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# Design
CultMath exists to make renderer math readable in every place it needs to live:
Rust hot kernels, C# host code, and HLSL shader code.
## Rules
- Keep type names HLSL-shaped: `float2`, `float3`, `float4`, and `math`.
- Keep Rust as the owner of native hot-path kernels and parity fixtures.
- Keep C#, shader, and scripting surfaces as runtime wrappers, not competing
math authorities.
- Keep `shaders/CultMath.hlsl` as the canonical shader mirror for shared
intrinsics. Project-local shader helpers should move here once more than one
organ needs them or once CPU/GPU parity matters.
- Implement public shader semantics directly; do not copy Unity.Mathematics.
- Prefer small immutable value types.
- Prefer component-wise overloads over clever generic machinery until the API
earns that complexity.
- Keep the surface boring and exact. Noise primitives are allowed when they are
source-grounded, shader-shaped, and shared by more than one project. Matrices,
quaternions, and packing helpers still need an owner before they enter.
## Non-Goals
- Compiling C# to shaders.
- Generating HLSL from Rust or Rust from HLSL.
- Replacing `System.Numerics` for general .NET work.
- Recreating every Unity.Mathematics type because a spreadsheet somewhere says
“coverage.” That way lies decorative obesity.