feat(renderer): shared blue-noise sampler, GGX VNDF and temporal resolve (#706) - #889
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…lve (#706) Stochastic screen-space passes each invented their own noise: SSGI hashed interleaved-gradient values, SSR did not sample stochastically at all, and TAA and the cloudscape resolve carried separate hand-rolled history blends. This adds one header set they can share, and adopts it in three of them. The GLSL Sobol'/Owen math is a bit-exact transcription of the CPU PathTracing/PathSampler.h that #861 brought in, so the engine's two samplers cannot disagree about what "stratified" means; what the GPU header adds is the screen-space half (a void-and-cluster blue-noise mask supplying a per-pixel offset, advanced per frame along R2 in fixed point). Two design points that measurement, not intuition, settled: - Dimension 0 is STRATIFIED across the sample index with a blue-noise jitter inside the stratum, not rotated. A Cranley-Patterson rotation is only valid on a dimension that wraps, and a hemisphere radius does not; rotating it measured WORSE than the interleaved-gradient noise it replaced (error RMS 0.0349 vs 0.0218) in both a CPU model and the rendered frame. - The R2 advance is 32-bit fixed point. In f32 the fraction's low bits are gone by frame 262144, leaving 64 distinct offsets and then 16 at the counter ceiling -- under the tile's own 256 levels. Rendered A/B at 8 rays/pixel (SSGIVisualEvidenceTest, cache cleared between arms): total noise RMS is a near-tie, but the old sampler put 77% of its energy in the top 0.1% of frequency bins (spectral crest 515) against 13.5% (crest 39). The win is that a coherent lattice -- which no temporal filter or small-radius denoiser can remove -- becomes unstructured grain. The VNDF block ships with its G2/G1 weight; omitting that is a silently biased, permanently too-bright estimator whose error is smallest at the low roughness you would check it at. Closes #706 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughChangesAdds deterministic 64×64 RG blue-noise generation with cached upload data. SSR and SSGI create, bind, and destroy the texture. RenderPipeline supplies a TAA-gated stochastic frame index. Tests and documentation cover sampling, temporal resolve, resource binding, and failure modes. Stochastic rendering
Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant RenderPipeline
participant SSGIRenderPass
participant SSRRenderPass
participant BlueNoiseTexture
participant RHI
RenderPipeline->>SSGIRenderPass: Initialize and execute
RenderPipeline->>SSRRenderPass: Initialize and execute
SSGIRenderPass->>BlueNoiseTexture: Create and bind tile
SSRRenderPass->>BlueNoiseTexture: Create and bind tile
BlueNoiseTexture->>RHI: Upload and bind RG8 texture
RenderPipeline->>SSGIRenderPass: Upload stochastic frame index
RenderPipeline->>SSRRenderPass: Upload stochastic frame index
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In `@docs/agent-rules/README.md`:
- Line 140: Update the README rule for
stochastic-sampling-and-temporal-resolve.md to scope paired failing assertions
to metrics that can pass for both the new and replaced formulations, including
the blue-noise and VNDF checks; remove the broad “every threshold” wording while
preserving the negative-control requirement.
In `@docs/agent-rules/stochastic-sampling-and-temporal-resolve.md`:
- Line 359: Update the texture-size statement near “Each pass owns its own
texture” to either cite the backend/driver measurement scope supporting 32 KB or
change the claim to 8 KiB based on BlueNoise::TileBytes and the single-mip
RG8UNorm payload.
In `@OloEngine/src/OloEngine/Renderer/BlueNoise.h`:
- Around line 174-191: Replace runtime std::exp-based construction in
GaussianKernel with a checked-in integer Kernel table containing the canonical
values, so kernel generation is bit-identical across platforms. Add a fixed
GenerateTileRG digest test covering the resulting tile output on supported CI
platforms.
