Gradients (off unless asked for) found a blurred or noisy linear gradient in
part or in pieces, with bands around it.
The areas that may be a gradient are tried largest first, and one that is a
gradient is grown over every pixel next to it whose colour is within 10 levels
of the gradient's there: the pixels noise put a little off, a soft rim, the
pieces noise cut off it.
Linear-gradient inputs with Gradients on, paths beside the gradient, before ->
after: blurred 3.0 -> 0.5 (6 Colors) and 55.5 -> 0.5 (High Fidelity Photo);
noisy 11.0 -> 0.5 and 23.5 -> 1.5; scanned 5.5 -> 3.0 and 46.5 -> 37.0; clean
and aliased as before; dE within 0.02. No gradient on any input that is flat
colour, with any preset (the harness fails if there is one).
Each documented preset has an enhanced version (`enhanced: true` in
`imageTrace.make`, an Enhanced checkbox under the panel's preset): the preset
with Auto Grouping, and with Shapes in all but High Fidelity Photo. Gradients
stay an option. Flat Logo, a preset of our own, has none. The legacy presets,
and documents traced with them, are as they were.
So that an enhanced preset is no worse than its preset on that preset's inputs:
- A hole that one colour fills is the same shape as the path that fills it, so
the two still share one outline (a shape beside a fitted hole left slivers).
- A rectangle is as large as where its sides lie on average, not their farthest
points.
- Auto Grouping keeps the paths of a group in the order they were traced in. It
put a path first and what is inside it on top: a white counter traced under
its black letter was then painted over the letter's edge, a light seam
(Default with Auto Grouping, edge dE 10.24 -> 9.88; legacy 10.05).
The harness measures every enhanced preset beside its preset.
Create: Strokes drew every line with round caps: a square-ended line 10 px wide
had its corners 2.94 px outside the stroke.
- A line's ends are square when its ink reaches as far a third of the width to
either side of its middle as along it (a round end stops short there by a
seventh of the width); told from lines 3 px wide and more, all the ends of a
line together. The stroke then has square caps (`TracedPath::square_caps`).
- The last points of a wide line's skeleton can turn towards a corner of its
end. An end that has left the line the skeleton followed a width back (by a
quarter of the width, 1 px at least) is put back on it; and an end may be
pulled back as well as pushed out to where the ink ends.
Outline on the thin-line inputs: largest distance from the art 2.94 -> 0.88 px
(clean 2.94 -> 0.41; aliased 0.88 -> 0.81), mean 0.055 -> 0.050 px, anchors
14 -> 10.
- A sharp corner may fall up to 0.75 px short within 3 px of where it should be:
anti-aliasing and blur take that much off a corner (not on a thin bar, which
is all corners).
- A rounded rectangle gets the radius that fits its outline best, searched
around the one its area says, instead of that one alone.
- A rectangle's direction is tried along its longest straight side, the longer
axis of its area and the pixel grid: a blurred one may have no straight side.
- A regular polygon's sides, corners and size are read from the outline's shape
(how its distance from the middle goes round, and its area), not from how many
anchors the fitter gave it.
- An outline without anti-aliasing is known to half a pixel: it gets half as
much room again.
Plain shapes found with Shapes on, all sizes and variants: Default 57% -> 98%,
6 Colors 62% -> 100%. The harness counts false shapes: none on any input but one
thin line (a rectangle 2 px wide) whose trace is 0.70 px off with or without
Shapes.
A scan's paper is a tenth darker in one corner than in another. Flat Logo found
each tone of it as a colour of its own and traced the bands and the specks
between them: on the scanned inputs 470 paths, 21 px from the art on average.
Two palette colours are now one when the pixels between them are no fewer than
a third of those at the lesser of the two: flat colours leave only their shared
edge between them, tones of one colour fill the gap. Whether the image is flat
art at all is still asked of the tones as found.
