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@kylebarron kylebarron commented Mar 18, 2026

Right now, our RasterReprojector always renders the entire input image. That is, the two initial triangles drawn span the entire bounds of the input image.

But sometimes this is not actually desired.

rendering images near the poles in Web Mercator

For example, this branch started during exploration of #182. When rendering data from EPSG:4326 which, say it spans from (-180, -90, 180, 90). Well, -90 and +90 are outside of Web Mercator latitude bounds, which are ~ +-85.11.

When we try to render such an image, we get very tall triangles near the poles, because essentially we never have enough triangles to accurately approximate the reprojection near the poles. The only reason why this renders at all is because we stop the delatin refinement after 10,000 iterations.

image

Instead of using the full height of the image, we should probably just discard the image outside of 85.11, and not even try to render data there.

Excluding parts of images that aren't intended to be rendered

Edit: This was implemented in a different way in #424

I've considered this before but haven't written it down... I'd like to render usgs-topo-tiler directly from the client. But those images have a "collar" that overlaps other adjacent images and isn't intended to be rendered.

We can use this "cutline" to cut that out and not render it.

What should the API be?

I want to think a bit more about this API before merging and making it public.

I think perhaps the RasterReprojector should support uvBounds which are allowed to be between 0 and 1. Not less than 0 and not greater than 1.

This assumes always a square cutline, but I think that's ok for now.

kylebarron added a commit that referenced this pull request May 27, 2026
Build an axis-aligned 2-triangle rectangle seed for a UV sub-rectangle (no
delaunator, runtime-safe). UNIT_SQUARE_SEED is now rectangleSeed(0,0,1,1).
Used to clamp a mesh to a UV band — e.g. the valid Web Mercator latitude band
(#182 / #351) — and reused by the antimeridian vertical-cut case.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
kylebarron added a commit that referenced this pull request May 27, 2026
Pure helper that returns a rectangleSeed clamping a north-up geographic tile's
reprojection mesh to the Web Mercator latitude band, or undefined when no clamp
is needed/possible (rotated/projected tiles, fully-polar tiles). Avoids the
degenerate near-pole triangles from #182 / #351. Unit-tested with synthetic
corner latitudes.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
kylebarron added a commit that referenced this pull request May 27, 2026
Wire the reprojector seed through the render path: RasterLayer gains an
initialTriangulation prop (passed to RasterReprojector, regenerated on change);
getTileMetadata computes a per-tile _webMercatorReprojectorSeed via
webMercatorClampSeed; _renderSubLayers passes it in the Web Mercator branch
only (globe shows the poles, full mesh). Fixes the degenerate near-pole
triangles for EPSG:4326 imagery reaching ±90° (#182 / #351).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
kylebarron added a commit that referenced this pull request May 27, 2026
…hes to ±85.051° (#574)

* docs(specs): add antimeridian crossing-tile (cut-in-two) design

Design for rendering imagery crossing ±180° in Web Mercator (issues #171,
#366). Splits a crossing tile at the antimeridian into west/east pieces so
each reprojects as a normal non-crossing tile — avoiding the proj4-rewrap
unwrap that prior attempts (#353/#374/#269) stumbled on. Generalizes the
RasterReprojector to accept a delaunator-shaped initial-triangulation seed
(subsuming #351 uvBounds / pole clamp), splits in _renderSubLayers into two
single-mesh RasterLayers, and uses a two-box bounding volume composing with
the merged world-copy traversal (#518).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* docs(specs): refine antimeridian spec — add test fixture, handle slanted cuts

- Use the vendored geotiff-test-data antimeridian.tif fixture (42x42 EPSG:4326,
  crosses -180 at column 24) as the primary deterministic crossing test.
- Handle slanted (rotated-geotransform) cuts, not just vertical: any straight
  cut yields convex pieces delaunator triangulates exactly; error only on
  curved/concave cuts. createInitialConditions is therefore part of the MVP
  crossing path.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* feat(raster-reproject): add createInitialConditions (delaunator-backed seed)

