Cluster hulls: fix inverted offset normal, kill per-frame blur, labels toggle

Three problems from the first cut (user report 2026-09-13), all rooted
and fixed:

1. Boundaries reshaping on zoom — an inward offset normal. In y-down
   screen coordinates, monotone chain yields clockwise-on-screen hulls,
   whose OUTWARD normal is (dy, -dx); the code used (-dy, dx), so the
   14px padding pulled every hull vertex 14-20px INWARD. Zoomed in this
   mostly passed; zoomed out, once a cluster projected smaller than ~2x
   the pad, vertices crossed the centroid and the polygon self-
   intersected — spiky garbage re-forming every frame. Geometry moved to
   components/cluster-geometry.ts (exported, unit-tested) with the
   corrected normal; tests pin the direction (offset moves every vertex
   AWAY from the centroid; stays sane when the hull is smaller than the
   pad; hull orientation asserted clockwise-on-screen).

2. GPU ~100% + audible coil whine on any interaction — the hull redraw
   was hooked to sigma's afterRender, which fires for EVERY render
   including ~a dozen hover-animation frames per hover, and each redraw
   rasterized ~32 fills through ctx.filter blur(12px), a GPU-heavy
   full-canvas filter. Now: redraws happen ONLY on camera updates and
   resizes (hover leaves the hull canvas untouched — verified live),
   and the blur is replaced with layered low-alpha fills (soft edge at
   a fraction of the cost, no canvas filter at all).

3. Cluster labels cluttering the view — a persisted 'Cluster labels'
   checkbox in the rendering settings (hulls stay, text toggles).

377/377 tests, typecheck, lint, build green. Live-verified: hover does
not repaint hulls, zoom does; far zoom-out yields 3 contiguous tinted
regions (no fragmentation); toggle clears/returns labels and persists.
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amosblomqvist
2026-09-13 04:23:32 +03:00
parent 71a17c5e0d
commit 9df8044d61
3 changed files with 214 additions and 81 deletions
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@@ -0,0 +1,80 @@
/**
* CLUSTER HULL GEOMETRY (vision §1) — pure presentation math for the
* knowledge-graph regions. Extracted from graph-view.tsx so the normal
* direction and hull correctness are UNIT-TESTED (the first version's
* offset normal pointed INWARD in screen coordinates — in y-down screen
* space, monotone chain yields clockwise-on-screen hulls, whose outward
* normal is (dy, -dx), not (-dy, dx) — which made every boundary SHRINK
* 14px per vertex and self-intersect into spiky garbage as soon as a
* cluster projected smaller than the padding; shapes churned on every
* zoom frame. See tests/clusters.test.ts: "offsetPolygon moves every
* vertex AWAY from the centroid".)
*/
export type Pt = { x: number; y: number };
/** Stable hue per cluster id (content-hash): the region keeps its color
* across reshuffles because the id only changes when the members do. */
export function clusterHue(id: string): number {
let h = 0;
for (const ch of id) h = (h * 31 + ch.charCodeAt(0)) % 360;
return h;
}
/** Convex hull (Andrew monotone chain). In y-DOWN screen coordinates this
* yields a CLOCKWISE-on-screen ring — the orientation
* outwardNormal/offsetPolygon below are written for. */
export function convexHull(points: Pt[]): Pt[] {
if (points.length < 3) return points;
const pts = [...points].sort((a, b) => a.x - b.x || a.y - b.y);
const cross = (o: Pt, a: Pt, b: Pt) => (a.x - o.x) * (b.y - o.y) - (a.y - o.y) * (b.x - o.x);
const lower: Pt[] = [];
for (const p of pts) {
while (lower.length >= 2 && cross(lower[lower.length - 2]!, lower[lower.length - 1]!, p) <= 0) lower.pop();
lower.push(p);
}
const upper: Pt[] = [];
for (let i = pts.length - 1; i >= 0; i--) {
const p = pts[i]!;