In `@OloEngine/tests/Rendering/StochasticSamplerTest.cpp`:
- Around line 941-945: Update the ClipLeavesAnInsideHistoryUntouched test to
replace EXPECT_EQ on the glm::vec3 result with per-component floating-point
tolerance assertions, preserving validation that each component matches h within
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Four CodeRabbit findings from PR #889, all valid. The substantive one: BlueNoise.h claimed cross-platform determinism while building its Gaussian weights with std::exp, which is not required to be bit-identical across implementations. The 2^20 quantisation makes a difference astronomically unlikely -- the closest of the 51 entries sits 0.019 of an integer step from a rounding boundary, a relative slack of 1.8e-8 -- but that is a measurement, not a guarantee, and a single flipped entry changes a rank selection and therefore the whole tile. The weights are now a checked-in integer table indexed by squared distance, so there is no floating-point arithmetic left anywhere in the generator. Two new tests keep it honest: BlueNoiseKernelTableMatchesTheGeneratingExpression recomputes the table from std::exp and fails loudly if a platform disagrees, and TileDigestIsStable pins the finished tile by FNV-1a so a change to it cannot pass unnoticed. The tile is byte-identical to before (digest 0x47a9dd3441a836df). Also: - The texture size was quoted as 32 KB in three places. 64 x 64 x RG8 is 8 KiB; the 32 KB figure was left over from when the tile was 128x128. The digest test now asserts the byte count so the docs and the code cannot drift again. - "Every threshold needs a paired negative" was over-broad -- it would demand a negative control for unrelated numeric checks. Narrowed to metrics a new and a replaced formulation could both pass, which is what the rule is actually about. - StochasticSamplerTest compared glm::vec3 with EXPECT_EQ, which cpp-coding-quality.md section 2 bans outright. Now per-component. Dropped <cmath> from BlueNoise.h, which became unused once the table replaced the runtime std::exp, and rewrote the kEnergyScale comment that still described the old runtime construction. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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TileBytesstores64 * 64 * 2 = 8192bytes. Each texture uses 8 KiB for one RG8 mip, not 32 KB. This conflicts withOloEngine/src/OloEngine/Renderer/BlueNoiseTexture.hline 24.Proposed fix
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One shared utility for stochastic screen-space passes: a blue-noise sample
sequence, GGX VNDF importance sampling with its
G2/G1weight, and a reusabletemporal resolve. Three existing passes adopt it.
The issue's opening premise was stale — and what I did about it
#706 opens with "There is no blue-noise sampler in the engine (grep for
BlueNoise/Sobol… returns nothing)". That stopped being true when PR #861(#439 baked GI) landed after the issue was written:
Renderer/PathTracing/PathSampler.his a full Owen-scrambled Sobol′ sampler,consumed by
LightProbeBaker. A factual correction is posted on the issue.It does not invalidate the task — that sampler is CPU-side, for the offline
reference tracer, and optimises bit-reproducibility and per-pixel convergence for
an oracle image. #706 wants a GPU screen-space sampler at 1–2 spp. Different job.
But it changes what the right answer looks like, so rather than build a second,
unrelated sampler:
StochasticCommon.glsl's Sobol′ half is a bit-exact GLSLtranscription of
PathSampler.h— sameReverseBits, same Laine-Karraspermutation, same nested-uniform scramble, same Sobol′ direction numbers, same
24-bit
ToUnitFloat. Given the same seed and index the two produce identicalvalues, and
StochasticSampler.GlslSobolMirrorsPathSamplerasserts it. What theGPU header adds is the screen-space half. The engine now has two samplers
that optimise different things and cannot disagree about what "stratified" means.
The Heitz-2019 substitution, stated plainly
#706 names Heitz et al. 2019's ranking/scrambling tiles. Those come out of a
simulated-annealing optimiser and ship as ~1 MB of binary supplemental material;
the only ways to get them are vendoring an unreviewable blob or re-running the
optimiser.
I shipped the mask-rotation construction instead (Georgiev & Fajardo 2016):
a void-and-cluster blue-noise mask supplies a per-pixel offset into a shared
low-discrepancy sequence. It reaches the same property, needs 32 KB generated
deterministically at startup, and — the deciding factor — every claim about it is
a test against the code the renderer runs rather than an assertion about a file
somebody produced once.
What landed
New shared headers
include/StochasticCommon.glsl— the single entry point (pulls in the othertwo). Blue-noise tile lookup, the Sobol′ mirror,
OloSampleRandomVector2D,OloSampleStratified2D,OloCosineHemisphere.include/TemporalResolve.glsl— YCoCg, 3×3 neighbourhood gather, varianceclip (not clamp), relative-depth and normal disocclusion confidence,
dead-zoned motion feedback, the blend.
include/PBRCommon.glsl—sampleGGXVNDF,sampleGGXVNDFTangent,ggxSmithLambda,ggxVNDFWeight.New C++
Renderer/BlueNoise.h— void-and-cluster generator (Ulichney 1993),header-only and renderer-dependency-free so the tests exercise it headlessly.
