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feat(analysis): Viewshed can read the ground between cells (bilinear heights) - #1789
Visibility Analysis can now read the ground between cells (bilinear heights) as a second way, next to the nearest cell's height, which stays the default. Nearest heights make a smooth slope a staircase, so a ray can be hidden by a step that isn't there, mostly just inside a ridge's horizon.
What changed
viewshed / viewshed_on take a Heights (Nearest, the default, or Bilinear).
Bilinear weighs the four cells around a point on the ray. A neighbour of no weight isn't read. If a neighbour of some weight has no data, the point takes the nearest cell's height instead, and that cell is counted.
Each point of a ray is now one division of whole numbers, so it is exact on a cell's centre line: the last step lands on the target cell, and no neighbour gets a weight from a rounding error.
The result says how many cells were seen across ground with no data (taken as hiding nothing, as before; a hidden cell isn't counted, since it would stay hidden whatever the missing ground is), and how many were worked out with a nearest height next to no data. Both are summed across threads, so they are the same on any number.
Radius past the raster: only the radius's cells within the raster are counted and worked out. Before, the square the radius spans was counted, refused past 25 million cells. With an empty radius field the radius is the DEM's diagonal, so any DEM over about 3 million cells was refused ("the radius covers too many cells"). That cap and the overflow guard on the radius are gone: the cells are at most the raster's, already in memory, and the time is bounded by the ray-step cap as before. The window is worked out with saturating arithmetic, so no radius overflows.
analysis.viewshed takes "heights": "nearest" | "bilinear" (any case; missing or null is nearest). Anything else is refused with a message naming the two. When cells were seen across no data, or worked out with a nearest height in bilinear mode, the command says so in a notice and gives acrossNoData / readNearest in its result.
Workflows pane, Visibility: a "Ground heights" choice, "Nearest cell" or "Between cells (bilinear)", with a hover text.
User guide: the Visibility Analysis row says what the two choices do, and what the analysis says about ground with no data.
Checked against known answers
viewsheds_give_the_known_answers_of_flat_ground_a_bowl_a_dome_and_a_wall builds 201 × 201 DEMs of about 30 m cells, with the Earth's curve for visible light (R′ = 7/6 R) in each answer. Cells within 1.5 cells of a boundary aren't counted.
DEM
Known answer
Nearest
Bilinear
Flat ground, eye 0.5 m
horizon at √(2R′h) ≈ 2.7 km
0 wrong
0 wrong
Bowl (z = 4·10⁻⁶ d²)
every cell seen
0 wrong
0 wrong
Dome (z = −10⁻⁵ d²), eye 10 m
seen up to √(h/k′) ≈ 1 km
some wrong, just inside the edge
0 wrong
Wall 1 m high, 600 m out, eye 2 m
the shadow behind it, seen again past it
0 wrong
0 wrong
The wall case counts more than 1,000 cells on each side of the shadow's edge, so it checks both the hidden and the seen-again cells.
Tests
The known-answer test above.
The threads test checks that both modes give the same cells, bit for bit, and the same counts on 2, 7 and 16 threads as on one.
a_viewshed_says_what_ground_with_no_data_it_saw_across checks the notices and the acrossNoData / readNearest counts, and that cells a wall hides behind the no-data ground aren't counted.
a_viewshed_radius_past_the_raster_counts_only_its_cells: a 6,000-cell strip with a radius far past it (a square of 144 million cells), and a radius of 10³⁰⁰ m on cells a millimetre wide.
a_viewshed_with_an_empty_radius_field_sees_the_whole_dem (Workflows pane): an empty or blank radius field sends no radius, and the viewshed of a 4,000 × 2 DEM (64 million cells in its diagonal's square, refused on main) is the one with the farthest radius.
The analysis workflows test runs both modes on a real DEM, checks no notice on a clean DEM, and that "cubic" and 1 are refused.
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Viewshed analysis now supports nearest-cell and bilinear ground-height sampling. Results include visibility cells and counts for visible rays crossing no-data terrain and rays using nearest-cell fallback. The workflow command and UI expose sampling options, radius handling, and applicable diagnostics.
Changes: Viewshed Sampling and Diagnostics
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Summary
Height sampling and viewshed results crates/analysis/src/rasterops.rs
The viewshed API accepts nearest or bilinear sampling and returns visibility cells with no-data and fallback counts. It clips the work window to raster bounds. Tests cover terrain shapes, oversized radii, and thread consistency.