while (upper.length >= 2 && cross(upper[upper.length - 2]!, upper[upper.length - 1]!, p) <= 0) upper.pop();
upper.push(p);
}
upper.pop();
lower.pop();
return [...lower, ...upper];
}
/** Outward edge normal of segment a→b for CLOCKWISE-on-screen rings
* (y-down coords). (dy, -dx): for the top edge of a square traversed
* left→right, this points up-screen — away from the interior. */
export function outwardNormal(a: Pt, b: Pt): Pt {
const dx = b.x - a.x;
const dy = b.y - a.y;
const len = Math.hypot(dx, dy) || 1;
return { x: dy / len, y: -dx / len };
}
/** Offset a convex polygon outward by `pad` px (per-vertex normal sum —
* each corner moves by up to ~1.41×pad, giving rounded-square-ish
* corners before the arc rounding is even applied). */
export function offsetPolygon(points: Pt[], pad: number): Pt[] {
return points.map((p, i) => {
const prev = points[(i - 1 + points.length) % points.length]!;
const next = points[(i + 1) % points.length]!;
const n1 = outwardNormal(prev, p);
const n2 = outwardNormal(p, next);
return { x: p.x + (n1.x + n2.x) * pad, y: p.y + (n1.y + n2.y) * pad };
});
}
/** Path through the polygon with rounded corners (arcTo). */
export function traceRoundedPath(ctx: CanvasRenderingContext2D, points: Pt[], radius: number): void {
const first = points[0]!;
ctx.moveTo(first.x, first.y);
for (let i = 1; i <= points.length; i++) {
const corner = points[i % points.length]!;
const next = points[(i + 1) % points.length]!;
ctx.arcTo(corner.x, corner.y, next.x, next.y, radius);
}
ctx.closePath();
}
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@@ -79,6 +79,7 @@ import Graph from "graphology";
import forceAtlas2 from "graphology-layout-forceatlas2";
import type { NodeHoverDrawingFunction, NodeLabelDrawingFunction } from "sigma/rendering";
import { seededRandom, type GraphNode, type GraphSnapshot } from "@/src/core";
import { clusterHue, convexHull, offsetPolygon, traceRoundedPath, type Pt } from "./cluster-geometry.ts";
/** The uniform node look (no state classes — WebGL wants hex, not oklch):
* the accent color, until the state model lands. */
@@ -107,8 +108,11 @@ interface RenderSettings {
* settings for exactly that reuse.
*/
labelZoom: number;
/** Toggle for the cluster region labels (the hulls stay) — they can
* crowd the screen at fit zoom with many regions (user, 2026-09-13). */
clusterLabels: boolean;
}
const DEFAULT_RENDER_SETTINGS: RenderSettings = { nodeSize: 6, edgeWidth: 1, arrowLength: 5, labelZoom: 0.5 };
const DEFAULT_RENDER_SETTINGS: RenderSettings = { nodeSize: 6, edgeWidth: 1, arrowLength: 5, labelZoom: 0.5, clusterLabels: true };
const RENDER_SETTINGS_KEY = "graph-render-settings";
const clamp = (v: number, min: number, max: number) => Math.min(Math.max(v, min), max);
/** Defensively merge stored settings (stale/partial/corrupt → defaults). */
@@ -119,6 +123,7 @@ function sanitizeRenderSettings(raw: unknown): RenderSettings {
edgeWidth: clamp(Number(r?.edgeWidth ?? DEFAULT_RENDER_SETTINGS.edgeWidth), 0.5, 4),
arrowLength: clamp(Number(r?.arrowLength ?? DEFAULT_RENDER_SETTINGS.arrowLength), 2, 15),
labelZoom: clamp(Number(r?.labelZoom ?? DEFAULT_RENDER_SETTINGS.labelZoom), 0.25, 4),
clusterLabels: typeof r?.clusterLabels === "boolean" ? r.clusterLabels : DEFAULT_RENDER_SETTINGS.clusterLabels,
};
}
@@ -423,71 +428,9 @@ function SettingSlider({
// ─── cluster hulls (vision §1, DECIDED 2026-09-13) ────────────────────────────
// Boundary geometry is a PURE FUNCTION OF POSITIONS AT DRAW TIME: every
// redraw re-derives the hull from current member positions mapped through
// the camera, so pan/zoom/relayout can never invalidate it. No metaballs
// in v1 — convex hull + outward offset + rounded corners; revisit when
// regions want concave fidelity.
