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3D: colored-light facets close their shared edges over an underlay - #7338

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What and why

Under a colored light, Inflate's facets are antialiased one by one. Where two facets meet, their edge pixels add up to less than full coverage, which shows up in two ways:

  • The solid-color composite (lighting::solid_surface) shows its black channel backdrop in each Screen channel group, so internal edges draw darker at 1:1 than the same art drawn at 3x and averaged down. With the whole fix removed, an earlier version of the new test found 2,267 color channels more than 3 levels darker than the 3x result, by up to 10 levels, on a straight Inflate with a solid fill.
  • The per-facet gradient art (lighting::composed_art) lets the background through. The same run found 1,088 pixels (straight Inflate) and 1,222 pixels (turned Inflate) below full alpha where the 3x result is opaque.

The help page lists a Color option for each light, which sets that light's color (3D and Materials panel options). It says nothing about facet seams; the tolerance below is VectorCraft's own rule.

  • lighting::solid_surface draws, in each channel group, an underlay of all facets with 2 pt round seams between the black backdrop and the exact facets. The black shows only outside the surface, where the existing union clip removes it.
  • lighting::sealed builds the same kind of underlay for the per-facet routes (composed clip groups and path facets) from the finished face nodes, and puts it and the exact faces under one clip to the union of the faces' footprints. A footprint keeps only the outer contours of its seam stroke, so the union clip is opaque inside. composed_art's cover rectangles reach at least 0.5 pt past either clip.
  • In solids.rs, each run of consecutive faces of one surface in the one-order face list is sealed on its own, so a front surface's underlay does not show at a rear surface's edge. Runs that carry a gradient's opacity mask are sealed with that mask, graphics break the runs, and surfaces drawn whole keep their opacity, blend and mask.
  • The paint-copy allowance counts 12 copies per facet for the solid composite (MAX_FACET_COPIES, was 6) and 4 for other underlaid surfaces.
  • docs/three-d.md (Seams) and docs/target-app-parity.md describe the underlay and the tests.

Existing art: the underlay applies only under colored lights when a facet takes a smooth light ramp. A probe test, not part of this pull request, built 36 white-light documents (Inflate, Extrude, Rotate and Revolve, each with a white fill, a solid color, an opaque gradient and a gradient at 0.6 opacity, straight and turned, plus a capped Revolve with the same four fills) and ran them on this commit and on main's effects sources. The rendered pixels, the SVG text, the PDF read back and drawn, and the expanded art were identical in all 36, and in a capped Revolve with a white or a solid color fill under a red light. The only documents that changed were a capped Revolve with a gradient fill under a red light: with an opaque gradient, 236 of 27,408 covered pixels differ, by up to 24 color levels and 34 alpha levels, and the pixels below full alpha where the 3x result is opaque drop from 187 to 46; with the gradient at 0.6 opacity, 660 pixels differ, by up to 18 color levels and 38 alpha levels.

Not covered:

  • Where facets lie over other facets (a Revolve cap's rim over its body, a turned Inflate's front over its sides), the 1:1 result still differs from 3x by up to 9 levels in 4 to 6 color channels at the rim. The underlay lies under all exact faces, so a farther face shows through a nearer face's antialiased edge. Alpha stays 255 there.
  • Revolve's colored faces are not sealed. In the capped Revolve above, 46 pixels stay below full alpha where the 3x result is opaque; the new test, which leaves out pixels within 3 of the outline and where the light bends sharply, finds none in its Revolve case.

How it was tested

The tolerance (VectorCraft's own): inside the surface, at 1:1, no color channel of an opaque fill more than 3 levels from the same art drawn at 3x and averaged down, and no pixel below full alpha; for a gradient at 0.6 opacity, alpha within 3 levels.

  • three_d_light_color::colored_light_surfaces_match_supersampling_at_internal_facet_edges (crates/engine/tests/it/three_d_light_color.rs): renders a 400 by 400 document at 1:1 and at 3x averaged down with Rendered::area_resized, under two differently colored lights, and compares the surface's interior pixel by pixel (8,700 pixels for the straight Inflate with a solid fill). Straight Inflate with an opaque solid fill and an opaque gradient: the color and alpha rule above. Gradient at 0.6 opacity: alpha within 3 levels. Turned Inflate and a capped Revolve: no alpha off. No images are stored. With only the run-sealing guard turned off, it finds 70 (straight) and 1,089 (turned) alphas off on the translucent gradient.
  • three_d_light_color::colored_light_seams_stay_closed_in_svg_pdf_and_expansion: for a straight Inflate under two colored lights with a solid fill and with a gradient, the SVG holds a clip path, linear gradients and screen blending and no image, and the PDF holds no image XObject. The SVG and PDF, read back by VectorCraft's own importers, and Expand Appearance, drawn at 1:1, keep every pixel from 103 to 196 opaque and within 6 levels of the live art. With the whole fix removed, an earlier version of this test failed at the SVG's pixel (111, 103), alpha 253. The PDF was not checked in another PDF reader.
  • solids::tests::a_colored_inflate_in_gradients_lies_over_underlays_of_each_surfaces_runs (crates/effects/src/solids/tests.rs): a gradient fill and a dashed gradient stroke under a colored light, with opaque stops and with stops at 0.5 opacity: every sealed run holds one surface's faces, both surfaces have runs, and every face is drawn. Without the run boundary it fails with "a run holds one surface's faces".

