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+# Changelog
+
+All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
+
+The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.1.0/),
+and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.html).
+
+## [Unreleased]
+
+## [0.2.0] - 2026-10-23
+
+Sources replace the base: DEMs are upsampled rather than resampled, synthetic sources generate heights from noise, and layers leave out what the source already resolves. Outputs set their own pixel size and extent, `GenerateFromConfig` returns everything it computes, and the core types are renamed. Configurations and code written for 0.1.0 need the changes under [Migrating from 0.1.0](#migrating-from-010).
+
+### Added
+
+- Sources in configurations (`source`) of type `raster`, `chain` or `synthetic`; without one the terrain starts from a flat synthetic source at 0 m.
+- `SyntheticSource` (source `synthetic`): heights from a noise stack plus `elevation_m` over an unbounded plane or the whole body, evaluated at every point, or sampled at posts `pixel_size_m` apart and upsampled like a DEM; an empty stack is flat.
+- `RasterSource`, heights from a raster in memory, shared rather than copied and upsampled as a GeoTIFF source is; `GeoTiffSource` is a `RasterSource` of its band.
+- Upsampling on sources (`Upsampler`, config `upsampling`): how a source's posts become heights between them and at any finer sample spacing, deterministically, so points and grids at one spacing agree; kernels `nearest`, `bilinear`, `cubic` (the default), `catmull_rom`, `lanczos3` and `cubic_bspline`.
+- Diamond-square upsampling (`DiamondSquareUpsampler`, `"upsampling": {"type": "diamond_square"}`): random midpoint displacement of a source's posts to finer spacings, as PANGU expands DEMs (Martin et al. 2014), keeping every coarser node, with bilinear or Catmull-Rom (`interp`) refinement and the scale and fractal dimension estimated from the posts when not given.
+- `RegisterUpsampler` (Python `register_upsampler`) names upsampler types of your own, C++ or Python subclasses of `Upsampler`, for configurations to use with their settings.
+- Windowed GeoTIFF reads that decode only the strips or tiles a window meets, and `crop` (`min_x`, `min_y`, `max_x`, `max_y` in CRS units) on raster sources to read only the window needed while giving the same heights there as the whole file.
+- `effective_pixel_size_m` on raster sources (`effectivePixelSize`), the cell size a DEM upsampled or smoothed before it was saved truly resolves.
+- `Source::ResolutionAt`, the cell size of the data behind each height, and `UnresolvedCraterLimit`, a completeness limit that leaves the craters a DEM already resolves to it; `MinimumField` combines it with a catalog's limit.
+- `source_resolves_px` on craters, secondaries, boulders, noise, dunes and bedforms: features at least that many source cells across, by diameter, wavelength or dune width, are already in the source, so only smaller ones are added at each point, each raster of a chain giving its own limit; ignored on synthetic sources, `null` adds them all. In C++ `sourceResolvesPixels` on the layer options, applied when the layer is given its `source`, with `SourceResolvedLimit` and `LayerResolvedLimit` (Python `source_resolved_limit`).
+- Spectral continuation layer (`spectral_continuation`, `SpectralContinuationLayer`): detail finer than a DEM that continues its fitted power-law spectrum to shorter wavelengths as sparse Gabor noise, tapered in at the DEM's Nyquist wavelength so resolved scales gain nothing, with grids and points in agreement.
+- Roughness and noise layers that estimate their settings from the source with `estimate_from_base`: the Hurst exponent and RMS height difference of its variogram, extrapolated to the roughness baseline or matched at each noise layer's wavelength; explicit values override the estimates. The estimators are public: `EstimateSourceRoughness`, `EstimateBaseRoughness`, `EstimatePowerLawSpectrum`, `RadialPowerSpectrum`, `EstimateMidpointRoughness` and `raster/variogram.h` (Python `estimate_source_roughness` and the rest).
+- Lanczos (three lobes), Catmull-Rom and cubic B-spline kernels for `Resample`, `SampleRaster` and `ResampleMethod`.
+- Output areas: `pixel_size_m` and `extent_m` (`extent_deg` on a body) as `{"center": [x, y], "size": [w, h]}` or `{"min": [x, y], "max": [x, y]}`, defaulting to a raster or chain source's extent and cell size; the grid starts at the extent's min corner, is snapped outward to whole cells and sampled at cell centers (`OutputAreaSpec`, `ExtentSpec`, `config::SnappedGrid`).
+- Optional output paths: without a `path` the result is returned and nothing is written. `GenerateFromConfig` returns everything the outputs ask for, each computed once: `GeneratedGrid` holds the grid, heights, albedo, materials, photometry, placed craters and boulders and terrain mesh, `GeneratedOutputs` the body mesh or ICQ model, the report, `Grid()` and `Find()`; Python `GeneratedGrid` values are views without a copy.
+- `terrain_mesh` outputs take `cutouts` (`{"min": [x, y], "max": [x, y]}` boxes), a `skirt_m` and a frame `site_deg` as [lon, lat].
+- Terrain reports: output type `report` (`ReportOutput`) with an optional `path`, returned as `GeneratedOutputs::report` and written as JSON by `WriteOutputs`; per grid (`GridReport`) height and slope statistics, craters per power-of-2 diameter bin against the first crater layer's density and boulder counts and cover, with per-layer timings, backend, threads, layer seeds and version (`ReportGrid`, `ReportToJson`, `TerrainReport`, `LayerTimer`; Python `report_grid`, `report_to_json`, `TerrainReport.to_dict`).
+- `GetMeshSize` and `FillMesh` (Python `get_mesh_size`, `fill_mesh`) size and write a height mesh into caller buffers laid out as Chrono's ChVector3d and ChVector3i arrays or NumPy (N, 3) float64 and (M, 3) int32 arrays, with no copy; `FillHeights` (Python `fill_heights`) evaluates into a caller buffer; `TriangleMesh.positions` and `TriangleMesh.triangles` are NumPy views without a copy.