Workflow parameters and result handling crates/engine/src/cmd/workflows.rs, crates/engine/src/tests.rs
The command validates radius and height-mode parameters, passes the selected mode to the viewshed API, and reports applicable radius, seam, and diagnostic conditions. Tests cover results and validation errors.
UI option and user-guide description crates/ui-egui/src/analysispane.rs, docs/user-guide/analysis.md
The visibility pane adds a ground-height selector and builds viewshed parameters from workflow settings. The user guide describes the sampling modes, no-data reporting, and radius limit.
sequenceDiagram
participant AnalysisPane
participant viewshed_work
participant rasterops_viewshed
AnalysisPane->>viewshed_work: Submit radius and height mode
viewshed_work->>rasterops_viewshed: Pass validated options
rasterops_viewshed-->>viewshed_work: Return visibility cells and diagnostic counts
viewshed_work-->>AnalysisPane: Return visibility and applicable diagnostics
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Possibly related issues
opengeos/RustGIS#1252: The issue identifies bilinear sampling along viewshed rays; this change adds bilinear sampling and fallback reporting.
Possibly related PRs
opengeos/RustGIS#1283: Both changes modify viewshed ray processing and include thread-consistency tests.
opengeos/RustGIS#1404: Both changes update the analysis.viewshed workflow and its raster handoff.
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Viewsheds on global longitude/latitude rasters can give wrong visibility for ground next to the longitude seam. The notice added to flag this is imprecise. The author chose to report the limitation rather than fix it, so the limitation should be accepted explicitly or tracked as follow-up before merge.
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A rabbit checks the rays at dawn Nearest cells and bilinear paths Gaps are counted, heights are read The clipped raster marks the ground A quiet view returns its fields
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- Line 1090: Update viewshed_on to detect global geographic rasters and wrap
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Handle the longitude seam before processing the whole raster.
On a global geographic raster, the first and last columns are adjacent, but viewshed_on calculates their distance and ray using the full column difference. For a flat 1-degree grid with a 2,000 m observer, the last column is therefore marked hidden from the first, although it is only one cell across the seam. The new default processes that column rather than leaving it outside the 500 km radius. Wrap rays across the seam for global rasters. (raw.githubusercontent.com)
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Update viewshed_on to detect global geographic rasters and wrap column offsets across the longitude seam when calculating distances and tracing rays, so first and last columns are treated as adjacent. Preserve the existing behavior for rasters that are not global.
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Wrapping rays across the seam would mean rewriting the ray walk for one case, so I made it said instead. When the raster goes round the Earth (in longitude/latitude, 360° wide) and the radius reaches its east or west edge, the viewshed now gives the notice "the raster goes round the Earth, but the viewshed's rays don't cross its ±180° edge: ground just across it is worked out the long way round". The user guide says so too. a_viewshed_says_what_it_did_with_its_radius_and_the_seam checks the notice next to the edge with no radius, and that there's none for a short radius mid-way.
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@pick2510 Thanks for explaining. I understand the decision to report the seam limitation instead of rewriting the ray walk.
The notice makes the limitation explicit, but viewshed results across the seam can still be incorrect. Would you like to open a follow-up issue for seam wrapping?
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Never silent: an explicit radius above 500 km is clamped without a notice. (Confidence: medium)
r.clamp(1.0, 500_000.0) quietly shortens a radius the user typed. Cells past 500 km stay no-data, and nothing says so. The clamp predates this PR, but this PR rewrites the line and documents the limit, so it's the right place to say it. Under AGENTS.md "Never silent", an approximation of a parameter should be reported with what and how much. viewshed_work only gets &Session, so the notice would have to go through the Then closure below (for example, a notice when r > 500_000.0 with the clamped value). A test should cover both the clipped and unclipped cases.
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Fixed in e3bfe74. A radius over 500 km is shortened as before, and now says so: "the radius of 600 km was taken as 500 km, the most a viewshed takes; with no radius it covers the whole raster". The limit is now a named constant (MAX_VIEWSHED_RADIUS_M), and the same test checks the notice.
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Performance: the ray-step cap doesn't weigh bilinear heights. (Confidence: low-medium)
Heights::Bilinear does four r.value lookups per step where Nearest does one, but ray_work counts steps the same either way. A run just under MAX_VIEWSHED_WORK in bilinear mode can therefore take roughly four times as long as the same radius in nearest mode. Cancel is still checked, so this is speed rather than safety. If the cap is meant to bound time, scale the estimate by mode, for example:
let per_step = if heights == Heights::Bilinear{4}else{1};let ray_work = usize::try_from(cells.saturating_mul(longest / 2 + 1).saturating_mul(per_step)).unwrap_or(usize::MAX);
If the cap is only a refusal threshold and not a time budget, a comment saying so would be enough.
