Fix f32 precision loss for high-rate datetime axes (issue #487) - #489
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Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The PR improves high-rate datetime rendering, but bar widths on log and symlog axes can still be calculated incorrectly, causing visibly inaccurate charts. Merge should wait until this bounded correctness issue is fixed or explicitly accepted. Possibly related PRs
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5401-5412: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | 🏗️ Heavy liftAdd a regression test for the affine mapping contract.
Use raw timestamps near
1.7e12with offset-encodedFloat32Arrayvalues. Verify adjacent points retain distinct pixel positions through the WebGL path. Also cover reversed and degenerate ranges, plus one nonlinear axis case.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@js/src/50_chartview.ts`:
- Around line 5401-5412: Add a regression test for the affine mapping logic
around _axisMode, using raw timestamps near 1.7e12 and offset-encoded
Float32Array values, then verify adjacent points produce distinct pixel
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ranges, degenerate ranges, and one nonlinear-axis case while preserving the
expected existing behavior.
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| // in f32, which would discard low bits for high-magnitude axes (e.g. ms-since- | ||
| // epoch datetime). Non-linear axes decode first because their transforms are | ||
| // not affine. | ||
| if (mode == 0) return encoded * map.x + map.y; |
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[P1] Could we keep the folded map column-specific here? mode == 0 now ignores meta, but the segment, ribbon, funnel, and mesh shaders still reuse a map built from x0/y0 for other independently encoded columns. I verified this in the browser: a segment that spans 452 px on main disappears completely on this branch, and render_smoke_nonumpy.py flips from funnel=1 to funnel=0. Per-column maps (or a shared encoding for same-axis columns) should fix this; the area perimeter's base map needs the same treatment.
| if (!Number.isFinite(hi - lo) || hi === lo) return [0, -2]; | ||
| const scale = (meta && meta.scale) ? meta.scale : 1; | ||
| const offset = (meta && Number.isFinite(meta.offset)) ? meta.offset : 0; | ||
| const mul = 2 / ((hi - lo) * scale); |
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[P2] One edge case here: mul is now measured per encoded unit, but BAR_VS still multiplies u_pmap.x by a width expressed in data units. With a legal encoding scale of 0.02 (bar([-5e38, 5e38], width=1e38)), the expected clip-space half-width changes from 0.0858 to 4.288, so the bars cover the chart. Could we keep/pass a data-space slope for width, or compensate for the position scale?
The linear-axis fold landed as one map per axis, applied to whichever column the draw happened to build it from. That is correct only for marks whose axis has a single encoded column. Segments, ribbons, funnels, meshes, rectangles, bars and an area's baseline each ship four or six columns against one axis, every one with its own offset and scale, so a sibling's map is a wholly different transform: a segment spanning 452 px vanished, and the funnel dropped out of the render smoke. Build the map where the meta is written instead. `_setAxisUniforms` now takes the axis *window* and folds it against that column's own encoding, so the map and the meta it belongs to always reach the GPU together and cannot drift apart. Draw entry points take windows rather than prefolded maps, which also fixes the area perimeter (it drew the baseline column through the value column's map) and removes ~20 uniform writes. The build-time shader lint rejects an `xyMap` call whose map and meta come from different columns, and requires every map uniform to be `vec4`. Three further corrections to the fold itself: - Centre the affine on the visible window. The map carries a `shift`, snapped to f32 so the CPU and the shader agree bit-for-bit, which the shader subtracts before the multiply. Without it a view far from the encode offset makes both terms large and opposite, and their f32 cancellation reintroduces per-point jitter. - Floor a degenerate encode scale exactly as `xyDecode` does, and validate the constants as f32 rather than f64. A zero scale otherwise yields an infinite slope, and `encoded * Infinity` rasterizes as NaN, which culls the trace instead of collapsing it onto its offset. - Keep a data-space slope in the map for `BAR_VS`. A bar's width is a data-space span, so scaling it by the per-encoded-unit slope multiplied every bar by 1/scale — bars covered the chart at any encoding scale other than 1. `tests/test_axis_map_precision.py` covers the f32 arithmetic with no browser — a decoded millisecond epoch reaches 111 distinct pixel columns where the fold reaches 821 — and pins the structural invariants: the map/meta pairing at every `xyMap` call site, `vec4` map uniforms, and one place that builds a map.
