Struct PixelProvenance 

pub struct PixelProvenance {

    pub scanline: i16,
    pub dot: u16,
    pub layer: PixelLayer,
    pub palette_addr: u16,
    pub palette_index: u8,
    pub color: u8,
    pub color_mask: u8,
    pub nt_addr: u16,
    pub at_addr: u16,
    pub pattern_addr: u16,
    pub bg_idx: u8,
    pub bg_pal: u8,
    pub spr_idx: u8,
    pub spr_pal: u8,
    pub sprite_slot: u8,
    pub sprite_front: bool,
    pub sprite_zero: bool,
    pub fine_x: u8,
    pub fine_y: u8,
}

The causal record for one emitted pixel.

Recorded in Ppu::emit_pixel from state already computed there plus the per-tile address cascade described on Ppu::prov_bg_cur. Everything here is an address or a decision the hardware actually made; nothing is reconstructed after the fact, because a reconstruction would silently disagree with the emulator in exactly the corner cases a provenance panel exists to explain.

Reading it

Self::palette_index indexes straight into WriteAttribution::palette, and Self::nt_addr resolves (through the mapper’s mirroring) to the CIRAM offset for WriteAttribution::ciram — so the two halves of this module compose into “this pixel is this color because instruction X wrote this palette entry and instruction Y wrote this nametable byte”.

Fields

scanline: i16

PPU scanline the pixel was emitted on.

dot: u16

PPU dot the pixel was emitted at. Screen X is dot - 1.

layer: PixelLayer

Which layer won.

palette_addr: u16

The exact palette-RAM address read for the final color, pre-mirroring — so $3F10 is reported as $3F10 even though it reads $3F00.

palette_index: u8

Post-mirroring palette-RAM index of the final color. Indexes WriteAttribution::palette directly.

color: u8

The 6-bit NES color the palette entry held, before emphasis.

color_mask: u8

$2001 grayscale + emphasis bits in effect at this pixel (mask & 0xE1), which is what turns Self::color into the RGBA actually written.

nt_addr: u16

Nametable address of the background tile being displayed at this pixel — not the address v currently holds, which has already advanced two tiles ahead. See Ppu::prov_bg_cur.

at_addr: u16

Attribute address of the displayed background tile. Carried rather than derived from Self::nt_addr, because an MMC5 vertical split supplies its own attribute address that the standard arithmetic cannot produce.

pattern_addr: u16

CHR address of the pattern row feeding this pixel — the displayed background tile’s row, or the winning sprite’s row. PATTERN_ADDR_NONE for a backdrop pixel.

bg_idx: u8

Background pattern bits (0..=3) at this pixel. 0 is transparent.

bg_pal: u8

Background attribute / palette group (0..=3).

spr_idx: u8

Sprite pattern bits (0..=3) at this pixel. 0 is transparent.

spr_pal: u8

Sprite palette group (0..=3).

sprite_slot: u8

Sprite slot (0..=7) of the winning sprite, or SPRITE_SLOT_NONE.

This is the secondary-OAM slot for the scanline, not the primary OAM sprite number: sprite evaluation copies bytes from primary to secondary OAM without retaining the source index, so the primary index is not available at emit time. The panel matches the slot’s Y/tile/attribute against OAM rather than being handed an index the PPU never kept.

sprite_front: bool

true when the winning sprite had front priority over the background.

sprite_zero: bool

true when sprite 0 contributed an opaque pixel here — the condition the sprite-0 hit flag is derived from.

fine_x: u8

Fine-X scroll in effect (0..=7): which texel column of the displayed background tile this pixel samples.

fine_y: u8

Fine-Y (0..=7): which texel row of the displayed background tile.

Implementations

impl PixelProvenance

pub const fn is_recorded(&self) -> bool

Whether this record was actually emitted, as opposed to being the cleared Default.

Ppu::emit_pixel stamps Self::dot on every pixel it records, and the visible dots are 1..=256 — so dot 0 is unreachable for a real record and is exactly what clear leaves behind. Without this a caller cannot tell a cleared record from a genuine backdrop pixel, and reads a confident “scanline 0, dot 0, backdrop, palette $0000” as fact. That is precisely how the v2.3.2 inspector reported a wiped frame (v2.3.6 workstream 0).

Trait Implementations

impl Clone for PixelProvenance

fn clone(&self) -> PixelProvenance

Returns a duplicate of the value.

fn clone_from(&mut self, source: &Self)

Performs copy-assignment from source.

impl Copy for PixelProvenance

impl Debug for PixelProvenance

fn fmt(&self, f: &mut Formatter<'_>) -> Result

Formats the value using the given formatter.

impl Default for PixelProvenance

fn default() -> PixelProvenance

Returns the “default value” for a type.

impl Eq for PixelProvenance

impl Hash for PixelProvenance

fn hash<__H: Hasher>(&self, state: &mut __H)

Feeds this value into the given Hasher.

fn hash_slice<H>(data: &[Self], state: &mut H)

where H: Hasher, Self: Sized,

Feeds a slice of this type into the given Hasher.

impl PartialEq for PixelProvenance

fn eq(&self, other: &PixelProvenance) -> bool

Equality operator ==.

fn ne(&self, other: &Rhs) -> bool

Inequality operator !=.

impl StructuralPartialEq for PixelProvenance