+- Piecewise uniform size-frequency distributions (`piecewise_uniform`): counts per diameter band, given absolutely or as shares of a total.
+- Piecewise value distributions, uniform within bins drawn by weight, and `freshness` crater ages that draw each crater's freshness from a value distribution.
+- Radial wall marks on craters, ridges and grooves down the wall that are strongest where it is steepest.
+- Craters on slopes: floors offset downslope and rims and ejecta lowered upslope (Plescia et al. 2019), and faster wear toward a critical gradient (Roering et al. 1999).
+- Manual craters with an explicit rim-to-floor depth and rim height in place of what the degradation model and age give; diffusion profiles solve for the age that reaches the depth.
+- Thomas cluster process for boulder clusters, with Poisson-scattered centers whose clusters add where they overlap.
+- Boulders limited to a maximum slope, optionally rolling down steeper ground to gather at its foot.
+- Manual boulders that fix any of their height, burial, yaw, lean, tilt, rest, wear and shape seed; unset fields are drawn as for generated boulders, and fixed ones are neither re-settled nor broken.
+- Manual-only layers: boulder layers with `generate_random` off place only their `manual` boulders, and `CraterLayer::Manual` and `BoulderLayer::Manual` (Python `CraterLayer.manual`, `BoulderLayer.manual`) make layers of only the given craters or boulders.
+- Density maps from GeoTIFFs or constants: a scale, a count in a diameter range, or an areal fraction such as rock abundance, which set crater and boulder densities point by point.
+- Size slope maps that bend boulder sizes into a local power law, from an exponent or a mean diameter map.
+- Crater and boulder catalogs with a completeness limit, above which they stand in for generated features.
+- Rock albedo (`rocks`): boulders brighter than the regolith (Holt 1981; Marshal et al. 2023), and a speckle of the share of each sample covered by boulders too small to resolve.
+- Slope albedo (`slopes`): steep ground kept immature by mass wasting, its optical maturity rising with slope beyond 20 degrees (Ikeda et al. 2022; Lucey et al. 2014).
+- Crater shaping and datum fitting on the GPU on spheres, ellipsoids and shape models, not only on planes.
+- `fade_px` and `fade_shape` on crater `apply` and boulder layers: the resolution fade as its start and end output samples and its curve.
+- Configurations are checked against every field's documented range, and errors name the exact field, such as `layers[2].reach`.
+- Configuration reference in the documentation, generated from the schema at build time, and machine-readable value ranges in the schema.
+- Python options classes document every field with its description and unit, and gain `validate()` and a readable `repr`.
+
+### Changed
+
+- Breaking: the configuration's `base` is now `source`, and the region layer is now `masked`; old keys and types are rejected.
+- Breaking: raster sources upsample instead of resampling: a raster source's grid is always its file's, and evaluating it over a finer grid gives finer cells; `RasterSourceOptions` and `GeoTiffSourceOptions` take an `upsampler` and an `effectivePixelSize`.
+- Breaking: outputs give their area as `pixel_size_m` and `extent_m` in place of `region` (`width`, `height`, `pixel_size`, `centre_x`, `centre_y`) and of `spacing` on crater lists, boulder lists and boulder models; both are required without a raster or chain source.
+- Breaking: on a raster or chain source, craters, secondaries, dunes and bedforms leave out by default what is at least 4 source cells across (`source_resolves_px`); set it to `null` for the 0.1.0 output.
+- Breaking: every angle key in configurations and the Python options classes is in degrees and ends in `_deg`, azimuths counter-clockwise from +x (local east), and the rest of the Python API follows with `_deg` names and arguments; the C++ library keeps radians.
+- Breaking: crater and boulder size keys carry their units (`_m`, `_px`), in configurations and the Python options classes alike, and crater layers' `generate` is now `generate_random`; the old keys are rejected.
+- Breaking: core types and functions are renamed with no aliases, `Terrain` to `TerrainGenerator`, `GenerateTerrain` to `GenerateFromConfig`, `TerrainConfig` to `TerrainGenConfig`, `HeightMesh` to `BuildMesh`, `RegionLayer` to `MaskedLayer` and the rest in the table below, and Python names follow C++ names one to one.
+- Breaking: sources take the sample spacing: `Source::Fill(heights, spacing)` and `Source::HeightAt(x, y, spacing)`, and Python `Source` subclasses define `height_at(x, y, spacing)` and `fill(heights, spacing)`; a source without bounds gives a grid without cells (`BoundedGrid`), and `Evaluate(generator)` needs a grid for it.
+- The library, Python bindings, tests and examples are C++17 (0.1.0 needed C++20); public headers take `Span` in place of `std::span`.
+- Defaults give a plausible lunar terrain at 1 m per pixel in which every height layer shows: craters from a production surface capped below the Trask equilibrium with steady-state ages, diffusion and irregular outlines, Martin, Parkes and Dunstan profiles, nominal NASA SP-8023 intercrater boulders (0.4% cover by rocks of 1 m and more), noise relief scaled to its wavelength, and visible roughness, bedforms and dunes.
+- A boulder `coverage`, `qa`, `qb` or `ejecta.coverage` that no Golombek-Rapp sizes use is an error that names `"sizes": {"type": "golombek_rapp"}`.
+- Boulder lists and models hold every boulder of the layer's diameter range; only the heightmap leaves out boulders too small to resolve.
+- Boulder ejecta come from every crater layer before the boulder layer, not only the last one.
+- Boulder models settle onto a stable face by default instead of balancing on an edge or corner.
+- Density maps that count every feature take out the secondaries and blocks thrown from a layer's craters, and boulder patches and bedrock keep a map's mean, so nothing is counted twice.