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Fixed in e3bfe74. A bilinear step is now counted as four in the ray work, which drives both the cap and the thread count. The refusal message says "(a step between cells counted as four)" when that applies.
I reviewed the 5-file diff (viewshed bilinear heights, the no-data counts, the default whole-DEM radius, the pane control, and tests) against AGENTS.md and the prior threads. The core ray logic checks out: the exact-centre-line arithmetic, the bilinear neighbour weighting, and the Then notice path (it runs in add_made for both the direct and ran routes).
Bugs
No new bugs found in the changed code.
Security
None found.
Performance
Bilinear does about four lookups per ray step, but ray_work counts steps the same in both modes, so a bilinear run under the cap can take roughly 4× as long. Medium-low confidence, see inline comment on rasterops.rs:537.
Quality
The Heights doc comment at rasterops.rs:446 runs past the line width. Left for the release quality pass.
The "use a smaller radius" refusal text is confusing when the user left the radius empty. Low confidence; left for the release quality pass.
acrossNoData / readNearest are absent from the result when zero, not 0. The docs describe this, but API consumers get two shapes. Low confidence; left for the release quality pass.
AGENTS.md
Never silent: an explicit radius above 500 km is clamped with no notice, so cells past 500 km stay no-data unreported. Medium confidence, see inline comment on workflows.rs:1089.
Already raised, left alone (2):
An invalid radius (for example "500km") falls back to the whole raster, and the pane drops non-numeric text. The thread is open and the code is unchanged. Related: inf and NaN parse as f64, then json! serialises them to null, which the default path also reads as whole-raster. I have not posted this separately.
The longitude seam: rays and columns don't wrap across the ±180° seam on global rasters. The thread is open and the code is unchanged. It matters more now that the default radius covers the whole raster.
Two earlier threads are resolved (the empty-radius default and the bilinear wording) and the code matches those fixes.
Verification: I read the diff and the surrounding code only. I did not build or run the tests.
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Bug (new evidence on the earlier "invalid radius" thread): inf, infinity, NaN and 1e400 in the radius field are still silently dropped.
Rust's f64::from_str accepts these, so parse::<f64>() succeeds, and json!(r) on a non-finite f64 produces Value::Null (serde_json). The command reads Some(Value::Null) as "no radius" and runs the whole raster with no notice. The command's own f() rejects non-finite values, so the refusal the reply describes never reaches it. The pane test only covers 500km, so this path is untested.
Suggested fix: only send finite numbers as numbers, and everything else as text for the command to refuse.
Suggested change
r => params["radius"] = r.parse::<f64>().map_or_else(|_| json!(r), |r| json!(r)),
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Fixed in 236c838. viewshed_params now sends a number only when it is finite. inf, NaN, 1e400, -infinity and any other text go as text, so the command refuses them by name instead of reading a JSON null as no radius. The pane test checks all of these.
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Nit (quality pass candidate, no behaviour change): "where where it stands" is a doubled word. Also in this PR: the Heights::Bilinear doc at line 446 and the Heights::at nearest closure run past 120 columns, and the doc at line 1679 ("as is one whose radius spans more cells than a number holds") reads awkwardly. These can wait for the release quality pass.
Medium-high confidence, new evidence on an answered thread. In the Workflows pane, typing inf, infinity, NaN or 1e400 in the radius field is still silently dropped. Rust parses these as numbers, json! turns non-finite floats into null, and the command reads null as "no radius", so the whole raster runs with no notice. The command's own f() would refuse them, but the pane never sends them that way, and the pane test only covers 500km. Posted inline at crates/ui-egui/src/analysispane.rs:411, with a suggested fix.
Low confidence, behaviour change not in the PR description. The ray-work estimate now uses each observer's real distance to the raster edges, not the clamped radius. On a single-thread machine, a default-radius viewshed near a corner of a large DEM that ran on main (for example 1000×1000 cells at 1 km) can now be refused by the ray-step cap. Multi-core runs raise the cap, so the impact is limited. The refusal path itself is sound.
Security
None found. The new heights and radius parameters are validated before the background work starts, and there are no unwraps in non-test code.
Performance
None new. The bilinear step is now weighed as four in the work cap, as the earlier thread asked.
Quality
Nit, quality pass candidate. The doubled word "where where" in a test comment, some over-long doc lines, and an awkward sentence in a test doc. Posted as one grouped inline comment at crates/analysis/src/rasterops.rs:2016.
