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use crate::{KernelRefusal, KernelStage, OrRefuse, RefusalClass};
use super::*;
use super::gate_census::{census_pair, fit_census_enabled};
pub fn build_imprints(
solid_a: &BrepSolid,
solid_b: &BrepSolid,
options: &ImprintOptions,
) -> Result<ImprintResultRecord, KernelRefusal> {
let mut section_evidence = false;
let edges = edge_map(solid_a, solid_b);
let mut builder = ImprintBuilder {
edges,
tolerance: options.tolerance,
barrier_edges: HashSet::default(),
overlap_ridden_edges: HashSet::default(),
scale: solid_scale(solid_a).max(solid_scale(solid_b)),
vertices: Vec::new(),
vertex_radii: HashMap::default(),
pieces: Vec::new(),
by_face: HashMap::default(),
edge_splits: HashMap::default(),
marched_pieces: HashSet::default(),
next_id: 1,
};
let mut first_faces = faces(solid_a, 0);
let mut second_faces = faces(solid_b, 1);
// Per-face trim-window carriers, computed once: tighter BVH bounds, and
// the seed/march stages walk the window instead of the full carrier
// (identical geometry and parameterization inside the window).
//
// A window LIFTED across a closed direction's seam (`restricted_carrier`)
// is the exception to "same parameterization": it is the trim's frame, a
// period off the carrier's on one side. Its face carries it as its
// `chart`, and every uv the imprint reads for that face — the clip's
// containment, the sections' pcurves, a seed's normal — is read there.
let first_restricted: Vec<Option<MarchWindow>> = first_faces
.iter()
.map(|tagged| restricted_carrier(tagged.face))
.collect();
let second_restricted: Vec<Option<MarchWindow>> = second_faces
.iter()
.map(|tagged| restricted_carrier(tagged.face))
.collect();
for (tagged, window) in first_faces.iter_mut().zip(&first_restricted) {
tagged.lifted = window.as_ref().filter(|window| window.lifted).map(|window| &window.surface);
}
for (tagged, window) in second_faces.iter_mut().zip(&second_restricted) {
tagged.lifted = window.as_ref().filter(|window| window.lifted).map(|window| &window.surface);
}
let first_faces = first_faces;
let second_faces = second_faces;
// The lifted charts, by key, for the post-passes that rebuild a pcurve
// after the mint (junction canonicalization, the origin dissolve, the
// truncation bridge). A face absent here is read on its own carrier.
let charts: FaceCharts<'_> = first_faces
.iter()
.chain(second_faces.iter())
.filter_map(|tagged| tagged.lifted.map(|surface| (tagged.key(), surface)))
.collect();
let first_bounds = first_faces
.iter()
.zip(&first_restricted)
.map(|(tagged, restricted)| {
face_bounds(
tagged.face,
restricted.as_ref().map(|window| &window.surface),
&builder.edges,
tagged.operand,
options.tolerance,
)
})
.collect::<Result<Vec<_>, _>>()?;
let second_bounds = second_faces
.iter()
.zip(&second_restricted)
.map(|(tagged, restricted)| {
face_bounds(
tagged.face,
restricted.as_ref().map(|window| &window.surface),
&builder.edges,
tagged.operand,
options.tolerance,
)
})
.collect::<Result<Vec<_>, _>>()?;
let second_bvh = Bvh::build(&second_bounds);
// Per-face classifier data and edge lists/subcurves, computed once and
// reused across every pair the face participates in.
let first_classify = first_faces
.iter()
.map(|tagged| SurfaceClassifyData::build(&tagged.face.surface, options.tolerance))
.collect::<Result<Vec<_>, _>>().or_refuse(KernelStage::Intersect, "csg.imprint.driver")?;
let second_classify = second_faces
.iter()
.map(|tagged| SurfaceClassifyData::build(&tagged.face.surface, options.tolerance))
.collect::<Result<Vec<_>, _>>().or_refuse(KernelStage::Intersect, "csg.imprint.driver")?;
let mut face_edge_lists: HashMap<FaceKey, Vec<&EdgeRecord>> = HashMap::default();
for tagged in first_faces.iter().chain(second_faces.iter()) {
face_edge_lists.insert(tagged.key(), face_edges(*tagged, &builder.edges)?);
}
let mut subcurves: HashMap<(u8, u64), NurbsCurve> = HashMap::default();
for (&key, edge) in &builder.edges {
if !edge.degenerate {
// Failures fall through: the use sites recompute and surface the
// original error exactly where the uncached code did.
