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3dtours 166a677590 light: the tone ramp is four bumps on the identity, not straight segments between five knots — a knot is an angle, an angle in a tone curve is a Mach band, and the wedge reads the seams: BLACK +100 broke at 0.030 with 105 of second difference, HIGHLIGHT -100 at 0.747 with 72
The ramp was a0..a4 with the pixel's base interpolated straight between them.
A segment meets its neighbour at an ANGLE, and the second derivative of a tone
curve is what a gradient reads as a band — so a knob left a line across the
mid-tones, worst exactly where it was reported: BLACK +100 put its whole lift
inside 0.25 and the stretch from 0.25 up came back identical to the untouched
frame (the "transition stays grey" it was reported for), and HIGHLIGHT -100
folded a seam into 0.747, between the highlights it pulled and the shadow it
left under them.

Measured on a 1024-step luma wedge through the exported pass, second
difference through a ±1% box: BLACK +100 read 105 at 0.030 against 0.000 from
0.25 up, HIGHLIGHT -100 read 72 at 0.747. Step of the first derivative across
the knots: 0.955 at 0.25 and 1.146 at 0.75 — the curve arrived folded, and
1.146 is a sign flip, not a bend.

So each knob is now a BUMP on the identity, peaking on its own knot — BLACK on
0.00, SHADOW on 0.25, HIGHLIGHT on 0.75, WHITE on 1.00 — with the kernel
(1-u^2)^2 over a half-width (a half of the ramp for the two ends, whose knots
ARE the ends, a quarter for the two heads). Level at u = 0, so a knot moves
without a fold at its own top; level at u = 1, so a move lands on the identity
and on its neighbour without an angle; C1 everywhere between. The two bumps of
a half meet on 0.50 both on zero, which is the same fixed midpoint as before,
and DR still moves the same knots (0.12 on the toe, 0.18 on the head, half of
each on the heads beside them).

A sum of bumps can overshoot where two steep sides land on one stretch — past a
slope of 1 the curve runs BACKWARDS, a worse band than the seams this replaces,
and it is reachable: DR alone was under it, BLACK and SHADOW +100 together were
not (unguarded min slope -0.0141). The guard reads each pair at its own
steepest points, 8/(3*sqrt(3))/w per unit amplitude (TONE_BUMP_SLOPE_HALF 3.0792,
TONE_BUMP_SLOPE_QUARTER 6.1584), holds the two under one and gives them up
together past it. A single knob never reaches it (a full BLACK is 0.77, a full
SHADOW 0.77), so every slider keeps its whole travel; the worst case is DR at
full, which gives up a tenth of its head roll (0.18 -> 0.8376 on the head), and
BLACK with SHADOW both at +100, which arrive at 0.65 of their own lift instead
of folding. Guarded, the sweep over five levels of all four knobs and DR reads
a min slope of +0.0183 and a max of 1.9937, with the largest slope jump 0.00005.

After: the same wedge, the same pass. The knot steps are 0.096 at 0.25 and
0.478 at 0.75, with no sign flip — C1 across the knot instead of a fold. BLACK
+100 now carries the rework out of its own quarter: +0.139 at 0.25, +0.101 at
0.30, +0.033 at 0.40, 0.000 at 0.50, where it used to read 0.000 from 0.25 all
the way up. HIGHLIGHT -100 keeps its lift (-0.126 peak against -0.121 before) and
spends it over the quarter instead of into a line. Every knob on zero is the
identity to the last bit — the pass also runs for the stock split tones and for
DR alone — and 0.50 is still the one value no knob moves.

Checks: tone-base-check.mjs now runs the bump and the guard as arithmetic
beside the shader (with the negative control: the unguarded pair still folds,
the guard is what stops it). highlight-knee-check.mjs reads the kernel and the
two slope constants off the source, pins the four amplitudes and the guard, and
sweeps the travel of every knob as before. All ten checks that run without a
browser pass, build clean.