+- The `matched` diffusivity wears each crater to Fassett et al.'s visibility cutoff at the end of its equilibrium lifetime, for the layer's own profile.
+- Crater shaping has one implementation, the kernel, on every surface; craters on bodies and custom profiles may differ from 0.1.0 in the last digits.
+- Random streams and hashes are unified, so boulder, albedo, dune, bedform and pavement outputs for a given seed differ from 0.1.0; their statistics are unchanged.
+- Every evaluation defaults to all threads, including `HeightAt` and `HeightsAt`.
+- The `materials` module is folded into `pipeline` (material maps, `terraingen/pipeline/materials.h`) and `albedo` (Hapke photometry, `terraingen/albedo/photometry.h`), and `NoiseLayersAt` moves to `terraingen/sources/synthetic_terrain.h`.
+- Python: `ExposureField.exposure` takes `(x, y, spacing=0.0, generator=None, layers=0)` like the other ground queries, unbounded options read as `None` instead of infinity, `write_outputs` returns paths and a subclass missing a required method raises `TypeError`.
+- Written configurations leave out lists that are empty by default.
+- Faster craters and boulders: ground reads for crater slopes and datums and beneath boulders are batched and spatially ordered, outputs over one area share the boulders placed for the first, boulder models are placed in parallel and ejecta craters found through a spatial index; the hero demo went from 433 s to about 10 s.
+- Logs: generation logs each grid as it is evaluated with the time of every layer, the albedo and the materials and ends with each step's total and share; crater and boulder summaries log at debug level, boulders under boulders rather than craters, and `terraingen` ends with one line counting the files written.
+
+### Removed
+
+- Tile schemes, tiles and the tile cache (`TileScheme`, `TileKey`, `EvaluateTile`, `EvaluateTiles`, `TileCache`, in C++ and Python): level of detail belongs to the renderer, and any grid evaluated alone already equals the same cells of a larger one; the point query examples move to a `queries` category.
+- Resampling and low-passing raster sources: `pixelSize`, `resampling` and `lowPass` on `GeoTiffSourceOptions` and the config keys `pixel_size`, `resampling` and `low_pass` on raster sources; upsampling over a finer grid replaces them.
+- `DetailLayer` and the `dem_detail` layer, which only restored the detail a low-passed source removed.
+- `GridRegionSpec`, `config::RegionGrid` and `config::FeatureOutput`; an output's area is an `OutputAreaSpec`.
+- Python `crater_blend_weight` (use `CraterBlend.weight`), `CraterAgeModel.lifetime_gyr` (use `lifetime_at`) and the flat selection aliases on crater irregularity, crater albedo and secondary options (use `selection`).
+
+### Fixed
+
+- Freshness degradation never makes a crater deeper than fresh: basins shallower than the cutoff keep their fresh shape.
+- Small craters inside larger ones on sloping ground no longer stand as raised mounds: datums are fitted to the slope-shaped relief that is applied.
+- Secondary craters run on the GPU backend the terrain asks for instead of always on the CPU.
+- A crater layer after a boulder layer no longer refits crater datums for every batch of ground reads.
+- Tilted boulders are no longer cut off at grid edges and in point queries.
+- Zero-area output areas and crater sizes below the models' range are rejected with a clear error instead of failing during generation.
+- The library builds without warnings under Clang and MSVC.
+
+### Migrating from 0.1.0
+
+Old keys and names are rejected rather than aliased. Angle keys are in degrees; sizes in meters unless they end in `_px`.
+
+**Configuration, top level and sources**
+
+| 0.1.0 | 0.2.0 |
+| --- | --- |
+| `base` | `source` (types `raster`, `chain`, `synthetic`) |
+| `base.pixel_size`, `base.resampling` | `source.upsampling`; set the output's `pixel_size_m` for finer cells |
+| `base.low_pass` | removed; `effective_pixel_size_m` for a DEM smoothed before it was saved |
+| layer `dem_detail` | removed; use `source.upsampling` or a `spectral_continuation` layer |
+
+**Configuration, outputs**
+
+| 0.1.0 | 0.2.0 |
+| --- | --- |
+| `region.pixel_size` | `pixel_size_m` |
+| `region.width`, `height`, `centre_x`, `centre_y` | `extent_m: {"center": [x, y], "size": [width * pixel_size, height * pixel_size]}` (`extent_deg` on a body) |
+| `spacing` on `crater_list`, `boulder_list`, `boulder_models` | `pixel_size_m` |
+| `path` required | `path` optional |
+| `crease_angle` (`boulder_models`) | `crease_angle_deg` |
+
+**Configuration, layers**
+
+| 0.1.0 | 0.2.0 |
+| --- | --- |
+| layer `region` | layer `masked` |
+| craters `generate` | `generate_random` |
+| craters `min_diameter`, `max_diameter` | `min_diameter_m`, `max_diameter_m` |
+| craters `apply.fade` {`start_samples`, `end_samples`, `shape`} | `apply.fade_px` [start, end], `apply.fade_shape` |
+| crater `irregularity.heading`, `heading_spread` | `heading_deg`, `heading_spread_deg` |
+| secondaries `min_diameter`, `max_diameter`, `min_primary_diameter`, `max_primary_diameter` | the same with `_m` |
+| secondaries `width_degrees`, `min_half_angle_degrees` | `width_deg`, `min_half_angle_deg` |
+| boulders `min_diameter`, `max_diameter` | `min_diameter_m`, `max_diameter_m` |