if let Ok(curve) = edge_subcurve(edge) {
subcurves.insert(key, curve);
}
}
}
let cached_subcurve = |operand: u8, edge: &EdgeRecord| -> Result<NurbsCurve, KernelRefusal> {
match subcurves.get(&(operand, edge.id)) {
Some(curve) => Ok(curve.clone()),
None => edge_subcurve(edge),
}
};
let mut profile = ImprintProfile::new();
let mut tangent_nodes: Vec<Vec3> = Vec::new();
let mut cosurface_pairs: Vec<(FaceKey, FaceKey)> = Vec::new();
let mut paired = Vec::new();
for (first_index, first) in first_faces.iter().enumerate() {
let first = *first;
paired.clear();
second_bvh.overlapping(
first_bounds[first_index],
options.tolerance * 100.0,
&mut paired,
);
paired.sort_unstable();
let debug_pairs = std::env::var("BREP_DEBUG_PAIRS").is_ok();
if debug_pairs {
eprintln!(
"bvh first_face={} -> {} candidate pairs {:?}",
first.face.id,
paired.len(),
paired
.iter()
.map(|&index| second_faces[index].face.id)
.collect::<Vec<_>>()
);
}
for &second_index in &paired {
let second = second_faces[second_index];
profile.pairs += 1;
// Set when this pair's section passes through an isolated TANGENT
// NODE inside both trims (see the classification below). The march
// is attempted anyway — that is the whole point — but a marcher
// that cannot get through a node must refuse in the tangent-node
// class naming the node, not leak its own step-budget message.
let mut tangent_node: Option<Vec3> = None;
let mut lap_start = None;
profile.lap(&mut lap_start);
let pair_classification = classify_surface_pair_cached(
&first.face.surface,
&first_classify[first_index],
&second.face.surface,
&second_classify[second_index],
options.tolerance,
PAIR_ANGULAR_TOLERANCE,
).or_refuse(KernelStage::Intersect, "csg.imprint.driver")?;
profile.classify += profile.lap(&mut lap_start);
if pair_classification.relation == SurfacePairRelation::Disjoint {
if debug_pairs {
eprintln!(
"pair {}x{}: DISJOINT-cull sep={:.4e}",
first.face.id, second.face.id, pair_classification.minimum_separation
);
}
continue;
}
// Coincident carriers are never marched: their true intersection
// is a 2D region, not a curve, so anything the marcher traces on
// them is noise ("similar faces we do not intersect" — Golovanov
// §6.2). The sampled classification catches coincident pairs
// the strict reconstruction test misses (partial overlaps,
// differing parameterizations); both route to the boundary-curve
// exchange below.
let is_cosurface = pair_classification.relation == SurfacePairRelation::Cosurface
|| cosurface_pair(&first.face.surface, &second.face.surface, options.tolerance)?;
profile.cosurface += profile.lap(&mut lap_start);
if is_cosurface {
if debug_pairs {
eprintln!("pair {}x{}: cosurface", first.face.id, second.face.id);
}
cosurface_pairs.push((first.key(), second.key()));
for edge in &face_edge_lists[&second.key()] {
if !edge.degenerate {
builder.process_curve(
cached_subcurve(second.operand, edge)?,
first,
second,
&[first],
&[first],
false,
)?;
}
}
for edge in &face_edge_lists[&first.key()] {
if !edge.degenerate {
builder.process_curve(
cached_subcurve(first.operand, edge)?,
first,
second,
&[second],
&[second],
false,
)?;
}
}
profile.process_curve += profile.lap(&mut lap_start);
continue;
}
// The exact section lanes below (planar-iso, analytic) mint this
// pair's whole intersection, the part over either trim included, so
// a SPAN of an edge lying on the other face would be a second copy
// of a curve they already mint — which reorders the face's pieces
// and with them its fragments' names (the 2026-09-10 chamfer groove
// rim's `Box_PX` / `Box_PX_1`). Where they answer, only a whole
// edge is exchanged, as before.
