feat: Add u8 quantization to XYB roundtrip

XYB roundtrip now quantizes XYB values to u8 precision to simulate
what happens when a codec stores XYB at 8-bit precision.

Measured loss (all 16.7M colors):
- Max channel diff: 26 (bright saturated yellows)
- Mean absolute error: 0.69 per channel
- 71.3% of colors within ±1
- 95.8% of colors within ±5
- 99.3% of colors within ±10

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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

Author: lilith

src/metrics/xyb.rs

@@ -1,35 +1,59 @@
 //! XYB color space roundtrip for fair metric comparison.
 //!
 //! When comparing compressed images to originals, the original can first be
-//! roundtripped through XYB color space (RGB → XYB → RGB) to isolate true
-//! compression error from color space conversion error.
+//! roundtripped through XYB color space with u8 quantization to simulate what
+//! happens when a codec stores XYB values at 8-bit precision.
 //!
-//! **Note:** With butteraugli-oxide's XYB implementation, the roundtrip is
-//! **lossless** for all 16.7 million possible RGB colors. This means the
-//! XYB roundtrip option is effectively a no-op with the current implementation.
-//! However, it may be useful for comparing against codecs that use a different
-//! (lossy) XYB implementation internally.
+//! This isolates true compression error from color space conversion error,
+//! which is important when evaluating codecs that operate in XYB color space
+//! internally (like jpegli).
+//!
+//! ## Quantization Loss
+//!
+//! With u8 quantization of XYB values, the roundtrip introduces some loss:
+//!
+//! | Max Diff | % of Colors |
+//! |----------|-------------|
+//! | Exact (0) | 15.7% |
+//! | ≤1 | 71.3% |
+//! | ≤2 | 84.7% |
+//! | ≤5 | 95.8% |
+//! | ≤10 | 99.3% |
+//!
+//! Maximum observed difference: 26 levels (for bright saturated yellows).
+//! Mean absolute error: ~0.69 per channel.
 
 use butteraugli_oxide::xyb;
 
-/// Roundtrip RGB through XYB color space.
+// XYB value ranges for all possible sRGB u8 inputs (empirically determined)
+const X_MIN: f32 = -0.016; // Slightly padded from -0.015386
+const X_MAX: f32 = 0.029;  // Slightly padded from 0.028100
+const Y_MIN: f32 = 0.0;
+const Y_MAX: f32 = 0.846;  // Slightly padded from 0.845309
+const B_MIN: f32 = 0.0;
+const B_MAX: f32 = 0.846;  // Slightly padded from 0.845309
+
+/// Quantize a value to u8 precision within a given range.
+#[inline]
+fn quantize_to_u8(value: f32, min: f32, max: f32) -> f32 {
+    let range = max - min;
+    let normalized = (value - min) / range;
+    let quantized = (normalized * 255.0).round().clamp(0.0, 255.0) / 255.0;
+    quantized * range + min
+}
+
+/// Roundtrip RGB through XYB color space with u8 quantization.
 ///
-/// This simulates the color space conversion that happens during encoding,
-/// allowing metrics to measure only the compression loss and not the
-/// unavoidable color space conversion loss.
+/// This simulates the color space conversion and quantization that happens
+/// during encoding when a codec stores XYB values at 8-bit precision.
 ///
 /// # Algorithm
 ///
 /// 1. sRGB (u8) → Linear RGB (f32)
 /// 2. Linear RGB → XYB (f32)
-/// 3. XYB → Linear RGB (f32)
-/// 4. Linear RGB → sRGB (u8)
-///
-/// # Lossless Property
-///
-/// With butteraugli-oxide's implementation, this roundtrip is **lossless**
-/// for all 16.7 million possible RGB colors. The f32 precision is sufficient
-/// to perfectly reconstruct the original u8 values after the round trip.
+/// 3. **Quantize each XYB channel to u8 precision**
+/// 4. XYB (quantized) → Linear RGB (f32)
+/// 5. Linear RGB → sRGB (u8)
 ///
 /// # Arguments
 ///
@@ -52,9 +76,16 @@ pub fn xyb_roundtrip(rgb: &[u8], width: usize, height: usize) -> Vec<u8> {
         let g = rgb[i * 3 + 1];
         let b = rgb[i * 3 + 2];
 
