Add error-controlled DP5(4) integration and trusted first-crossing localization, including non-monotonic energy thresholds and representable-time stepping.
Preserve adaptive state and independent step/time retry grants across RayPool, refinement and movie scheduling. Expose numerical controls, record actual persistent-sample costs, and add v3 lens-map provenance with legacy v2 RK4 import.
Use DP54 by default and select an 8M Schwarzschild maximum step from bounded scans and a two-run 4K comparison. Retain the conservative minimum-step guard and document critical-ray and backend capability limits. Archive self-contained benchmark inputs and raw output; keep fixed RK4 HDR references explicit.
Validation: make -B -j4 BUILD_TYPE=Debug test passed; explicit RK4 HDR references have zero differences. Bounded convergence checks, benchmark reproduction, Release build and focused reviews passed. No numerical-relativity backend is added.
Replace the position capture cutoff with a camera-relative dark threshold
shared by every backend, and carry explicit outcome/reason provenance
through the ray, RayPool, adaptive mesh, lens-map and replay paths.
- eval/eval_slab return SpacetimePointStatus; remove SPACETIME_RAY_CAPTURED
and the Schwarzschild capture radius; decouple observer construction from
ray position.
- RayEndpoint stores RayOutcome/RayReason plus the last trusted state;
budget exhaustion is retryable UNRESOLVED, data/integration failures are
INCOMPLETE.
- Normal dark terminal is L - L0 >= --dark-threshold (default 8), with L0
taken at the camera event and kept distinct from the worldtube entry
energy; photon energy and frequency ratio are never reset.
- Implement E/D/U triangle decisions with merged budget retries, persistent
probe witnesses promoted in place by vertex identity, conformity settling,
and approximate-black boundary provenance with achieved-scale statistics.
- Add RayPool continuation state and per-ray step budgets.
- Bump lens-map to v2 with explicit end/outcome/reason, approx_black,
threshold/retry/geometry provenance and per-frame retry counts; reject v1.
- Gate production output on incomplete/error results, overridable with
--allow-incomplete.
- Update AGENTS.md, the design document and usage docs; add the termination
oracle and regression coverage.
make -B -j4 BUILD_TYPE=Debug test passes with bit-identical reference HDRs.
Add an opt-in, post-processing limited-response model applied to the
finished linear HDR before tone mapping. Each RGB channel is processed
independently and isotropically: overflow above E spreads to the eight
neighbours with a fixed 9-point stencil, while the rest is absorbed or
lost at the image boundary. The synchronous ping-pong update uses a
monotonic bounding box and a row-parallel, deterministic reduction; the
conservative round bound reserves fp guard rounds inside a 4096 hard
limit and fails before touching HDR when exceeded.
Expose --sensor-bloom-limit E and --sensor-bloom-transfer e (both
required together, default disabled), validate them before expensive
initialization, and route every output path through the same hook in
write_frame_outputs: raw FITS first, bloom, tone-mapped PNG/PPM, then the
mesh overlay. The raw --hdr-output FITS therefore stays pre-bloom.
Add a standalone unit test (stencil, boundary loss, cascade reference,
symmetry, thread determinism, convergence limits, validation, allocation
failure), CLI integration and regression coverage, an isolated
sensor-bloom-bench target, and document the model in the design, usage,
README, and build docs.
Replace the per-channel Reinhard display transform with a parameterized
soft clip T_p(x) = tanh(x^p)^(1/p), default softclip p=2, exposed through
--tone-map and --tone-map-p. Keep --tone-map reinhard bit-compatible with
the previous x/(1+x) curve for existing images and reject combining it
with an explicit --tone-map-p.
Route the primary image and the mesh overlay through the same
ToneMapSettings; the linear HDR FITS writer stays pre-tone-map. Add a
focused optics-linked tone-map test target, CLI success/error coverage,
and document the display operator versus the Moffat effective PSF.
--draw-mesh no longer modifies the primary render. The clean HDR FITS and
tone-mapped image are written first, then the final image-plane mesh is
overlaid in place on the already-consumed HDR buffer and saved as a
<stem>_mesh sibling. This applies uniformly to single-frame, movie-frame,
and imported lens-map renders, with derived paths validated before catalog,
spacetime, and render initialization.
Dummy PSF backends still write nothing and report ignoring --draw-mesh. The
reference-image target now uses the configured image extension so the
ENABLE_PNG=0 test path passes, and the CLI tests cover clean-main identity,
sibling naming, PATH_MAX overflow, and zero-tolerance HDR comparison.
README, README.zh-CN, and usage.md describe the new naming; the mesh reference
asset is renamed to match.
Replace the nested spatial global convolution in fast_psf_accumulator_resolve with a reusable double-precision FFTW linear convolution on the CPU PSF backend.
- Add the private src/fast_psf_fftw.{c,h} module: zero-padded R2C/C2R plans, cached kernel spectrum and planar scratch, exact 1/(Pwidth*Pheight) and 1/N^2 normalization, (R,R) crop, and additive HDR output.
- Keep the previous nested loops as fast_psf_accumulator_resolve_spatial_reference for tests/benchmarks only; it is not a runtime fallback.
- Cache the circular row spans on FastPsfAccumulator and report one-time plan, kernel transform, scratch, and per-frame stage timings.
- Require fftw3_omp for CPU builds; HIP and dummy builds do not link FFTW.
- Namespace test/helper binaries by spacetime and build tag, and reject make test / psf-capture for non-CPU backends.
- Add tests/test_fast_psf_fftw.c (FFTW versus spatial), tests/benchmark_fast_psf_fftw.c, an FFTW CLI smoke check, and the 2026-09-25 benchmark record.
Schedule ray-pool advancement in dynamic chunks of 32 slots to distribute frame-grouped active rays across workers while preserving stable endpoint destinations.
Add 1/4/16-thread lens-map equivalence coverage and document schedule comparisons with complete commands, input data and original logs. The 393-frame 64x36 production-source benchmark improves from 62.13 to 38.69 seconds with byte-identical PNGs and lens maps. Release and Debug test suites pass.
Allow frames to finish refinement independently without aborting the movie. Report genuine refinement errors with generation and frame identifiers, and clarify the sample batch contract.
Add a two-frame Schwarzschild regression covering unequal refinement progress. Validated Release and Debug make test suites and 640x360 rendering of the final eight free-fall frames in both builds.
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