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.
Replace radius-only escape termination with a common asymptotic exterior protocol: declared ends, moving escape worldtubes, directed inside->outside crossings, and a PENDING_ENTRY lifecycle shared by single-frame and movie tracing.
Add an analytic Carlson-integral Schwarzschild monopole exterior (angle primitive, bracketed turning radius, ingoing Kerr-Schild coordinate-time transfer, conserved-energy frequency) so a camera outside the escape sphere is traced through an entry event.
Make the lifecycle tri-state (no ends / ready / protocol error), carry end_id through the endpoint and lens mesh, validate sources in constructors via spacetime_source_finalize(), and refresh the Schwarzschild reference images for the corrected finish.
- 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.
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.
Add the production-density 4K Galactic-center comparison to the 2026-09-25 benchmark record, including the per-image error decomposition, and refine the fast-mode positioning in usage.md, the design document, and README.
- Document that nearest/bilinear deposit accuracy is set by the deposit mode and N rather than output resolution, and that the still-frame error is dominated by a small number of resolved bright cores while the flux-dominant faint texture is much better than the global relative L2.
- Add the temporal-coherence caveat: nearest deposition jumps by 1/N output pixel per axis across supersampled-cell boundaries, so fast mode is not qualified as a temporally coherent movie path; bilinear removes the centroid jump but broadens the profile.
- Add scripts/fast_mode_error_decomposition.py, which ranks the largest |fast-base| RGB samples and partitions the error by a disjoint base-value range.
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.
Add an optional CPU preview path that deposits each point-source image as a
supersampled delta and resolves the whole frame with one global Moffat
convolution plus an N x N box average, instead of splatting a per-event PSF.
- optics: FastPsfAccumulator builds the pixel-area-integral kernel of the
target Moffat at the supersampled scale (width N*alpha, same beta). The
1/N^2 box average then reproduces the final pixel-area integral, so the
requested FWHM and beta are preserved without renormalisation. Deposits are
per-cell atomic adds; resolve accumulates into the caller's HDR buffer.
- frame: fast branch in frame_splat_catalog with one shared supersampled
buffer and a single resolve per frame; the accumulator is reused across
movie frames and built from the map dimensions on lens-map import.
- main: --fast-mode, --fast-supersample N (1..8, default 2) and
--fast-deposit nearest|bilinear (default nearest). CPU-only and rejected in
the HIP/dummy backends; --psf-min-y still applies per event while
--max-cache-psf-flux does not.
- The deposition scheme was chosen by scripts/fast_mode_deposit_error.py:
nearest keeps the PSF shape exactly with <= 0.5/N px position quantization;
bilinear keeps the exact centroid but broadens FWHM and beta. Recorded in
benchmarks/fast_mode_deposit_2026-09-18.md.
- tests/test_frame.c covers fast nearest vs the direct evaluator at the snapped
centre, flux conservation, bilinear centroid, min-Y discard, frame plumbing,
and HDR accumulation onto a non-zero background.
- benchmarks/fast_mode_cpu_2026-09-18.md records a ~10x speedup on the 2MASS
galactic-centre field with small tone-mapped differences.
Document the producer-private adaptive path, the dummy support workload
diagnostics, the negative result of the old serial binning and the
2026-09-13 full-day comparison (splat 282.944 s vs atomic 481.417 s).
Add the corresponding raw logs, hotspot fixtures and runner evidence,
and lay out the staged plan toward a sub-240 s full-day render without
changing the default atomic path.
Preserve the protected full-catalog dummy run, its initial harness failure, input and output hashes, distribution quantiles, and the resulting sparse-tile scheduling conclusions.
Archive fixed catalog subsets and captured events, manifests, reproducible commands, raw timing and regression logs, and device resource evidence. Document distribution-dependent tile reduction gains and independent indexed producer throughput.
Update the GPU plan and renderer design while retaining the production atomic path. Preserve historical measurement metadata and exclude generated Python bytecode.
Cooperate across 32 lanes per PSF and use two completion-protected staging slots with complete batch timing. Restore coarse OpenMP event production while serializing shared GPU submissions and direct fallback boundaries.
Add bounded benchmarks, streaming and renderer regressions, and preserve validation evidence and ownership documentation.
Check spherical area weight sums against a fixed 1e-8 tolerance and normalize accepted weights before interpolation. Skip invalid images in both catalog paths.
Add a thin-triangle regression for both parities, document the measured tolerance margin, and refresh HDR fixtures with strict comparisons restored.
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.
Integrate timelike geodesics and Fermi-Walker tetrads in ingoing Kerr-Schild coordinates, sampled at a configurable proper-time cadence.
Add movie-track-samples to preserve CSV events as frames. Document usage and singularity guards, and cover analytic orbits, transport convergence, sampling, and CSV rendering.
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