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KenM76andClaude Opus 5.5 c336c59cfb M12: prc-render: scale-safe lengths, a render work ceiling, fit fixes
- vec3: length divides by the largest component before squaring, so
  a camera 1e200 away keeps a finite near plane; unit_cross normalizes
  each edge first, so edges of very different sizes keep their normal.
- render: MAX_RENDER_WORK (2^31) caps the pixel centres one render
  tests, charged per triangle's clipped bounding box before scanning;
  past it, RenderError::TooMuchWork.
- Bounds::centre halves each end before adding, finite for any finite
  box. Bounds::of and fit_meshes use only corners of triangles render
  draws. Camera::frame builds its basis from the direction, not from
  points near the model, so a small model far from the origin fits.

Each new test fails with its fix reverted.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01SqmHYx8FiWM5PcsoiErgp9
2026-11-04 00:03:28 -05:00

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pdfcraft-prc-render

A headless CPU renderer for PRC 3D models read by pdfcraft-prc: placed meshes in world space, a fitted camera, a depth-buffered triangle fill and headlight shading, into a straight-RGBA image.

  • Layer: L3. Depends on pdfcraft-prc only.
  • Licence: MIT OR Apache-2.0.
  • #![forbid(unsafe_code)]. Never panics on input: image size, triangle count and every index are checked, and damage returns RenderError.

API

assemble(&PrcFile) -> Result<Vec<WorldMesh>, RenderError>   // every placement's mesh moved into the world and coloured
place(&TriangleMesh, &Matrix, colour, triangle_colours) -> WorldMesh
Camera::fit(&Bounds, direction, up, perspective, aspect) / Camera::fit_meshes(&[WorldMesh], ...)
render(&[WorldMesh], &Camera, &RenderOptions) -> Result<Image, RenderError>
  • With no product tree, each tessellated mesh is drawn where it lies, in the default colour.
  • A triangle's own colour wins over its mesh's, which wins over RenderOptions::colour.
  • Opaque triangles are drawn first, then translucent ones blended over them; alpha 0 is not drawn.
  • Lighting::Headlight (default) shades by the angle to the view direction; Lighting::Unlit draws flat colour.
  • Perspective triangles are clipped at a near plane 1/10,000 of the eye-to-target distance from the eye; orthographic views are not clipped.
  • MAX_RENDER_PIXELS (2^24, about 16 MP) bounds the image: at most 64 MB of RGBA plus 128 MB of depth. MAX_ASSEMBLED_TRIANGLES and MAX_ASSEMBLED_VERTICES (2^24 each) bound one assemble call. MAX_RENDER_WORK (2^31) bounds the pixel centres one render tests, summed over each triangle's clipped bounding box; past it the render returns RenderError::TooMuchWork. That is still seconds of CPU at the top, so callers on a UI thread should render small or off-thread.
  • Not yet: shadows, ambient occlusion, specular light, scene lights, textures, wires and markups.