+| boulders `fade` {`start_samples`, `end_samples`, `shape`} | `fade_px` [start, end], `fade_shape` |
+| boulders `exposure_spacing` | `ground_spacing_m` |
+| boulders `max_lean`, `max_tilt` | `max_lean_deg`, `max_tilt_deg` |
+| boulders `patches.size`, `clusters.spacing`, `clusters.radius` | `patches.size_m`, `clusters.spacing_m`, `clusters.radius_m` |
+| boulders `ejecta.min_crater_diameter`, `ejecta.regolith_thickness` | `ejecta.min_crater_diameter_m`, `ejecta.regolith_thickness_m` |
+| boulders `fragmentation.min_diameter`, `relief_range.min_diameter`, `relief_range.max_diameter` | the same with `_m` |
+| boulders `models.min_diameter`, `models.max_diameter`, `models.min_samples`, `models.max_samples` | `models.min_diameter_m`, `models.max_diameter_m`, `models.min_px`, `models.max_px` |
+| manual boulders `yaw`, `lean`, `tilt`, `tilt_azimuth` | `yaw_deg`, `lean_deg`, `tilt_deg`, `tilt_azimuth_deg` |
+| ventifacts `wind_azimuth`, `second_wind_azimuth`, `min_angle`, `max_angle` | the same with `_deg` |
+| dunes `wind_azimuth`, `azimuth_spread`, `slip_face_angle`, `stoss_slope`, `flank_slope` | the same with `_deg` |
+| bedforms `wind_azimuth`, `azimuth_spread` | `wind_azimuth_deg`, `azimuth_spread_deg` |
+| strata `dip`, `dip_azimuth` | `dip_deg`, `dip_azimuth_deg` |
+| pavement `max_tilt` | `max_tilt_deg` |
+| sand shadow `wind_azimuth`, `flank_angle` | `wind_azimuth_deg`, `flank_angle_deg` |
+| albedo `hue`, `hue_noise`, `heading` | `hue_deg`, `hue_noise_deg`, `heading_deg` |
+| albedo `*_degrees` (`width_degrees`, `streak_width_degrees`, `jet_angle_degrees`, `steep_slope_degrees` and the rest) | `*_deg` |
+| materials `roughness` | `roughness_deg` |
+
+**C++ API**
+
+| 0.1.0 | 0.2.0 |
+| --- | --- |
+| `Terrain` (`pipeline/terrain.h`) | `TerrainGenerator` (`pipeline/generator.h`) |
+| `EvaluateAt`, `EvaluatePoints` | `HeightAt`, `HeightsAt` |
+| `ValidateTerrain`, `BuildTerrain` | `ValidateGenerator`, `BuildGenerator` |
+| `GenerateTerrain`, `GeneratedTerrain` (`.terrain`) | `GenerateFromConfig`, `GeneratedOutputs` (`.generator`) |
+| `TerrainConfig` | `TerrainGenConfig` |
+| `ConfigSummary::base` | `ConfigSummary::source` |
+| `HeightMesh`, `HeightMeshOptions` (`pipeline/height_mesh.h`) | `BuildMesh`, `BuildMeshOptions` (`pipeline/mesh_build.h`) |
+| `RegionLayer` (`layers/region.h`), `RegionShape::centre` | `MaskedLayer` (`layers/masked.h`), `RegionShape::center` |
+| `Source::Fill(heights)`, `Source::HeightAt(x, y)` | `Source::Fill(heights, spacing)`, `Source::HeightAt(x, y, spacing)` |
+| `GeoTiffSourceOptions::pixelSize`, `resampling`, `lowPass` | `upsampler`, `effectivePixelSize`; evaluate over a finer grid |
+| `CraterLayerOptions::generate` | `CraterLayerOptions::generateRandom` |
+| `BoulderLayerOptions::exposureSpacing` | `BoulderLayerOptions::groundSpacing` |
+| `DetailLayer`, `TileScheme`, `TileKey`, `TileCache`, `EvaluateTile`, `EvaluateTiles` | removed |
+| `GridRegionSpec`, `config::RegionGrid`, `config::FeatureOutput` | `OutputAreaSpec`, `ExtentSpec`, `config::SnappedGrid` |
+| `terraingen/materials/` | `terraingen/pipeline/materials.h`, `terraingen/albedo/photometry.h` |
+| `NoiseLayersAt` in `layers/noise_relief.h` | `sources/synthetic_terrain.h` |
+| `TERRAINGEN_API_VERSION` 1 | 2 |
+
+**Python API**
+
+| 0.1.0 | 0.2.0 |
+| --- | --- |
+| `Terrain` | `TerrainGenerator` |
+| `evaluate_at`, `evaluate_points` | `height_at`, `heights_at` |
+| `build_terrain`, `generate_terrain`, `GeneratedTerrain` | `build_generator`, `generate_from_config`, `GeneratedOutputs` |
+| `Config`, `Config.from_json`, `Config.load`, `Config.to_json` | `TerrainGenConfig`, `parse_config`, `load_config`, `config_to_json` |
+| `Config.base_grid` | `TerrainGenConfig.source_grid` |
+| `height_mesh` | `build_mesh` |
+| `RegionLayer` | `MaskedLayer` |
+| keyword `terrain=` | `generator=` (and `generated=` for `write_outputs`) |
+| `Source.height_at(x, y)`, `Source.fill(heights)` | `height_at(x, y, spacing)`, `fill(heights, spacing)` |
+| `GeoTiffSource(pixel_size=, resampling=, low_pass=)` | `GeoTiffSource(upsampler=, effective_pixel_size=, crop=)` |
+| `version`, `api_version`, `build_info` | `get_version`, `get_api_version`, `get_build_info` |
+| `boulder_fillet_height`, `perlin_noise3` | `fillet_height`, `perlin_noise3_precise` |
+| `TriangleMesh.subdivided` | `TriangleMesh.subdivide` |
+| `Raster.nodata`, `GeoTiffInfo.nodata` | `Raster.no_data`, `GeoTiffInfo.no_data` |
+| `ValueDistributionKind` | `ValueDistribution.Kind` |
+| `CraterGenerationOptions.min_diameter`, `max_diameter` | `d_min`, `d_max` |
+| `CraterFeatures.write` | `CraterFeatures.write_list` |
+| `cell_of`, `point_of`, `level_for`, `outline_of` | `cell_at`, `coordinates`, `resolving_level`, `irregular_outline` |
+| `min_diameter_for_count`, `singer_range_for_size` | `count_limit_diameter`, `singer_max_range` |
+| `SplotchOptions`, `SlopeMaturityOptions` | `SplotchAlbedoOptions`, `SlopeAlbedoOptions` |
+| angles in radians (`SyntheticAlbedo(hue=)`, `hsv_to_rgb(hue)`, `RigidTransform.rotation_x(angle)`, `Boulder.yaw`, ...) | degrees with `_deg` names (`hue_deg=`, `angle_deg`, `Boulder.yaw_deg`, ...) |
+| `crater_blend_weight`, `CraterAgeModel.lifetime_gyr` | `CraterBlend.weight`, `lifetime_at` |
+| `TileScheme`, `TileKey`, `TileCache`, `evaluate_tile`, `evaluate_tiles` | removed |
+
+## [0.1.0] - 2026-10-18
+
+Initial release.
