Ray crossing at a segment germ #
The local crossing contribution of a segment departing from an observation center is determined by the two height signs and their determinant. The observations use every sufficiently small positive real parameter; no discretization of the plane is used.
Germ contribution for nonhorizontal outgoing and observation vectors u and v.
Equal rays contribute zero because the horizontal ray excludes its own base point.
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Correcting the descending observation ray itself turns the germ crossing bit into the angular prefix bit, plus one common descending-half-plane bit. Even incidence cancels that common bit when the contributions at a vertex are summed.
The change of ray parity on leaving an arrangement endpoint along an actual ray is the sum of its incident germ contributions. Remote segments are constant near the center. Their endpoint heights and support are explicitly separated here.