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jpmschweitzerandClaude Opus 5 5eb394b36f feat(simulation): relief_q — a local relief signal the deep rungs can resolve (T-1213)
The District and Quarter rungs rendered as flat colour, and the cause was not
the biome work everyone assumed. Measured on Ferrath through the production
canvas builder: at District the mean |elev_q delta| between neighbouring
gridunits is 0.02, and NOT ONE PAIR in a 1290x540 frame differs by 2.

elev_q spans 0-100 across the body's whole 8 km elevation range, so ONE STEP IS
80 METRES. A District canvas covers 2,048 m of ground, where the rolling relief
a walker navigates by is metres to tens of metres -- a fraction of a single
step. The sub-district detail IS generated (invent_primitives' scatter and
relief bands compute it) and then rounded away. Confirmed by running the
diagnostic with the octave cutoff disabled: still 0.02.

relief_q carries that same invented fine component against a scale chosen to
resolve it: 0-100 about a flat 50, RELIEF_FULL_SCALE_M = 400 m either side, so
8 m per step -- ten times finer than elev_q. elev_q keeps its body-absolute
meaning and the Atlas legend stays true.

Measured effect, elev_q vs relief_q (distinct values / mean 4-cell delta):

  Region     49 / 2.38   ->   101 / 21.86
  District   10 / 0.08   ->    35 / 0.35
  Quarter     8 / 0.02   ->    19 / 0.06

FIXED metre scale, never per-canvas normalization: the value for a piece of
ground must not depend on what else is in frame, or the same hillside changes
tone as the viewer pans. And it excludes elev_pct deliberately -- this is the
departure from the surrounding land, not height above sea level; including the
base would re-introduce the body-scale dominance that makes elev_q unusable
down here.

50 at the orbital rungs, which skip invent_primitives by design. Nothing is
lost: Global and Region still have varied elev_q (101 and 49 distinct values),
and the client takes whichever field carries signal via a max, with no
rung-name branching.

The client's ruggedness driver changes with it. It was an elev_q GRADIENT,
which cannot work across rungs -- the same 4-cell delta reads 21.86 at Region
and 0.08 at District, so any single full-scale constant either saturates one or
vanishes on the other. relief_q states relief outright, so |relief_q - 50| is
the answer directly and a fixed metre scale is immune to that by construction.

An absent plane reads FLAT, not zero -- 0 on this field means maximum relief
BELOW flat, so a payload without it would have stippled the entire map. That is
reachable: the field is #[serde(default)] so old-shape payloads decode. Two
colorize tests whose fixtures predate the plane caught it.

2004 server tests, 1838 client tests, 0 failed. clippy clean.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-07 16:11:23 +02:00

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INSERT INTO tickets (record_id, type, parent_record_id, title, description, status, priority, assigned_to, team, decision_ref, created_at, updated_at, deleted_at, hash, canonical_version) VALUES ('06FXF1VDVQDQ8EFGTXX787M90R', 'bug', '06FB0TNSRZXCHGS16BFHSSGSV4', 'Atlas rivers vanish at native resolution — 375 courses arrive, 0 drawn', 'Found 2026-08-06 when the visual capture resolution was raised from 960x540 to the native 3440x1440. On Ferrath (GJ820Bc) Global the wire delivers 375 river courses and the annotation layer draws NONE: ''courses=375 drawn=0'' in the view-transform readout. At 960x540 the SAME build drew them as visible strokes, so this is resolution-dependent, not a river-generation failure -- the courses are present and correct on the wire. Suspect the D-261 cull (drop a course below 15 px of on-screen length, 3x the 5 px stroke) or the water-truncation step: T-1237 computes the clipped/culled polylines ONCE on canvas adoption (set_frame) rather than per draw, so if adoption runs against a pre-layout or stale viewport the screen-length measurement is wrong for every course at once -- which matches an all-or-nothing drawn=0 rather than a partial cull. Note the scale moved the RIGHT way for visibility (46.792 km/gridunit at 960x540 vs 35.267 at 3440x1440 -- more gridunits across the body, so a river spans MORE of them), which makes a legitimate cull an unlikely explanation. Reproduce: tests/run-visual --screenshot atlas_GJ820Bc_Global and read the drawn= count.', 'backlog', 'high', NULL, 'client', 'D-261', '2026-08-06 14:43:24.765', '2026-08-06 14:43:24.765', NULL, '9597ed74aa67fb7ebeef78f60374d89c', 2) ON CONFLICT(record_id) DO UPDATE SET type=excluded.type, parent_record_id=excluded.parent_record_id, title=excluded.title, description=excluded.description, status=excluded.status, priority=excluded.priority, assigned_to=excluded.assigned_to, team=excluded.team, decision_ref=excluded.decision_ref, updated_at=excluded.updated_at, deleted_at=excluded.deleted_at, hash=excluded.hash, canonical_version=excluded.canonical_version WHERE excluded.updated_at > tickets.updated_at OR (excluded.updated_at = tickets.updated_at AND excluded.hash > tickets.hash);