Flat Logo on its inputs, all sizes and variants: 3.106 -> 0.090 px off on
average, 88.5 -> 0.82 px at most, 69.9 -> 3.9 paths; clean, aliased, blurred
and noisy art as before.
Snap Curves To Lines made every straight piece within 2.5 degrees of level or
upright exactly so, whatever its length: a 200 px line 2 degrees off had each end
moved 3.5 px. Now a piece is levelled only when neither end moves more than
1.6 px; a longer line that far off is left as the image has it.
Technical Drawing (the preset with the option on) on its inputs: largest
distance from the art 4.21 -> 1.46 px (1.43 before levelling existed), mean
0.178 -> 0.126 px; on the askew inputs 98% -> 70% of the outline comes out level
or upright.
Gradients (params `gradients`, a checkbox in the panel for Grayscale and Color;
off unless asked for): an area whose colour changes evenly along one direction
is traced as one path filled with a linear gradient, not as bands of flat colour.
Gradients are found before the palette is made, so no colour is spent on their
bands: a connected run of smoothly changing pixels is a gradient when a plane
fits each colour channel with all three sloping the same way, the colours along
that way are at most six stops with ramps between them, and painting them back
gives the area's own pixels. Flat colour, soft edges between flat colours and
shading that goes two ways are left as they were.
The harness gains two linear-gradient inputs with known lines and stops, and
measures whether each is found, the angle of its line and the colours of its ramp.
Auto Grouping (params `autoGrouping`, a checkbox in the panel; off unless asked
for): each traced path that has others inside its outer contour comes out in a
group with them, the path first, nested as deep as the picture is. The path that
covers the whole image is nobody's group.
The grouped result paints the same picture: where paths can overlap (stacked
layers, Flat Logo, strokes) a path only joins a path below it, and only if that
moves it under nothing that shares any of its box.
The harness measures three presets with the option on ("grouped %"), painting
them in the grouped order.
Shapes (params `shapes`, a checkbox in the panel; off unless asked for): a filled
outline that is a circle, an ellipse, a rectangle or a regular polygon comes out
as that live shape. A shape is only made when every point of the traced outline
lies within 0.5 px (0.2% of the shape's size, if more) of it; an ellipse whose
radii differ by less than twice that is a circle of its area.
The outline before fitting: a corner's own pixel no longer pulls the two edges
that meet there, and a one-pixel step between two long edges is the corner where
they meet. Sharp corners kept: Default 69% -> 76%, the colour presets 86% -> 91%.
The harness gains plain-shape inputs and "shapes %".
Create: Strokes (the Outline preset, or the option) traced lines along the pixel skeleton: right to a pixel,
with a width counted in pixels, and fitted by a separate, older fitter.
- Each skeleton point is moved to the middle of the line's ink, read from the image across the line: every
pixel counts as much ink as its colour is the line's rather than the paper's, the ink's centroid is the
middle and its sum the width (an anti-aliased or blurred line says both to a fraction of a pixel).
- The stroke width is the median of those widths, no longer a whole number of pixels.
- Each end goes where the ink ends, less the half width a round cap adds.
- Centre lines are fitted as outlines are: a straight line is two anchors, corners stay corners, Snap Curves To
Lines levels them. The old Douglas-Peucker and simplify fitter, and the crate's pathops dependency, go.
Outline on the thin-line inputs, all sizes and variants (docs/image-trace-quality.md), before -> after:
- painted outline 0.310 -> 0.055 px off on average; 81 -> 14 anchors for five lines
- centre line 0.295 -> 0.052 px from the true centre line; stroke width 0.13 -> 0.02 px off; 18.4 -> 2.7
anchors a stroke (blurred, noisy and scanned lines: 2.0 each; aliased: 4.6)
- largest distance 1.84 -> 2.94 px: the square ends of a 10 px line under a round cap
Presets without Create: Strokes are unchanged.
The documented option "replaces slightly curved lines with straight lines and snaps lines near 0 or 90 degrees
to absolute 0 or 90 degrees" (helpx, Image Trace panel options); ours did the first half only.
