- Repurpose CircleInstance center_high.w and params.w for start_width and end_width (preserving exact 128-byte stride)
- Route wide polylines, tapered polylines with bulges, and donuts through split_mixed_polyline into GPU analytical arc instances
- Compute physical annular bands, width tapers, and round end caps in circle.wgsl using world-space distances to prevent 3D perspective foreshortening distortion
- Expand bounding quad margins dynamically with grazing-angle compensation to eliminate clipping
- Relax pick_tris check in wire classification and partition routines so wide entities retain CPU picking while drawing analytically
- Add unit and hardware GPU integration tests, including tilted 3D perspective rendering verification
Switching to a Layout re-tessellated the whole model — `memo_miss=186455`,
2034 ms — to arrive at geometry identical to what was already in the memo.
The only thing that differed was colour.
`local_wires_for` already knows this: it stores the raw colour and drops
its background argument with `let _ = bg_color;`, noting that
`Batches::finalize` applies `adapt_to_bg` last, "so the cache no longer
has to rebuild on BACKGROUND / layout-switch". The tessellation memo's
guard had not been told, and still mixed the background in, so every
entry was discarded on a switch.
`finalize` now records what its colour resolution consumed — the raw
colour, the raw glyph colours, and the three flags it branches on — as
`WireModel::bg_adapt`, and `resolve_colors_for_bg` replays it for another
background. The guard drops the background, so a memo entry serves any
layout.
The resolution recomputes from the recorded raw colour rather than from
the resolved one, which makes it idempotent and therefore safe over a set
that mixes memo hits with freshly tessellated misses. Re-adapting the
resolved colour would not be safe: `adapt_to_bg` snaps a near-white colour
to pure black on a light background, and pure black comes back pure
*white* on a dark one, losing the tint. A test pins that asymmetry so the
raw colour is not optimised away later.
The contract is tested against the real `finalize` rather than a copy of
its logic: for every background pair, building under one and resolving for
the other lands exactly where building under the other would have.
`bg_adapt` is `None` for wires built anywhere else, and the resolution
skips them, so nothing outside the block cache changes colour. It is also
`None` when the resolution would be a no-op — a preserved colour with no
canvas fill looks the same under every background — which keeps the common
case at no cost.
Ordering is unchanged: the pass runs inside the builder, before
`append_scene_markers` and `apply_refedit_fade`, both of which have their
own separate background dependency.
`wires-build` gains `colors=` so the pass has a number of its own.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
Sync current main and companion codec changes before preserving unsupported frame rows, rendering in the entity plane, and sharing final layout metrics with placement preview.
Persist camera, render state, and solid fallback geometry across saves. Generate previews from a clean live viewport and refresh recent-file thumbnails immediately.
Share source buffers across block placements and render nested content with GPU instance transforms.\n\nChunk silhouettes and compact mesh material data so large drawings stay under device buffer limits and remain responsive.
The shaded surface of a curved solid was visibly coarser than its own
wireframe: the wire ran along the true rim while the facets cut inside it.
Two things were wrong, and only one was the tolerance.
`facet_res` is a resolution multiplier — the same one `scale_lod` divides the
fallback sampler's chord fraction by — and the kernel path was using it as a
sag in world units. At the default that asks for a whole unit of departure, so
nothing smaller than a metre subdivided at all and a face was only ever as
round as its own boundary. It is a fraction of each surface's own radius now,
which carries no assumption about the drawing's units.
And it is the *edges'* fraction, shared from `EDGE_CHORD_FRAC` rather than
copied. Those edges are drawn over these faces; sampling the two differently
is what put the wire across a facet instead of along its corners. `facet_res`
is deliberately not applied either, since the edges it must line up with are
built once at highest detail and never scaled.
A torus is measured by its tube rather than its ring — the tube is the tighter
bend, and sampling to the ring leaves the section a hexagon.
The primitive-volume test claimed a mesh can never read over its true size.
That holds for a convex solid, where every chord lies inside; a torus is not
one, and across the inside of its tube the chords fall outside the material.
It passed before only because the sampling was too coarse to show it.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>