INSERT INTO tickets (record_id, type, parent_record_id, title, description, status, priority, assigned_to, team, decision_ref, created_at, updated_at, deleted_at, hash, canonical_version) VALUES ('06FT0TX2W0BA10PRR7NMJ2362M', 'epic', '06FB0TNSRZXCHGS16BFHSSGSV4', 'Rung-0.5 expanded layer — whole-body hydrology + biome-from-orbit base (D-258)', 'D-258: the Atlas cascade gains a single expanded layer (''rung 0.5''), generated once per body from the rung-0 input pair (heightmap.png + reliefmap.png, never displayed), and every zoom tier below it (Region/District/Quarter/Block/Chunk) derives from that layer instead of independently re-deriving from the source files. Hydrology (drainage, course routing, lake fill) resolves ONCE on rung 0.5 and nowhere else -- it is a whole-body computation, not derivable per-window. Global displays rung 0.5 directly (biome-from-orbit, not a photograph). Same-session amendment: lake shorelines run the same shore-morphology code as ocean shorelines (coastline warp applied to both surfaces in the single rung-0.5 pass; shore-morphology gates key on proximity to water, not to ocean; sea-flavored types like TidalFlat/Estuarine-vs-Delta separated by tidal energy, a derived quantity, never by an is-it-the-ocean switch; salinity excluded from morphology entirely). This is a named, principled carve-out from D-227 derive-don''t-store: a whole-body flow solve is not locally computable, so it cannot be re-derived per window at any price -- storage here buys correctness, not convenience. Not yet ticketed prior to this epic (D-258''s own Implementation note). See governance/decisions/architecture.md#d-258.
RE-SCOPE REQUIRED BEFORE ANY CHILD STARTS (2026-07-27, D-258 amendment). The structural rationale for this epic was disproven on evidence the day after it was written. D-258 claimed hydrology ''was not derivable at all'' per-window; in fact layer1.rs::run_layer1_with_moisture already solves drainage AND settled-equilibrium hydrology once per body, folds the filled surface into TerrainAnalysis, and every rung bilinearly samples it -- the code''s own comment calls it ''a coarse continuous primitive computed once, sampled fresh at every rung, never re-solved'' (mechanism B, D-255(f)). Compute-once-sample-everywhere already exists. What actually made Global look flat was serve_step_canvas_request zeroing Global''s wire extent (a pre-extent-inversion sentinel), producing a 2x1 canvas -- fixed 2026-07-27; once sized correctly Global reads as a world with no hydrology work at all. Rivers at Global were measured as negligible: 375 courses present, 458 of 518,400 pixels different vs courses-off, because at ~39.7 km/gridunit most courses are shorter than one gridunit. SURVIVES: biome un-summarisation (reliefmap as plurality), composition-on-descent, the conservation invariant, and the lake-shore amendment. WEAKENED: the stored expanded layer and its D-227 carve-out. The live question is no longer ''what does rung 0.5 cost'' but ''does biome un-summarisation need a stored layer at all, or does it ride the existing sample-fresh-at-every-rung mechanism''. Re-scope this epic and T-1212 against that question first.
---
RE-SCOPED 2026-08-06 (Jeroen''s call) — the epic is unblocked, and its question has changed again.
EVIDENCE. A descent ladder was captured on Ferrath (GJ820Bc) at native 3440x1440,
anchored on land, one shot per rung, no overlays (scenarios atlas_GJ820Bc_land_*
in tests/visual.json). Ferrath''s heightmap is 1024x512 over a 38,089 km
circumference = 37.2 km per source pixel. Against that:
Global 35.267 km/gridunit ~1:1 with the source pixel a real map
Region 0.379 km/gridunit 98x finer flat wash
District 0.0038 km/gridunit 9,800x finer flat wash
Quarter/Block/Chunk finer still flat
The Atlas is legible exactly where it SAMPLES the heightmap and flat everywhere
it must INVENT. Every rung below Global is a single uniform colour field with
dither noise; the courses/settlements readout is 0 at all of them.