- With Snap Curves To Lines, a straight piece at least 2 px long and within 2.5 degrees of level or upright is
made exactly so, by moving its ends across it to their mean (the page gives no angle: 2.5 degrees is our
choice). The pieces next to a moved end follow it.
- A junction other regions share stays where it is, so abutting regions still have one curve along their edge;
a line between a junction and a free end is levelled to the junction.
- The harness gains askew inputs (a rectangle, a plus sign and two lines, 1 to 2 degrees off level and upright)
and an "upright %" column: the share of the outline length that is exactly level or upright.
On the clean askew inputs (docs/image-trace-quality.md): Black and White Logo and Technical Drawing, the presets
with the option on, go from 0% to 91% and 95% of their outline exactly level or upright. Their outlines are then
0.49 and 0.59 px from the art as drawn where they were 0.05 (4.2 px at the far end of a 300 px side turned 1.5
degrees): that distance is what the option is for. Presets without the option are unchanged.
Against the documented panel (https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/manage-objects/traces-mockups-symbols/image-trace-panel-options.html):
- Ignore Color: "Ignores a specific color while tracing. Use the color picker to selectively ignore a color."
The panel's Ignore White is now Ignore Color with a colour button beside it (white until another colour is
picked); `imageTrace.make` takes `ignoreColor: "#rrggbb"` beside `ignoreWhite`, and leaves out the palette
colours within about 30 levels of it. Documents saved before have no such setting and ignore white as they
did. Flat Logo mode leaves out white only.
- Auto Color ("Creates a posterized image from a photo or artwork"): Color mode with the Automatic palette.
- Outline ("Simplifies the image to black outlines"): Black and White with Create: Strokes and no fills.
- The Outline preset's name is translated as a preset's name, not as the Outline view's.
Measured (docs/image-trace-quality.md): Auto Color on flat art is 0.140 px off on average with 4.0 paths (16
Colors: 0.141, 4.2). Outline on the line inputs, the first measure of Create: Strokes: 0.310 px off on average,
1.84 at worst, 81 anchors for 5 lines (Line Art's filled outlines: 0.055, 0.96, 46).
Black and White read every pixel as a blend of "black" and "white", and took for those the mean luminance of
the image's black and white pixels. In blurred or scanned line art most black pixels are part paper, so the
mean black was a gray: the middle of every line counted as more than all ink, and by how much changed as the
line crossed the pixel rows, which put a ripple on its edges that the fit then followed with anchors.
- Black is the image's darkest black (the 2nd percentile of its black pixels' luminance).
- White is the lightest pixel within a few pixels of each crack: the paper as it is there. A scan's paper is
darker in one corner than in another, and read against the image's lightest white it counted as part ink.
On each preset's own inputs, all sizes and variants (docs/image-trace-quality.md), before -> after:
- Line Art: 78 -> 46 anchors, outlines 0.093 -> 0.055 px off on average (blurred lines 168 -> 53 anchors,
scanned 199 -> 70); before sub-pixel edges it was 25 anchors and 0.158 px off
- Technical Drawing: 56 -> 46 anchors, 0.092 -> 0.084 px off
- Sketched Art: 0.197 -> 0.186 px off; Default 0.092 -> 0.090; Black and White Logo 0.063 -> 0.059 with
27 -> 29 anchors
Not kept: reading lines up to six pixels deep by their ink's centroid and width, and a looser tolerance for
straight runs, neither of which measured better.
Every colour layer took a mask, component labels, a fill stack and an edge map the size of the whole image,
and as many layers were traced at once as the machine has cores.
- A layer is traced within the box its pixels lie in.
- The stack that fills components holds `u32` indices (a mask has at most 64 million pixels).
- Layers are traced as many at a time as fit in half a gigabyte (about ten bytes a pixel of the largest
layer's box each), on however many cores.