Skipped: the guard's ceiling is a constant, not a search for the widest travel
that still clears a band we cannot see. Add when a frame shows a band the
deflections in hand cannot explain.
2026-09-30 21:24:01 +07:00
3dtours 097e383b86 light: the tone base is a real blur, not nine point samples of one — the ring aliased the luma and the ramp painted the alias back as mottle
The base layer shipped last commit was nine POINT SAMPLES of the child, one
ring out at TONE_BASE_RADIUS. A ring is not an average, and on a frame with
texture at the ring's own scale it is worse than one: the nine lumas differ,
the sample pattern beats against the texture, and the base field comes out
aliased. The gain the pixel then rides, o(base)/base, is a function of the
base with a kink at every knot — so each alias of the base becomes an alias
of the gain, and the reconstruction paints it straight back over the detail
it was supposed to leave standing. Reported on a waterfall: grey patches
loose on a mountainside, a smear across the face of the falls, and plateaus
in cloud and sky (the pass runs whole-frame, so its base is read in the
bright end too).

Measured, 1160x774 at SHADOW +100, the high-frequency part of the gain field
(9px high-pass, where a real base can hold none): 0.0627 for the ring,
0.0048 for a blur of the same radius. Thirteen times. The fix is not more
taps — a 7x7 at a third of the step is still point samples, only smaller —
it is to stop sampling: the caller blurs.

So the base is now a second CHILD of the tone pass, the frame blurred by
Skia's own MakeBlur (blurredBase in exportEngine.ts, the draw drawBlurred
already made for the sharpening pass) at TONE_BASE_RADIUS of the frame width
and sigma TONE_BASE_SIGMA of that radius — a box's equivalent at the radius,
so the neighbourhood is the one the radius always named and the cuts are
smooth instead of hard. The shader reads it ONCE per pixel and baseLuma
loses its loop and its `bx`. That is also the cheaper pass: nine child evals
walked the exposure/matrix chain nine times, one eval does not.

A caller with no frame to blur hands in the image it is already shading as
the base. The tap then lands exactly on t and the ramp is the global move
again — a mask's degenerate bx of zero, spelled as a child that IS the
source, which is what gradientMask.ts's own call (base == t) already meant.

Checks: tone-base-check.mjs is new — SkSL is only compiled at runtime and
nothing here compiled TONE_SKSL whole, so the pass is compiled and rendered
for real, with the frame and the base held at two flat values a little
apart: the pixel has to land on the value the ramp over THAT base predicts
(171 for a 128 pixel over a 76 base), and a base equal to the pixel has to
be the identity. highlight-knee-check now pins the one tap, the absence of
`bx`, the blur, and the two-child wiring. 9/9 pass, build clean.

Skipped: no guided filter proper — the base is a plain blur, so a strong
edge is no longer held out of it the way the range weight held it (a dark
rock a blur's width from the water reads a lifted base and keeps its own
darkness). Add when a frame shows the halo; the doc asks for a plain blur
and this is one.
2026-09-30 19:03:55 +07:00
3dtours e61dccc784 light: the tone ramp is drawn through a base layer, not the pixel, so a SHADOW lift moves the region and leaves the texture in it standing — the quarter above the knot came back at 0.57x of its own spread, 0.78x now
The four knots were read at the pixel's own luma, which makes the ramp a
global curve: every pixel at luma t lands on the same o whatever surrounds
it. SHADOW's a1 is the head of the quarter above it, so lifting it squashed
that whole quarter to the half slope left over — measured on a real frame,
0.50 of its spread (shadow-band.py), 0.57 on the deployed bundle — the grey
sheet the knob was reported for. A curve drawn through the pixel cannot see
local contrast; that is what the eye was reading.

So the ramp is read at TONE_BASE_RADIUS (2.5% of the frame) of the luma
around the pixel — a 3x3 range-weighted blur, the fix_shadow.md Base x
Detail split — and the pixel then rides the neighbourhood's gain o/base,
keeping its own difference from it. Base moves, detail stays: the same lift
on the same pixels, with the texture inside the region left standing. Full
deflection keeps 0.78 of the band's spread now.

The base is the same maths in every caller: bx = 0 (a mask, which has no
neighbourhood) reads the pixel nine times and gets the old global move back,
and with every knob on zero the ramp at base IS base, so the ratio is 1 and
the pass is the identity however coarse the base is.