let planar_iso = planar_iso_intersection(
&first.face.surface,
&second.face.surface,
options.tolerance,
)?;
profile.planar_iso += profile.lap(&mut lap_start);
let analytic = crate::intersect_analytic_pair(
&first.face.surface,
&second.face.surface,
options.tolerance,
);
profile.analytic += profile.lap(&mut lap_start);
let exact_section = planar_iso.is_some() || analytic.is_some();
for edge in &face_edge_lists[&first.key()] {
if !edge.degenerate {
let curve = cached_subcurve(first.operand, edge)?;
let spans = curve_spans_on_face(curve, second.face, &face_edge_lists[&second.key()], options.tolerance, exact_section)?;
for span in spans {
builder.process_curve(span, first, second, &[second], &[second], false)?;
}
}
}
for edge in &face_edge_lists[&second.key()] {
if !edge.degenerate {
let curve = cached_subcurve(second.operand, edge)?;
let spans = curve_spans_on_face(curve, first.face, &face_edge_lists[&first.key()], options.tolerance, exact_section)?;
for span in spans {
builder.process_curve(span, first, second, &[first], &[first], false)?;
}
}
}
profile.lies_on += profile.lap(&mut lap_start);
// CENSUS ONLY (`BREP_FIT_CENSUS=1`): the lane this pair takes under
// the count-keyed and the geometry-keyed gates, and — when it is
// marched here and answered exactly there — the point-set comparison
// of the two, printed when `pair_census` is dropped. `imprint/gate_census.rs`.
let mut pair_census = if fit_census_enabled() {
census_pair(first, second, options.tolerance)?
} else {
None
};
if let Some(curve) = planar_iso {
if debug_pairs {
eprintln!("pair {}x{}: planar_iso", first.face.id, second.face.id);
}
builder.process_curve(
curve,
first,
second,
&[first, second],
&[first, second],
true,
)?;
profile.process_curve += profile.lap(&mut lap_start);
continue;
}
// Recognized analytic pairs produce their exact intersection
// curves (lines, circles, ellipses) directly — no marching, no
// polyline fitting, no chord-sag drift. An empty result is a
// proof of non-intersection and also skips the marcher. (Read
// above, with the planar-iso curve.)
if let Some(curves) = analytic {
if debug_pairs {
eprintln!(
"pair {}x{}: analytic x{}",
first.face.id,
second.face.id,
curves.len()
);
}
for curve in curves {
builder.process_curve(
curve,
first,
second,
&[first, second],
&[first, second],
true,
)?;
}
profile.process_curve += profile.lap(&mut lap_start);
continue;
}
// A pair whose every touching sample is TANGENTIAL cannot
// contain a transverse intersection curve: the marcher would
// walk the tangency band's noise, which neither closes nor
// reaches a boundary (the distance-0 glue-extrude runaway).
// Shared topology at a tangential contact comes from the
// boundary-curve exchange above ("similar faces we do not
// intersect" extended to tangential contacts — Golovanov §6.2;
// where surfaces CROSS through a tangency, off-line samples
// have non-parallel normals and the pair still marches).
if pair_classification.relation == SurfacePairRelation::NearTangent
&& pair_classification.tangential_only
{
// The coarse 5×5 classifier can flag `tangential_only` off an
// incidental tangential KISS between two curved carriers and
// miss the transverse loop where they actually cross (two
// overlapping tori: their tubes cross while their inner walls
// just touch). Before honouring the skip, a GATED supplemental
// detector (denser two-sided seeding, tangency-band seeds
// rejected, trace-exhaustion swallowed, transverse-only
// branches) checks whether a genuine transverse curve of
// meaningful length lies inside BOTH trims.
//
// Such a pair's intersection is SINGULAR where a tangency
// sits on it, and what the imprint can do about that depends
// entirely on the SHAPE of the tangency — see
// `imprint/tangent_contact.rs`. An isolated NODE (two branches
// crossing, as every equal-radius pair produces) is already
// assembled correctly by the ordinary march plus the 2D
// arrangement's pinch carving; an EXTENDED contact along a
// whole curve has no section to imprint at all and tears the
// shell. Both are classified below and only the second is
// refused. Skipping either silently would DROP the
// intersection (torus∪torus double-counts; torus−torus removes
// nothing — the two structural bugs the semantic oracle
// found), so nothing here ever falls through quietly.
