Testing the first version on ILCE-7RM4 photos found a partly clipped sky between
bare branches leaning cyan to teal under #523's edit, where Lightroom shows white.
Where only green clipped, red and blue say such a sky is a pale cyan-blue; the
rebuild kept that colour until halfway to full clipping, and darkening and a camera
profile showed it. Colour borrowed from another surface (bright foliage below the
sky) could also push green up, with a small step where green first clips.
- highlight::reconstruct_with: the colour of a pale partly clipped pixel
(saturation relative to the colour model's white below 0.2, easing off by 0.4)
fades to the clipped neutral from the first clip on instead of from halfway;
brightness and strongly coloured pixels keep the old schedule.
- Borrowed colour counts less and less as both the pixel's own channels and the
rim's colour contradict it (0.15 to 0.4 stop); either alone can be wrong.
- Right past the rim every estimate continues the rim's colour (it used to hold
the clipped channels at their clip, for the neutral estimate only), so the first
clip has no step whatever lent the estimate. The rim is built whenever there is
clipping.
- Nothing jumps where a later channel clips: in the rim distance and the
contradiction, a clipped channel counts as the lower bound it is, and a channel
goes over to that from 0.75 of its clip; a channel about to clip is a floor
capped like the clip floor it becomes.
- Tests: a pale sky above yellow-green foliage with thin dark branches in it (no
step where green clips, no green from the foliage, the same beside the branches,
neutral well past the clip); the fringe test compares the sky beside the branch
with the sky away from it, on its way to neutral; a band whose red clips second
next to a rim of another colour renders without a step, in six layouts.
- docs/parity.md: the Highlights note. Render cache version 28.
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Sensor-clipped pixels are rebuilt at raw decode. The tone map rolls them off to
white at Neutral, so any colour they carry shows only when Highlights, a negative
Exposure or Whites darkens them. They took colour from the nearest unclipped pixel
(dark foliage, lens fringes along branches, pixels demosaiced from clipped samples),
left two clipped channels at their white-balance-scaled clip levels (red or pink),
and were neutral only in camera RGB, not after the colour model (a look fitted to
the camera's JPEG, a camera profile).
- highlight::reconstruct_with: chromaticity only from bright unclipped content away
from edges and from the clip, through a normalised push-pull pyramid; a neutral
estimate blended in where reliable content is scarce at every scale up to a
quarter of the long edge, applied only as far as the pixel lies past the nearest
near-clip unclipped pixels (so a surface still runs into clipping without a
step); clipped pairs keep the estimate's ratio at their clip floors; partly
clipped pixels fade into the clipped neutral on their way from the first channel
clipping to the last; fully clipped pixels become the colour model's neutral.
Pixels without a clipped channel are left exactly as they were.
- engine: the decode colour step as CameraColourModel, with clipped_white, which
keeps the camera's neutral for nearly singular or implausible models.
- Tests in raw (continuity along a ramp through every clip, also as lines 1 to 16
rows thick with no reliable colour, on canvases 32 to 1024 rows), engine
(pipeline renders at Highlights -100, #523's edit and Exposure -2 through the
first clip, over the same sweep; a CC0 ILCE-7RM4 corpus file added to
RAW_SAMPLES) and the GPU equivalence suite.
- Render cache version 27.
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preset, background, resize, subfolder, conflict, tiffCompression and
dngCompression were in the export tool's schema (and so passed the new
argument check) but were dropped before reaching app.export.
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std::process::exit skipped eframe's on_exit (ui.json, close_library) and the
may_close check, so changes still in memory could be lost on Cmd+Q.
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The earlier text quoted the 13 investigation files (held-out RMS within 0.005); the whole CC0 archive shows a worst increase of 0.013 and 7 files that need the conditional-median fallback.
