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Draft on top of #695, which it reuses: opens for real once #695 merges, rebased onto main.

Every term of the field conversion — the rotation of the vectors, the positional frame term, the component permutation — is a function of the voxel's position and the frames alone, so it was per-block all along. This extracts it into one _convert_field_values that both whole-field converters now call: the per-window read path #695 introduces shares the same arithmetic as the whole field by construction instead of by test, and the duplicated math between the two converters goes away.

convert_field_block is its public face, for the field that is never assembled: a producer computing an ITK-convention field region by region converts each block on its way into a store created with metadata_only=True (and declare_field_transform, #708), and inverse=True is the way back for a consumer. Blocks are channel-first with the geometry in dims order — what a producer holding the store's own scale and translation has; a block's origin is the field's translation advanced by the block's offset.

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  • Blockwise equals the whole-field converters themselves, both directions, 2D and 3D, to 1e-12 — the reference is the converter, so the two can never drift.
  • Forward then inverse is the identity; without frames the conversion is exactly the component permutation.
  • Full suite on top of Stream the field of an RFC-5 displacements or coordinates transform #695: 1471 passed, 3 skipped. Lint clean.

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  • New Features

    • Added blockwise conversion between ITK and RFC-5 displacement or coordinate fields in Python and TypeScript.
    • Supports forward and inverse conversion, component reordering, framed geometry, and Float32/Float64 data.
    • Exposed field transformation, coordinate-system, displacement, and conversion APIs through public modules.
    • Renamed the TypeScript conversion API to convertItkFieldBlock.
  • Documentation

    • Added usage documentation for blockwise ITK field conversion.
  • Tests

    • Added comprehensive Python and TypeScript coverage for conversions, round trips, axis ordering, geometry, and validation errors.

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The Python and TypeScript APIs now convert ITK field blocks without assembling full fields. Shared conversion logic handles frames, coordinates, axis ordering, validation, and numeric types. Tests cover 2D, 3D, round trips, reordered axes, and invalid inputs.

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Displacement field conversion

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Shared conversion logic
py/ngff_zarr/displacement_field_transform.py, ts/src/utils/displacement_field_transform.ts
Whole-field conversion uses shared value-conversion logic for frames, grid positions, directions, displacements, and coordinates.
Block conversion API and public exports
py/ngff_zarr/displacement_field_transform.py, py/ngff_zarr/__init__.py, ts/src/utils/displacement_field_transform.ts, ts/src/mod.ts, docs/itk.md
New Python and TypeScript block conversion APIs validate metadata and shapes, reorder components, preserve numeric types, and expose the new public symbols.
Conversion validation
py/test/test_convert_itk_field_block.py, ts/test/convert_itk_field_block_test.ts
Tests cover forward and inverse conversion, framed and reordered geometry, round trips, coordinate handling, and validation errors.

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Block conversion may accept invalid spatial extents and produce output for an invalid grid. This is a bounded input-validation correctness risk that should be addressed before relying on malformed geometry handling.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Caller
  participant convertItkFieldBlock
  participant fieldValueConverters
  participant FrameMetadata
  Caller->>convertItkFieldBlock: provide field block and geometry
  convertItkFieldBlock->>FrameMetadata: compute voxel positions
  FrameMetadata-->>convertItkFieldBlock: return positions
  convertItkFieldBlock->>fieldValueConverters: convert displacement or coordinate values
  fieldValueConverters-->>convertItkFieldBlock: return converted values
  convertItkFieldBlock-->>Caller: return reordered block
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A rabbit maps vectors in rows,
And checks every axis it knows.
Through frames they hop,
In blocks they stop,
Then return where the field gently flows.

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Add coverage for transform_type="coordinates".

The tests exercise displacements only. The coordinates path adds the grid point to the positional term, which is the branch most likely to break. Add a round trip with transform_type="coordinates", and compare a forward coordinates block with q + d computed from the displacements result on the same grid.

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Excellent!

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@vboussot needs rebase

Every term of the field conversion is a function of the voxel's position and
the frames alone, so it was per-block all along: the rotation, the positional
frame term and the component permutation are extracted into one
_convert_field_values that both whole-field converters now call, which makes
the per-window read path share the same arithmetic as the whole field by
construction instead of by test.

convert_field_block is its public face for a field that is never assembled: a
producer computing an ITK-convention field region by region converts each
block on its way into a store created with metadata_only=True, and inverse=True
is the way back. Blocks are channel-first with the geometry in dims order,
which is what a producer holding the store's own scale and translation has;
the block's origin is the field's translation advanced by the block's offset.

The tests pin blockwise == whole against the whole-field converters
themselves, both directions, 2D and 3D, to 1e-12; without frames the
conversion is exactly the component permutation.
The TypeScript half of the Python function, and the same extraction under it:
the per-voxel value conversion the two whole-field converters each built for
themselves becomes one `fieldValueConverters`, so the block API and the whole
field share the arithmetic by construction rather than by test.

`convertFieldBlock` takes the block channel-first with its spatial axes in
`dims` order, and the geometry keyed by axis name as the rest of this module
takes it -- the field's own translation advanced by the block's offset, which
is the RFC-5 value and not the block's ITK physical origin when frames are
given. `inverse` is the way back.

The reference in the tests is the whole-field converter itself, over both axis
orders with two frames: without frames the positional term is zero and any
order passes, which is what makes the framed case the one worth pinning.
…ength

toIntrinsic now folds the grid point into the positional term when
absolute (a coordinates field holds q+d, not d) and no longer early
returns there, so a forward coordinates block returns q+d and stays the
exact inverse of toPhysical -- the Python grid_matrix = shift_matrix + I
if absolute, in both directions. A values buffer whose length does not
match the product of shape is refused before the loop instead of
feeding undefined into the conversion. Two tests pin both.
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} name ${dimension} axes`,
);
}
const expected = shape.reduce((a, b) => a * b, 1);

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Reject invalid spatial extents.

shape.reduce accepts fractional and negative extents. A shape such as [3, 1.5, 2, 2] can match values.length, then the conversion calculates voxel indices for a grid that cannot exist. Reject each spatial extent unless it is a non-negative safe integer before calculating expected.

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+  if (
+    shape.slice(1).some(
+      (extent) => !Number.isSafeInteger(extent) || extent < 0,
+    )
+  ) {
+    throw new Error("spatial block extents must be non-negative integers");
+  }
   const expected = shape.reduce((a, b) => a * b, 1);
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const expected = shape.reduce((a, b) => a * b, 1);
if (
shape.slice(1).some(
(extent) => !Number.isSafeInteger(extent) || extent < 0,
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throw new Error("spatial block extents must be non-negative integers");
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The block converter goes between ITK's convention and RFC-5's, so the
name says so (convertItkFieldBlock in TypeScript). Adds a half-sentence
in itk.md on the component-layout change it performs, and blank lines
between the :param/:type blocks in the docstring.
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