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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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  • Bug Fixes
    • Improved chart positioning and coordinate mapping for linear axes, especially with large values such as millisecond timestamps.
    • Increased numerical precision during pan and zoom to preserve accurate pixel spacing and endpoint placement.
    • Improved rendering consistency across bars, lines, areas, ribbons, funnels, meshes, rectangles, segments, and points.
    • Improved handling of zero, very small, degenerate, and invalid axis ranges.
    • Preserved coordinate transformation behavior for nonlinear axes, including logarithmic scales.
    • Improved bar edge placement when axis boundaries fall outside the valid domain.

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The renderer now computes range-aware maps for each encoded column. Linear axes use recentered affine transforms, while nonlinear axes retain decode-then-transform mapping. Mark rendering, picking, shader checks, documentation, and precision tests use the updated mapping contract.

Changes: Axis mapping precision

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Mapping contract and calculation
js/src/50_chartview.ts, js/src/40_gl.ts, tests/test_axis_map_precision.py
ChartView builds validated four-part maps from axis ranges and column metadata. Shaders apply recentered affine mapping for linear axes and retain decode-first mapping for nonlinear axes.
Per-column mark transforms
js/src/40_gl.ts
Mark shaders use maps that match each encoded column. Bar widths use transformed edges on nonlinear axes and the data-space slope on linear axes.
Range-aware rendering paths
js/src/50_chartview.ts, js/src/45_lod.ts, js/src/55_marks.ts
Drawing paths pass axis windows to the helpers, which set maps for each encoded column in marks, density samples, hover, and picking.
Validation and rendering contract
js/build.mjs, spec/design/renderer-architecture.md, tests/test_axis_map_precision.py, tests/test_funnel.py
Shader linting, documentation, and tests cover the vec4 map contract, precision cases, and updated funnel draw signature.

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Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Suggested reviewers: alek99, farhanaliraza

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The previously identified nonlinear bar-width issue is resolved. No remaining issue identified here prevents merging after normal checks.

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Issue #487 requires accurate rendering for high-rate time-series data with large datetime values. The PR folds linear-axis offset and scale in ChartView._map and sends a per-column vec4 map to xyMap, which avoids reconstructing epoch values in shader f32 arithmetic. The change covers point, line, segment, ribbon, funnel, mesh, area, rectangle, and bar paths. tests/test_axis_map_precision.py checks epoch precision, map/meta pairing, invalid windows, and non-affine bar widths.

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5401-5412: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Add a regression test for the affine mapping contract.

Use raw timestamps near 1.7e12 with offset-encoded Float32Array values. Verify adjacent points retain distinct pixel positions through the WebGL path. Also cover reversed and degenerate ranges, plus one nonlinear axis case.

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In `@js/src/50_chartview.ts` around lines 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
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- Around line 5401-5412: Add a regression test for the affine mapping logic
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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.

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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
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document that dataMul applies only to linear axes, and add log and symlog
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Comment thread js/src/50_chartview.ts Outdated
Comment on lines +5439 to +5447
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 nonlinear mul as a data-unit slope.
  • js/src/40_gl.ts#L1408-L1408: For nonlinear axes, map position - width / 2 and position + width / 2 independently.
  • spec/design/renderer-architecture.md#L58-L63: Limit the dataMul contract 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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transformed-coordinate mul as dataMul; retain dataMul only for linear-axis
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Comment thread tests/test_axis_map_precision.py Resolved
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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1 issue found across 3 files (changes from recent commits).

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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) {
</file context>

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Comment thread tests/test_axis_map_precision.py Resolved
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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The fix works. I ran it live in headless Chromium. Exported charts were built from this head and from its merge-base 036271a. They used ms-epoch x data (2024-06-01, 100 Hz). A merge of this branch into current main also builds cleanly and passes render_smoke_nonumpy and the new tests.

What the running charts show

  • Epoch line, 1 h at 100 Hz (360k points). On the base it renders as about 30 vertical bands with a stepped curve, which is the #487 symptom. On this branch it is a smooth sine with all ~28 periods.
  • Epoch scatter with a 4 s window domain=(mid, mid+4000). The base draws no points in the plot. This branch draws the expected sawtooth ramp: 1 continuous column run, against 19 gapped runs on the base.
  • Epoch bars, 10 min apart. The base spaces them unevenly. This branch spaces them evenly.
  • Narrow windows on undecimated 100 Hz data (1 ms to 100 s): the line stays continuous on this branch. Points appear only where samples exist.
  • Log-axis bars with a scalar width use the BAR_VS non-affine branch. On the base, bar([10,100,1000], width=4) fills the whole plot. On this branch the bar at x=10 spans log10(8)..log10(12), at 248–284 px, which matches the hand calculation. With width=50, the out-of-domain left edge collapses onto the centre, as intended.
  • Regressions: segments with differently encoded x0/x1 columns, area with its own baseline encoding, per-bar-width log bars, and a plain small-number scatter all render pixel-identical to the base. render_smoke_nonumpy reports funnel=1, so the earlier funnel/segment breakage is fixed. abi_smoke and append_stream_smoke pass. Wheel zoom and pan raise no console errors.
  • pytest: 4001 passed. 2 tests failed, and neither failure comes from this PR. test_shared_glhost::…dpr_two also fails on the base. test_bench_vs::…hard_measurement_timeout is timing-sensitive and passes on rerun. ruff check and ruff format --check are clean.

