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fix(compositor): high-quality motion blur and gaussian webcam blur - #608

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Summary

Addresses motion blur quality and performance across cursor, camera/screen, and webcam segmentation background blur:

  • Cursor motion blur: Restricts shutter interval to the current frame window (<= 1.25 / FPS, fixing the 8-frame stretch bug). Implements adaptive tap density (stationary cursors collapse to 1 tap, moving cursors scale dynamically with displacement \clamp(2, 16)). Adds a front-weighted linear tap ramp (\cursor_tap_weight) normalized to 1.0 and blended per-tap in D3D11, Metal, and Vulkan backends.
  • General camera/screen motion blur: Scales blur displacement proportionally to \mb_amount\ backwards from \uv_now, eliminating discrete ghost replicas when the slider is below 100%. Short-circuits when stationary or \mb_scale <= 0.001.
  • Webcam segmentation background blur: Replaces the 25-tap Cartesian grid with an isotropic 21-tap Vogel spiral (golden angle disk) Gaussian bokeh kernel with per-pixel Interleaved Gradient Noise (IGN) rotation. Achieves smooth photographic circular bokeh with 16% fewer texture samples (21 vs 25 taps).

Related issue

Fixes #606

Type of change

  • Bug fix
  • Feature
  • Enhancement
  • Documentation
  • Refactor / maintenance
  • Performance
  • Security

Release impact

  • Patch
  • Minor
  • Major / breaking change
  • No release note needed

Desktop impact

  • Windows
  • macOS
  • Linux
  • Installer / packaging
  • Not platform-specific

Testing

  • \cargo test --lib --manifest-path compositor/Cargo.toml\ (168 tests passed, including the golden frame geometry regression test and D3D11 shader compilation test).

  • ode scripts/build-windows-compositor-addon.mjs\ (Built native D3D11 release addon).

  • px tsc --noEmit\ &
    px tsc -p tsconfig.test.json --noEmit\ (0 errors).

  • pm run lint\ &
    pm run format\ (0 errors).

  • pm run i18n:check\ (Passed).

  • px vitest --run src/native/\ (131 tests passed).

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes

    • Motion blur strength is now applied consistently to screen recordings and webcam picture-in-picture layers.
    • Cursor motion trails adapt to movement speed, with smoother per-sample blending.
    • Motion blur is reduced or skipped when movement is negligible, preserving image clarity.
    • Paused previews now update briefly after changes so webcam background effects become visible.
  • Improvements

    • Webcam background blur uses higher-quality sampling for smoother results.
    • Rendering behavior is more consistent across Linux, macOS, and Windows.

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The compositor now derives motion-blur intensity and adaptive cursor sampling from frame geometry. Linux, macOS, and Windows apply these values. Metal and WGSL shaders use scaled motion vectors and 21-tap webcam blur sampling. Paused frames recompose during a short settle window.

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Compositor quality updates

Layer / File(s) Summary
Frame and cursor blur planning
crates/compositor/src/frame_geometry.rs, crates/compositor/src/cursor.rs
FrameGeometry now includes clamped motion-blur intensity. Cursor trails use adaptive taps, short shutter timing, front-weighted samples, and normalized tap weights.
Platform compositor integration
crates/compositor/src/compositor_linux.rs, crates/compositor/src/compositor_macos.rs, crates/compositor/src/compositor_windows.rs
Platform compositors pass planned blur intensity to screen and webcam layers. Cursor accumulation uses per-tap weights. Windows uses the shared cursor planning path.
Scaled motion-blur sampling
crates/compositor/src/shaders.metal, crates/compositor/src/vk_shaders/layer.wgsl
Motion-blur displacement is scaled by the configured amount. Samples trail backward from the current UV.
Webcam blur sampling
crates/compositor/src/shaders.metal, crates/compositor/src/vk_shaders/layer.wgsl
Webcam background blur uses 21-tap Vogel sampling with weighted accumulation, per-pixel rotation, and local pixel coordinates.
Paused-frame settle recomposition
crates/compositor/src/live.rs
Paused frames recompose after changes at a 33 ms cadence for up to 500 ms. Unit tests cover the settle timing helper.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to d6e5a

Paused seeks may show a stale webcam segmentation result until another user action triggers rendering. This affects the intended paused-frame blur behavior and should be fixed and regression-tested before merge.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant FrameGeometry
  participant PlatformCompositor
  participant BlurShader
  participant LiveRenderThread
  FrameGeometry->>PlatformCompositor: Provide mb_amount and cursor plan
  PlatformCompositor->>BlurShader: Pass scaled motion-blur constants
  BlurShader->>BlurShader: Sample scaled motion and webcam blur paths
  LiveRenderThread->>PlatformCompositor: Recompose changed paused frames
  PlatformCompositor->>PlatformCompositor: Render during the settle window
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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly identifies the compositor changes for improved motion blur and Gaussian webcam blur.
Description check ✅ Passed The description includes the required summary, related issue, change type, release impact, desktop impact, screenshots section, and detailed testing information.
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The changes satisfy issue #606. They add adaptive, front-weighted cursor blur; scale general motion blur by the configured amount; share cursor planning across platforms; and replace the webcam blur k…
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The changes remain related to issue #606. The render-settle logic supports visibility of asynchronous webcam segmentation results, and the visibility and shared-planning changes support the compositor…
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Comment thread crates/compositor/src/frame_geometry.rs Outdated
- Restrict cursor motion blur shutter interval to current frame (<= 1.25/FPS) instead of 8 frames
- Add adaptive tap density for cursor motion blur (stationary drops to 1 tap, moving scales clamp(2, 16))
- Add monotonically front-weighted tap weight ramp (cursor_tap_weight) normalized to 1.0, blended per-tap in D3D11, Metal, and Vulkan
- Pass mb_amount to shaders and scale general motion blur displacement proportionally backwards from uv_now
- Replace 25-tap Cartesian grid webcam background blur with isotropic 21-tap Vogel spiral Gaussian bokeh kernel and IGN rotation
- Deduplicate Windows cursor placement by reusing plan_cursor
Use blur01 / FPS instead of multiplying by 1.25 so the exposure interval stays strictly within one frame at 100% blur.
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Segmentation is asynchronous: the first compose starts the worker, the second
submits the frame, the third uploads the mask. Paused, the render loop
recomposed exactly once per change, so the mask never landed — cutout, blur and
custom background all stayed inert until a scrub produced the missing composes.

Keep recomposing for 500 ms after a paused change, at the segmentation rate
rather than the loop's, so the mask arrives on its own.

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In `@crates/compositor/src/live.rs`:
- Around line 1715-1717: Update the paused-seek handling in the live compositor
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Comment thread crates/compositor/src/live.rs Outdated
A paused seek goes through `present_frame`, which composes exactly once and
skipped the window the previous commit added — so the mask of the PREVIOUS
position stayed on screen until some other action caused a compose. Same blind
spot as the one that commit fixed, one branch over.

Both call sites now go through `open_settle_window`, so a forgotten
`last_settle` cannot make the loop recompose at its own rate instead of the
segmentation's.
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