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 karti
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perf: lot size is a ladder the camera climbs, not a constant
`DETAIL_LOT_METRES = 160` was one number for a board that stopped being looked at from one distance, and it was wrong at both ends of the range it is now looked at from. Measured with `scripts/cost-at.mjs` on the merged board against a 400,000-triangle cap: | pose | before | after | lot | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Los Angeles, 13 km | **688,536** | 343,372 | 400 m | | Los Angeles, 12.5 km | **678,546** | 343,372 | 400 m | | Los Angeles, 11 km | **654,656** | 390,602 | 250 m | | Los Angeles, 9 km | **635,806** | 380,762 | 250 m | | **Los Angeles, 7.7 km** | **621,866** | **375,196** | 250 m | | Los Angeles, 2.5 km | **415,780** | 345,340 | 200 m | | Los Angeles, 0.9 km | 297,148 | 363,454 | 40 m | | San Francisco, 7.7 km | 222,286 | 300,782 | 80 m | | San Francisco, 2.5 km | 216,292 | 279,158 | 80 m | | San Francisco, 0.6 km | 200,114 | 347,830 | 40 m | | San Francisco, 400 km | 355,763 | 355,763 | — | | San Francisco, 45 km | 270,377 | 270,377 | — | **Six poses were over the cap and five of them had never been measured.** Only the 7.7 km one was on record; 2.5 km over Los Angeles was at 415,780, and the whole band from 9 km up to where `DETAIL_STANDOFF_M` switches the metros off at 13.3 km ran 635,806 to 688,536, because the frustum there holds essentially the entire Southland. None of them is over now. San Francisco goes the other way — 4.2x the buildings at the poses the complaint was about, and 15,613 at the closest one against 849. No cap moved. **Zero new draw calls, and that is a bound rather than a sample.** It is the same `InstancedMesh`, the same geometry and the same material; a district is built at 40, 80, 160, 200, 250 and 400 m, all six rungs live in the store, and the live buffers hold whichever one the board chose. Draws are unchanged to the digit at every pose above. A test asserts the mesh identity across four rung changes. The lever is a **lot count, not a lot size**, because a lot size is the wrong thing to hang on the camera: at the same 22.6 km of engine stand-off San Francisco has 1,987 lots in frustum and Los Angeles has 23,000, so any rule in metres of lot or kilometres of reach is a different bill in the two cities. The board packs the finest rung whose *visible* sum fits 19,000 lots, which is 400,000 minus the 184,000 to 205,000 triangles everything-but-the-city measured at across the whole band this runs in — flat to 10%, which is why there is no stand-off ramp and why the one that was here first came out. Costs, honestly. `createBlocks` goes 264 ms -> 1,236 ms and its store 4.7 MiB -> 18.9 MiB, because every rung is walked and kept; the live instance buffers get *smaller*, 59,166 -> 19,000, since the mesh no longer has to be able to draw a rung nothing can afford. A rung change pops — each rung is its own survey, not a subdivision — and cross-fading would cost the draw call this board does not have. Los Angeles at 7.7 km is visibly thinner than the 621,866-triangle version it replaces. `TODO.md`'s LA section is rewritten around what is left: no budget cell stands at any of these poses, which was the first item on it and still is. 1,723 tests. |
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karti
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d6dc307d9a |
feat: relief that ramps with the camera, and an instrument to cost a pose
`verticalExaggeration` is derived per board so the tallest blended peak
fills a fixed fraction of the board framed whole — 15.00 for California,
5.78 for the Bay Area, 3.41 for the Southland. Each is right, and while a
board could only be looked at from its own stand-off one number was all a
board could want. The merged California is the first that can be flown
from 1,551 km to 1.9 km, and 15x is what put the camera inside Twin Peaks
at the FiDi rung: 2.19 units of drawn hill against a 2.26-unit stand-off.
So a pack may now declare `nearVerticalExaggeration` — what it wants when
the camera is *in* it — and `unify.ts` sets it to the largest figure
either merged metro asked for, which is San Francisco's 5.78. Largest
rather than mean or smallest: both metros are known to read well at their
own number, and picking the smaller would flatten the Bay to suit a basin
four hundred kilometres away.
It is applied as one `scale.y` on a new `ground` group rather than by
rebuilding anything. Every height in that group came from the same
exaggeration, so multiplying restates all of them consistently — a lot
placed on a hillside is still on it, a bridge deck still clears the
water, a berth is still at the quay. That is the property the alternative
does not have: re-deriving placements against new ground is exactly the
blocker TODO.md names for the terrain quadtree, and this sidesteps it
rather than solving it. The quadtree will still have to solve it.
The sky is deliberately outside the group — clouds, precipitation,
migration, live aircraft, satellites, Starlink. Their altitudes are facts
about the atmosphere, not about the terrain, and an aeroplane that sinks
when the hills flatten draws the wrong thing. The visible consequence is
that traffic stands further off the ground as the ramp flattens it,
because it always was that far off in true metres.
The ramp is driven from stand-off, not altitude. Altitude is measured
against the ground and this moves the ground, so an altitude trigger is a
feedback loop; stand-off belongs to the controls alone. Log-interpolated,
because the rungs are spaced logarithmically — 1,551, 501, 256, 95, 45,
24, 8.3, 7.7 km — and a linear ramp spends its whole travel between the
two widest and none across the eight that matter.
Also: `scripts/cost-at.mjs`, which costs an arbitrary pose with
`performance-budget.mjs`'s own patched GL counters, so its numbers are
comparable rather than nearly comparable. The budget harness only ever
visits the poses a board is judged on, which is the right instrument for
"did this regress" and useless for "how much room is there at the bottom
of the descent". First run, merged board, at SF HQ:
400 km 355,759 tris / 414 draws
120 km 351,019 / 327
45 km 332,969 / 265
7.7km 330,426 / 339
2.5km 329,392 / 334
The Bay Area board at that last pose draws 2,307,964. Ours is flat across
three orders of magnitude of stand-off, which is not a budget being spent
carefully — it is a board with no frustum culling doing any work, paying
for the whole state's heightfield while looking at one city block.
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