Skipped: no chroma compensation (Hunt). Measured, the ratio held saturation
(0.3184 -> 0.3169), so it is not earned yet. No linear-light ramp either:
the multiply is a uniform gain on encoded values, which is the same stop
exposureMove already argues for.
2026-09-30 18:46:36 +07:00
3dtours a56581c757 light: the HIGHLIGHT knob rides half its anchor too, so a lift stops drawing a cloud to paper and a pull stops flattening the quarter under it — the top quarter came back at 0.26x of its own contrast, 0.62x now 2026-09-30 17:59:57 +07:00
3dtours 36fb93658b light: the SHADOW knob rides half its anchor, so a lift stops drawing the band above it flat — a waterfall's spray came back at 0.10 of its own contrast, 0.55 now 2026-09-30 17:36:29 +07:00
3dtours 851563ed73 light: the pixel rides o/t, not a held chroma — SHADOW and BLACK drained a dark red to 0.505 of its saturation, it is 0.742 now 2026-09-30 16:26:42 +07:00
3dtours 6d60d452e0 One move of the light for the whole app: a mask's EXPOSURE and its four tone knobs stop being a second opinion
A gradient mask had its own tone formula and its own exposure, and both
disagreed with the frame's. Before any of this was tidied, the mask ran a
smoothstep luma lift with an arbitrary 0.55..1.35 chroma clamp while the frame
moved the knots of a four-zone ramp, and the mask's exposure was a stop on
sRGB-encoded values while the frame's was a stop on light. Two names, four
moves, and the same slider meant different things depending on whether the
pixels were inside the shape you drew — the divergence §3.3 of the Android
port's compat doc warns about.

The maths is one string now (TONE_MATH_SKSL, interpolated by both passes): the
ramp the four knots build, the hue-preserving rebuild behind it, the transfer
pair, and exposureMove. A mask calls the same functions the frame calls.

The rebuild carries the chroma instead of re-scaling it. Lightness takes the
curve and the colour rides the difference — the channel differences move by ONE
shared scale k, pulled back only where the cube has no room left. The doc's
ratio (R_new = R_old * Luma_new / Luma_old) was the old reading and it is exact
only while nothing clips: a channel past 1.0 stops being scaled with its
neighbours and the hue goes with it. Measured on a flat patch frame, a skin
tone at 24.0° came back at 48.0° at HIGHLIGHT +100, a warm white at 37° at
57.4°, and under L = 0.5 the same ratio multiplied a near-black pixel's cast by
x30 — colour noise amplified, which is why the 0.55..1.35 clamp was there. The
scale is the chroma's own now: over 135 knob combinations on seven colours and
five greys, the ramp moves the luma and the hue does not move at all (Δ < 1e-9°).

EXPOSURE gets the same treatment, which is what the second half of the request
was: the linear domain decides where the luma is going, and the pixel is
rebuilt onto it through the same lightMove. The old pass multiplied the three
channels in linear light, so +1 EV clipped them by three different amounts:
measured on the scratchpad probe, 29.2° of hue drift on a skin tone at +1 EV
and 33.3° at +2, against 0.00° here. The stop is applied as a ratio on the
pixel's own encoded luma rather than pointed straight at the encoded linear
target, which is what makes the knob exactly the identity at 0 EV — the
transfer does not commute with the luma weights, so pointing at it brightened a
colour by a couple of code values even at zero. A grey is the knob it always
was: 128 through +1 EV is 176, the same number the linear per-channel multiply
put there, so nothing a user has dialled in moves.

Verified: `npx tsc --noEmit` clean, `npm run build` clean. highlight-knee-check
now runs EXPOSURE_SKSL for real — compiled with CanvasKit and four pixels
pushed through it, agreeing with the twin to a code value on a grey at +1 EV
(176), a skin tone at +1 EV and +2 EV, and a shadow at -2 EV; it also pins the
hue, the cube, the identity at 0 EV and the black pixel that has no light to
move. mask-wb-check compiles the mask pass and pushes the same stops through
it: 128 through +1 EV is 176, through -1 EV is 92, +2 EV lands the channel on
the ceiling at 255 and holds the hue within 3°. auto-tone-check,
preview-match-check, white-level-check, raw-develop-check, half-check and
roll-walk-check all pass. Live on the built bundle in a 1440x950 browser: the
LIGHT panel's EXPOSURE +1 EV takes the mid grey of a flat patch frame from
0.502 to 0.690 (a stop on light gives 0.686) and moves no patch's hue at -1 EV
(Δ 0.00°), and a linear gradient mask's EXPOSURE +1 EV and HIGHLIGHT +100 move
the pixels inside the mask (luma 185.9 -> 211.1 and 185.9 -> 197.5) while the
corner outside it does not move at all (220.2 -> 220.2), with no console error.