Peak memory above the image itself, photo-like image (docs/image-trace-quality.md), before -> after:
- 16 megapixels: High Fidelity Photo 3,856 -> 880 MB (2.85 -> 3.65 s), Low Fidelity Photo 1,972 -> 754 MB
(1.49 -> 1.80 s), 16 Colors 1,625 -> 298 MB, Shades of Gray 852 -> 407 MB, Default 256 -> 199 MB
- 4 megapixels: High Fidelity Photo 981 -> 643 MB, 16 Colors 408 -> 122 MB, times unchanged
The traces are the same, path for path.
Each region's outline was fitted on its own, so the edge between two regions was fitted twice, a little
differently, and left hairline gaps and overlaps.
- An outline is cut at its junctions: the pixel corners where three or more regions meet, where two parts of a
region touch by a corner only, and where an edge reaches the image's border (each side of the image is a
neighbour of its own, so the image's corners stay exact). A junction lies where the edges around it say, the
same for every region around it.
- Each piece between two junctions is the whole edge between two regions. Both get exactly the same points for
it (shifts are rounded to 1/1024 px so that the two sides agree to the last bit; whether a piece is hard is
decided by the piece alone) and it is fitted the same way from either side (from its end further left), so it
is one and the same curve in both paths. A loop without junctions is fitted clockwise from its leftmost point:
a shape's outline and the hole it leaves in the shape around it are one curve too.
- Stacked layers (Overlapping) share no edges and are cut at the image's border only.
On each preset's own inputs, all sizes and variants (docs/image-trace-quality.md), before -> after:
- Default: gaps 22.2 -> 0.8 px, overlaps 22.4 -> 0.5 px
- 3 Colors: gaps 48.6 -> 0.0, overlaps 29.4 -> 0.0; outlines 0.087 -> 0.104 px off on average
- 6 Colors: gaps 39.0 -> 0.2, overlaps 35.7 -> 0.3; 0.137 -> 0.140 px off, largest 1.09 -> 1.34
- 16 Colors: gaps 34.5 -> 0.2, overlaps 26.4 -> 0.2; 0.133 -> 0.141 px off, largest 1.09 -> 1.31
A photo's noise is as large as the step from one palette colour to the next, so noise decided pixel by pixel
which of two neighbouring colours a pixel got: tens of thousands of specks, or (since the palette change)
neighbouring tones merged into one.
- A continuous-tone image (eight colours leave much of it unsaid; flat art, however noisy or unevenly lit, is
not one) is smoothed before it is quantised: three rounds of a small bilateral filter, which averages noise
away within a tone and keeps the edges between tones where and as sharp as they were.
- With Method: Overlapping, layers are stacked by lightness, from the largest colour's end of the scale,
instead of by area. Each layer reaches under those above it, so where two colours meet every layer between
them in the stack ends on that same edge and shows through its anti-aliasing: by area that was an unrelated
colour's hairline around every region; by lightness it is a neighbouring tone.
- Ignore White with Overlapping: no layer reaches under the white that is left out.
On each preset's own inputs, all sizes and variants (docs/image-trace-quality.md), before -> after:
- High Fidelity Photo: colour error 2.37 -> 1.75 (2.30 at the baseline), edge error 2.59 -> 1.98, 639 -> 121
paths (3,653 at the baseline), 25,604 -> 9,818 anchors, specks 152 -> 10; a 16 megapixel photo-like image is
traced in 3.5 s (31,131 paths) where it was refused
- Low Fidelity Photo: colour error 2.67 -> 2.45, 55 -> 37 paths
- Shades of Gray: 73 -> 17 paths, colour error 9.33 -> 9.26
- The other presets' numbers are unchanged
Color and Grayscale chose their colours from every pixel, so the blends along anti-aliased edges took palette
entries and traced as slivers, and with more colours asked for than the art has, k-means split flat colours
along their noise and the halves traced as specks all over each other.
- The palette is made from the picture's own colours: a pixel that lies between the pixels on opposite sides
of it is a blend and counts for nothing (lines one pixel wide and noise are no blends).