Add the InitialTriangulation type and a tree-shakeable createInitialConditions
helper that builds a Delaunay seed from a UV point set. delaunator is confined
to its own module (initial-conditions.ts); delatin.ts does not import it and the
package is sideEffects:false, so it tree-shakes out for consumers that don't use
it. Foundation for antimeridian cut-in-two and the sub-domain capability in #351.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* refactor(raster-reproject): document delaunator seed pattern, don't ship a wrapper

Per review: a one-line delaunator wrapper isn't worth a runtime dependency.
Expose only the InitialTriangulation type and show the delaunator one-liner in
its docstring. delaunator moves to devDependencies — used by tests to validate
winding compatibility, not shipped to consumers.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* docs(specs): drop createInitialConditions wrapper from antimeridian design

raster-reproject exposes only the InitialTriangulation type + documents the
delaunator one-liner; delaunator is a dev/test dep (winding validation), not
shipped. Runtime seed-building for crossing tiles is the deck.gl-raster
builder's job (follow-up plan). Mark stage 1 done.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* feat(raster-reproject): seed RasterReprojector from an initial triangulation

Generalize the constructor to accept an optional initialTriangulation seed
(delaunator's data shape), defaulting to a hardcoded unit-square seed so
behavior is unchanged and the package needs no runtime triangulation dep.
Refinement only ever splits existing triangles, so a sub-domain seed confines
the mesh to that region. Tests build seeds via delaunator (the documented
pattern) to validate winding compatibility + sub-domain confinement.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* feat(raster-reproject): add rectangleSeed helper for sub-rectangle seeds

Build an axis-aligned 2-triangle rectangle seed for a UV sub-rectangle (no
delaunator, runtime-safe). UNIT_SQUARE_SEED is now rectangleSeed(0,0,1,1).
Used to clamp a mesh to a UV band — e.g. the valid Web Mercator latitude band
(#182 / #351) — and reused by the antimeridian vertical-cut case.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* feat(deck.gl-raster): add webMercatorClampSeed (clamp mesh to ±85.051°)

Pure helper that returns a rectangleSeed clamping a north-up geographic tile's
reprojection mesh to the Web Mercator latitude band, or undefined when no clamp
is needed/possible (rotated/projected tiles, fully-polar tiles). Avoids the
degenerate near-pole triangles from #182 / #351. Unit-tested with synthetic
corner latitudes.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* feat(deck.gl-raster): clamp Web Mercator meshes to valid latitude band

Wire the reprojector seed through the render path: RasterLayer gains an
initialTriangulation prop (passed to RasterReprojector, regenerated on change);
getTileMetadata computes a per-tile _webMercatorReprojectorSeed via
webMercatorClampSeed; _renderSubLayers passes it in the Web Mercator branch
only (globe shows the poles, full mesh). Fixes the degenerate near-pole
triangles for EPSG:4326 imagery reaching ±90° (#182 / #351).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* refactor(deck.gl-raster): name clamp seed as initialTriangulation

Rename webMercatorClampSeed → webMercatorInitialTriangulation and the tile
metadata field _webMercatorReprojectorSeed → _webMercatorInitialTriangulation,
for consistency with the InitialTriangulation type and the
RasterLayer.initialTriangulation prop (drops the ad-hoc 'seed'/'ReprojectorSeed'
terms).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* refactor(deck.gl-raster): rename clamp fn to createInitialWebMercatorTriangulation

Verb-prefixed name for the builder (was webMercatorInitialTriangulation); the
tile metadata field stays _webMercatorInitialTriangulation.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* refactor(raster-reproject): rename rectangleSeed -> triangulateRectangle

Active verb name for the helper that triangulates a UV rectangle into an
InitialTriangulation; internal UNIT_SQUARE_SEED -> UNIT_SQUARE_TRIANGULATION;
test file renamed to match. Updates the deck.gl-raster clamp caller too.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* refactor: apply triangulateRectangle rename across source + caller

Completes the rename (a657eb8 only moved the test file): rectangleSeed ->
triangulateRectangle in delatin.ts + index export + the renamed test, and the
deck.gl-raster web-mercator-clamp caller. UNIT_SQUARE_SEED -> UNIT_SQUARE_TRIANGULATION.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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