plotting - Why is my rasterized graphic blank?

Bug introduced in 7.0 or earlier, and persisting through 10.1 or later (OSX 10.10.2)

Consider the following code:

jet[u_?NumericQ] := 
  Blend[{{0, RGBColor[0, 0, 9/16]}, {1/9, Blue}, {23/63, 
      Cyan}, {13/21, Yellow}, {47/63, Orange}, {55/63, Red}, {1, 
      RGBColor[1/2, 0, 0]}}, u] /; 0 <= u <= 1;
(* jet function get from http://stackoverflow.com/a/9321152/1363677*)
caxis[x_, {min_, max_}] := 
  If[x < min, jet[0], If[x > max, jet[1], jet[(x - min)/(max - min)]]];

data1 = Table[

   Sinc[x*y] + RandomReal[{0., 0.2}], {x, -2 Pi, 2 Pi, 0.05}, {y, -2 Pi, 2 Pi, 0.05}];
data2 = Table[
   Sinc[x*y] + RandomReal[{0., 0.2}], {x, -2 Pi, 2 Pi, 0.02}, {y, -2 Pi, 2 Pi, 0.02}];

Row[{Graphics[Raster[data1, ColorFunction -> (caxis[#, {-0.5, 2}] &)],
    ImageSize -> 200],
  Graphics[Raster[data2, ColorFunction -> (caxis[#, {-0.5, 2}] &)], 
   ImageSize -> 200],
  Graphics[Raster[data2, ColorFunction -> "BlueGreenYellow"], 
   ImageSize -> 200]}]

It gives the output:

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Why is the second plot blank?

If the dynamic updating is turned off, all of the three are blank.

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Why does Mathematica behave like this? I'm using OSX 10.8.4 on a Macbook Air with 1.7 GHz Intel Core i5 and 4GB memory.

Answer

Label this a most bizarre bug -- I can reproduce the problem (v9.0.0.0) -- the fix, change all those integer fractions in Blend to decimals..

This fails:

jet[u_?NumericQ] :=  Blend[{{0, RGBColor[0, 0, 1/9]}, {1, Red}}, u] /; 0 <= u <= 1

This works

jet[u_?NumericQ] := Blend[{{0, RGBColor[0, 0, 0.11111111]}, {1, Red}}, u] /; 0 <= u <= 1

Edit: another curiosity.. this should be the same (I think..) normalising the values before passing to the color function.

Graphics[Raster[data1, Automatic, {-.05, 2}, 
         ColorFunction -> (caxis[#, {0, 1}] &)], ImageSize -> 200]

Although it works, the colors are substantially different.

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