- Colours that noise made of one colour merge: close colours whose pixels are mixed through each other. The
bands of a gradient keep to themselves and stay apart.
- A blend pixel whose nearest palette colour is a third colour (halfway from navy to yellow lies an olive that
is nearer to a green elsewhere) goes to the nearer of the two colours it lies between.
- Boxes are cut where their two sides differ most (Otsu's criterion) instead of at the median, which split the
largest colour of flat art along its noise and left two smaller colours in one box.
- Colours are compared in Oklab when pixels are assigned and in k-means.
On each preset's own inputs, all sizes and variants (docs/image-trace-quality.md), before -> after:
- 16 Colors: 69.9 -> 4.2 paths, 1743 -> 66 anchors, outlines 5.08 -> 0.13 px off on average (largest 85.9 ->
1.09), kinks 1376 -> 4.4, paths in a colour the art doesn't have 5.9 -> 0
- 6 Colors: 21.2 -> 4.0 paths, 4.44 -> 0.14 px off; 3 Colors: colour error 4.86 -> 0.43, 0.33 -> 0.09 px off
- High Fidelity Photo: 3636 -> 639 paths, 81,597 -> 25,604 anchors, colour error 2.50 -> 2.37; a 1 megapixel
photo-like image 1.98 -> 0.42 s (51,389 -> 4,298 paths), a 4 megapixel one traced (27,583 paths) where it was
refused
- Low Fidelity Photo: 128 -> 55 paths, colour error 2.59 -> 2.67; Shades of Gray: 91 -> 73 paths, 9.29 -> 9.33
Each crack between an inside and an outside pixel is moved to where the pixels across it say the edge is (the
blend of the two tones in the column of pixels across the crack; a thin line by the centroid and sum of its
tone; hard-edged images are read as staircases), and the outline is fitted as Flat Logo mode fits its own:
corners put back, straight runs as lines, a round outline as a circle, the rest as few curves as Paths allows.
Snap Curves To Lines straightens slightly curved runs and makes arcs. A fit that strays from its outline
gives way to a plainer one, and at last to the outline's own points.
On each preset's own inputs, all sizes and variants (docs/image-trace-quality.md):
- Default: outlines 0.313 -> 0.091 px off on average, largest 1.51 -> 1.02; edge error 17.2 -> 10.1;
gaps between abutting paths 63.5 -> 22.2 px, overlaps 67.0 -> 22.4 px
- Black and White Logo: 0.270 -> 0.064 px off, kinks 15.3 -> 0.3, anchors 3.78 -> 2.73 times the art's
- Technical Drawing: 0.201 -> 0.086 px off; Line Art: 0.158 -> 0.093
- Worse: anchors on blurred and scanned thin lines (Line Art 25 -> 77 on average), High Fidelity Photo
(colour error 2.30 -> 2.50, anchors 46,866 -> 81,597, 1 megapixel photo-like image 0.37 -> 1.98 s)
crates/trace/tests/quality draws its inputs from known vector art (no image files), traces them with every
built-in preset and measures fidelity, distance from the true outlines, economy, artefacts, time and memory.
docs/image-trace-quality.md records the numbers on main before any change, beside the same measures of an
open tracer run as a black box. No change to the tracer.