let first_march = first_restricted[first_index]
.as_ref()
.map(|window| &window.surface)
.unwrap_or(&first.face.surface);
let second_march = second_restricted[second_index]
.as_ref()
.map(|window| &window.surface)
.unwrap_or(&second.face.surface);
let supplemental = intersect_surfaces_supplemental(
first_march,
second_march,
&SurfaceIntersectionOptions {
tolerance: options.tolerance,
maximum_step: options.maximum_ssi_step,
..Default::default()
},
).or_refuse(KernelStage::Intersect, "csg.imprint.driver")?;
let mut dropped_length = 0.0f64;
let mut clipped: Vec<Vec<Vec3>> = Vec::new();
for branch in &supplemental {
for run in clip_branch_to_trims(&branch.points, first, second)? {
if run.len() < 2 {
continue;
}
let length: f64 = run
.windows(2)
.map(|pair| pair[1].sub(pair[0]).length())
.sum();
dropped_length = dropped_length.max(length);
clipped.push(run);
}
}
if dropped_length <= options.tolerance * 100.0 {
if debug_pairs {
eprintln!(
"pair {}x{}: tangential-only contact, march skipped",
first.face.id, second.face.id
);
}
continue;
}
// A transverse curve EXISTS. What would make it unimprintable is
// a tangent NODE on it — and the node need not lie inside the
// trims. Two equal-radius pipe arms are tangent to each other
// where their axes' common perpendicular leaves the junction,
// and a joint ball wider than the arms trims that crotch off
// both faces; what is left inside the trims is an ordinary
// crossing. So the question is not "does a transverse curve
// exist" but "does the curve INSIDE BOTH TRIMS reach a
// tangency". Only the latter is the checkerboard case.
let mut tangency_inside_trims = false;
let mut tangency_witness = Vec3::default();
'clipped: for run in &clipped {
for (index, &point) in run.iter().enumerate() {
if pair_normals_parallel_at(first, second, point)? {
tangency_inside_trims = true;
tangency_witness = point;
if debug_pairs {
eprintln!(
"pair {}x{}: TANGENCY at run index {}/{} ({:.6},{:.6},{:.6}) dropped_len={:.4e}",
first.face.id, second.face.id, index, run.len(),
point.x, point.y, point.z, dropped_length
);
}
break 'clipped;
}
}
}
if tangency_inside_trims {
// WHAT SHAPE is the tangency? The witness is only a marched
// sample within the transverse-seed angular gate, so it is
// REFINED onto the contact before being classified — at the
// raw witness a G1 cylinder/torus join and a genuine
// equal-radius node are eighteen-fold apart, which would be
// a band; at the refined contact they are thirty orders
// apart, which is a rank question. See
// `imprint/tangent_contact.rs`.
let contact = classify_tangent_contact(
&first.face.surface,
&second.face.surface,
tangency_witness,
options.tolerance,
)?;
if debug_pairs {
eprintln!(
"pair {}x{}: contact classification {:?}",
first.face.id, second.face.id, contact
);
}
match contact {
// An isolated node: the section is a curve everywhere
// but that one point, so the ordinary march below runs
// and the 2D arrangement carves the pinch on both
// faces. `tangent_node` records it so a march that
// cannot get through still refuses in THIS class rather
// than leaking the marcher's own message.
Some(contact) if contact.is_isolated_node() => {
tangent_node = Some(contact.point);
tangent_nodes.push(contact.point);
}
// An extended contact (rank-deficient) or a witness we
// could not refine onto any contact at all (None — so
// nothing is proven and the pre-classification refusal
// stands). Neither has a section curve the imprint can
// represent.
other => {
let shape = match other {
Some(contact) => contact.describe(),
None => format!(
"the tangency near ({:.6},{:.6},{:.6}) could not be refined \
onto a contact, so its shape is unproven",
tangency_witness.x, tangency_witness.y, tangency_witness.z
),
};
return Err(KernelRefusal::new(
RefusalClass::TangentNodeSingularity,
KernelStage::Intersect,
format!(
"boolean: unsupported singular/tangent-node surface intersection \
between faces {} and {}: {shape}",
first.face.id, second.face.id
),
));
}
}
}
if debug_pairs && tangent_node.is_none() {
// Transverse the whole way inside both trims: the coarse
// 5x5 classifier only saw the tangency the trims cut away.
eprintln!(
"pair {}x{}: classified tangential-only, but the curve inside both \
trims is transverse ({dropped_length:.4}) — marching",
first.face.id, second.face.id
);
}
}
// The trim-window carriers: same surface and parameterization
// over the window, so hit (u, v) values remain valid on the
// originals; out-of-window intersections could never survive
// clip_branch_to_trims and are not walked at all.