AGENTS.md
Compliant on the points I checked. Notices are one per kind with a count, and they use format! like the rest of the engine. The new interface strings use tl!. Bilinear and seam behaviour is covered by tests in both modes.
Prior threads: six threads were on the PR. I re-raised one (the invalid-radius thread) because the pane's inf/NaN path is new evidence that the reply does not address. I left the other five alone, since their fixes are in e3bfe74 and c898173 and I found no regression.
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Quality (misleading comment), low-medium confidence. The reason given here is not what the code does. When a radius is given and reaches the edge, the ground across the seam is within the radius the short way round. It is left out only because rays don't wrap across the edge, so the raster-clipped window never reaches it. The "too far the long way round" wording contradicts the radius > to_edge test above it. Suggested wording: // Given a radius, the ground across the edge is left out: rays don't wrap, so the window never reaches it. The matching test comment at crates/engine/src/tests.rs:9336 has the same error.
This is a comment-accuracy point, so it may wait for the release quality pass if the maintainers prefer.
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Fixed in 737a04a. The comment now gives the real reason: rays don't wrap, so the ground across is reached only through the raster, when the radius reaches the far edge. The test comment matches.
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Bug (accuracy of a user-visible notice), medium confidence.round_the_earth (line ~455) only checks that the raster is 360° wide in longitude. It doesn't check where the grid starts. A grid stored from 0° to 360° has its seam at 0°/360°, not at ±180°, so this notice names the wrong meridian for it. Suggested wording: …but the viewshed's rays don't cross its east–west edge: ground just across it is {across}. Update the seam text in the test at crates/engine/src/tests.rs:9326 to match. Add a 0°–360° case to that test so the new wording is pinned.
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Never silent (pre-existing, touched by this PR), low confidence.num(&w.number, 1.7) turns an observer height the user typed as text, such as abc or 1,7, into 1.7 m with no message. This function now sends the radius as text so the command refuses it by name, and the same viewshed_params should do that for a non-empty height. Otherwise the answer is computed from a height the user never entered. One option: send a non-empty number as-is when it fails to parse, so the command's own height handling refuses or reports it. Blank still means the default 1.7 m.
This line was already there before the PR. It is in the function this PR rewrites, so I am raising it here.
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Fixed in 737a04a. The pane now treats the height like the radius: an empty field means the command's 1.7 m, and any other text is sent as text. The command now refuses a height that isn't a finite number from 0 to 10,000 m, naming it, instead of defaulting or clamping it silently. The params help gives the range. The pane test checks abc, 1,7 and -3.
Three inline comments are posted. The core viewshed math held up under reading: the ray stepping, the bilinear weights, the no-data counting, the thread-summed counters and the radius window bounds all check out. I found no crash path in non-test code.
Bugs
The seam notice names the wrong meridian for 0°–360° grids.round_the_earth checks only the 360° width, not where the grid starts, so the "±180° edge" wording is wrong for a grid whose seam is at 0°/360°. Posted at workflows.rs:1161. Confidence: medium.
Security
None found.
Performance
None found. The bilinear cost weighting from the earlier thread is in place.
Quality
A comment gives the wrong reason for leaving seam ground out. The code says the across-seam ground is "too far the long way round", but when radius > to_edge that ground is within the radius the short way. It is left out only because rays don't wrap. The same mistake appears in the test comment at tests.rs:9336. Posted at workflows.rs:1156. Confidence: low-medium. This is a comment-accuracy point and can wait for the release quality pass.
AGENTS.md
Never silent, pre-existing but in a function this PR rewrites.num(&w.number, 1.7) turns a typed observer height such as abc into 1.7 m with no message, while the radius is sent as text so the command refuses it. Posted at analysispane.rs:407. Confidence: low. My suggested fix is incomplete: the command's own height handling (f(p,"height").unwrap_or(1.7)) also defaults silently, so the command would need to refuse a non-number too.
Earlier concerns
I left 9 earlier review threads alone. They cover the seam limit, the silent radius clamp, the bilinear cost weighting, non-finite radius input, the empty-radius default, invalid radius text, bilinear estimate wording, and doubled-word and line-length nits. Each is resolved or answered by the author with a fix in the PR. CodeRabbit's follow-up question about a seam-wrapping issue is unanswered, but the author's notice-based answer is already in place, so I did not raise it again.
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Review comments at @crates/engine/src/cmd/workflows.rs:
- Line 1158: Update the `across` notice wording so a supplied radius does not
imply opposite-edge cells are always excluded; state that they may instead be
processed along a ray through the raster. Preserve the existing notice for the
no-radius case.