An image larger than the tracer's 64 megapixels was refused. It is now
decoded and box-filtered down to the largest size of its aspect within
64 megapixels, and the traced paths are mapped back to the image's own
size. Images over 192 megapixels are still refused from their header,
before decoding.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01XbTizgRsDpFPjtBgZAvfrZ
The colour histogram used the top 5 bits of each channel, so tones less
than 8 values apart always shared a bin and could never get their own
palette entry, however many colours were asked for. A dark, low-contrast
photo (a book-cover texture with RGB 33..66) traced to 5 colours when 12
were requested, and eight grey stripes 32..39 traced to one:
vectorcraft-cli run --in stripes-32-39.png --cmd select.all \
--cmd imageTrace.makeAndExpand \
--params '{"params":{"mode":"color","colors":8,"noise":0,"method":"overlapping"}}'
-> {"anchors":4,"colors":1,"id":4,"paths":1}
The histogram keeps its 32x32x32 bins, now fitted to each channel's range
among the opaque pixels: a channel spanning at most 32 values keeps every
value apart, a full-range channel keeps the old 5-bit bins.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Remove Noise merged each small component into its most common neighbour
in one pass. When a speck was merged into a small region that was itself
merged away later, the region's flood fill skipped the speck's pixels
(already seen), so they stayed behind as a new island of the region's old
label. Higher Noise values merge more regions, so they left more such
islands: on noisy images the path count rose with Noise (70 -> 126 -> 206
paths from Noise 50 to 200 on one test image). denoise now repeats its pass
until one changes nothing; each merge joins two components, so it ends
(with a cap of 64 passes as a backstop). Labels shorter than w x h are left
alone instead of indexed past their end.
Tests: the minimal one-row case, a property test on random blocky noise
(no mergeable region under the minimum is left, and a larger minimum never
leaves more regions), and two noisy images whose path count must not rise
with Noise (both fail without the fix).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
A fourth Image Trace mode for flat-colour logos. The existing tracer follows hard pixel
edges, so an outline can only be as good as the pixel grid; here each pixel is read as a
blend of the logo's flat colours, the blend is interpolated smoothly (cubic B-spline), and
every outline is placed where two colours are equally present, to a fraction of a pixel.
Outlines are then cleaned the way a person would:
- corners the blur rounded are put back (line fits either side of a bend, intersected);
- near-straight runs and near-circular arcs become exact lines and arcs (Snap Curves To Lines);
- the rest is fitted with as few cubic Beziers as the tolerance allows (Schneider);
- touching colours overlap by 0.06 px so no hairline gap opens between independent fits;
- shapes are painted biggest first; transparent areas fully enclosed by artwork (letters
knocked out of a badge, the counters of an "o") are painted white so the logo reads the
same on any background, or become real holes with Ignore White (each hole belongs to the
smallest outline containing it);
- an outline whose fit strays more than 1.4 px from the raw contour is fitted plainly.
Colours are found automatically (and completed from pixels no blend of the known colours
explains, so a small accent is not lost) or named with `logoColors: ["#rrggbb", ...]` (white is
always its own class; colours closer than 12 count as one; at most ten). Gradients and photos
are refused with advice to use Color (a flat-colour score of the solid areas, 0.93). A
hard-edged source with no anti-aliasing is softened by under a pixel and fitted with looser
snap tolerances. Images over 1024 px on the long side are averaged down first (further, if
they are busy enough to make the unmixing expensive) and the result is mapped back exactly.
More real outlines than we will fit are refused, not silently truncated.
Also: a "Flat Logo" preset, the mode in the Image Trace panel (Method hidden: it always
stacks), the command docs and MCP prompt, es/fr/it/ru translations for the two new messages
and the mode name, and the ROADMAP.
Never-crash: no unwrap/expect/panic, every size and float is bounded and checked, with
tests for degenerate and extreme input (NaN/infinite parameters, 0x0 and 1x1 images, sparse
outlines, an anchor budget, a 200,000-entry palette) and a 250-run randomised no-panic
property test. The B-spline interpolation follows Unser et al. and Thevenaz et al., and the
curve fitter follows Schneider (Graphics Gems); both are written from the papers.
Measured (local experiment, not in CI): a flat-colour logo's vector original rendered down
to a soft 199x100 px PNG and traced. Mean edge error vs the original at 1600 px wide:
built-in colour presets 2.5 to 3.4 px, Flat Logo 0.78 px (0.48 px from a crisp source);
region overlap 0.88-0.91 vs 0.966. About 0.1 s for a 200 px logo.
