- Gather the union of every movie frame's all-sky tiles once and read them in bounded batches, replacing the per-frame prefetch scan and log.
- Fuse the fast supersampled-buffer clear into the FFTW pack pass so a resolved frame starts clean with no serial memset.
- Split parallel HDR->RGB8 tone mapping from PNG encoding.
- Add a bounded single-producer/single-writer movie output queue used by both observer movies and multi-frame imported lens maps, with writer timing and error propagation.
- Add --png-compression-level and --movie-output-workers shared|reserve-one.
- Add --fast-fftw-plan estimate|measure|wisdom|wisdom-update with strict wisdom identity sidecars.
- Add staged movie timing, regression tests, and 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.