+
+### Added
+
+- C++20 library with Python bindings (`terraingenpy` on PyPI) for generating terrain from scratch or adding detail to existing DEMs.
+- Craters and boulders from published size-frequency distributions, with crater ages, profiles, degradation, irregularity, secondaries and ejecta.
+- Procedural 3D boulder models, and small boulders baked into the heightmap.
+- Synthetic albedo with crater ejecta and rays that fade with age.
+- Geologic features: dunes and ripples, layered strata, fractured bedrock, ventifacts and sand pooled in lows or behind boulders.
+- Planes, spheres and ellipsoids, whole-body meshes, tiles and point queries.
+- Deterministic output for a seed on any grid, tile or thread count.
+- GPU acceleration on Vulkan, CUDA and Metal, detected at run time.
+- `terraingen` command-line interface driven by JSON configurations.
+- Examples in C++, Python and JSON.
+- Release archives for Linux, macOS and Windows, Debian packages, and a Docker image.
+
+[Unreleased]: https://github.com/alexmaietta/terraingen/compare/v0.2.0...HEAD
+[0.2.0]: https://github.com/alexmaietta/terraingen/compare/v0.1.0...v0.2.0
+[0.1.0]: https://github.com/alexmaietta/terraingen/releases/tag/v0.1.0

terraingenpy-0.2.0.dev117/CITATION.cff

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+cff-version: 1.2.0
+message: "If you use TerrainGen for published research, please cite it as below."
+type: software
+title: "TerrainGen: An open-source scientific terrain generation suite for planetary surfaces"
+abstract: >-
+  A C++ and Python library, with a command-line tool, for generating scientific terrain of
+  planetary surfaces: crater and rock populations from published size-frequency distributions,
+  crater profiles and degradation, and albedo, on synthetic or measured elevation models.
+authors:
+  - family-names: Maietta
+    given-names: Alex
+repository-code: "https://github.com/alexmaietta/terraingen"
+url: "https://alexmaietta.github.io/terraingen/"
+license: BSD-3-Clause
+version: 0.2.0
+keywords:
+  - terrain
+  - moon
+  - mars
+  - craters
+  - planetary science
+  - simulation

terraingenpy-0.2.0.dev117/CMakeLists.txt

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+cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.22)
+
+# Archives fetched with FetchContent get extraction-time timestamps, so their files rebuild what
+# depends on them; CMake before 3.24 has no such policy and behaves this way already.
+if(POLICY CMP0135)
+    cmake_policy(SET CMP0135 NEW)
+endif()
+
+# The release being worked towards, such as 0.1.0, or for a development build a PEP 440 pre-release of
+# it, such as 0.1.0.dev42, which only the Python package carries.
+set(TERRAINGEN_FULL_VERSION "0.2.0.dev117")
+string(REGEX MATCH "^[0-9]+\\.[0-9]+\\.[0-9]+" TERRAINGEN_VERSION "${TERRAINGEN_FULL_VERSION}")
+
+project(
+    TerrainGen
+    VERSION ${TERRAINGEN_VERSION}
+    LANGUAGES C CXX)
+# The Metal backend (terraingen/gpu/metal.cpp) is Objective-C++ on Apple platforms. It is enabled
+# here, above every target that links the gpu module.
+if(APPLE)
+    enable_language(OBJCXX)
+endif()
+
+# No fused multiply-adds unless the source asks: GCC and Clang contract a * b + c into one rounding on
+# CPUs that have the instruction (ARM, Apple Silicon), so the same seed would give different bits
+# there than on x86.