WHAT THIS SETTLES. D-258''s amendment (5) framed the live question as "does biome
un-summarisation need a stored layer at all, or does it ride the existing
sample-fresh-at-every-rung mechanism". The ladder answers a PRIOR question:
un-summarisation is not happening in ANY form. There is no expansion to decide
the storage policy for. Storage is therefore a downstream optimisation, not the
decision this epic turns on.
NEW SCOPE. Build the expansion first as a PURE FUNCTION, following the mechanism
that already exists rather than inventing a second one: layer1.rs''s
compute-once-sample-everywhere primitive (D-255(f) mechanism B) is the model, and
the amendment established hydrology already works that way. Measure it. Add a
stored layer ONLY if the measured cost forces it — and if it does, that is when
the D-227 carve-out argument gets made, on numbers rather than on the disproven
"not locally computable" claim.
Order: T-1213 (the un-summarisation generator) is now the first child and is
UNBLOCKED. T-1214 (hydrology onto rung 0.5) stays parked — the amendment showed
that solve already runs once per body and does not need to move. T-1216 (Global
biome-from-orbit palette) and T-1217 (lake shores through the shared shore path)
survive unchanged; both were independent of the storage question.
T-1212 does not gate this any more (see its own note).', 'backlog', 'high', NULL, NULL, 'D-258', '2026-07-26 21:53:56.448', '2026-08-06 15:59:03.757', NULL, '923892406469abdd3fb6ee9041ae1cbf', 2) ON CONFLICT(record_id) DO UPDATE SET type=excluded.type, parent_record_id=excluded.parent_record_id, title=excluded.title, description=excluded.description, status=excluded.status, priority=excluded.priority, assigned_to=excluded.assigned_to, team=excluded.team, decision_ref=excluded.decision_ref, updated_at=excluded.updated_at, deleted_at=excluded.deleted_at, hash=excluded.hash, canonical_version=excluded.canonical_version WHERE excluded.updated_at > tickets.updated_at OR (excluded.updated_at = tickets.updated_at AND excluded.hash > tickets.hash);
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SCOPE INVALIDATED 2026-07-27 (see T-1211 and the D-258 amendment). This ticket was written to measure the cost of moving a whole-body hydrology solve onto rung 0.5. That solve does not need to move -- it already runs once per body in layer1.rs and is sampled fresh at every rung. Do NOT run this measurement as written; it would price work that is not required. If a measurement is still wanted after T-1211 is re-scoped, the question is narrower: what does BIOME un-summarisation cost, and does it need storing at all.
---
RETIRED AS A GATE 2026-08-06. This no longer blocks T-1213 or the T-1211 epic.
It was already SCOPE INVALIDATED (2026-07-27) for pricing a hydrology move that
does not need to happen. The 2026-08-06 descent ladder (see T-1211) closes the
remaining reason to keep it as a gate: every rung below Global renders a flat
wash, so biome un-summarisation is not happening at all. There is no artefact
whose cost or disk footprint can be measured, because none is produced.
The measurement question survives, but it is now DOWNSTREAM of T-1213 rather
than upstream of it: once the un-summarisation exists as a pure function, measure
THAT, and only then decide whether a stored layer is warranted. Re-scope this
ticket to that measurement when T-1213 lands, or close it and let T-1213 carry
its own measurement step.', 'backlog', 'high', NULL, NULL, 'D-258', '2026-07-26 21:54:06.825', '2026-08-06 15:59:12.825', NULL, 'e0d88ae134ccd57737d8eab2627e2b88', 2) ON CONFLICT(record_id) DO UPDATE SET type=excluded.type, parent_record_id=excluded.parent_record_id, title=excluded.title, description=excluded.description, status=excluded.status, priority=excluded.priority, assigned_to=excluded.assigned_to, team=excluded.team, decision_ref=excluded.decision_ref, updated_at=excluded.updated_at, deleted_at=excluded.deleted_at, hash=excluded.hash, canonical_version=excluded.canonical_version WHERE excluded.updated_at > tickets.updated_at OR (excluded.updated_at = tickets.updated_at AND excluded.hash > tickets.hash);
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---
UNBLOCKED 2026-08-06 (T-1211 re-scope, Jeroen''s call). The T-1212 blocker edge is
removed: that measurement priced a hydrology move that is not happening, and the
descent ladder showed there is no expansion artefact to measure yet anyway.