/** Stable hue per cluster id (content-hash): the region keeps its color
* across reshuffles because the id only changes when the members do. */
function clusterHue(id: string): number {
let h = 0;
for (const ch of id) h = (h * 31 + ch.charCodeAt(0)) % 360;
return h;
}
type Pt = { x: number; y: number };
/** Convex hull (Andrew monotone chain), viewport pixels. */
function convexHull(points: Pt[]): Pt[] {
if (points.length < 3) return points;
const pts = [...points].sort((a, b) => a.x - b.x || a.y - b.y);
const cross = (o: Pt, a: Pt, b: Pt) => (a.x - o.x) * (b.y - o.y) - (a.y - o.y) * (b.x - o.x);
const lower: Pt[] = [];
for (const p of pts) {
while (lower.length >= 2 && cross(lower[lower.length - 2]!, lower[lower.length - 1]!, p) <= 0) lower.pop();
lower.push(p);
}
const upper: Pt[] = [];
for (let i = pts.length - 1; i >= 0; i--) {
const p = pts[i]!;
while (upper.length >= 2 && cross(upper[upper.length - 2]!, upper[upper.length - 1]!, p) <= 0) upper.pop();
upper.push(p);
}
upper.pop();
lower.pop();
return [...lower, ...upper];
}
/** Outward edge normal of segment a→b (screen coords: y grows down). */
function outwardNormal(a: Pt, b: Pt): Pt {
const dx = b.x - a.x;
const dy = b.y - a.y;
const len = Math.hypot(dx, dy) || 1;
return { x: -dy / len, y: dx / len };
}
/** Offset a convex polygon outward by `pad` px (per-vertex normal sum). */
function offsetPolygon(points: Pt[], pad: number): Pt[] {
return points.map((p, i) => {
const prev = points[(i - 1 + points.length) % points.length]!;
const next = points[(i + 1) % points.length]!;
const n1 = outwardNormal(prev, p);
const n2 = outwardNormal(p, next);
return { x: p.x + (n1.x + n2.x) * pad, y: p.y + (n1.y + n2.y) * pad };
});
}
/** Path through the polygon with rounded corners (arcTo). */
function traceRoundedPath(ctx: CanvasRenderingContext2D, points: Pt[], radius: number): void {
const first = points[0]!;
ctx.moveTo(first.x, first.y);
for (let i = 1; i <= points.length; i++) {
const corner = points[i % points.length]!;
const next = points[(i + 1) % points.length]!;
ctx.arcTo(corner.x, corner.y, next.x, next.y, radius);
}
ctx.closePath();
}
// the camera, so pan/zoom/relayout can never invalidate it. The math
// lives in ./cluster-geometry.ts (unit-tested — see that file's header
// for the inward-normal bug this extraction is named after).
export function GraphView() {
const containerRef = useRef<HTMLDivElement | null>(null);
@@ -797,32 +740,38 @@ export function GraphView() {
const hull = convexHull(pts);
if (hull.length < 3) continue;
const hue = clusterHue(cluster.id);
// Blurred low-opacity fill + dashed boundary stroke.
const outer = offsetPolygon(hull, 14);
hullCtx.beginPath();
traceRoundedPath(hullCtx, outer, 9);
// ctx.filter degrades to flat fill where unsupported.
try {
hullCtx.filter = "blur(12px)";
} catch {
/* older browsers: skip the blur */
// Soft translucent tint WITHOUT ctx.filter: a canvas blur
// filter rasterizes on the GPU per call — hooked to every
// render that was ~32 blurred fills per frame (sustained
// ~100% GPU rasterization + audible coil whine; reported
// 2026-09-13). Layered low-alpha fills approximate the
// same soft edge for a fraction of the cost.