Co-authored-by: PenguinHarness <noreply@penguin.local>
2026-09-29 18:04:50 +07:00
3dtours c0aaa67361 Studio: fold WB and FX into LIGHT, and put every develop slider on -100..+100
WB and FX were separate tabs whose only content was the same Lightroom-style
develop column LIGHT already renders, so the rail carried three doors into one
room. LIGHT now owns the whole column: white balance, tone, presence, the
effects group (grain, dehaze, vignette) and the filters, in that order. The
`wb` and `fx` TabIds, their rail entries, their `wbLabel()` helper and the now
dead `tab.wb` / `tab.fx` i18n keys are gone; `ToolRail` documents eight tabs.

Every continuous develop value that the UI exposes as a symmetric knob now
runs -100..+100 instead of -10..+10. `paramDefs` gains the `HUNDRED` key set
and the `deepen` helper, which widens a def's range and scales its accessors by
ten, so the store keeps its -10..+10 internal scale and every stored look,
DEFAULT_RECIPES entry and URL round-trip is byte-identical. Params with a
meaningful physical scale (temperature in kelvin, exposure in EV-ish units,
grain, grain size, hdf, vignette, rotate, crop) keep their own units.

Highlight recovery no longer bends hue. The old knee clamped the per-channel
gain into 0.55..1.35, which is a per-channel operation and therefore a hue
rotation: on the flat skin patch it walked hue from 24 deg to 48 deg at
HIGHLIGHT +100, and on a saturated 30:1 chroma ramp it desaturated toward black
instead of toward white. The shader now caps the pixel's distance from its
undersaturated knee point while preserving the direction of that offset, i.e.
it scales chroma and keeps hue, then clamps into gamut.

Verified:
- `npx tsc --noEmit` clean; `npm run build` clean.
- `node scripts/highlight-knee-check.mjs` (pins the new shader source and
  twin-tests 135 knob combinations) ok.
- Existing checks re-run green: `auto-tone-check`, `half-check`,
  `white-level-check`, `preview-match-check`, `library-check`,
  `scan-nav-check`, `roll-walk-check`.
- Live browser pass: rail shows exactly the seven expected tabs with no WB or
  FX; LIGHT renders 5 panels / 23 `data-key` knobs; 12 knobs report
  `min=-100 max=100`; everything else keeps its own range.
- Highlight hue measured on ten flat colour patches: HIGHLIGHT -100 gives a
  hue delta of 0.00 deg on every chromatic patch; HIGHLIGHT +100 stays within
  0.22 deg (sky) and 0.28 deg (magenta) wherever chroma survives, and the
  patches the ramp intentionally drives to white arrive fully neutral. Greys
  stay neutral (channel spread <= 2/255) at every knob setting. Skin patch
  before/after: 23.94 deg -> 0.00 deg.

ponytail: temperature (2500-10000 K), exposure (+-10 units at 0.25 EV each),
grain, grain size, hdf, vignette, rotate and crop deliberately keep their own
scales rather than the blanket -100..+100; widen them the day a user asks for
more range, not before. Hue assertions live in the flat-patch check because
real-photo measurements pick up 2-4 deg of resample drift from the snapshot
pipeline that has nothing to do with the shader.

Co-authored-by: PenguinHarness <noreply@penguin.local>
2026-09-29 17:04:08 +07:00
3dtours 34f8601c91 studio: the develop column becomes five panels, and the four tone knobs move knots instead of channels
Two specs, one commit: the develop state becomes the panel column the Lightroom
spec draws, and HIGHLIGHT, SHADOW, WHITE and BLACK stop being edits and become
shapes of the tone curve, the way the mapping spec measures them.