The energy field is fixed-point
i64on purpose: every decision is anargmin/argmax, so a one-ULP float difference could flip a near-tie and make a
golden captured against the tile invalid on another machine.
Renderer/BlueNoiseTexture.h— create / destroy / bind glue.TEX_BLUE_NOISE = 17(chosen belowTEX_SHADER_GRAPH_0so it does not moveMAX_ENGINE_TEXTURE_SLOTS/HEAP_IMAGE_SLOT_BASE— the Renderer: Virtual Shadow Maps — sparse page-table directional shadows replacing fixed-res CSM #702 drift), andStochasticFrameIndexinRenderer3D.One non-obvious call. The frame counter advances unconditionally, but SSR and
SSGI sample with
TAAEnabled ? StochasticFrameIndex : 0. Advancing the sampleris what lets a temporal resolve converge; with no accumulator behind the pass it
only turns today's static grain into grain redrawn every frame, which is worse
to look at. The gate becomes wrong the moment either pass gains its own history,
so it sits at the UBO fill with the reasoning beside it.
Adoption (acceptance criterion 1 — three existing passes)
an interleaved-gradient hash, and the radius gains a per-pixel blue-noise
jitter inside its stratum (it previously used the same
u1at every pixel).instead of the macrosurface normal, weighted by
G2/G1, with Fresnel moved todot(V, H). On a smooth surface this is the old behaviour.TemporalResolve.glsl. Behaviour-preserving exceptone deliberate improvement: the neighbourhood constraint is now a true clip
toward the box centre rather than a componentwise clamp.
The A/B — measured on rendered frames, and not the result I expected
Both frames from
SSGIVisualEvidenceTest.ColorBleedAppearsOnFloor: same scene,camera and 8 rays/pixel, only the sampler differs (the shader is a runtime
asset, so no rebuild was needed — but the shader cache had to be cleared
between runs, and without that both runs come out byte-identical, which is how
the first attempt at this measurement lied to me).
Total RMS is essentially a tie (−3.5%), and low-frequency band energy is within
4%. On those numbers alone this change looks barely worth making, and I nearly
reported it that way.
The amplified residual says otherwise: the old frame's noise is a regular
cross-hatched lattice, the new one is unstructured grain — the same family of
artifact as the GTAO "goosebumps" in glsl-shaders.md §11. Three quarters of the
old sampler's noise energy sits in a handful of frequencies. A coherent lattice
is what neither TAA nor a small-radius denoiser can remove, because both assume
the error decorrelates.
So the honest claim is: same energy, structure removed — not "less noise".
What self-review changed — five defects, four of them mine
All five were in code that compiled, passed its tests, and produced plausible
output. Three came from
/code-reviewat high effort, one from the test suite,and the most important one only from rendering the frame.
1. A blue-noise rotation on a dimension that does not wrap. The first draft
Cranley-Patterson-rotated both components of the 2D sample — textbook, correct
on a torus, and wrong here, because the caller feeds dimension 0 to a hemisphere
radius: wrapping
u1from 0.95 to 0.05 turns a grazing ray into anear-normal one and destroys the stratification
(ray + 0.5)/Ngives for free.Modelling SSGI's own integral at 8 rays/pixel, per-pixel error RMS against a
converged reference:
My sampler was worse than the noise it replaced, on both integrands, and the
rendered frame agreed (1.38× more low-frequency energy). Every CPU test passed
throughout, because they modelled one sample of a smooth function on the unit
square — where the rotation is exactly right and there is no stratification to
destroy. The model was wrong in two ways at once and both flattered the change.
Now pinned by
DimensionZeroStaysStratifiedAcrossSamples, with a paired negativeasserting the rotated form fails it.
2. The sampler was white noise in time.
OloSampleStratified2Dre-hashed theSobol′ scramble seed from
frameIndex, so each pixel's value over time wasi.i.d. and the temporal resolve had nothing low-discrepancy to accumulate.
Largest per-pixel gap over 64 frames: 4.3× the ideal 1/N, now 1.25×. And the
test that should have caught it was pinning a function no shader calls — it now
pins the call site.