BUILD IT AS A PURE FUNCTION FIRST, not as a stored layer. The stored-layer half of
D-258 was materially weakened by its own 2026-07-27 amendment (the "not locally
computable" argument for the D-227 carve-out does not hold, because the whole-body
solve it cited already runs once per body in layer1.rs and is sampled at every
rung). So follow the mechanism that exists — D-255(f) mechanism B,
compute-once-sample-everywhere — measure it, and only argue for storage on those
numbers. Do NOT open with a cache.
WHAT "FLAT" MEANS CONCRETELY, so the fix has a target. Ferrath''s heightmap is
1024x512 over a 38,089 km circumference: 37.2 km per source pixel. Global draws at
35.267 km/gridunit, roughly 1:1 with the source, and reads as a real map. Region
draws at 0.379 km/gridunit — 98x finer than any stored datum — and is a single
uniform colour with dither. District is 0.0038 km/gridunit, ~9,800x finer, also
uniform. So the acceptance bar is not subtle: at Region, ~98 gridunits across a
single source pixel must carry visible, deterministic, non-repeating composition
that still downsamples back to that pixel''s summary (D-258''s conservation
invariant, the binding gate).
VERIFY BY CAPTURE, NOT BY REASONING. The scenarios exist: atlas_GJ820Bc_land_*
(Region/District/Quarter/Block/Chunk, one land-anchored world point, no overlays)
in tests/visual.json. Captures run offscreen under gamescope at native 3440x1440
via tests/run-visual --screenshot <name> — they do not steal the desktop. Re-shoot
the ladder and look at it; a green unit test proves nothing here.
Note the ladder currently also reports courses=0 at every rung below Global —
rivers vanish on descent. That is tracked separately as T-1239 and is NOT this
ticket''s scope, but it will be visible in the same captures, so do not mistake it
for a failure of the un-summarisation work.', 'backlog', 'high', NULL, NULL, 'D-258', '2026-07-26 21:54:15.245', '2026-08-06 15:59:39.623', NULL, 'd9bfabaf6b4f1751a9261995f84c0b7b', 2) ON CONFLICT(record_id) DO UPDATE SET type=excluded.type, parent_record_id=excluded.parent_record_id, title=excluded.title, description=excluded.description, status=excluded.status, priority=excluded.priority, assigned_to=excluded.assigned_to, team=excluded.team, decision_ref=excluded.decision_ref, updated_at=excluded.updated_at, deleted_at=excluded.deleted_at, hash=excluded.hash, canonical_version=excluded.canonical_version WHERE excluded.updated_at > tickets.updated_at OR (excluded.updated_at = tickets.updated_at AND excluded.hash > tickets.hash);
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---
UNBLOCKED 2026-08-06 (T-1211 re-scope, Jeroen''s call). The T-1212 blocker edge is
removed: that measurement priced a hydrology move that is not happening, and the
descent ladder showed there is no expansion artefact to measure yet anyway.
BUILD IT AS A PURE FUNCTION FIRST, not as a stored layer. The stored-layer half of
D-258 was materially weakened by its own 2026-07-27 amendment (the "not locally
computable" argument for the D-227 carve-out does not hold, because the whole-body
solve it cited already runs once per body in layer1.rs and is sampled at every
rung). So follow the mechanism that exists — D-255(f) mechanism B,
compute-once-sample-everywhere — measure it, and only argue for storage on those
numbers. Do NOT open with a cache.
WHAT "FLAT" MEANS CONCRETELY, so the fix has a target. Ferrath''s heightmap is
1024x512 over a 38,089 km circumference: 37.2 km per source pixel. Global draws at
35.267 km/gridunit, roughly 1:1 with the source, and reads as a real map. Region
draws at 0.379 km/gridunit — 98x finer than any stored datum — and is a single
uniform colour with dither. District is 0.0038 km/gridunit, ~9,800x finer, also
uniform. So the acceptance bar is not subtle: at Region, ~98 gridunits across a
single source pixel must carry visible, deterministic, non-repeating composition
that still downsamples back to that pixel''s summary (D-258''s conservation
invariant, the binding gate).
