.md
No violations. The PR has before/after screenshots and a user-guide update. There are no new unwraps in non-test code and no new dependencies.
Prior reviews: none on this PR, so no earlier concerns were left alone.
Change size
Compared with the base branch, the whole PR (merge base 1654377 to PR head 054f15b).
…rs (opengeos#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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Performance (medium-low confidence), re-raised from the earlier thread: the east/west reuse helps only when the anchor moves along the row. When it changes column and row together, which happens often in rotated or tilted views where a row crosses cell boundaries diagonally, this falls through to quad_lights and recomputes all four lights (36 value reads and 4 hillshades) where the old code did one hillshade per pixel. The fix in e81310d covers the flat case and the measured tilted export, where cells span several pixels. It does not cover a rotated or tilted view where cells are about 1 to 1.5 pixels across, and the PR's numbers don't include that case. A small cache of recent cell lights keyed by cell, rather than only the last quad, would remove most of the repeats. A quick benchmark at that scale would settle how large the cost is.
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Measured the case you describe, CPU time of the whole rustgis-cli run, 1600 × 1100 px at 96 dpi, 1:90,000 (a cell ≈ 1.3 px), 6 runs each, release builds, busy PC so indicative:
That is about +20–30%, the same as the north-up view at that scale (1.31–1.84 s against 1.47–2.31 s), and the larger-scale and whole-DEM exports in the description are at or below main. I'd leave a cache keyed by cell for a follow-up if someone meets a view where it shows; the numbers are in the description now.
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Quality (low confidence): the blend switches on a hard per-pixel test, span() < 1.0. In a tilted or rotated view, where the span is near 1 across a region, neighbouring pixels can flip between the blended light and the cell's own light. That may show as a seam or speckle along a contour where cells are about a pixel across. The blend and the own-cell light agree at cell centres, so the step is probably small, but it is worth a look at a zoom where the span sits near 1 before merging.
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Looked at it at a view where the span does cross 1. Along a row it only does where a cell is about a pixel across. In the flat 1:8,000, tilted 65° (1:60,000, 288 dpi), north-up 1:90,000 and turned 30° 1:90,000 exports it never crosses: they are byte-identical to the first push, which always blended. The whole DEM fitted in 1600 px never blends and is byte-identical to main.
Tilted 55° at 1:90,000 (96 dpi) is where it crosses: a band toward the horizon (rows 74–246 of 1100) takes the cells' own light. Against the first push, 12% of the pixels differ, by up to 42 levels; in a crop across the band's edge I can't see a seam or speckle, and the difference image ends on a clean line.
For the size of the step: at the whole-DEM scale (1.6 cells a pixel), the blended light and the cell's own light differ by 1 level on average (99% of pixels within 11 of 255), while neighbouring pixels in that image already differ by 5.5 levels on average (99% within 47). Where a cell is under a pixel, the relief's own pixel-to-pixel texture is about four times the step, so I'm leaving the switch as it is.
I read the full diff, the staged AGENTS.md, the prior thread, and the surrounding raster.rs code (value, sample, wrap_col, full_turn_width, draw). I could not build or run the tests in this environment (no shell), so the compile and test status is unverified. The PR reports cargo xtask ci passing locally, except one GDAL test that also fails on main.
Bugs
None confirmed. The east/west reuse indices in the quad cache check out. The wrap, edge, hidden-cell and shadow handling match the PR's description. The Nearest path produces the same values as before (hillshade already returns a rounded u8, so the single final round gives the same result).
Security
None. No new input parsing, and the new code adds no unwrap/expect/panic in non-test code. rem_euclid is only reached with a wrap width from full_turn_width, which cannot be zero.
Performance
Re-raised from the earlier thread (medium-low, ~40%): the east/west reuse covers only horizontal anchor moves. In rotated or tilted views where cells are about 1–1.5 px across, diagonal anchor changes recompute all four lights, so light work can reach 2–4× the old cost. The PR's benchmarks don't cover that case. Posted inline at raster.rs:771.