for (const [pad, alpha] of [[24, 0.025], [19, 0.04], [14, 0.06]] as const) {
hullCtx.beginPath();
traceRoundedPath(hullCtx, offsetPolygon(hull, pad), 9);
hullCtx.fillStyle = `hsla(${hue}, 65%, 60%, ${alpha})`;
hullCtx.fill();
}
hullCtx.fillStyle = `hsla(${hue}, 65%, 60%, 0.08)`;
hullCtx.fill();
hullCtx.filter = "none";
// Dashed boundary on the innermost offset.
hullCtx.beginPath();
traceRoundedPath(hullCtx, offsetPolygon(hull, 14), 9);
hullCtx.setLineDash([7, 7]);
hullCtx.strokeStyle = `hsla(${hue}, 65%, 62%, 0.5)`;
hullCtx.lineWidth = 1.5;
hullCtx.stroke();
hullCtx.setLineDash([]);
// The region label at the centroid (inverse-gated layer).
if (!cluster.label) continue;
// The region label at the centroid (inverse-gated layer) —
// skippable entirely via the settings toggle.
if (!settings.clusterLabels || !cluster.label) continue;
const centroid = hull.reduce((acc, p) => ({ x: acc.x + p.x / hull.length, y: acc.y + p.y / hull.length }), { x: 0, y: 0 });
labelCtx.fillStyle = `hsla(${hue}, 55%, 78%, 0.85)`;
labelCtx.fillText(cluster.label, centroid.x, centroid.y);
}
};
renderer.on("afterRender", drawClusters);
// Redraw ONLY when the view actually moves: camera updates and
// resizes. NOT on sigma's afterRender — hover animations re-render
// sigma many frames per interaction, and hulls don't care.
renderer.on("resize", drawClusters);
renderer.on("clickNode", ({ node }) => {
const graphNode = snapshot.nodes.find((n) => n.id === node);
@@ -858,9 +807,11 @@ export function GraphView() {
// the exact span node labels fade out — THE one zoom control.
regionCanvas.style.opacity = (1 - alpha).toFixed(3);
};
drawClusters();
syncRenderLabels(renderer.getCamera().getState().ratio);
renderer.getCamera().on("updated", (state) => {
syncRenderLabels(state.ratio);
drawClusters();
setSelected(null);
});
// The hover fade: entering schedules renders (sigma re-invokes
@@ -1028,6 +979,15 @@ export function GraphView() {
display={`${settings.labelZoom}×`}
onChange={(v) => setSettings((cur) => ({ ...cur, labelZoom: v }))}
/>
<label className="flex cursor-pointer items-center justify-between text-[11px] text-muted-foreground">
<span>Cluster labels</span>
<input
type="checkbox"
checked={settings.clusterLabels}
onChange={(e) => setSettings((cur) => ({ ...cur, clusterLabels: e.target.checked }))}
className="accent-primary"
/>
</label>
</div>
)}
{snapshot !== null && visibleIds.size === 0 && query.trim() !== "" && (
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@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
import { strict as assert } from "node:assert";
import { describe, test } from "node:test";
import { detectCommunities, matchClusterLabelings, MIN_CLUSTER_SIZE } from "../src/core/clusters.ts";
import { clusterHue, convexHull, offsetPolygon, outwardNormal } from "../components/cluster-geometry.ts";
import type { Community } from "../src/core/clusters.ts";
import type { ClusterLabeling } from "../src/core/contracts.ts";
@@ -72,6 +73,98 @@ describe("matchClusterLabelings", () => {
});
});
describe("hull geometry (the inward-normal regression)", () => {
// Screen coordinates: y grows DOWN. The first implementation used
// (-dy, dx) as the "outward" normal — which points INWARD for the
// clockwise-on-screen rings monotone chain produces here, shrinking
// every hull by the pad and inverting it entirely once a cluster
// projected smaller than ~2x the pad (spiky shape churn on zoom).