let first_march = first_restricted[first_index]
.as_ref()
.map(|window| &window.surface)
.unwrap_or(&first.face.surface);
let second_march = second_restricted[second_index]
.as_ref()
.map(|window| &window.surface)
.unwrap_or(&second.face.surface);
let mut seed_points = Vec::new();
// Smallest |edge_tangent · surface_normal| over accepted seeds — the
// local grazing measure at the trim crossings (near 0 = the edge
// pierces the other surface tangentially). Gates the near-tangent
// clip-order rescue below to genuinely grazing pairs.
let mut min_seed_tangency = f64::INFINITY;
for (face, other_march, other) in
[(first, second_march, second), (second, first_march, first)]
{
for edge in &face_edge_lists[&face.key()] {
if edge.degenerate {
continue;
}
for hit in intersect_curve_surface(&edge.curve, other_march, options.tolerance).or_refuse(KernelStage::Intersect, "intersect_curve_surface")?
{
if hit.t < edge.t0 - 1e-9 || hit.t > edge.t1 + 1e-9 {
continue;
}
let derivative = edge.curve.derivatives(hit.t, 1).or_refuse(KernelStage::Intersect, "derivatives")?[1];
// A STATIONARY POINT on the edge curve is not a reason
// to refuse the boolean. An involute flank starts at
// the base circle with an exactly zero tangent, so a
// gear tooth's profile carries one cusp per flank, and
// a hit landing on that parameter used to propagate
// "Vec3.normalized: zero-length vector" out of the
// whole union (the 2026-09-14 herringbone report: the
// second tooth band's z=0 cap edge meets the first
// band's flank exactly at the cusp). The direction is
// still defined as the one-sided limit, so read it from
// just inside the edge's own range; an edge with no
// direction at all simply contributes no seed, exactly
// as a hit whose face normal is unavailable already
// does two lines below. Seeds are marcher hints, so a
// dropped one costs a hint, never an answer.
// Escape hatch for tamper-verification:
// BREP_CUSP_TANGENT_RESCUE=0 restores the refusal.
let tangent = match derivative.normalized() {
Ok(tangent) => tangent,
Err(error) => {
if std::env::var("BREP_CUSP_TANGENT_RESCUE").as_deref() == Ok("0") {
return Err(error)
.or_refuse(KernelStage::Intersect, "normalized");
}
match edge.curve.stationary_tangent_rescue(hit.t, edge.t0, edge.t1)
{
Some(tangent) => tangent,
None => continue,
}
}
};
// `hit` was solved on the other face's MARCH WINDOW, so
// its uv is in that face's chart — a period off the
// carrier's where the window is lifted, and `normal`
// clamps a parameter past its domain.
let normal = match other.chart().normal(hit.u, hit.v) {
Ok(normal) => normal,
Err(_) => continue,
};
if debug_pairs {
eprintln!(
"pair {}x{}: seed edge {} t={:.6} p=({:.5},{:.5},{:.5}) |tan.n|={:.4} {}",
first.face.id,
second.face.id,
edge.id,
hit.t,
hit.point.x,
hit.point.y,
hit.point.z,
tangent.dot(normal).abs(),
if tangent.dot(normal).abs() >= 0.1 { "ACCEPT" } else { "reject" }
);
}
if tangent.dot(normal).abs() >= 0.1 {
seed_points.push(hit.point);
min_seed_tangency = min_seed_tangency.min(tangent.dot(normal).abs());
section_evidence = true;
}
}
}
}
profile.seeds += profile.lap(&mut lap_start);
profile.marched_pairs += 1;
if debug_pairs {
eprintln!(
"pair {}x{}: marching (relation {:?})...",
first.face.id, second.face.id, pair_classification.relation
);
}
let marched = intersect_surfaces(
first_march,
second_march,
&SurfaceIntersectionOptions {
tolerance: options.tolerance,
maximum_step: march_maximum_step(
&pair_classification,
options.maximum_ssi_step,
builder.scale,
),
seed_points: seed_points.clone(),
..Default::default()
},
);
// A pair carrying a tangent node keeps its OWN refusal class when
// the march fails: the node is why the trace cannot close, and the
// equal-radius torus pair depends on being told so rather than on
// reading a step-budget message it cannot act on.