Focused checks on Linux, on this commit:

  • cargo fmt --all -- --check
  • cargo check --workspace --tests
  • cargo test -p vectorcraft-effects --lib (728 passed, 2 ignored)
  • cargo test -p vectorcraft-engine --test it three_d (12 passed)

On the same change one commit earlier, on main at 28bd9c9292 (neither crate changed on main since): cargo clippy -p vectorcraft-effects --all-targets -- -D warnings, cargo clippy -p vectorcraft-engine --all-targets -- -D warnings, cargo xtask brands, cargo xtask layers (30 crates) and cargo xtask assets (337 files).

cargo xtask ci runs in this pull request's CI.

The branch is one commit on main at 0b29b2b1f6 and merges cleanly with it. It conflicts with open #7280 in crates/effects/src/solids.rs and docs/three-d.md. Whichever of the two merges second must make #7280's facet_copies take this branch's counts (12 for the solid composite, 4 for underlaid faces) rather than 6, since #7280's facet_art route also makes derived paints for each facet.

Checklist

  • cargo xtask ci passes (fmt, clippy, tests, assets, brands, layers, wasm).
  • No panics in shipped code: no unwrap(), expect(), panic!, unreachable!, todo! or
    unimplemented! outside tests, and no unchecked indexing on data from files, parameters or
    messages. Errors are returned as Result and shown to the user
    (why and how).
  • Clean-room: nothing copied from Adobe products or GPL/AGPL code (AGENTS.md).
  • Every new asset has a row in ASSETS.md.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes

    • Reduced visible edge seams in colored 3D lighting, helping prevent dark or background-colored pixels from showing through facet edges.
    • Improved consistency of colored-light rendering across different rotations and fill types, including gradient fills and transparent gradients.
    • Improved seam consistency in SVG, PDF, and expanded appearances.
  • Documentation

    • Updated 3D lighting guidance with details on colored facet edges and rendering consistency.

Under a colored light, Inflate's facets were antialiased one by one.
Where two facets met, their edge pixels added up to less than full
coverage. The solid-color composite then showed its black channel
backdrop there, so internal edges drew darker at 1:1, and the per-facet
gradient art let the background through.

- The solid-color composite draws, in each channel, an underlay of the
  facets with 2 pt round seams between the black backdrop and the
  facets themselves.
- The per-facet routes put each run of consecutive faces of one surface
  over an underlay of its own faces, clipped to the union of the faces
  and their seams. Runs that carry a gradient's opacity mask are sealed
  with that mask. A face clip's footprint keeps only the outer contours
  of its seam stroke.
- The paint-copy allowance for cut faces counts 12 copies per facet.

At 1:1, inside the surface each color channel of an opaque fill is
within 3 levels of the same art drawn at 3x and averaged down, and
every pixel is opaque. Before, 2,267 channels differed by up to 10
levels on the solid Inflate, and 1,088 pixels of the gradient Inflate
were below full alpha. Under white light, the rendered pixels, the SVG
text, the PDF read back and the expanded art of Inflate, Extrude,
Rotate and Revolve are the same as before.

Docs: docs/three-d.md (Seams), docs/target-app-parity.md.
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Colored-light facet rendering now draws widened underlays beneath facets. Solid rendering groups eligible faces for sealing and accounts for the additional paint copies. Tests compare seams across render scales and export formats.

Changes: Colored-light facet underlays

Layer / File(s) Summary
Build facet underlays
crates/effects/src/lighting.rs
Adds shared footprint and sealing helpers. Draws a wide-seam underlay before the existing thickness-based seams and expands composed-art cover bounds.
Integrate underlays with solid rendering
crates/effects/src/solids.rs
Detects eligible colored-light surfaces, seals whole surfaces or consecutive face runs, and updates paint-copy capacity accounting.
Validate and document colored-light seams
crates/effects/src/solids/tests.rs, crates/engine/tests/it/three_d_light_color.rs, docs/target-app-parity.md, docs/three-d.md
Adds tests for sealed face runs, supersampled renders, and SVG/PDF/expanded appearances. Updates documentation about underlays and clipped seams.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Bug fix

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sequenceDiagram
  participant SolidRendering
  participant underlaid_runs
  participant sealed
  participant footprint
  SolidRendering->>underlaid_runs: Group consecutive surface face runs
  underlaid_runs->>sealed: Seal eligible face runs
  sealed->>footprint: Build combined face outline
  footprint-->>sealed: Return footprint
  sealed-->>underlaid_runs: Return clipped underlay and original faces
  underlaid_runs-->>SolidRendering: Return grouped art
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The seam underlays enlarge the cover rectangle used for gradient paint. Gradients that rely on automatic fitting may render slightly differently, and this is not limited to colored light. The 3D docs also promise full opacity and a color tolerance beyond what the tests measure. Both should be fixed or acknowledged before merge.

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Comment thread docs/three-d.md Resolved
The color cover of a composed face grew past the underlay's seam, and a
source gradient without a placement fitted itself to that larger
rectangle. The face now pins such a gradient to its bounds grown by
1 pt, as before the cover grew. docs/three-d.md states the measured
limits of the 1:1 comparison.
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