+add_compile_options(
+    "$<$<COMPILE_LANG_AND_ID:C,GNU,Clang,AppleClang>:-ffp-contract=off>"
+    "$<$<COMPILE_LANG_AND_ID:CXX,GNU,Clang,AppleClang>:-ffp-contract=off>"
+    "$<$<COMPILE_LANG_AND_ID:OBJCXX,AppleClang,Clang>:-ffp-contract=off>")
+
+option(TERRAINGEN_BUILD_TESTS "Build the test suite" ${PROJECT_IS_TOP_LEVEL})
+option(TERRAINGEN_BUILD_BENCHMARKS "Build the benchmarks (Google Benchmark)"
+       ${PROJECT_IS_TOP_LEVEL})
+option(TERRAINGEN_BUILD_EXAMPLES "Build the C++ examples and test every example"
+       ${PROJECT_IS_TOP_LEVEL})
+option(TERRAINGEN_BUILD_PYTHON "Build the Python bindings" ON)
+option(TERRAINGEN_BUILD_APP "Build the terraingen command-line app" ON)
+option(TERRAINGEN_BUILD_GUI
+       "Build `terraingen --gui`, the 3D GUI, with Ernie from TERRAINGEN_ERNIE_DIR, if it is there"
+       ON)
+option(TERRAINGEN_INSTALL "Generate install rules and the CMake package" ${PROJECT_IS_TOP_LEVEL})
+option(TERRAINGEN_COVERAGE "Instrument TerrainGen for code coverage and add a coverage target" OFF)
+
+include(GNUInstallDirs)
+
+set(CMAKE_CXX_STANDARD 17)
+set(CMAKE_CXX_STANDARD_REQUIRED ON)
+set(CMAKE_CXX_EXTENSIONS OFF)
+
+set(CMAKE_EXPORT_COMPILE_COMMANDS ON)
+
+set(CMAKE_CXX_VISIBILITY_PRESET hidden)
+set(CMAKE_VISIBILITY_INLINES_HIDDEN ON)
+
+set(CMAKE_RUNTIME_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY "${PROJECT_BINARY_DIR}/bin")
+set(CMAKE_LIBRARY_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY "${PROJECT_BINARY_DIR}/lib")
+set(CMAKE_ARCHIVE_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY "${PROJECT_BINARY_DIR}/lib")
+
+add_library(terraingen_warnings INTERFACE)
+if(MSVC)
+    target_compile_options(terraingen_warnings INTERFACE /W4)
+else()
+    target_compile_options(
+        terraingen_warnings
+        INTERFACE -Wall
+                  -Wextra
+                  -Wpedantic
+                  -Wshadow
+                  -Wconversion
+                  -Wsign-conversion
+                  -Wdouble-promotion)
+endif()
+
+add_library(terraingen_coverage INTERFACE)
+if(TERRAINGEN_COVERAGE)
+    if(NOT CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER_ID MATCHES "GNU|Clang")
+        message(FATAL_ERROR "TERRAINGEN_COVERAGE requires GCC or Clang")
+    endif()
+    if(NOT TERRAINGEN_BUILD_TESTS)
+        message(FATAL_ERROR "TERRAINGEN_COVERAGE requires TERRAINGEN_BUILD_TESTS")
+    endif()
+    # -O1 runs the terrain-generating tests several times faster than -O0. The counters are not
+    # atomic: atomic ones made threaded tests about three times slower, a race only loses hits, and
+    # ccache does not cache compiles with -fprofile-update.
+    set(TERRAINGEN_COVERAGE_OPTIMIZATION
+        "-O1"
+        CACHE STRING "Optimization flag for coverage builds")
+    target_compile_options(terraingen_coverage INTERFACE --coverage
+                                                         ${TERRAINGEN_COVERAGE_OPTIMIZATION} -g)
+    target_link_options(terraingen_coverage INTERFACE --coverage)
+endif()
+
+if(TERRAINGEN_BUILD_PYTHON)
+    include("${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/cmake/third_party/nanobind.cmake")
+endif()
+
+include("${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/cmake/third_party/vulkan_headers.cmake")
+include("${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/cmake/third_party/volk.cmake")
+include("${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/cmake/third_party/slang.cmake")
+include("${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/cmake/third_party/nvrtc.cmake")
+include("${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/cmake/TerrainGenSlang.cmake")
+
+# TERRAINGEN_GUI says whether the GUI is built: asked for, with the app, and Ernie found.
+set(TERRAINGEN_GUI OFF)
+if(TERRAINGEN_BUILD_GUI AND TERRAINGEN_BUILD_APP)
+    include("${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/cmake/third_party/ernie.cmake")
+endif()
+
+add_subdirectory(terraingen)
+
+if(TERRAINGEN_BUILD_TESTS)
+    enable_testing()
+    include("${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/cmake/TerrainGenTesting.cmake")
+endif()
+if(TERRAINGEN_BUILD_EXAMPLES)
+    add_subdirectory(examples/cpp)
+endif()
+if(TERRAINGEN_BUILD_TESTS)
+    add_subdirectory(tests)
+endif()
+if(TERRAINGEN_BUILD_BENCHMARKS)
+    add_subdirectory(tests/benchmark)
+endif()
+
+if(TERRAINGEN_INSTALL)
+    include(CMakePackageConfigHelpers)
+    set(TERRAINGEN_INSTALL_CMAKEDIR "${CMAKE_INSTALL_LIBDIR}/cmake/terraingen")
+
+    install(
+        EXPORT terraingenTargets
+        NAMESPACE terraingen::
+        DESTINATION "${TERRAINGEN_INSTALL_CMAKEDIR}"
+        COMPONENT development)
+
+    configure_package_config_file(
+        "${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/cmake/terraingenConfig.cmake.in"
+        "${PROJECT_BINARY_DIR}/terraingenConfig.cmake"
+        INSTALL_DESTINATION "${TERRAINGEN_INSTALL_CMAKEDIR}")
+    write_basic_package_version_file("${PROJECT_BINARY_DIR}/terraingenConfigVersion.cmake"
+                                     COMPATIBILITY SameMinorVersion)
+
+    install(
+        FILES "${PROJECT_BINARY_DIR}/terraingenConfig.cmake"
+              "${PROJECT_BINARY_DIR}/terraingenConfigVersion.cmake"
+        DESTINATION "${TERRAINGEN_INSTALL_CMAKEDIR}"
+        COMPONENT development)
+
+    include("${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/cmake/TerrainGenPackaging.cmake")
+endif()

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+Metadata-Version: 2.1
+Name: terraingenpy
+Version: 0.2.0.dev117
+Summary: Scientific terrain generation for planetary surfaces
+Keywords: terrain,moon,mars,craters,planetary science,simulation
+Author: Alex Maietta
+License: BSD 3-Clause License
+         
+         Copyright (c) 2026, Alex Maietta
+         
+         Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
+         modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:
+         
+         1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this
+            list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
+         
+         2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice,
+            this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation
+            and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
+         
+         3. Neither the name of the copyright holder nor the names of its
+            contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from
+            this software without specific prior written permission.