Quality
Hard threshold at span() < 1.0 (low, ~30%): neighbouring pixels can flip between blended and own-cell light where the span is near 1, which may show a seam. Posted inline at raster.rs:758.
Test gap (medium confidence): nothing exercises the full-turn geographic wrap in cell_light, the diagonal-anchor path, or the seam pixel, all of which the PR describes as behaviour.
Nits, grouped (quality sweep candidates):
light, cell_light and quad_lights repeat the (band, relief) pair; bundling them would read better.
At the 0°/360° seam, span is computed from wrapped columns, so one pixel per row falls back to its own-cell light. Not visible, but worth a comment.
docs/user-guide/data.md says light blends "as its values are", but light blends only where a cell covers more than a pixel. The doc should say that.
AGENTS.md
Conforms on the points I could check: no unsafe, no unwrap in non-test code, layering (render is L3), no wasm-breaking APIs, a user-guide update included. The new per-row caches are local to each row, so output does not depend on thread count.
The rendering path is not run through Cancel/progress; this PR did not change that, so I did not flag it.
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1 earlier thread (performance). I re-raised the remaining diagonal-anchor concern with what is new in the code; I did not repeat the earlier blend and edge-handling points, which the thread already says are correct. 0 earlier concerns left alone.
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Quality (nit, high confidence): the whole-turn wrap in cell_light is new logic that no test in this PR exercises. The description says a column past the edge of a full-turn grid wraps, but the four tests use flat, non-geographic rasters. A short test would pin it: a geographic grid of exactly 360° with a light that differs across its seam, drawn Bilinear, where the blend at the seam matches the blend one turn over. Grouped with the other nits for the release quality pass if the maintainers prefer.
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Added in ff3d849: bilinear_relief_blends_across_a_whole_turns_seam draws a 0–360° geographic grid whose cast-shadow light differs on either side of the seam, Bilinear, across the seam. With the wrap in cell_light turned off it fails (the light steps from 199 to 64 at the seam); it also covers the seam fix CodeRabbit raised in the span.
Bugs: None found. I checked the cell-light caching in rows (east and west reuse keeps the right two lights, and the cache is reset per row), the wrap_width handling (full_turn_width cannot yield zero, so the rem_euclid is safe), the blend weights at cell edges and centres, and the Nearest path. The Nearest path still produces the same light as before, including the shadow rounding. (confidence: high)
Security: None. The change is pure computation with no new input parsing. (confidence: high)
Performance: Nothing new beyond the open threads below. (confidence: medium)
Where a cell spans about a pixel or more, every pixel that enters a new anchor computes four lights. The author's measurements cover north-up, turned 30° and tilted 55° at 1:90,000, and the earlier concern is answered with those numbers. I left it alone.
Quality:
Nit: the whole-turn wrap in cell_light has no test, though the description claims it. Posted inline on crates/render/src/raster.rs:811. (confidence: high)
Low: in span(), the first in-grid pixel of a row takes map_or(0.0, …) when the next pixel has no source position. That makes the blend path run for that one pixel. It is harmless visually and only costs time. (confidence: low)
AGENTS.md: Compliant on the points I could check. The new code has no unwrap, expect or panic, and the crate's deny block still applies. Line lengths are under the 140 limit in rustfmt.toml. The user-guide paragraph matches the code's behaviour. The engine's long-command and hostile-parameter tests are not affected, since the change touches only the render crate. I could not run cargo xtask ci or rustfmt in this session, so formatting and clippy are unverified here.
Prior threads: I left 3 earlier concerns alone because the author answered them with measurements:
The per-cell cache for tilted or rotated views (the 1:90,000 turned and tilted measurements).
The hard span() < 1.0 switch. The author found no visible seam, but notes up to 42 levels of difference along a band edge at 55° tilt. I did not re-raise it, since the author's crop check answers the concern as asked.
