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#324 asked whether cliffCatalog.ts's plain-f64 sliderToLinear or
eval/math.ts's per-operation f32 form was the right one. The answer is
neither, and the issue's framing was wrong in two ways.

Its stated consumer no longer existed

The issue named cliffFields.ts as the f64 copy's only consumer. That file was
deleted by #227 (PR #366, commit 8516e61), so the TypeScript copy had no
production consumer left at all - only the spec pinning it. The live divergence was entirely on the Rust side, in
crates/fmw-noise/src/cliffs/catalog.rs::cliff_slider_to_linear, which the port
reproduced deliberately under the rule that a finding lands as its own graded
change rather than as a unilateral fix.

Both forms were wrong, not one

scripts/probes/cliff-slider-to-linear is a new probe that asks the game
directly, sampling slider_to_linear over 3 ranges x 13 sliders and scoring
every candidate by exact bit match:

candidate (-1, 1) (-1.7, 1.7) (-50, 50) total
per-op f32 + bounds narrowed 13/13 13/13 13/13 39/39
per-op f32 (eval/math.ts, what shipped) 13/13 5/13 13/13 31/39
f64 rounded once 7/13 8/13 6/13 21/39
plain f64 (cliffCatalog.ts, what #324 named) 2/13 1/13 2/13 5/39

The f64 copy is refuted outright - it fails a control. At s = 6 the ratio
is exactly 1, so every implementation must return hi whatever log2(6) is,
and it returns 1.7 where the game returns f32(1.7). But the shipped
per-operation form was also incomplete: it narrowed every operation and not the
bounds.

Why nothing could see this for a year

(-1.7, 1.7) is the only range in the whole of factorio-data whose bounds are
not exactly representable in f32. Every other use is (-1, 1), (-0.5, 0.5) or
(-50, 50), and on those, narrowing the bounds is a no-op. fulgora_grid's
(-50, 50) is the range the original 5/5 validation used - so it confirmed the
form on exactly the input class that cannot discriminate it.

This is the same class as the structure_subnoise finding, one level up: narrow
the f64 literal before it is used, not the product afterwards.

One frozen count moved, and that is explained rather than lucky

slider linear [-1.7, 1.7] | checksum_slider in tier2-checksums.json, which is
the correct signature for this change. Nothing else moved, including every cliff
fixture, and the new Rust test asserts why rather than leaving it to luck.

The cliff lever is
min(slider_to_linear(frequency, -1.7, 1.7), slider_to_linear(richness, -1, 1)).
Every committed cliff fixture sits at default richness, where the second
argument is exactly 0 and the min picks it - so the (-1.7, 1.7) arm is masked
by an argument the min never chooses. It stays masked for every frequency at
or above 1; below 1 the frequency arm goes negative and wins.
the_lever_is_zero_at_the_default_controls_and_live_off_them pins both halves,
so a test that only pinned the default 0 cannot pass by the lever being wired to
a constant.

Two comments were wrong and are corrected

Both eval/math.rs and eval/math.ts said slider_to_linear "resolves on the
prototype side - Lua, not the noise VM". It does not: it is declared
type = "noise-function" in core/prototypes/noise-functions.lua, so it is
inlined into its callers and evaluated by the machine like anything else.

The conclusion those comments supported - exact log2, not fast_approx -
survives the correction and is better supported now, because the probe passes
the slider as x, a position variable that cannot be constant-folded, and exact
log2 still takes all 39 cells.

Verification

pnpm run verify passes in full, including verify:rust and the rebuilt
engine.wasm byte comparison.

The fix was checked for vacuity by planting, on both arms separately:

planted break what fails
Rust: remove the two bound-narrowing lines from eval::math::slider_to_linear 1 test - slider_to_linear_narrows_its_bounds_before_using_them - with 453 passing
TypeScript: remove f(lo) / f(hi) from sliderToLinear 4 tests across 3 files

The TypeScript arm's four are worth naming, because they grade different
things: two in sliderToLinearOracle.spec.ts (the 39-point game comparison and
the sharpest single point), the exact anchor in test/eval/math.spec.ts, and
wasmEvalParity.spec.ts's 600-position fold, which catches the two arms
disagreeing rather than either one being wrong on its own.

The asymmetry is the honest result: on the Rust side only the dedicated unit
test sees it, because no cliff fixture can - which is the masking explained
above.