+         
+         THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS"
+         AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE
+         IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE
+         DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE
+         FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL
+         DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR
+         SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER
+         CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY,
+         OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE
+         OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
+         
+Classifier: Development Status :: 3 - Alpha
+Classifier: Intended Audience :: Science/Research
+Classifier: License :: OSI Approved :: BSD License
+Classifier: Operating System :: MacOS
+Classifier: Operating System :: Microsoft :: Windows
+Classifier: Operating System :: POSIX :: Linux
+Classifier: Programming Language :: C++
+Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3
+Classifier: Topic :: Scientific/Engineering :: Astronomy
+Classifier: Topic :: Scientific/Engineering :: GIS
+Project-URL: Homepage, https://github.com/alexmaietta/terraingen
+Project-URL: Documentation, https://alexmaietta.github.io/terraingen/
+Project-URL: Source, https://github.com/alexmaietta/terraingen
+Project-URL: Issues, https://github.com/alexmaietta/terraingen/issues
+Project-URL: Changelog, https://github.com/alexmaietta/terraingen/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md
+Requires-Python: >=3.10
+Requires-Dist: numpy>=1.22
+Provides-Extra: test
+Requires-Dist: pytest; extra == "test"
+Description-Content-Type: text/markdown
+
+> 🚧 **This project is in active beta development.** This means the API is unstable, features may be added or removed, and breaking changes are likely to occur frequently and without notice as the design is refined.
+
+[![pipeline](https://img.shields.io/github/actions/workflow/status/alexmaietta/terraingen/ci.yml?branch=main&label=pipeline)](https://github.com/alexmaietta/terraingen/actions/workflows/ci.yml)
+[![coverage](https://img.shields.io/endpoint?url=https://alexmaietta.github.io/terraingen/coverage/badge.json)](https://alexmaietta.github.io/terraingen/coverage/)
+[![release](https://img.shields.io/github/v/release/alexmaietta/terraingen)](https://github.com/alexmaietta/terraingen/releases)
+[![pypi](https://img.shields.io/pypi/v/terraingenpy)](https://pypi.org/project/terraingenpy/)
+[![license](https://img.shields.io/badge/license-BSD_3--Clause-blue)](LICENSE)
+
+# TerrainGen
+
+A high-performance scientific terrain generation tool for interplanetary bodies.
+
+![Blue Moon MK1 SN101 lander at Connecting Ridge, with Mons Malapert in the background, split between the source elevation model and TerrainGen's upscaled terrain](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/alexmaietta/terraingen/main/docs/images/hero_mk1_sn101_connecting_ridge_split.jpg)
+
+*Blue Moon MK1 SN101 lander at Connecting Ridge near the lunar south pole, with Mons Malapert in the background. Left: the 5 m/px LOLA elevation models as they are. Right: the same terrain upscaled by TerrainGen.*
+
+TerrainGen can:
+
+- Generate synthetic terrain from scratch, or add fine detail to existing elevation models.
+- Populate craters and boulders from cumulative size-frequency distributions.
+- Model each crater's profile, age, degradation, irregularity.
+- Bake small boulders into the heightmap, and generate procedural 3D boulder models for the large ones.
+- Produce synthetic albedo maps with crater ejecta and rays that fade with crater age.
+- Read GeoTIFF elevation and albedo maps, and ICQ, OBJ, glTF and STL shape models.
+- Write GeoTIFF heightmaps and albedo, material and photometry maps, crater and boulder lists as CSV or JSON, and terrain, boulder and body meshes as glTF, OBJ or STL.
+- Model complex geologic features such as complex and secondary craters, boulder ejecta fields, dunes and wind ripples, layered strata terraced into benches and cliffs, fractured bedrock pavement, wind-carved ventifacts, and sand pooled in lows or trailing behind boulders.
+- Be extended through base classes in C++ or Python with custom size-frequency distributions, crater ages, profiles and degradation, albedo, sources, and layers.
+- Perform GPU-accelerated operations for generating noise, craters, boulders, albedo, and more.
+- Generate deterministic results for the same seed on any grid, point query or thread count.
+- Integrate into simulations and other external workflows.
+
+We also provide:
+
+- A C++17 library with Python bindings and minimal dependencies.
+- Smart and tested defaults for various surface features.
+- A command-line interface that generates terrain from JSON configuration files.
+- A GUI for editing configurations and viewing the results in 3D.
+- Examples in C++, Python and JSON.
+- A standalone demo that streams TerrainGen detail into a planetary-scale renderer on the GPU while navigating around the Moon.
+- Example integrations with third-party tools such as Project Chrono, NASA Trick, IsaacLab, and Newton.
+
+For more information on the concepts behind TerrainGen and the API, see our latest [documentation](https://alexmaietta.github.io/terraingen/).
+
+## Quick Start
+
+We recommended getting started by installing `terraingenpy` from PyPi and running the GUI.
+
+```sh
+pip install terraingenpy
+terraingen --gui
+```
+
+## Requirements
+
+- Linux (Ubuntu 22.04 or newer), macOS 14 or newer, or Windows 10 or newer, on x86_64 or arm64.
+- Python 3.10 or newer for the Python package.
+- Optional: a Vulkan, CUDA or Metal driver for GPU acceleration. Run `terraingen backends` to see what is available.
+
+## Installation
+
+### Releases
+
+Every [release](https://github.com/alexmaietta/terraingen/releases) has the CLI, library, headers and CMake package for each platform, and `.deb` packages for Ubuntu and Debian. The [dev](https://github.com/alexmaietta/terraingen/releases/tag/dev) pre-release is built from `main` on every push.
