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.
Add a third analytic spacetime provider for the moving Alcubierre warp
bubble, x_s(t) = v_s*t with x_s(0) = 0. The lab slices stay flat, so
alpha = 1, gamma_ij = delta_ij, beta^x = -v_s f(r_s), and K_ij follows
from the flat spatial metric; the time dependence enters through the
moving shape argument. The exotic matter is treated as transparent, so
there is no capture: rays are only ACTIVE or ESCAPED, with a bubble-
centered escape radius R + 20/sigma.
Expose --alcubierre-vs, --alcubierre-radius, and --alcubierre-sigma
(|v_s| < 1). Scale the per-ray step budget with the escape radius and
1/(1-|v_s|) so near-luminal grazing rays still escape, and reject
parameter combinations whose worst-case budget exceeds the cap. Use a
cancellation-free shape formula for small sigma*R and reject derived
escape radii that overflow.
The regression test covers metric reconstruction, d_beta/K finite
differences, the translation isometry, small-sigma stability, the flat
limit, reflection symmetry, step convergence, and a near-luminal slow
ray. build.md, usage.md, and README.md document the backend.
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