CultLib/packages/cultmath/README.md
Meta Vens 0acc3728ed CultMath: Phacelle port moves into MPL-2.0 files; prune cut pinned by boundary points
MPL-2.0 is file-level and the Phacelle port sat inside MIT files. phacelle and
CultPhasor now live in math.Phacelle.cs and CultPhasor.cs, and cultmath_phacelle
in CultMath.Phacelle.hlsl (included by CultMath.hlsl, both tracked copies), each
with the MPL header and Johansen / Luke Mitchell attribution. math stays one
partial class, so math.phacelle is called exactly as before. The GameCult.Math
package declares MIT AND MPL-2.0 and packs THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES.md and the new
include; the Unity LICENSE.md points at CultLib; build-unity-package.ps1
requires the new include.

The random sweeps never met a cell whose box bound sits just under the 2.25 cut
while its weight is still nonzero, so cuts of 2.245, 2.24 and 2.2 survived.
Six hard-coded points (found by an offline search) sit next to such cells; the
C# pruned-vs-unpruned test and the HLSL mirror test both use them, with a
witness check that re-derives the property from the hash.

Docs: the prune keeps about 45 of 64 cells (14 is the nonzero-weight count),
the support radius is 1.49998 (d^2 = 2.24995), normalization's range and
saturation, W = 0 only for adversarial hashes, and the support-edge gradient
seam size.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-30 00:34:27 +02:00