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In `@js/src/50_chartview.ts`:
- Around line 5439-5447: Update js/src/50_chartview.ts lines 5439-5447 so
nonlinear axes do not expose transformed-coordinate mul as dataMul; retain
dataMul only for linear-axis behavior. Update js/src/40_gl.ts line 1408 in
BAR_VS to independently map position - width / 2 and position + width / 2 for
nonlinear axes. Update spec/design/renderer-architecture.md lines 58-63 to
document that dataMul applies only to linear axes, and add log and symlog
bar-width coverage.
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| const axis = this._axis(axisId); | ||
| const c0 = this._axisCoord(axis, lo); | ||
| const c1 = this._axisCoord(axis, hi); | ||
| if (![c0, c1].every(Number.isFinite) || c1 === c0) return [0, -2]; | ||
| if (![c0, c1].every(Number.isFinite) || c1 === c0) return degenerate; | ||
| // Log-family axes decode before mapping, so one coordinate-space affine | ||
| // serves every column on the axis; `dataMul` keeps the pre-fold slope a | ||
| // data-space width scaled by before linear axes started folding. | ||
| const mul = 2 / (c1 - c0); | ||
| const add = -1 - c0 * mul; | ||
| return [mul, add]; | ||
| return { mul, add: -1 - c0 * mul, shift: 0, dataMul: mul }; |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win
Map nonlinear bar widths from both data-space edges.
Line 5447 sets dataMul to mul for log and symlog axes. mul is clip units per transformed coordinate, not clip units per data unit. BAR_VS then uses u_pmap.w with width. A bar at x=100 with width=10 on a log axis is sized as ten log units instead of mapping x=95 and x=105.
js/src/50_chartview.ts#L5439-L5447: Do not expose nonlinearmulas a data-unit slope.js/src/40_gl.ts#L1408-L1408: For nonlinear axes, mapposition - width / 2andposition + width / 2independently.spec/design/renderer-architecture.md#L58-L63: Limit thedataMulcontract to linear axes after the implementation changes.
Add log and symlog bar-width coverage. As per coding guidelines, keep the entire spec/ directory current with every relevant code change.
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In `@js/src/50_chartview.ts` around lines 5439 - 5447, Update
js/src/50_chartview.ts lines 5439-5447 so nonlinear axes do not expose
transformed-coordinate mul as dataMul; retain dataMul only for linear-axis
behavior. Update js/src/40_gl.ts line 1408 in BAR_VS to independently map
position - width / 2 and position + width / 2 for nonlinear axes. Update
spec/design/renderer-architecture.md lines 58-63 to document that dataMul
applies only to linear axes, and add log and symlog bar-width coverage.
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Three review findings on the per-column fold. A bar's width is a data-space span, so its clip extent is the *image* of [pos - w/2, pos + w/2], not a slope times the width. Scaling by the coordinate-space slope sized a log-axis bar in log units: a bar at x=100 of width 10 covered the whole plot instead of x=95..105. BAR_VS now transforms both edges on log/symlog — decoding is safe there, since §16 pins those axes' encode offset to 0 — which is what RECT_VS already does with four separate edge columns. Linear axes keep scaling by the data-space slope: the transform is affine, so the two agree, and it is the only form that avoids rebuilding the absolute position in f32. An edge that leaves a log axis's domain collapses onto the centre rather than culling the bar, and the two offsets are measured from the bar's own position so a transition keeps its shape. Because that slope has no meaning on a non-affine axis, `_map` now reports `dataMul` 0 there instead of the coordinate slope. A zero-width bar is a visible mistake; a plausible-looking coordinate slope is not. The encode-scale floor is gone. Flooring |scale| at 1e-30 was wrong for the legitimately tiny scales an enormous finite domain produces: the fold must divide by the very scale the vertex buffer was encoded with, and it has f64 to do it in. A scale of exactly zero encodes every value to 0, so that case is now expressed directly — the column sits on its offset — with no division and no epsilon. The f32 overflow check on the constants still catches what remains. The structural tests split the TypeScript on literal indentation and prose, so any reformat failed them without a behaviour change. They now drive the shipped `ChartView.prototype._map` out of the built ES bundle through node and apply the shader's affine in f32 on top of the constants it returns — behavioural, and immune to formatting. What is left as source regex is only what a numeric test cannot see: the map/meta pairing at each xyMap call site, vec4 map uniforms, and the bar's edge transform. All four new assertions fail against the previous commit.