Tests: 60 new in the trace crate (unmix, field, contours, geometry, Beziers, corners,
outline fitting, palette, end-to-end on synthetic shapes made in code) and 3 in the engine.
cargo xtask ci passes (fmt, clippy, test, assets, brands, layers, wasm): 4,290 tests.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <[email protected]>
Advanced › Create: Fills and/or Strokes, with Stroke (the widest line, px).
With Strokes, each colour's 8-connected parts no wider than the stroke width
(chamfer distance transform) trace as open centre lines instead of filled
outlines: the line is thinned to one pixel (Zhang-Suen with each removal
re-checked, so two-pixel lines survive; staircase corners dropped), its
skeleton becomes runs between ends and junctions (junction pixels merged,
spurs pruned, runs through two-way junctions joined, rings closed), and each
run is simplified and fitted with curves. The stroke width is the line's mean
width (pixels over length). Traced lines get round caps and joins in the
document. Without Fills, wider areas become 1 px stroked outlines.
`imageTrace.make` takes fills, strokes and strokeWidth, and refuses neither
fills nor strokes and a non-positive width.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Color mode's colours now come from a Palette (`palette` in imageTrace.make's
params), shown in the Image Trace panel under Mode:
- Limited: the `colors` best colours (what Color did before; the default).
- Full Tone: median cut until no colour box spans more than 96 (Less) … 8
(More) levels per channel, up to 256 colours, set by `colorDetail` 0-100
(the panel's Colors slider for this palette).
- Automatic: flat art (90% of the pixels in a few tight colours) traces with
exactly its colours, anything else as Full Tone.
- Document Library: the most used (at most `colors`) colours of the
document's swatches or of a swatch library (`library`: "document" or a
library id or name, chosen in the panel's Library list), used as they are;
traced shapes fill with the swatch's own colour, its colour model kept.
The library's colours are looked up at every trace, not saved.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Tracing a 2048 x 2048 photo with High Fidelity Photo made 733,000 paths
and 7.8 million anchors. The selected result's outlines and anchor
squares then made an egui mesh of 1.8 GB, over the GPU's largest buffer:
wgpu panicked while painting and the app quit (or ran out of memory
first, at 6.4 GB).
- Canvas: a selection with more than 100,000 anchors shows its bounds
instead of every outline and anchor, and the hover highlight skips
such an object. The Contextual Task Bar and that outline read the
selection's bounds from a per-revision cache (VectorcraftApp::
selection_bounds): a selected trace drew a frame in 20 ms, not 170.
- Image Trace: the colour layers are traced in parallel (26 s to 1.9 s
for that photo; the web traces them in turn). trace_within stops once
the paths pass an anchor budget; imageTrace.make allows two million
and otherwise reports the trace as too complex, with what to change.
Images over 64 megapixels are refused from their header, before they
are decoded.
- The trace crate's messages are translated (es, it) and scanned.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Shipped code no longer unwraps, expects or panics: every one of the 124
unwrap()/expect()/panic!/unreachable! sites outside tests now handles the
failure (Result/Option, ?, let-else, defaults) and reports errors to the user.
- Lints: workspace clippy denies unwrap_used, expect_used, panic, todo,
unimplemented and unreachable; clippy.toml allows them in tests, and
integration tests, examples and testkit opt out explicitly.
- Safety net (vectorcraft_engine::guard): a panic in a top-level command rolls
the document back and returns EngineError::Internal; a panicking tool is
reset; the MCP server answers with an internal error and keeps serving; the
UI frame and each control request are guarded.
- APIs that hid failures now return them: Rendered::to_png/to_jpeg/to_webp
return Result (JPEG/WebP errors used to write empty files),
FontDb::face returns Option, Region::top returns Option.
- Fuzzing: engine/tests/import_fuzz.rs feeds garbage, hostile and mutated SVG
and PDF through import → render → export (30k cases locally, no panics).
- Docs: AGENTS.md/CLAUDE.md rule, docs/development.md "Robustness" section,
README pointer and a PR template checklist.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
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