The column. The left rail used to hand LIGHT a row of chips and nothing else;
the four tone knobs were chips that opened a curve, and the rest of the develop
state lived in the chip row's own vocabulary. `DevelopPanels` renders the five
sections of the spec instead — PROFILE, WB, TONE, PRESENCE, DETAIL & EFFECTS —
as an accordion, all open, and every parameter the recipe holds has a row in it
with a `data-key` off the parameter name: slider, value readout, double-click to
default. Sliders are always visible, so a knob is one drag away instead of two
taps, and TEMPERATURE and TINT draw their gradient underneath (blue through amber,
green through pink) so the direction is on the control. The PRO looks the spec
marks stay in the list but locked, tagged PRO, and tapping one asks for PRO —
they are shown, not hidden, and not silently dropped.

WHITE and BLACK move out of the WB group. They were the temperature group's
extremes, which is what a white balance control does — the toe and the shoulder
of the same ramp — but the spec puts them with the tone knobs and gives them the
two ends of the tone curve, and that is what they now are. `wb` is TEMPERATURE
and TINT and nothing else; `whites` and `blacks` sit in `iq` beside `highlights`
and `shadows`, labelled WHITE and BLACK, in the tone panel where the slider lives.
A recipe written before this commit still reads: the keys are unchanged.

The four knobs. The first pass of the mapping spec added a mask per zone onto the
channel: `luma += knob * mask * intensity`, and the shader followed it. It is the
wrong shape, and the twin harness in `highlight-knee-check.mjs` shows why — the
four masks are not a partition of the ramp. They sum to one at the ends and to
zero at the midpoint, so an adjustment in the middle of a zone is applied where
the mask is half and not at all where the mask has fallen to nothing, and the
ramp inverts: with every knob at its stop the curve folds over itself, slope −5
at t=0.87, and the twin catches it as a non-monotone ramp.

So each knob moves a knot on the curve instead, which is the reading the spec's
own mask geometry points at — BLACK peak at 0.00, SHADOW 0.00→0.25→0.50,
HIGHLIGHT 0.50→0.75→1.00, WHITE peak at 1.00 — and the shader builds the curve
through those four anchors. `TONE_ANCHOR` is 0.25: one full knob at its stop is a
quarter of the range at that knot, so the range is 0.75..1.00 at the top and
0.00..0.25 at the bottom, and the anchors stay ordered (`a0 ≤ a1 ≤ 0.5 ≤ a3 ≤ a4`)
by clamping each against its neighbour. Between knots the curve is a straight
line, and 0.5 is untouched by every knob, so a knob at zero is the identity
exactly rather than nearly, and any combination of the four is monotone. The mask
sum survives where the spec is right about it: it hints the split between the two
dark zones and the two light ones, nothing else.

The hue is kept the way the spec keeps it: work in luma, then scale the chroma
offset — `rgb = luma_new + (rgb - luma_old) * luma_new / luma_old` — so a
saturated red stays the same red and only its brightness moves. The ratio is
clamped to 0.55..1.35 because at luma near zero the division is the whole
highlight of the picture on one code value.

Verified:

- `node scripts/highlight-knee-check.mjs` passes. It pins the settled shader —
  four masks, four anchors, the four `mix` lines — and asserts the constructions
  it replaced are gone, then drives a twin of the ramp in JS: the masks do not
  overlap, every knob at zero is the identity, the midpoint is 0.5 for all 162
  combinations of the four knobs, every combination is monotone, the amplitude at
  each stop is a quarter, and the DR offsets land on 0.12 and 0.82. The folded
  case from the additive build is in the harness as a regression.
- `npx tsc --noEmit` clean; `npm run build` emits `index-DXIIw2F1.js` and
  `index-A4pA1U5f.css`; `library-check.mjs`, `scan-nav-check.mjs`,
  `roll-walk-check.mjs`, `auto-tone-check`, `half-check`, `preview-match-check`
  and `white-level-check` all pass against the bundle — the catalogue, the RAW
  path, auto tone and the white level are untouched by the panel move.
- Driven in a real browser (`tone-live-check.mjs`, Chromium against
  `vite preview`, a P1010256.JPG in the source control, mean luma of the preview
  canvas read before and after each knob): neutral 184.25, WHITE +1 187.35,
  BLACK +1 186.35, SHADOW +1 194.53, EXPOSURE +1 206.99, HIGHLIGHT −1 173.80.
  Every knob moves the picture the way the spec says it should and none of them
  moves it much — a stop of a knob is a quarter of a zone, not a level.
- The same run asserts the built DOM: five panels, the 23 `data-key` rows,
  `dev-temperature` in WB, `dev-whites`, `dev-blacks`, `dev-highlight` and
  `dev-shadow` together in TONE, the gradient classes on the two white balance
  sliders, and the chip slots the panel is handed. The only failed request is
  `/api/events`, which is the backend this preview does not run.