VERIFY BY CAPTURE, NOT BY REASONING. The scenarios exist: atlas_GJ820Bc_land_*
(Region/District/Quarter/Block/Chunk, one land-anchored world point, no overlays)
in tests/visual.json. Captures run offscreen under gamescope at native 3440x1440
via tests/run-visual --screenshot <name> — they do not steal the desktop. Re-shoot
the ladder and look at it; a green unit test proves nothing here.
Note the ladder currently also reports courses=0 at every rung below Global —
rivers vanish on descent. That is tracked separately as T-1239 and is NOT this
ticket''s scope, but it will be visible in the same captures, so do not mistake it
for a failure of the un-summarisation work.', 'in_progress', 'high', NULL, NULL, 'D-258', '2026-07-26 21:54:15.245', '2026-08-07 11:36:05.551', NULL, 'a3edd5306633b6247c1cd67bf700db69', 2) ON CONFLICT(record_id) DO UPDATE SET type=excluded.type, parent_record_id=excluded.parent_record_id, title=excluded.title, description=excluded.description, status=excluded.status, priority=excluded.priority, assigned_to=excluded.assigned_to, team=excluded.team, decision_ref=excluded.decision_ref, updated_at=excluded.updated_at, deleted_at=excluded.deleted_at, hash=excluded.hash, canonical_version=excluded.canonical_version WHERE excluded.updated_at > tickets.updated_at OR (excluded.updated_at = tickets.updated_at AND excluded.hash > tickets.hash);
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---
UNBLOCKED 2026-08-06 (T-1211 re-scope, Jeroen''s call). The T-1212 blocker edge is
removed: that measurement priced a hydrology move that is not happening, and the
descent ladder showed there is no expansion artefact to measure yet anyway.
BUILD IT AS A PURE FUNCTION FIRST, not as a stored layer. The stored-layer half of
D-258 was materially weakened by its own 2026-07-27 amendment (the "not locally
computable" argument for the D-227 carve-out does not hold, because the whole-body
solve it cited already runs once per body in layer1.rs and is sampled at every
rung). So follow the mechanism that exists — D-255(f) mechanism B,
compute-once-sample-everywhere — measure it, and only argue for storage on those
numbers. Do NOT open with a cache.
WHAT "FLAT" MEANS CONCRETELY, so the fix has a target. Ferrath''s heightmap is
1024x512 over a 38,089 km circumference: 37.2 km per source pixel. Global draws at
35.267 km/gridunit, roughly 1:1 with the source, and reads as a real map. Region
draws at 0.379 km/gridunit — 98x finer than any stored datum — and is a single
uniform colour with dither. District is 0.0038 km/gridunit, ~9,800x finer, also
uniform. So the acceptance bar is not subtle: at Region, ~98 gridunits across a
single source pixel must carry visible, deterministic, non-repeating composition
that still downsamples back to that pixel''s summary (D-258''s conservation
invariant, the binding gate).
VERIFY BY CAPTURE, NOT BY REASONING. The scenarios exist: atlas_GJ820Bc_land_*
(Region/District/Quarter/Block/Chunk, one land-anchored world point, no overlays)
in tests/visual.json. Captures run offscreen under gamescope at native 3440x1440
via tests/run-visual --screenshot <name> — they do not steal the desktop. Re-shoot
the ladder and look at it; a green unit test proves nothing here.