+
+### Building from Source
+
+You need CMake 3.22 or newer and a C++17 compiler (tested with GCC 11, Clang 14, Apple Clang 15 and MSVC 2022). CMake fetches everything else.
+
+```sh
+cmake -S . -B build -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release
+cmake --build build -j 8
+cmake --install build --prefix /usr/local
+```
+
+To build the Python package from source, run `pip install .` instead.
+
+### Docker
+
+```sh
+docker run --rm ghcr.io/alexmaietta/terraingen:latest terraingen --help
+```
+
+The `latest` tag is the newest release, and each release is also tagged with its version without the `v`, such as `0.2.0` and `0.2`. The `dev` tag follows `main`.
+
+## Getting Started
+
+### Python
+
+```python
+import terraingen
+
+# A flat 513 x 513 grid with 2 m pixels
+ground = terraingen.FlatSource(513, 513, 2.0)
+
+# Fractal noise 40 m high with an 800 m wavelength
+fractal = terraingen.FractalParams(seed=1, wavelength=800.0, amplitude=40.0)
+noise = terraingen.NoiseLayer(fractal)
+relief = terraingen.NoiseRelief([noise])
+
+terrain = terraingen.TerrainGenerator(ground, [relief])
+heights = terraingen.evaluate(terrain)
+terraingen.write_geotiff("terrain.tif", heights)
+```
+
+### C++
+
+```cmake
+find_package(terraingen REQUIRED)
+target_link_libraries(app PRIVATE terraingen::terraingen)
+```
+
+```cpp
+#include <terraingen/terraingen.h>
+
+int main() {
+    // Fractal noise 40 m high with an 800 m wavelength
+    terraingen::NoiseLayer noise;
+    noise.fractal.seed = 1;
+    noise.fractal.wavelength = 800.0f;
+    noise.fractal.amplitude = 40.0f;
+
+    terraingen::SyntheticTerrainParams relief;
+    relief.layers = {noise};
+
+    // A flat 513 x 513 grid with 2 m pixels, plus the noise
+    terraingen::TerrainGenerator terrain;
+    terrain.source = std::make_shared<terraingen::FlatSource>(513, 513, 2.0);
+    terrain.layers.push_back(std::make_shared<terraingen::NoiseRelief>(relief));
+
+    terraingen::Raster<float> heights = terraingen::Evaluate(terrain);
+    terraingen::WriteGeoTiff("terrain.tif", heights);
+}
+```
+
+### Examples
+
+[examples/](examples/) has the same terrains as JSON configurations, C++ programs and Python scripts, covering basic terrains, craters, boulders, albedo, planets, and DEM detail:
+
+```sh
+terraingen examples/config/craters/example_craters_simple.json
+```
+
+### Demos
+
+[demos/](demos/) has larger showcases, such as terrain over a whole asteroid built from the Itokawa shape model.
+
+## Contributing
+
+Contributions are welcome. See [CONTRIBUTING.md](CONTRIBUTING.md) for how to build, test and submit changes.
+
+### Documentation
+
+The [documentation](https://alexmaietta.github.io/terraingen/) is built with MkDocs and Doxygen from [docs/](docs/). Run `make -C docs build` to build it locally.
+
+### Code Coverage
+
+The [coverage report](https://alexmaietta.github.io/terraingen/coverage/) is updated on every push to `main`. To generate it locally:
+
+```sh
+cmake -S . -B build-coverage -DTERRAINGEN_COVERAGE=ON -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug
+cmake --build build-coverage -j 8 --target coverage
+```
+
+## Citation
+
+If you use TerrainGen for published research, please cite:
+
+```bibtex
+@software{maietta_terraingen,
+  author  = {Maietta, Alex},
+  title   = {{TerrainGen}: An open-source scientific terrain generation suite for planetary surfaces},
+  url     = {https://github.com/alexmaietta/terraingen},
+  version = {0.2.0},
+  license = {BSD-3-Clause},
+  year    = {2026}
+}
+```
+
+## License
+
+TerrainGen is licensed under the [BSD 3-Clause License](LICENSE).
+
+Third-party code and assets keep their own licenses, listed in [third_party/README.md](third_party/README.md).
+
+## Acknowledgements
+
+TerrainGen draws inspiration from existing lunar terrain generation tools:
+
+| Name | Organization | Availability | Capabilities | Limitations |
+| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
+| [synthterrain](https://github.com/NeoGeographyToolkit/synthterrain) | NASA Ames | Open source (Apache-2.0) | Crater and boulder populations from size-frequency distributions, crater profiles and DEMs on flat terrain | Doesn't generate surface detail or upscale existing DEMs, not actively contributed to. |
+| [lunasynth](https://github.com/nasa-jpl/lunasynth) | NASA JPL | Open source (Apache-2.0) | Adds craters and boulders to a lunar base DEM, down to 1 cm pixels, and renders images under varying camera and sun positions | Project is not actively-maintained |
+| [DLES Terrain Crafting](https://doi.org/10.1109/AERO63441.2025.11068736) | NASA JSC | Not publicly released (paper) | Enhances LOLA and NAC-derived DEMs of the lunar south pole to 20 cm with synthetic craters and boulders, including hand-placed craters from imagery | Not publicly released, relies on manual crater counting, stamps craters from four template shapes, leaves blending rings around craters and smooth interpolated ground between them, and doesn't produce albedo maps. |
+| [PANGU](https://pangu.software/) | University of Dundee / STAR-Dundee | Commercial (free for ESA projects) | Multi-resolution planet and asteroid surfaces from real or fractal DEMs with statistical craters and boulders; GPU camera, LiDAR and thermal sensor simulation | Requires a paid license outside ESA projects, and ships as standalone command-line tools and GUIs rather than a library to integrate into a project. |