The single-quad cache, which is marked outdated and now addressed.
Nothing was approved, merged or modified.
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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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Reviewed the two-file diff (crates/render/src/raster.rs, docs/user-guide/data.md) against the base-branch AGENTS.md. I could not build or run the tests in this session (no shell), so the findings below come from reading the code. The author reports cargo xtask ci passing for the render crate on ff3d849.
Bugs: none found.
Nearest output is unchanged. hillshade returns u8, so f64::from(hillshade) * left followed by one round matches the old round(u8 * left) step for step. (High confidence)
The east and west quad reuse maps the four lights to the right cells in both directions, and quad and prev reset per row, so each thread's rows are independent. (High confidence)
full_turn_width returns a width of at least 1, so rem_euclid(w) cannot divide by zero. Indices into the shadow grid are bounds-checked before use. (High confidence)
Security: none. No unsafe code, no new input parsing, no secrets.
Performance:
The +20–30% cost is measured on desktop only. The browser build is single-threaded and runs Bilinear relief through the same path, so its cost there is unmeasured. Low confidence that it matters; no change needed for this PR.
Quality (nits, grouped; these can wait for the release quality pass):
prev.replace(...) runs for every in-grid pixel on every raster draw, including Nearest without relief, where the value is never read. Gating it on relief.is_some() avoids the bookkeeping. Negligible cost.
last_drawn is easy to confuse with the Nearest last cache. A rename would help. The span closure is used only once and could be inlined.
AGENTS.md: compliant as far as I can see.
No unwrap, expect, panic, or unsafe in non-test code.
The threaded path is bit-identical across thread counts because the new state is row-local.
No std::time is added, so the wasm build is unaffected.
No UI strings are added.
The docs are updated, and before/after images are included.
Prior review threads: five threads on this PR, all already answered or fixed. The rotated-view cache misses were answered with measurements, the per-pixel gate speckle was answered with measurements, and the untested seam wrap and the seam span were fixed in ff3d849. I re-raised none of them and left all five alone.
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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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Bugs (medium-high confidence): the sky ambient term is still per cell under Bilinear. The blend only covers shade. This ambient write reads grid.get(cell...), the nearest cell, so with Sky > 0 the ambient term steps at cell edges while the hillshade is smooth. It only reaches the pixel through the 25% ambient share in paint, and Sky defaults to 0, so the impact is limited to layers that turn Sky on. But the doc comment on light (lines 819-822) says "Every light a cell gets is worked out here, so that blend smooths each of them", and the PR description says the sky term "can come out smooth through the same blend". Neither holds today. Either blend the ambient through the same quad path, or narrow the comment and the PR text to say the ambient is not yet blended. I did not suggest a patch, because blending it needs its own cell-light cache.
The sky ambient term is still per cell under Bilinear, while the light doc comment says every light is blended. Posted inline at crates/render/src/raster.rs:808. Medium-high confidence. It only matters when Sky > 0, which defaults to 0.
Security
None found. The change adds no parsing or external input.
Performance
Nothing new beyond the earlier threads. The four-light recompute in rotated or tilted views where a cell is about 1 to 1.5 px wide was already raised and measured by the author (+20–30%), so I left it alone.
Quality
Nits, not posted: the seam test comment puts column 35's centre on "pixel 29.5", but 5° west is at pixel coordinate 30.0. Harmless, but worth fixing in the release quality pass.
AGENTS.md
No violations found. New non-test code has no unwrap, expect, or indexing panics. Per-row quad state keeps the output independent of thread count. Nearest output is unchanged, and the hostile_params path is safe for the rem_euclid divisor, which is always at least 1 when wrap_width is set.
I checked the following and found them correct:
The east and west reuse indices.
The whole-turn seam span and wrap.
The span < 1.0 gate, including the boundary at exactly 1.
Blend weights at a cell's centre, and the edge and nodata handling.
The shade rounding, which is identical to main because hillshade already returns u8.