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P2: When a finite view span makes `dataMul` overflow float32, `u_pmap.w` becomes infinite and this multiplication produces infinite bar edges, so the bar is rasterized with invalid clip coordinates. Validate the data-space slope before uploading it or provide a finite fallback for bar-width mapping.</violation>
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| // | ||
| // The two offsets are measured from the bar's OWN position, then applied | ||
| // around the transition-mixed p, so a growing/moving bar keeps its shape. | ||
| float dLo = -abs(width * u_pmap.w) * 0.5; |
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P2: When a finite view span makes dataMul overflow float32, u_pmap.w becomes infinite and this multiplication produces infinite bar edges, so the bar is rasterized with invalid clip coordinates. Validate the data-space slope before uploading it or provide a finite fallback for bar-width mapping.
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<comment>When a finite view span makes `dataMul` overflow float32, `u_pmap.w` becomes infinite and this multiplication produces infinite bar edges, so the bar is rasterized with invalid clip coordinates. Validate the data-space slope before uploading it or provide a finite fallback for bar-width mapping.</comment>
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@@ -1405,7 +1405,38 @@ void main() {
+ //
+ // The two offsets are measured from the bar's OWN position, then applied
+ // around the transition-mixed p, so a growing/moving bar keeps its shape.
+ float dLo = -abs(width * u_pmap.w) * 0.5;
+ float dHi = -dLo;
+ if (u_pmode != 0) {
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Four follow-up review findings. `_map` had two exits that skipped the f32 finiteness check — the zero-scale one, and `dataMul` on every exit. An f64-finite constant that overflows on upload is still an Infinity in the shader, so a zero-scale column with a distant offset could hand the rasterizer a NaN, and a view span too narrow for f32 to hold 2/span made `BAR_VS` multiply a width by Infinity. Every non-degenerate exit now goes through one validator. Unrepresentable positions park the mark off-screen as before; an unrepresentable `dataMul` zeroes only itself, since nothing but a bar's data-space width reads it and a zero-width bar is a visible mistake where an Infinity is a NaN coordinate. The bar's out-of-domain edge guard becomes `!(abs(c) < 1e29)`, which is false for NaN, for either infinity, and for mode 1's -1e30 sentinel — one predicate for every unusable coordinate instead of two that missed +inf. No behaviour change on the cases that reach it today. The test harness handed node a hand-built environment, which breaks on any runner that installs node outside the three hardcoded PATH entries and drops NODE_OPTIONS/NODE_PATH; it inherits os.environ now. The module-wide bundle skip also disabled the GLSL source checks, which need no bundle — the skip moved inside the node helper, so a checkout with no bundle built still runs 5 of the 12 tests instead of none. Both new numeric assertions fail against the previous commit.
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Aiming to fix #487 and as requested by @Alek99 am submitting thisPR which is just a copilot attempt at a fix and is not tested or reviewed properly, sorry! I am just trying to get the bug fixed but have very limited time to contribute properly.
Calendar timestamps (~1.7 × 10¹² ms since epoch) exceed f32's ~2²⁴ integer precision budget, causing the shader to collapse every timestamp within a ~200 s window to the same pixel column — producing the quantised, gapped rendering seen with high-rate time-series data.
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