Note the ladder currently also reports courses=0 at every rung below Global —
rivers vanish on descent. That is tracked separately as T-1239 and is NOT this
ticket''s scope, but it will be visible in the same captures, so do not mistake it
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INSERT INTO tickets (record_id, type, parent_record_id, title, description, status, priority, assigned_to, team, decision_ref, created_at, updated_at, deleted_at, hash, canonical_version) VALUES ('06FSJWSX11WV3C1XXZEV88Q3P0', 'task', '06FB0TNSRZXCHGS16BFHSSGSV4', 'Biome/relief stipple-density layer on the terrain build (RimWorld technique 4)', 'Follow-up from T-1175''s assess-only item (2026-07-25, stig''s write-up): a stipple/texture-density layer carrying hills/mountains/forest on top of hue, driven by the already-wire-carried vegetation and elev_q L8 planes — presentation-only, D-255(e)-legal (texture-space dithering of already-derived per-cell values, deterministically seeded per cell coordinate + value so it is stable across cache hit/miss; never invents samples between server cells). Would live as a post-process in step_canvas_terrain_layer.gd::rebuild_from_canvas()''s Image.set_pixel build. Design questions to settle at pickup: (a) stipple dots inline in the existing per-cell loop (cheap, same O(wxh) pass) vs a second overlay pass (simpler code, doubles pixel-touch cost); (b) density from vegetation class directly vs a combination with elev_q — relief hachures and forest texture are two different visual grammars in the RimWorld reference, not one slider; (c) own legend toggle (TMP/MST/VEG overlay-bar pattern) vs always-on like the elevation lightness modifier. Reference: docs/design/references/rimworld-world-map-fluency.jpg. Related: T-1175, T-1162 (vegetation patchiness fields), D-255(e).', 'in_progress', 'low', NULL, 'client', NULL, '2026-07-25 13:24:54.152', '2026-08-07 12:44:21.620', NULL, 'c1560b624bd9a9d79fe919f282620f22', 2) ON CONFLICT(record_id) DO UPDATE SET type=excluded.type, parent_record_id=excluded.parent_record_id, title=excluded.title, description=excluded.description, status=excluded.status, priority=excluded.priority, assigned_to=excluded.assigned_to, team=excluded.team, decision_ref=excluded.decision_ref, updated_at=excluded.updated_at, deleted_at=excluded.deleted_at, hash=excluded.hash, canonical_version=excluded.canonical_version WHERE excluded.updated_at > tickets.updated_at OR (excluded.updated_at = tickets.updated_at AND excluded.hash > tickets.hash);
INSERT INTO tickets (record_id, type, parent_record_id, title, description, status, priority, assigned_to, team, decision_ref, created_at, updated_at, deleted_at, hash, canonical_version) VALUES ('06FXRSY7QWD8J5X6G1N86WMKEC', 'task', '06FB0TNSRZXCHGS16BFHSSGSV4', 'MIN_WL_BANDS_M octave cutoffs are pre-extent-inversion (stale, currently inert)', 'Found during T-1213 (2026-08-07). MIN_WL_BANDS_M (layer_proxy.rs) is built from 2*DISTRICT_M (4,096 m) and 2*QUARTER_M (1,024 m) -- Nyquist for a sample spacing equal to the rung''s CELL SIZE. That was correct while a rung fixed SPACING; after D-255''s extent inversion a rung fixes EXTENT and District''s spacing is 2048/540 = 3.8 m, so its true Nyquist floor is ~7.6 m. The bands are off by roughly the canvas cell count (~540x). This is the same class of defect as the Global 2x1 wire-extent sentinel the D-258 amendment documents: a constant that was correct under the pre-inversion model and silently outlived it. The code even states the consequence as though intended -- district_profile.rs''s comment reads ''At District''s real Nyquist floor (4,096 m) every VOXEL_OCTAVE_WAVELENGTHS_M entry is truncated, so relief is always exactly 0.0 there''. IMPORTANT SCOPE NOTE, verified before filing: this is currently INERT for the step canvas. step_canvas_viewer._fire_request() calls request_now(body, rung, center, extent) with no min_wl_m, so it defaults to 0, and quantize_min_wl_m(0) returns 0 (the leading sentinel band) -- no truncation happens on the served path. It therefore only affects the legacy layer_proxy district-window consumer. It is NOT the cause of the flat District/Quarter rungs; that is elev_q''s 80 m quantisation (0-100 across MAX_REGION_ELEVATION_KM = 8.0 km), measured at d1 mean 0.02 with the cutoff already disabled. Fix: derive the cutoff from the resolved canvas spacing rather than the rung cell size. Check the layer_proxy consumer''s expectations first -- MIN_WL_BANDS_M is shared, carries a const assert tying band 4 to OCTAVE_WAVELENGTHS_M[3], and is part of the cache key, so a change there is not local.', 'backlog', 'medium', NULL, 'server', 'D-255', '2026-08-07 13:26:56.703', '2026-08-07 13:26:56.703', NULL, '45cb7553effbe05042fe7f3eb09e6483', 2) ON CONFLICT(record_id) DO UPDATE SET type=excluded.type, parent_record_id=excluded.parent_record_id, title=excluded.title, description=excluded.description, status=excluded.status, priority=excluded.priority, assigned_to=excluded.assigned_to, team=excluded.team, decision_ref=excluded.decision_ref, updated_at=excluded.updated_at, deleted_at=excluded.deleted_at, hash=excluded.hash, canonical_version=excluded.canonical_version WHERE excluded.updated_at > tickets.updated_at OR (excluded.updated_at = tickets.updated_at AND excluded.hash > tickets.hash);