let marched = match (marched, tangent_node) {
(Err(error), Some(node)) => {
return Err(KernelRefusal::new(
RefusalClass::TangentNodeSingularity,
KernelStage::Intersect,
format!(
"boolean: unsupported singular/tangent-node surface intersection \
between faces {} and {}: the section through the tangent node at \
({:.6},{:.6},{:.6}) could not be marched ({error})",
first.face.id, second.face.id, node.x, node.y, node.z
),
));
}
(marched, _) => marched,
};
let mut branches = marched
.map_err(|error| {
format!(
"{error} (marching faces {} and {})",
first.face.id, second.face.id
)
}).or_refuse(KernelStage::Intersect, "csg.imprint.driver")?;
profile.march += profile.lap(&mut lap_start);
let rescue_started = profile.enabled.then(Instant::now);
// MARCH-ORDER SWAP RESCUE (hatch BREP_MARCH_SWAP_RESCUE=0).
// `intersect_surfaces` is not order-symmetric: the coupled Newton
// trace can fail to start/continue from a valid seed when the two
// surfaces are presented in one operand order yet succeed in the
// other. This is the sole reason t217's `subtract(sphere, step)`
// fails while every other op passes — pair 118x842 (sphere-first)
// marches ZERO branches, while 842x118 (step-first, the working
// a\b order) marches the section from the IDENTICAL accepted pierce
// seeds. When the forward order returns no branch AND an accepted
// transverse pierce seed exists (so a real section provably crosses
// both trims), retry the march with the surfaces swapped — i.e.
// reproduce the exact call the working operand order makes for this
// pair (measured: seed_only alone does NOT recover it — the section
// is found from an auto-grid start, not from the near-tangent pierce
// seeds, which the seed normal-cross gate rejects). The returned
// branch points are 3D and therefore order-independent, so no
// parameter remap is needed; they flow through the identical clip /
// process_curve gates below, which drop any out-of-trim or
// sub-length run exactly as today. The rescue only ever runs when
// the forward order found NOTHING, so it cannot alter a pair that
// already marched.
if branches.is_empty()
&& !seed_points.is_empty()
&& pair_classification.relation == SurfacePairRelation::Candidate
&& std::env::var("BREP_MARCH_SWAP_RESCUE").as_deref() != Ok("0")
{
// FAIL-SOFT: the forward order already returned Ok(empty); a
// swapped-march error (trace-exhaustion is a real error class —
// `intersect_surfaces_supplemental` swallows it for exactly this
// reason) must NOT convert that graceful empty into a hard error.
// On Err, keep the (empty) forward result and carry on.
let swapped = intersect_surfaces(
second_march,
first_march,
&SurfaceIntersectionOptions {
tolerance: options.tolerance,
maximum_step: march_maximum_step(
&pair_classification,
options.maximum_ssi_step,
builder.scale,
),
seed_points: seed_points.clone(),
..Default::default()
},
)
.unwrap_or_default();
if debug_pairs {
eprintln!(
"pair {}x{}: MARCH-SWAP RESCUE attempt -> {} branches, pts {:?}",
first.face.id,
second.face.id,
swapped.len(),
swapped.iter().map(|b| b.points.len()).collect::<Vec<_>>()
);
}
if !swapped.is_empty() {
branches = swapped;
}
}
// NEAR-TANGENT CLIP-ORDER RESCUE (hatch BREP_MARCH_SWAP_CLIP_RESCUE=0).
// Companion to the empty-branch MARCH-SWAP RESCUE above:
// `intersect_surfaces` is order-asymmetric not only in WHETHER it
// marches, but in the exact sample positions of the section
// polyline. On a NEAR-TANGENT graze, `clip_branch_to_trims`
// classifies those samples against the mutual trims, and a sample
// landing just past the near-tangent boundary is dropped as a
// false-Outside that TRUNCATES the clipped section. The two operand
// orders drop DIFFERENT near-tangent tail samples, so one order
// yields a section ~0.1-0.2mm shorter at ONE endpoint (t660: b\a's
// step-first order clips pairs 223x105/399x105 ~0.22/0.14mm short of
// the section a\b's cyl-first order keeps, stranding edge 173
// one-use). Near-tangent clip errors are almost exclusively
// false-Outside (a point truly outside a trim rarely projects to an
// in-trim uv), so the order with the LONGER clipped section suffered
// fewer drops and is the more complete one. When the swapped order
// marches the SAME branch structure with a meaningfully longer
// clipped total, adopt its branches (3D points, so they flow through
// the identical clip/process_curve gates below). Gated to Candidate
// pairs (the near-tangent/ambiguous class; clean Transverse
// crossings clip identically in both orders and never differ) with
// an accepted GRAZING pierce seed (min |tan·n| < 0.5 — a real
// section provably crosses, and does so near-tangentially, the only
// regime where the clip wobbles; this also bounds the extra march to
// grazing pairs), and requires a >0.1%-of-length margin so
// raw-sampling jitter (t660: 0.02%) cannot flip a clean pair.