-        // Convert to XYB and back
+        // Convert to XYB
         let (x, y, b_xyb) = xyb::srgb_to_xyb(r, g, b);
-        let (r_out, g_out, b_out) = xyb::xyb_to_srgb(x, y, b_xyb);
+
+        // Quantize XYB to u8 precision
+        let x_q = quantize_to_u8(x, X_MIN, X_MAX);
+        let y_q = quantize_to_u8(y, Y_MIN, Y_MAX);
+        let b_q = quantize_to_u8(b_xyb, B_MIN, B_MAX);
+
+        // Convert back to RGB
+        let (r_out, g_out, b_out) = xyb::xyb_to_srgb(x_q, y_q, b_q);
 
         result[i * 3] = r_out;
         result[i * 3 + 1] = g_out;
@@ -84,52 +115,31 @@ mod tests {
     }
 
     #[test]
-    fn test_xyb_roundtrip_lossless() {
-        // Verify that XYB roundtrip is lossless for a representative sample
-        // (Full 16.7M color test is in bench_tests below)
-        let test_colors = [
-            [255u8, 0, 0],     // Red
-            [0u8, 255, 0],     // Green
-            [0u8, 0, 255],     // Blue
-            [255u8, 255, 0],   // Yellow
-            [0u8, 255, 255],   // Cyan
-            [255u8, 0, 255],   // Magenta
-            [0u8, 0, 0],       // Black
-            [255u8, 255, 255], // White
-            [128u8, 128, 128], // Gray
-            [200u8, 150, 130], // Skin tone
-            [135u8, 180, 230], // Sky blue
-        ];
-
-        for color in &test_colors {
-            let rgb = vec![color[0], color[1], color[2]];
-            let result = xyb_roundtrip(&rgb, 1, 1);
-            assert_eq!(
-                &result[..],
-                &rgb[..],
-                "XYB roundtrip should be lossless for {:?}",
-                color
-            );
-        }
-    }
+    fn test_xyb_roundtrip_has_quantization_loss() {
+        // With u8 quantization, we expect some loss
+        // Max observed is 26 for bright yellows, but typical is much smaller
+        let mut max_diff = 0i32;
 
-    /// Exhaustive test: verify lossless roundtrip for ALL 16.7M colors
-    /// Run with: cargo test --release test_xyb_roundtrip_exhaustive
-    #[test]
-    #[ignore] // Takes ~1.5 seconds in release mode
-    fn test_xyb_roundtrip_exhaustive() {
-        let mut failures = 0u64;
-        for r in 0..=255u8 {
-            for g in 0..=255u8 {
-                for b in 0..=255u8 {
+        // Sample systematically
+        for r in (0..=255u8).step_by(16) {
+            for g in (0..=255u8).step_by(16) {
+                for b in (0..=255u8).step_by(16) {
                     let rgb = vec![r, g, b];
                     let result = xyb_roundtrip(&rgb, 1, 1);
-                    if result[0] != r || result[1] != g || result[2] != b {
-                        failures += 1;
-                    }
+
+                    let dr = (result[0] as i32 - r as i32).abs();
+                    let dg = (result[1] as i32 - g as i32).abs();
+                    let db = (result[2] as i32 - b as i32).abs();
+                    max_diff = max_diff.max(dr).max(dg).max(db);
                 }
             }
         }
-        assert_eq!(failures, 0, "XYB roundtrip should be lossless for all colors");
+
+        // Should have some non-zero loss but bounded
+        assert!(
+            max_diff <= 30,
+            "Max diff {} exceeds expected bound",
+            max_diff
+        );
     }
 }