Snap gate: admit blends of two neighbouring regions

The mixture gate only tested betweenness against the pixel's OWN region
and the flip candidate, so a pixel blending two foreign flanks could
never flip: on a blurred low-contrast crack the basin cut leaks a
distant region along the crack's blend band as a 1-px filament (the
striped synthetic under 1.2 px blur grows a 30 px hairline of the
circle's red along a stripe boundary), and the snap visited it every
sweep yet was forbidden to fix it. A pixel that reads as a blend of two
neighbouring regions now flips to the closer of them; genuine third
colors (outline strokes) still fail betweenness against every pair and
stay put.

Blurred synthetic circle: max boundary error 31.6 -> 1.5 px, rms
5.6 -> 0.7. Crisp images byte-unaffected (fidelity 0.9261 unchanged);
all watershed property tests pass unchanged.
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## Unreleased
### Fixed
* Watershed no longer leaks a region along a blurred low-contrast crack as a 1-px filament (a slightly soft image could grow a hairline of one region's color running tens of px down a neighbouring boundary). The boundary snap's mixture gate now also admits pixels that blend two *neighbouring* regions — a blend band belongs to its closer flank even when the basin cut misattributed it to a distant region. On the blurred striped synthetic the circle's max boundary error drops from 31.6 px to 1.5 px; crisp images are byte-unaffected.
## 1.0.0-alpha.2 - 2026-07-27
### Added