3. The R2 advance decayed with uptime.
float(frameIndex) * alphaloses thefraction's low bits as the product grows: frame 262144 (~73 min at 60 Hz)
resolves only 64 distinct offsets, the 2²⁰ ceiling only 16 — below the
tile's 256 levels. Now 32-bit fixed point, where a
uintmultiply wraps mod 2³²and is the fraction, exactly, forever. The CPU mirror could not have caught it
because it used
double— strictly more accurate than the GLSL it stood in for.4. The two blue-noise channels correlated at +0.55.
SplitMix32advances by0x9e3779b9; I seeded it withseed * 0x9e3779b9, making the two channels thesame stream one draw apart (99.3% identical prototypes). Both channels still
passed every per-channel metric — full range, mean 0.5, low/high 0.0002,
neighbour correlation −0.28. Only the cross-channel check saw it. Now −0.015.
5.
OloTemporalMotionFeedbackraised feedback under motion. It mixed towarda hardcoded
0.5, so a caller with feedback below 0.5 got more ghosting thefaster the camera moved. Carried over verbatim from TAA's inline code where the
0.9/0.5 pairing never hit it.
motionFlooris now explicit and taken throughmin().Deliberately not in scope
Each of these is filed and scored, so none of it lives only in this PR body.
Per-pass history buffers for SSR and SSGI — #902. Both composite into the scene
colour, so their output target is not accumulable — temporally blending it would
smear the base colour too. That needs a dedicated signal attachment via
ExtractHistoryTexture, a render-graph change with its own aliasingconsiderations. The header is ready for it.
PostProcess_CloudscapeResolve.glsl— #903. The obvious next adopter of theresolve, left alone because its signal is RGBA (alpha carries transmittance) and
the cloud goldens are unusually sensitive.
The engine's D/G alpha inconsistency — #904.
distributionGGXusesalpha = roughness²;geometrySmithHeightCorrelatedsquares roughness once.Pre-existing. The VNDF block carries its own
ggxSmithLambdawith theD-consistent alpha (unbiasedness requires the Λ paired with the D you sampled)
and flags the divergence in a comment. Fixing it would move every lit golden,
which is the actual cost and why it is its own issue.
Review guide
Where I'd look hardest
include/StochasticCommon.glsl—OloSampleStratified2D. The asymmetrybetween dimension 0 (stratify + jitter) and dimension 1 (rotate) is the whole
correctness of the sampler, and getting it wrong was measurably worse than
shipping nothing. Check that every caller's dimension 0 really is a
non-wrapping quantity.
include/PBRCommon.glsl— the VNDF block. A mistake here renders a believableimage forever.
VndfEstimatorMatchesBruteForceagrees to five decimal placesand is paired with a negative, but the
alpha = roughness²pairing is worth asecond pair of eyes.
PostProcess_SSR.glsl— Fresnel moved fromdot(V, N)todot(V, H)and theblend gained a
vndfWeightfactor. Both are the correct pairings for aVNDF-sampled ray; both are appearance changes on rough surfaces.
What I verified, and how
.glslcompiles throughglslc --target-env=vulkan1.3per stage, andthe live editor reports 0 shader errors (
olo_shader_errors) with thedeferred path active.
StochasticSamplerTest(new,shaderpipe) — 27 tests. Every threshold ispaired with an assertion that the formulation it replaced fails the same bar.
instrument validated first (forcing the SSGI output green changed the frame;
olo_screenshotandolo_render_capture_targetwere both measured returningbyte-identical images at SSGI intensity 0.0 and 8.0, so neither was used).
Least confident about
The SSR appearance change.
roughFadegates SSR to roughness ≤ 0.6, and onestochastic sample per pixel with no temporal resolve behind it is noisier in the
upper part of that band than the old deterministic mirror ray. I did not raise
the cutoff for that reason. If the rough band reads as too noisy in review, the
fix is SSR's history buffer, not backing the sampler out.
Second:
OloSampleStratified2Dapplies the same blue-noise rotation to everydimension, so two independent 2D quantities drawn in one pass would havecorrelated error fields. No current caller draws two, so it is untested rather
than wrong.
Deliberately not tested
The bindless (
OLO_BINDLESS) variant of the edited shaders — that branchbypasses SPIR-V entirely, so
glslccannot validate it and it needs abindless-capable GPU run. The declarations follow the established
OLO_HEAP_TEX_2D(17)pattern and the shader bodies are unchanged betweenvariants.
Closes #706
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