- Line 1161: Update the notice in the workflow message around dem_name to
describe the raster edge without naming a longitude, so it remains accurate for
global rasters with different seam locations.
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Behaviour change: a blank-radius viewshed can now be refused on capped paths for large rasters. (Confidence: medium)
The blank radius used to be the diagonal clamped to 500 km, so the work was about the 500 km window. Now it is the whole raster, and ray_work is estimated from the raster's real extent. Example: a 1000 × 1000 DEM at 1 km cells, observer near a corner.
main: radius 500 km, rad_c = 500, cells = 1001² ≈ 1.0e6, steps per cell ≈ 251, so about 2.5e8. Under the 4.0e8 one-thread cap, so it runs.
This PR: window = raster (1.0e6 cells), longest = 999, steps ≈ 500, so about 5.0e8. Refused on one thread with "give a radius".
Desktop background runs are uncapped, so this hits the cap-limited paths (the CLI, the browser, one-thread settings). Neither the PR description nor the user guide says that blank-radius runs on large rasters can now be refused there. Either state it in the PR and the docs, or confirm it is intended.
Behaviour change (medium confidence): a blank-radius viewshed on a large raster can now be refused on capped paths (CLI, browser, one thread). The old 500 km clamp kept the estimate near 2.5e8 steps for a 1000 × 1000 DEM at 1 km cells, under the 4.0e8 cap. Whole-raster work now estimates near 5.0e8 from a corner observer. Posted inline at crates/analysis/src/rasterops.rs:542. The PR body doesn't mention it.
Security
None found. Input is checked: the radius and height must be finite and in range, and heights is a closed set. Text that isn't a number is refused by name.
Performance
None new. The ray-step cap now counts bilinear steps as four, and the thread count follows the cap.
Quality
Nit (low): for a radius just over 500 km (for example 500,000.04 m), the notice reads "the radius of 500 km was taken as 500 km". metres() rounds to 0.1 km. Left for the release quality pass.
Nit (low): read_nearest counts hidden cells while through_gaps does not. Both are documented, so I am noting it rather than requesting a change.
AGENTS.md
Checked: no panics or unwraps in non-test code, notices go through Session::notify with one notice per kind, the viewshed remains on the background path, and the UI strings use tl!. The engine uses no i18n, so its English notices are consistent. Long lines are string literals, under the 140-column rustfmt setting.
Earlier concerns left alone: 14 threads already raise concerns on this PR. 13 are resolved or answered by the author. The seam-wrap thread is still open, but the author answered it with the seam notice, so I did not repost it.
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Part of #1252 (Ready item 2, Viewshed accuracy).
Visibility Analysis can now read the ground between cells (bilinear heights) as a second way, next to the nearest cell's height, which stays the default. Nearest heights make a smooth slope a staircase, so a ray can be hidden by a step that isn't there, mostly just inside a ridge's horizon.
What changed
viewshed/viewshed_ontake aHeights(Nearest, the default, orBilinear).analysis.viewshedtakes"heights": "nearest" | "bilinear"(any case; missing or null is nearest). Anything else is refused with a message naming the two. When cells were seen across no data, or worked out with a nearest height in bilinear mode, the command says so in a notice and givesacrossNoData/readNearestin its result.Checked against known answers
viewsheds_give_the_known_answers_of_flat_ground_a_bowl_a_dome_and_a_wallbuilds 201 × 201 DEMs of about 30 m cells, with the Earth's curve for visible light (R′ = 7/6 R) in each answer. Cells within 1.5 cells of a boundary aren't counted.The wall case counts more than 1,000 cells on each side of the shadow's edge, so it checks both the hidden and the seen-again cells.
Tests
a_viewshed_says_what_ground_with_no_data_it_saw_acrosschecks the notices and theacrossNoData/readNearestcounts, and that cells a wall hides behind the no-data ground aren't counted.a_viewshed_radius_past_the_raster_counts_only_its_cells: a 6,000-cell strip with a radius far past it (a square of 144 million cells), and a radius of 10³⁰⁰ m on cells a millimetre wide.a_viewshed_with_an_empty_radius_field_sees_the_whole_dem(Workflows pane): an empty or blank radius field sends no radius, and the viewshed of a 4,000 × 2 DEM (64 million cells in its diagonal's square, refused onmain) is the one with the farthest radius."cubic"and1are refused.cargo xtask cipassed locally, apart from three tests that fail on this machine onmaintoo (FileGDB without GDAL, damaged shapefiles, andgpu_fastpath'ssettling_after_a_camera_animation_re_renders_fully). The wasm build ofrustgis-webpassed.Screenshots
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