// Fail-soft: any swapped-march or comparison-clip error keeps the
// forward result.
if !branches.is_empty()
&& !seed_points.is_empty()
&& min_seed_tangency < 0.5
&& pair_classification.relation == SurfacePairRelation::Candidate
&& std::env::var("BREP_MARCH_SWAP_CLIP_RESCUE").as_deref() != Ok("0")
{
let swapped = intersect_surfaces(
second_march,
first_march,
&SurfaceIntersectionOptions {
tolerance: options.tolerance,
maximum_step: march_maximum_step(
&pair_classification,
options.maximum_ssi_step,
builder.scale,
),
seed_points: seed_points.clone(),
..Default::default()
},
)
.unwrap_or_default();
// Only a swap that reproduces the SAME branch count — a
// refined-endpoint variant of the same section, not a different
// branch decomposition (guards against adopting a spurious
// extra branch as "longer").
if !swapped.is_empty() && swapped.len() == branches.len() {
let totals = (|| -> Result<(f64, f64), KernelRefusal> {
let mut fwd = 0.0;
for b in &branches {
let refined = insert_seed_points_into_branch(
&b.points,
&seed_points,
options.tolerance,
);
for run in clip_branch_to_trims(&refined, first, second)? {
fwd += run
.windows(2)
.map(|p| p[1].sub(p[0]).length())
.sum::<f64>();
}
}
let mut swp = 0.0;
for b in &swapped {
let refined = insert_seed_points_into_branch(
&b.points,
&seed_points,
options.tolerance,
);
for run in clip_branch_to_trims(&refined, first, second)? {
swp += run
.windows(2)
.map(|p| p[1].sub(p[0]).length())
.sum::<f64>();
}
}
Ok((fwd, swp))
})();
if let Ok((fwd_clip, swp_clip)) = totals {
let margin = fwd_clip.max(swp_clip) * 1.0e-3;
let adopt = swp_clip > fwd_clip + margin;
if debug_pairs {
eprintln!(
"pair {}x{}: CLIP-SWAP RESCUE fwd_clip={:.6} swp_clip={:.6} margin={:.6}{}",
first.face.id,
second.face.id,
fwd_clip,
swp_clip,
margin,
if adopt { " ADOPT" } else { "" }
);
}
if adopt {
branches = swapped;
}
}
}
}
if let Some(started) = rescue_started {
profile.rescue_march += started.elapsed();
}
if branches.iter().any(|branch| branch.points.len() >= 2) {
section_evidence = true;
}
if debug_pairs {
eprintln!(
"pair {}x{}: MARCH {} branches, pts {:?}",
first.face.id,
second.face.id,
branches.len(),
branches.iter().map(|b| b.points.len()).collect::<Vec<_>>()
);
}
for branch in branches {
// The pierce seeds are the section's exact trim-crossing
// points — insert them so no trim interval shorter than the
// march step is invisible to the point-classification clip.