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# CultMath
CultMath is the project name. Its clean .NET package identity is
`GameCult.Math`, owned and released from the CultLib monorepo.
Clean-room math shaped for people who think in HLSL.
CultMath provides lowercase vector types, shader-style intrinsics, and native
hot-path kernels so math-heavy renderer code can move between C#, Rust, and HLSL
without turning every line into a translation exercise. It is not a
Unity.Mathematics clone. It is a small, Aquarium-born library built from public
shader semantics.
## Current Surface
- `float2`, `float3`, `float4`
- component-wise arithmetic
- scalar-to-vector splats
- every HLSL swizzle (`xyzw` and `rgba`, repeats readable, non-repeating
masks writable) and every HLSL mixed constructor, generated by
`tools/generate-swizzles.ps1`
- conversions to and from `System.Numerics`
- `Random`, a compact deterministic XORShift stream with scalar and vector draws
- `BatchMath` SoA kernels over `Span<float>` / `ReadOnlySpan<float>` using
`System.Numerics.Vector<float>` when available, including radial falloff
acceleration and semi-implicit Euler integration
- `math` intrinsics: `radians`, `degrees`, `abs`, `floor`, `ceil`, `frac`,
`min`, `max`, `clamp`, `saturate`, `lerp`, `step`, `smoothstep`, `dot`,
`cross`, `length`, `distance`, `normalize`, `reflect`, `csum`, `erf`,
`erfinv` (scalar only), exponential
`decay`/`damp`, intercept/segment helpers, Catmull-Rom, Bezier curves, and
deterministic value-noise primitives
- `shaders/CultMath.hlsl`, a canonical HLSL mirror include for shader-side
parity. HLSL already owns `float2`, `float3`, and `float4`; the include
exposes `cultmath_*` functions for shared semantics HLSL does not provide.
It includes `shaders/CultMath.Phacelle.hlsl` (MPL-2.0) from the same
directory, so ship both files.
- `Voronoi.SampleTones`, a C# batch surface that calls the Rust
`cultmath-core` native kernel when `cultmath_core` is available and falls back
to the managed parity path otherwise.
## Native Core
The canonical hot-path body lives in `native/cultmath-core`. It exports a C ABI
for batch kernels such as `cultmath_apollonian_voronoi_tones`.
Runtime wrappers own syntax and integration. Rust owns optimized primitive
kernel behavior and parity fixtures.
## Example
```csharp
using CultMath;
float3 normal = math.normalize(new float3(0.25f, 1.0f, -0.1f));
float rim = math.saturate(1.0f - math.dot(normal, new float3(0.0f, 0.0f, -1.0f)));
float glow = math.smoothstep(0.2f, 1.0f, rim);
float grain = math.value_noise_bicubic(math.float2(12.0f, 3.5f));
```
```hlsl
#include "CultMath.hlsl"
float3 normal = normalize(float3(0.25, 1.0, -0.1));
float rim = cultmath_saturate(1.0 - dot(normal, float3(0.0, 0.0, -1.0)));
float glow = cultmath_smoothstep(0.2, 1.0, rim);
float grain = cultmath_value_noise_bicubic(float2(12.0, 3.5));
```
## Provenance
The small spline, damping, and pursuit helpers were promoted from Aetheria's
local `AetheriaMath` surface. The value-noise family follows public shader
literature from Inigo Quilez's noise and mini-spline articles, expressed in
CultMath names with tests instead of copied project-local helper drift.
## Build
```powershell
dotnet build packages/cultmath/src/CultMath/CultMath.csproj
dotnet test packages/cultmath/tests/CultMath.Tests/CultMath.Tests.csproj
cargo test --manifest-path packages/cultmath/native/cultmath-core/Cargo.toml
cargo build --release --manifest-path packages/cultmath/native/cultmath-core/Cargo.toml
.\packages\cultmath\scripts\build-unity-package.ps1
```
## Unity package
CultMath's Unity 2021.3 surface is the tracked precompiled package at
`packages/cultmath/unity/org.gamecult.cultmath`. Unity consumes `CultMath.dll` and the numeric
`CultMath.hlsl`; it does not compile the repository's current-language C# source
tree and does not require a consumer `csc.rsp` workaround.
```json
"org.gamecult.cultmath": "https://github.com/GameCult/CultLib.git?path=/packages/cultmath/unity/org.gamecult.cultmath"
```
The repository root is not a Unity package. Build the tracked package with
`packages/cultmath/scripts/build-unity-package.ps1`; the script fresh-builds the netstandard2.1
assembly and rejects stale binaries, missing metadata, unexpected assemblies,
or leaked C# source.
## Shader Tooling
CultMath keeps portable DXC outside git under `packages/cultmath/.tools/`:
```powershell
.\packages\cultmath\tools\get-dxc.ps1
.\packages\cultmath\tools\get-spirv-cross.ps1
.\packages\cultmath\tools\compile-hlsl-spirv.ps1 `
-ShaderPath E:\Projects\Odin\crates\muninn-move-tracker\shaders\MoveSphereCandidate.comp.hlsl `
-OutputPath E:\Projects\Odin\crates\muninn-move-tracker\artifacts\shader\MoveSphereCandidate.comp.spv `
-IncludePath E:\Projects\CultLib\packages\cultmath\shaders
.\packages\cultmath\tools\compile-spirv-metal.ps1 `
-SpirvPath E:\Projects\Odin\crates\muninn-move-tracker\artifacts\shader\MoveSphereCandidate.comp.spv `
-OutputPath E:\Projects\Odin\crates\muninn-move-tracker\artifacts\shader\MoveSphereCandidate.comp.metal
```
DXC emits Vulkan SPIR-V with `-spirv`. `-TargetEnv vulkan1.2` is exposed by the
script, but the current Windows DXC release compiled this shader successfully
with DXC's default Vulkan target while rejecting the dotted target-env value.
The SPIR-V script applies default Vulkan register shifts for cbuffers, textures,
UAVs, and samplers so cross-compiled Metal buffers do not alias by resource
class. SPIRV-Cross emits Metal Shading Language from SPIR-V on Windows; building
an iPad-ready `.metallib` still belongs to Apple's Metal compiler on an Apple
toolchain.
## Doctrine
The goal is mechanical sympathy between CPU-side authoring, native kernels, and
GPU-side shader math. If an intrinsic exists here, it should behave like the
shader concept unless a runtime's numeric rules make that impossible. Weird
deviations get tests and documentation, not folklore.
CultMath is still not a shader generator. Projects should include
`shaders/CultMath.hlsl` directly or add that directory to their shader include
path. If a shared operation needs CPU/GPU parity, put the primitive here and
test it here before copying local math helpers into a renderer or daemon.