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  2. Merge current main into the branch. The branch is 22 commits behind, so the news check does not run on it yet. I tested the merge locally: no conflicts, and no new _map/u_*map call sites came in from main. The bundle builds, render_smoke_nonumpy passes, and test_axis_map_precision.py and test_funnel.py pass (124 tests).
  3. Update spec/design/polar-axes.md §3.1. It still documents decode → scale → per-axis affine for the Cartesian path. See the inline comment.

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  • Add a browser pixel probe for the epoch case to render_smoke_nonumpy.py, for example distinct lit columns of a ms-epoch line. The current tests are numeric _map checks and GLSL regexes. A pixel probe would catch a future regression in the draw path that those tests cannot see.

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// the one caller that scales a data-space width (BAR_VS). Log-family axes are
// not affine, so they decode first and map.zw is unused.
float xyMap(float encoded, vec4 map, vec2 meta, int mode, float constant) {
if (mode == 0) return (encoded - map.z) * map.x + map.y;

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This line changes the Cartesian pipeline. spec/design/polar-axes.md §3.1 still describes the old one: "xyDecode → xyAxisCoord → · map.x + map.y", with one per-axis u_xmap/u_ymap affine. After this PR, linear axes skip xyDecode. They use (encoded - map.z) * map.x + map.y with a per-column vec4 map. Only log and symlog axes decode first.

Please update §3.1 so it matches this code. CLAUDE.md treats spec/ as authoritative, so a stale pipeline description there counts as spec drift. The polar statement ("decode and scale are untouched; the per-axis affine is bypassed") is still true. Only the Cartesian half and the "per-axis" wording are stale.


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2 issues found across 9 files

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<file name="js/build.mjs">

<violation number="1" location="js/build.mjs:77">
P2: This lint misses `xyMap` calls in shared GLSL snippets, so a mismatched map/meta pair there can bypass the new invariant. Lint the expanded shader sources or include shared snippets in the scan.</violation>
</file>

<file name="tests/test_axis_map_precision.py">

<violation number="1" location="tests/test_axis_map_precision.py:212">
P2: This assertion does not catch the per-column pairing regression it claims to guard: swapping a branch in the new `xmap`/`ymap` ternaries still passes because the call-site identifiers remain `xmap` and `xmeta`. Assert the ternary selections (or exercise each vertex-column mapping) so a sibling map cannot be paired with its meta.</violation>
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// A map folded for one encoded column is a different transform for its
// siblings, so every xyMap call takes the map and the meta of the SAME
// column: u_x0map with u_x0meta, never u_xmap with u_x0meta (§16).
for (const call of shader.matchAll(/xyMap\(\s*[\w.]+,\s*([\w.]+),\s*([\w.]+),/g)) {

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P2: This lint misses xyMap calls in shared GLSL snippets, so a mismatched map/meta pair there can bypass the new invariant. Lint the expanded shader sources or include shared snippets in the scan.

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Check if this issue is valid — if so, understand the root cause and fix it. When an issue isn't valid or won't be fixed in this PR, reply in its thread with the reason and then resolve the thread. At js/build.mjs, line 77:

<comment>This lint misses `xyMap` calls in shared GLSL snippets, so a mismatched map/meta pair there can bypass the new invariant. Lint the expanded shader sources or include shared snippets in the scan.</comment>

<file context>
@@ -62,8 +62,28 @@ const staticDir = join(root, "python", "xy", "static");
+    // A map folded for one encoded column is a different transform for its
+    // siblings, so every xyMap call takes the map and the meta of the SAME
+    // column: u_x0map with u_x0meta, never u_xmap with u_x0meta (§16).
+    for (const call of shader.matchAll(/xyMap\(\s*[\w.]+,\s*([\w.]+),\s*([\w.]+),/g)) {
+      const [, mapArg, metaArg] = call;
+      const paired =
</file context>

"""A map folded for one column is a different transform, not a rounding
difference, so `xyMap` must never receive a sibling column's map: the
stems of the map and meta arguments have to match."""
calls = re.findall(r"xyMap\(\s*([\w.]+),\s*([\w.]+),\s*([\w.]+)\s*,", GL_SRC)

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P2: This assertion does not catch the per-column pairing regression it claims to guard: swapping a branch in the new xmap/ymap ternaries still passes because the call-site identifiers remain xmap and xmeta. Assert the ternary selections (or exercise each vertex-column mapping) so a sibling map cannot be paired with its meta.

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Check if this issue is valid — if so, understand the root cause and fix it. When an issue isn't valid or won't be fixed in this PR, reply in its thread with the reason and then resolve the thread. At tests/test_axis_map_precision.py, line 212:

<comment>This assertion does not catch the per-column pairing regression it claims to guard: swapping a branch in the new `xmap`/`ymap` ternaries still passes because the call-site identifiers remain `xmap` and `xmeta`. Assert the ternary selections (or exercise each vertex-column mapping) so a sibling map cannot be paired with its meta.</comment>

<file context>
@@ -0,0 +1,245 @@
+    """A map folded for one column is a different transform, not a rounding
+    difference, so `xyMap` must never receive a sibling column's map: the
+    stems of the map and meta arguments have to match."""
+    calls = re.findall(r"xyMap\(\s*([\w.]+),\s*([\w.]+),\s*([\w.]+)\s*,", GL_SRC)
+    assert calls, "no xyMap call sites found — the extraction regex is broken"
+    mismatched = [
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Cannot render plots with high datetime accuracy - needs 64bit datetime support in the renderer?

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