ponytail: the recovery of blown highlights that used to sit under HIGHLIGHT — a
per-channel rolloff in linear light — is gone, deleted rather than ported. The
additive mask is why it was there: HIGHLIGHT had to do two jobs because a mask
could not shape a curve. Now that WHITE owns the top end, HIGHLIGHT only bends,
and the per-channel rolloff is a second knob for the same picture. Bring it back
as its own parameter if a frame ever clips badly enough to need it.

Also dropped: DR used to ride along as two additive terms. That is where the fold
at t=0.238 came from, BLACK −1 and SHADOW −1 together — the two terms pushed the
ramp past its own end. It shifts the knots now, which is what the film sims
always meant by it, and the numbers in the sims were kept and their meaning
recommented (classic-chrome toe 0.22, head 0.7375, etc.).

Co-authored-by: PenguinHarness <noreply@penguin.local>
2026-09-29 16:38:56 +07:00
3dtours 224ff0b935 web: open a RAW at the resolution of its sensor, not at the quarter of it
LibRaw's half-size demosaic was on. The Ricoh GR's own DNG (D0004128.DNG)
developed to 3010x2012 while the JPEG written beside it in the same second is
6000x4000, and the Fuji's RAF to 3008x2007 against its own 6000x4000 -- the
quarter was the flag, not the file. With `halfSize: false` the same develop
returns 6020x4024 and it is the sensor's frame on every body tried:

  D0004128.DNG  6020x4024   IMGP6916.DNG        6028x4024
  DSCF1701.RAF  6016x4014   _DSC0009.ARW        6024x4024
  AFXT2721.RAF  6246x4170   Nikon-D850 NEF      6216x4136
  _GDN0447.NEF  4284x2844   P1010607.RW2        3472x3472
  5G4A9396.CR2  2880x1920

Nine files, 27s to 155s a develop on one core. Checked through the app
itself, not only through LibRaw: photo-dims 6020x4024 on the DNG against
6000x4000 on the JPEG, both err none.

The colour it opens with is now fitted per file to the preview the camera wrote
into it (previewMatch.ts): a 3x3 over a block grid of the develop against the
same grid of that preview, then one cubic a channel for what the 3x3 leaves.
The offline per-body table this replaces (cameraMatch.ts) stopped matching the
moment the path under it changed -- its rows no longer summed to 1 once the
highlight knee landed ahead of it -- and a body with a row opened with a cast
one without did not. The file's own preview does not age.

The white level the gain carries is the frame's own plateau rather than
`maximum` (sensorWhite.ts), a factor of 1.89 to 2.00 out; without it every
frame opened a stop bright and a body that sat lower (X-Trans, 1.892) never
reached the highlight desaturation at all.

The desaturation gate reads the gain-lifted levels as well as the sensor's,
which is the whole of the magenta: on a body whose cam_mul lifts red and blue
(the GR's [2.64, 1, 1.73]) a blown sky crosses the white level at 0.38 of the
raw range in red while green crosses at 1.0, so a gate read on the sensor's
levels alone stayed shut across it. Measured in the app against the camera's
own JPEG, mean dRGB over a 16x16 block grid: +1.20, -5.95, -6.11 with the
sensor's clip alone, +0.21, +0.24, +0.47 with both, mean |dL| 21.5 against
10.3. The same grid on the Fuji comes back balanced (+4.7, +5.0, +3.6) and best
aligned at offset 0,0.

-HL is recovery and +HL is a lift, so they are different moves now: recovery is
the doc's soft knee in linear light over the top half, which is the only term
in the tone shader that is not a shift and the only one that can put detail
back into a blown sky rather than merely darken it.

The four checks pin the develop down where it can only run in a browser:
raw-develop-check, preview-match-check, white-level-check, highlight-knee-check.
2026-09-28 15:24:37 +07:00