Prior threads: 5 earlier concerns left alone, because the author answered them with measurements or fixed them (the seam span, the seam test, the quad cache, the hard span gate, and the rotated-view cost).
Change size
Compared with main (merge base dc225c2 to PR head caceef7).
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- Line 799: Update the Bilinear path in `blend` to interpolate sky visibility
separately using the same valid neighboring cells and weights as the light
blend, then apply the interpolated ambient factor. Preserve the existing
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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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Correctness (low confidence, not verified by a test): the blend gate measures only the source step along the screen row, span(). A cell can cover several screen rows while covering less than a pixel along the row. In that case span() >= 1.0 and the pixel keeps its own cell's light, so the stepped light from #1880 would remain in that region. This is most likely in a rotated view where cell edges run along the row. The measured tilted and rotated exports don't obviously show it, so a render of a rotated view with a fine DEM would settle it. If it shows, the gate could use the larger of the row step and the step to the next row.
Bugs: No confirmed bugs. I checked the Nearest path against the old code: the rounding order, the shadow and sky multiplies, and the 255 ambient default all match, so Nearest output should be unchanged. The quad reuse indices for east and west moves are correct, and the wrap, edge and zero-length-span paths have no panic risk.
Security: None found. The changes are pure render arithmetic on file-derived values, and all indexing goes through get.
Performance: Known, not re-raised. The quad cache holds only the last quad, so tilted or rotated views at cell sizes near one pixel recompute four lights per pixel. The author measured this (+20–30% at 1:90,000) and the thread is answered. Confidence: medium.
Quality:
The gate at raster.rs:783 uses only the step along the row, so a cell covering several rows but less than a pixel across keeps its own light. Left as an inline comment. Confidence: low.
span() returns 0.0 when the next pixel has no source (raster.rs:738), which forces the blend. Harmless, but the choice is arbitrary. Confidence: low.
last_drawn (raster.rs:731) is the last in-grid pixel, not the last drawn one, because it's set before the alpha skip. Rename it. Confidence: high, nit.
The rotated-view branch of pos_at has no Bilinear relief test; every test uses a flat or lon-lat raster. Confidence: high, nit.
Several new tests do u8 arithmetic (dark + 20, bilinear[x] + 10), which could overflow in debug builds if values are near 255. Confidence: low, nit.
AGENTS.md: No new background command, so the cancellation test lists don't need changes. The user guide edit matches the behaviour. No new interface text, so no tl! wrapping is needed. No copyleft code is referenced. Confidence: high.
Prior reviews: 7 existing threads. Three concerns are fixed in code and I verified them: the ambient term is now blended (8a225dd), the seam span uses the wrap width, and the whole-turn test exists. Four are left alone because they are answered or addressed: the last-quad cache (twice), the span-threshold flip, and the whole-turn test nit.
Change size
Compared: the whole PR against main (merge base dc225c2 to PR head 8a225dd).
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#1871 (sky view) merged into main while this PR was open, so after merging main the sky's ambient light was still taken from one cell while the direct light was blended. 8a225dd routes it through the same per-cell helper: Pass1::light now returns the direct and the ambient light together, and Bilinear blends both with the same weights. With Nearest the arithmetic is the same as before, in the same order.
Test: bilinear_relief_blends_the_sky_too (one column with no sky, the others with all of it): Nearest gives a step, Bilinear equals Nearest at both cell centres and lies strictly between them halfway. The PR description is updated.
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What
A Shaded Relief layer with Resampling › Bilinear now blends its light between cell centres, as it already blends its values. Each pixel takes the lights of the four cells around it (the direct light, hillshade × what the cast shadows leave, and the ambient light the sky visibility of #1871 leaves) and mixes them bilinearly. Nearest draws exactly the same pixels as before.
