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Implement picking rather than custom maths for mouse collision #1382

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jacomyal opened this issue Sep 21, 2023 · 2 comments
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Implement picking rather than custom maths for mouse collision #1382

jacomyal opened this issue Sep 21, 2023 · 2 comments
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jacomyal commented Sep 21, 2023

Using picking for mouse collision would bring a lot of good things in sigma:

  • Nodes / edges clicking would work for every nodes and edges programs, including curved edges, rectangle nodes...
  • Checking what's below the mouse would be O(1), whatever the size of the graph

The cost would be:

  • It will take some time to implement
  • It will make writing program shaders a bit worse
  • It will have a RAM cost:
    • We need to store an image the size of the container, where pixel colors represent top item index
    • We need to add to every programs the index of the item in addition to the color (but this will cost way less than PR Instanced rendering #1377 will make us win)

Here is one plan to implement this feature:

  • Shaders have macros to be built either for RENDERING_MODE or PICKING_MODE. Rendering mode is as it is today, picking mode will feed every pixel with either transparent or the index of the item (node or edge) to display as the color.
  • Each program takes a new argument, pickingMode. When true, the program will compile the shaders with PICKING_MODE.
  • The rendering loop has a new canvas and WebGL context, not visible on screen, where it draws every edge then every node, using the "picking" programs.
  • Both normal programs and picking programs use the same ByteArrays.
  • The methods getNodeAtPosition and getEdgeAtPosition look at the color of the pixel at the position, translates it to the related item index if any, and returns the related ID.
  • Migrate all programs

Any opinion on that @Yomguithereal?

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Oh, and it might allow us to completely remove the quad tree.

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jacomyal commented Dec 7, 2023

We just merged a working version of the picking into the v3 branch.

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