No fixture and no frozen count was edited to make a test pass. The one frozen
row that changed is the measured consequence of the fix, stated above.

The new fixture is captured at Factorio 2.1.17. The map-gen data Lua is
byte-identical from 2.1.14 through 2.1.17, so it is the same oracle the existing
fixtures were captured against.

Closes #324.

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  • Bug Fixes

    • Corrected slider-to-linear calculations for cliff and noise generation, including accurate floating-point behavior across supported ranges.
    • Improved cliff field results for non-default frequency and richness settings.
    • Updated generated checksums to reflect corrected calculations.
  • Tests

    • Added regression and oracle coverage across 39 sampled values and multiple control ranges.
    • Added validation for edge cases, including narrow ranges and exact midpoint, boundary, and zero values.
  • Documentation

    • Updated porting and survey documentation to record the resolved findings and validated behavior.

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The change standardizes sliderToLinear on f32-narrowed bounds, removes duplicate cliff implementations, adds Factorio 2.1.17 oracle validation, updates checksum coverage, and records the resolved port findings.

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Slider conversion standardization

Layer / File(s) Summary
Shared slider conversion
crates/fmw-noise/src/eval/math.rs, src/noise/eval/math.ts, test/eval/math.spec.ts, test/fixtures/tier2-checksums.json
Both implementations narrow lo and hi to f32 before calculation. Regression tests cover cliff ranges, endpoints, midpoint behavior, and f32-sensitive bounds.
Cliff calculation integration
crates/fmw-noise/src/cliffs/..., src/noise/cliffs/cliffCatalog.ts, test/cliffCatalog.spec.ts
Cliff calculations use the shared conversion. The duplicate catalog helpers and their former anchor tests are removed. Regression coverage validates control-dependent cliff lever behavior.
Oracle probe and validation
scripts/probes/cliff-slider-to-linear/*, test/fixtures/oracle-slider-to-linear.seed123456.json, test/fixtures/PROVENANCE.json, test/sliderToLinearOracle.spec.ts
A seeded Factorio probe samples three ranges and 13 slider values. Fixture-backed tests verify all 39 outputs and reject the previous non-narrowed and all-f64 implementations.
Port records and findings
CLAUDE.md, docs/nauvis-cliff-rock-fields-port-survey.md, docs/rust-wasm-port.md
Documentation records the measured results, corrected evaluation model, removed duplicate implementations, updated oracle grouping, checksum change, and resolved findings.

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Comment thread crates/fmw-noise/src/cliffs/catalog.rs
#324 asked whether `cliffCatalog.ts`'s plain-f64 `sliderToLinear` or
`eval/math.ts`'s per-operation f32 form was the right one. The answer is
neither. `scripts/probes/cliff-slider-to-linear` samples the game's own
`slider_to_linear` over 3 ranges x 13 sliders and scores by exact bit match:

| candidate                                    | (-1,1) | (-1.7,1.7) | (-50,50) | total |
| -------------------------------------------- | -----: | ---------: | -------: | ----: |
| per-op f32 + bounds narrowed                 |  13/13 |      13/13 |    13/13 | 39/39 |
| per-op f32 (eval/math.ts, what shipped)      |  13/13 |       5/13 |    13/13 | 31/39 |
| f64 rounded once                             |   7/13 |       8/13 |     6/13 | 21/39 |
| plain f64 (cliffCatalog.ts, what #324 named) |   2/13 |       1/13 |     2/13 |  5/39 |

The f64 copy is refuted outright - it fails a control at `s = 6`, where the
ratio is exactly 1 so every implementation must return `hi`, and it returns
1.7 where the game returns f32(1.7). The per-operation form narrowed every
operation but not the bounds.

Nothing could see this for a year because `(-1.7, 1.7)` is the only range in
all of factorio-data whose bounds f32 cannot hold exactly. Every other use is
`(-1,1)`, `(-0.5,0.5)` or `(-50,50)`, where narrowing the bounds is a no-op -
and `fulgora_grid`'s `(-50, 50)` is the range the original 5/5 validation
used, so it confirmed the form on exactly the input class that cannot
discriminate it.

Both duplicate f64 copies are deleted rather than fixed. `cliffFields.ts`
went with #227, so the TypeScript copy had no production consumer left; the
live divergence was `cliff_slider_to_linear` in the Rust cliff catalog, and
the lever now calls `eval::math::slider_to_linear`.

