Fix rotate_extrude() volume mismatches (issue #87)

[particlesector]

Summary

Closes #87.

rotate_extrude() volume mismatches vs. real OpenSCAD (27% relative error on rotate_extrude-tests.scad, 71% on rotate_extrude-angle.scad) were found via the project's volumetric corpus-comparison methodology (docs/roadmap.md v3.9). Rather than fix from source-reading alone, this session built a live oracle (OpenSCAD 2021.01 via apt + Manifold v3.5.2 built from source, per tests/tools/README.md's documented recipe) and bisected both corpus files construct-by-construct against it.

Found and fixed 5 real bugs in MeshEvaluator::evalExtrusion's rotate_extrude branch (plus one in CsgEvaluator.cpp):

• A profile entirely on the -X side was rejected outright. Only a profile that straddles the rotation axis is actually invalid in real OpenSCAD. Fixed by mirroring such a profile onto +X (with winding correction) before calling Revolve(), then rotating the result 180° about Z to restore the original sweep.
• A negative angle= produced inside-out (negative-volume) geometry — Manifold::Revolve() only winds correctly for a positive sweep. Fixed by always sweeping with abs(angle) and mirroring the result across the XZ plane for an originally-negative angle instead.
• Segment count used a fixed proxy radius (10) instead of the profile's own X-extent, matching real OpenSCAD's Calc::get_fragments_from_r().
• A partial sweep was tessellated at full-circle density instead of being scaled down by angle/360 like real OpenSCAD does (floored to a minimum of 3, not 1 — Manifold::Revolve() silently ignores an explicit circularSegments <= 2 and falls back to its own auto-quality count, which produced zero triangles for a small enough angle).
• angle='s NaN/Infinity handling was lost before MeshEvaluator ever saw it — the generic evalNumber() path collapses non-finite numbers to 0.0, indistinguishable from a literal angle=0 (a real, distinct "no geometry" case). Fixed by special-casing "angle" in CsgEvaluator::evalExtrusion.

Results:

• rotate_extrude-tests.scad: 27% → 13.0% relative volume error (now an exact volume match — the remainder is an extreme $fn=1/3-segment edge case's rotational-phase misalignment, not chased further this pass).
• rotate_extrude-angle.scad: 71% → 16.7% (every "real" partial-angle/negative-angle/edge-case construct now matches to floating-point noise in isolation; the remainder is a 2021.01-vs-current-corpus oracle-version ambiguity around a deprecated positional argument, left open per the project's own documented caution about not guessing which oracle to match).

Full writeup, including two phase-alignment leads investigated and deliberately reverted (one measurably regressed already-passing cases), is in docs/roadmap.md's new v3.12 section.

Test plan

• Added an IR-level regression test (CsgEval:rotate_extrude angle keeps NaN/Infinity distinct from a literal 0 in tests/test_csg_evaluator.cpp) — doesn't need Manifold.
• Added 3 real-Manifold regression tests in tests/test_headless_build.cpp ([v87][bugfix]), with volumes pinned against Pappus's centroid theorem for the mirror/negative-angle cases and an empty-geometry check for angle=0.
• Full existing suite still passes: 3542 assertions in 629 test cases (chiselcad_tests, built against a real Manifold v3.5.2).
• Verified against a live OpenSCAD 2021.01 oracle using tests/tools/scad_to_stl/stl_diff on both originally-reported corpus files plus ~15 individually bisected sub-cases.

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https://claude.ai/code/session_01Qt1mwHFdm3v3JMMm3VC65j

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[particlesector]

Solid bug-fix PR: the mirrored-profile, negative-angle, and NaN/Infinity handling all check out against the stated Pappus/oracle math. One correctness issue flagged inline in the segment-count radius calc — the rest looks good.

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