Fixes #1880
Why
Pass1::rowsworked the hillshade out from the pixel's own cell and read the cast-shadow grid at that cell, so the light was one value per DEM cell whatever the resampling. At a large scale, a high DPI or in a tilted view, where a cell covers many pixels, the relief came out in squares even with Bilinear set.How
Pass1::lightworks out one cell's lights (Lit { direct, ambient }): the hillshade of its 3 × 3 window times what the cast shadows leave, and the ambient light scaled by the sky the cell sees. The old inline code moved there unchanged, so Nearest calls it once per pixel and draws the same pixels as before.Pass1::quad_lightsgets the lights of the four cells around a point;blendmixes them with the bilinear weights. Each screen row keeps the last four lights, so the pixels that fall between the same four cell centres (most of them, when a cell covers many pixels) reuse them, and moving one cell east or west keeps two of them.Pass1::light, andblendmixes the direct and ambient lights with the same weights, so the sky visibility of feat(raster): Shaded Relief dims its ambient light by the sky each cell sees (#1782, part 2) #1871 (merged into this branch frommain) comes out smooth too.Choices
Cost
CPU time of the whole
rustgis-clirun exporting a Copernicus 30 m DEM (1924 × 1829 cells) with Bilinear,mainagainst this branch, release builds. The PC was busy (16 threads, other builds running), so the times are indicative:mainThe flat export got cheaper:
mainworked a cell's hillshade out again for every pixel, and the row cache works the four lights out once for all the pixels between the same four cell centres. Where a cell is about a pixel across, the cost is about +20–30%, north-up, turned or tilted; at a cell of a pixel or less it ismain's (the export is byte-identical tomain's there). The prototype in #1880, without these caches, measured about +10–15% flat and +55% tilted.Before and after
Images from #1880 (Copernicus DEM GLO-30, © DLR e.V. and Airbus, provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA):
Flat map, 1:8,000, 288 dpi, Bilinear; before (left) and after (right).
Tilted 65°, 288 dpi, a close crop; before and after.
Tests
bilinear_relief_blends_the_light_between_cell_centres: a relief whose slope grows eastward, drawn across 6 cells of 100 px. Nearest keeps one light per cell; Bilinear equals it at each centre and in the outer half of the edge cells, and rises steadily (at most 2 levels per pixel) between centres, strictly between the two centres' lights halfway. The same relief stored right to left, read westward, draws the same pixels.bilinear_relief_keeps_the_cells_light_when_a_cell_is_a_pixel_or_less: at 1 and 1.5 cells a pixel, Bilinear draws Nearest's pixels; at half a cell a pixel it blends.bilinear_relief_blends_across_a_whole_turns_seam: a 0–360° grid whose cast-shadow light differs on either side of the seam darkens steadily across it, and both pixels next to the seam blend. It fails without the short-way column count in the pixel span (a 1 px stripe) and without the column wrap incell_light(a step at the seam).bilinear_relief_leaves_a_hidden_cell_out_of_the_blend: the same relief with one column as no data, then masked instead. Next to it the light is the neighbouring cell's own, not darker.bilinear_relief_blends_the_cast_shadows_too: one column in full cast shadow; Nearest steps at its edge, Bilinear dims gradually and matches Nearest at both centres.bilinear_relief_blends_the_sky_too: the same with one column that sees no sky, at full sky strength.cargo xtask cion 8a225dd: fmt, clippy and layers pass, and every render test passes. Outside render, the failures are this PC's, seen in other branches here too:gdal_formats_open_when_gdal_is_installedneeds GDAL 3.8 (this PC has 3.7.1), andportable_projects reload::wrong_geometry_missing_file_and_missing_chosen_table_leave_the_layer_unchangedloses its temporary file;mbtiles_archives_frame_the_map_on_their_boundsandui-egui explore_click_asking_only_wms_clears_without_a_noticefail only in a full workspace run and pass alone. Since the merge ofmain,filegdb::tests::reads_what_gdal_writes_when_gdal_is_installedfails here too: GDAL 3.7.1 writes the date field with a time.🤖 Generated with Claude Code
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