One frozen count moved: the tier-2 fold for `slider linear [-1.7, 1.7]`,
which is the correct signature. No cliff fixture moved, and that is asserted
rather than hoped - the lever is
`min(slider_to_linear(freq, -1.7, 1.7), slider_to_linear(richness, -1, 1))`
and every fixture sits at default richness, where the `min` picks the second
argument's exact 0. It stays masked for every frequency at or above 1; below
1 the frequency arm goes negative and wins.

Two comments claiming `slider_to_linear` "resolves on the prototype side -
Lua, not the noise VM" were wrong and are corrected. It is declared
`type = "noise-function"`, so it is inlined into its callers and evaluated by
the machine. The conclusion they supported - exact log2, not fastapprox -
survives and is better supported now, because the probe passes the slider as
`x`, a position variable that cannot be constant-folded.

The cliff catalog's module doc is rewritten for the same reason. It said the
slider narrowing "now lives here too" and linked twice to the item this change
deletes - two broken intra-doc links that `cargo doc` reports and
`clippy -D warnings` cannot see, so the gate stayed green on them. The
correction is the better history anyway: #226 judged "`slider_to_linear`
already lives in `crate::eval::math`" to be wrong reasoning and added the local
copy beside the two lever helpers, and #324 shows that original reasoning was
right all along.

`engine.wasm` is rebuilt and committed. It comes back byte-identical across
the `cargo fmt` pass that `cliffs/fields.rs` needed after the change, so no
panic location moved.

Four documents described #324 as open. `CLAUDE.md` and
`docs/rust-wasm-port.md` both had a "one open finding" section, which is now
none; the port doc gains the probe's score table, the reason a year of
evidence could not see the defect, and the probe-design notes worth copying.
`docs/nauvis-cliff-rock-fields-port-survey.md` is a point-in-time survey, so
its original text stands and the correction is appended: it called
`eval/math.ts` "game-validated", which was true of the evidence and false of
the function - that validation used `(-50, 50)`, and only `(-1.7, 1.7)` can
discriminate the two forms.

The port doc also records that 2.1.14 through 2.1.17 are ONE oracle for
map-gen, since the data Lua is byte-identical across all four. That is what
makes a fixture captured at 2.1.17 comparable with the ones already
committed.

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`rustdoc::broken_intra_doc_links` is a rustdoc lint, not a rustc or clippy
one, so `cargo clippy -D warnings` never fires on it and `verify-rust.sh`
ran no rustdoc at all. That is how #387 shipped two broken links past a
green local `verify` and eleven green CI checks: a deleted item left the
module doc above it linking to a function that no longer existed.

`verify:rust` now runs `cargo doc` with `-D rustdoc::broken_intra_doc_links`
and `--document-private-items`, placed with the other static checks so it
fails fast.

`--document-private-items` is load-bearing rather than thorough, and that is
a planted result rather than a reading of the flag's docs. The default view
only checks links on public items, and 2 of the 11 broken links standing on
`main` were invisible to it, both in `cliffs/catalog.rs`. Re-breaking the
link at `cliffs/catalog.rs:379` leaves the public view exiting 0, having
missed it, while the gate exits 101.

Scoped to that one lint rather than `-D warnings`. Four
`private_intra_doc_links` and four `redundant_explicit_links` warnings stand
deliberately: the first are public docs in `voronoi_noise.rs` pointing at
private items, which resolve under the flag above, and a blanket deny would
also let a future rustdoc release redden untouched code by adding a lint.

Cost is not a reason to skip it: 0.67/0.67/0.70s over three cold runs in a
fresh target dir and 0.03s warm, because `fmw-noise` has zero dependencies
so `--no-deps` rustdoc compiles nothing.

The 11 fixes are two shapes. Nine were links to `#[cfg(test)]` functions,
which cannot resolve in a normal build; dropping the brackets and keeping
the backticks leaves every sentence identical. Two pointed at real items
addressed wrongly: `voronoi_noise.rs` linked `delta_to` unqualified when it
is an associated fn on `Voronoi`, and `trees/field.rs` linked
`Self::eval_at` from a doc on `SpeciesField::cheap_from` when `eval_at`
belongs to `TreeFields` - that one sits on the comment about the four
addends staying bit-identical, so a reader following it landed nowhere on a
load-bearing claim.

`engine.wasm` is unchanged. The edits preserved line counts, so no
`core::panic::Location` record moved, and the byte comparison passes against
the committed artifact.


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