const dist = (a: { x: number; y: number }, b: { x: number; y: number }) => Math.hypot(a.x - b.x, a.y - b.y);
test("outwardNormal points away from a square's interior (screen coords)", () => {
const square = [
{ x: 0, y: 0 },
{ x: 10, y: 0 },
{ x: 10, y: 10 },
{ x: 0, y: 10 },
];
const center = { x: 5, y: 5 };
for (let i = 0; i < 4; i++) {
const a = square[i]!;
const b = square[(i + 1) % 4]!;
const mid = { x: (a.x + b.x) / 2, y: (a.y + b.y) / 2 };
const n = outwardNormal(a, b);
// The normal translated from the edge midpoint moves AWAY from the center.
const moved = { x: mid.x + n.x, y: mid.y + n.y };
assert.ok(dist(moved, center) > dist(mid, center), `edge ${i}: normal points inward`);
}
});
test("offsetPolygon moves every vertex AWAY from the centroid", () => {
const hull = convexHull([
{ x: 0, y: 0 }, { x: 40, y: 3 }, { x: 55, y: 30 }, { x: 20, y: 44 }, { x: 2, y: 25 },
]);
const centroid = {
x: hull.reduce((s, p) => s + p.x, 0) / hull.length,
y: hull.reduce((s, p) => s + p.y, 0) / hull.length,
};
for (const [i, v] of hull.entries()) {
const moved = offsetPolygon(hull, 14)[i]!;
assert.ok(
dist(moved, centroid) > dist(v, centroid),
`vertex ${i} moved inward (was ${dist(v, centroid).toFixed(1)}, now ${dist(moved, centroid).toFixed(1)})`,
);
}
});
test("offsetPolygon stays sane when the hull is SMALLER than the pad (the zoom-out case)", () => {
// A 10px cluster padded by 14px: must still be a simple polygon
// (no vertex crossing the centroid, no inversion).
const hull = convexHull([
{ x: 0, y: 0 }, { x: 10, y: 1 }, { x: 9, y: 9 }, { x: 1, y: 8 },
]);
const centroid = {
x: hull.reduce((s, p) => s + p.x, 0) / hull.length,
y: hull.reduce((s, p) => s + p.y, 0) / hull.length,
};
const moved = offsetPolygon(hull, 14);
for (const v of moved) {
assert.ok(dist(v, centroid) >= 10, `vertex collapsed past the centroid: ${JSON.stringify(v)}`);
}
// Vertex ORDER stays angularly monotone around the centroid (no self-intersection).
const angles = moved.map((v) => Math.atan2(v.y - centroid.y, v.x - centroid.x));
let prev = angles[0]!;
for (const a of angles.slice(1)) {
let d = a - prev;
while (d > Math.PI) d -= 2 * Math.PI;
while (d < -Math.PI) d += 2 * Math.PI;
assert.ok(d !== 0, "duplicate angle — degenerate offset");
prev = a;
}
});
test("convexHull returns a clockwise-on-screen ring (the orientation the normal math assumes)", () => {
const hull = convexHull([
{ x: 0, y: 0 }, { x: 10, y: 0 }, { x: 10, y: 10 }, { x: 0, y: 10 },
]);
// Signed area in code coords: clockwise-on-screen (y-down) = positive.
let area = 0;
for (let i = 0; i < hull.length; i++) {
const a = hull[i]!;
const b = hull[(i + 1) % hull.length]!;
area += a.x * b.y - b.x * a.y;
}
assert.ok(area / 2 > 0, `expected positive (clockwise-on-screen) area, got ${area / 2}`);
});
test("clusterHue is stable per id and spreads", () => {
assert.equal(clusterHue("clu_abc123def456"), clusterHue("clu_abc123def456"));
const hues = new Set(Array.from({ length: 40 }, (_, i) => clusterHue(`clu_${i}`)));
assert.ok(hues.size > 25, `expected spread hues, got ${hues.size}`);
});
});
describe("detectCommunities", () => {
test("two dense cliques joined by a single bridge split into two communities", () => {
const left = ids(4, "L");