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vectorcraft/crates
andeecollardandClaude Opus 5.5 6bbf30e52a Image Trace: a simpler contour walk with no precomputed direction table
contour::trace_mask built a table of outgoing directions for every
pixel corner in a raster pass and then followed it. It now works out
each turn during the walk from the two pixels ahead of the current
corner: right if the one ahead on the right is outside, straight if the
one ahead on the left is, else left (so at a saddle it still turns
right and diagonal pixels stay apart). Loop starts are found by
scanning the pixels for a top edge on the outline, with one flag per
pixel for a top edge already walked. The walk is bounded by the grid
size, and a mask of the wrong length now gives no loops instead of
failing an assert_eq!.

The output is identical: the_walk_equals_the_stored_direction_walk
compares it with a test-only copy of the previous walk on all 65,536
4x4 masks and 400 seeded 23x17 masks.

Time (best of 7, release, 4 cores): the walk alone on 2000x2000 masks
19.1 vs 26.6 ms (smooth pattern), 81.3 vs 93.2 ms (12% random pixels),
223.1 vs 238.1 ms (50% random); whole 1000x1000 traces 73.1 vs 77.1 ms
(Black and White), 249.6 vs 251.7 ms (Color, 6 colours), 214.1 vs
218.6 ms (Color, 6 colours, Noise 1), same segment counts.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_018tBcdwNhptqtmX32JCGFzB
2026-10-17 14:46:21 +07:00
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