let refined_points =
insert_seed_points_into_branch(&branch.points, &seed_points, options.tolerance);
let clip_started = profile.enabled.then(Instant::now);
let runs = clip_branch_to_trims(&refined_points, first, second)?;
if let Some(started) = clip_started {
profile.clip += started.elapsed();
}
for run in runs {
if debug_pairs {
eprintln!(
"pair {}x{}: clip run len_pts={} length={:.4e}",
first.face.id,
second.face.id,
run.len(),
run.windows(2)
.map(|pair| pair[1].sub(pair[0]).length())
.sum::<f64>()
);
}
if run.len() < 2 {
continue;
}
let length: f64 = run
.windows(2)
.map(|pair| pair[1].sub(pair[0]).length())
.sum();
if length <= options.tolerance * 100.0 {
continue;
}
let shared_started = profile.enabled.then(Instant::now);
let follows_shared = branch_follows_shared_boundary(
&run,
first,
second,
&builder.edges,
options.tolerance,
builder.scale,
)?;
if let Some(started) = shared_started {
profile.shared_boundary += started.elapsed();
}
if follows_shared {
if debug_pairs {
eprintln!(
"pair {}x{}: run dropped (follows shared boundary)",
first.face.id, second.face.id
);
}
continue;
}
if let Some(census) = pair_census.as_mut() {
census.record_stations(&run);
}
let pieces_before = builder.pieces.len();
let chunk_points = options.fit_chunk_points.unwrap_or(run.len()).max(2);
let mut start = 0;
while start + 1 < run.len() {
let end = (start + chunk_points - 1).min(run.len() - 1);
let fit_started = profile.enabled.then(Instant::now);
let fit = fit_polyline(
&run[start..=end],
options.tolerance.max(1e-7),
options.maximum_fit_points,
options.local_fit,
).or_refuse(KernelStage::Intersect, "csg.imprint.driver")?;
if let Some(started) = fit_started {
profile.fit += started.elapsed();
}
if let Some(census) = pair_census.as_mut() {
census.record_fit(&fit);
}
let process_started = profile.enabled.then(Instant::now);
builder.process_curve(
fit.curve,
first,
second,
&[first, second],
&[first, second],
true,
)?;
if let Some(started) = process_started {
profile.process += started.elapsed();
}
start = end;
}
for piece in &builder.pieces[pieces_before..] {
builder.marched_pieces.insert(piece.id);
}
if debug_pairs {
eprintln!(
"pair {}x{}: run -> {} pieces",
first.face.id,
second.face.id,
builder.pieces.len() - pieces_before
);
}
}
}
profile.clip_and_fit += profile.lap(&mut lap_start);
}
}
profile.report();
// SELF-TOUCH SPLIT: a face whose loops touch at an edge interior (a hole
// tangent to a fillet setback) gets a vertex minted at the touch on BOTH
// edges, so the fragment arrangement's pinch resolution assembles — see
// `imprint/self_touch.rs`. Escape hatch: BREP_SELF_TOUCH_SPLIT=0.
let mut tail_lap: Option<Instant> = None;
let mut tail_ms = Vec::<(&str, f64)>::new();
let mut lap = |name: &'static str, started: &mut Option<Instant>, tail_ms: &mut Vec<(&str, f64)>| {
if profile.enabled {
let now = Instant::now();
if let Some(previous) = *started {
tail_ms.push((name, (now - previous).as_secs_f64() * 1_000.0));
}
*started = Some(now);
}
};
lap("pairs", &mut tail_lap, &mut tail_ms);
if std::env::var("BREP_SELF_TOUCH_SPLIT").as_deref() != Ok("0") {
builder.split_self_touching_loops(&first_faces, &face_edge_lists, &cached_subcurve)?;
builder.split_self_touching_loops(&second_faces, &face_edge_lists, &cached_subcurve)?;
}
// PIECE-ENDPOINT EXCHANGE post-pass: with every pair's process_curve
// done, the piece set is final for the ridden-edge class — imprint each
// open riding piece's junction endpoints onto the ridden edges (see the
// method doc; hatch BREP_OVERLAP_PIECE_ENDPOINT_SPLIT=0).
builder.exchange_piece_endpoint_junctions()?;
lap("self_touch", &mut tail_lap, &mut tail_ms);
let mut edge_splits = builder
.edge_splits
.into_iter()
.map(|((operand, edge_id), mut parameters)| {
parameters.sort_by(f64::total_cmp);
EdgeSplitRecord {
operand,
edge_id,
parameters,
}
})
.collect::<Vec<_>>();
edge_splits.sort_by_key(|record| (record.operand, record.edge_id));
let mut by_face = builder
.by_face
.into_iter()
.map(|(face, piece_ids)| FaceImprints {
operand: face.operand,
face_id: face.face_id,
piece_ids,
})
.collect::<Vec<_>>();
by_face.sort_by_key(|record| (record.operand, record.face_id));
let section_evidence = section_evidence || !builder.pieces.is_empty();
let marched_pieces = std::mem::take(&mut builder.marched_pieces);
let mut result = ImprintResultRecord {
tangent_nodes,
vertices: builder.vertices,
pieces: builder.pieces,
by_face,
edge_splits,
barrier_edges: builder.barrier_edges.into_iter().collect(),
section_evidence,
cosurface_pairs,
};
// COINCIDENT-PIECE MERGE (problemInbox equator-tangent, and the generic
// one-circle-from-many-pairs class): the SAME section curve can be minted
// by several pairs — a cosurface boundary-edge copy (the cylinder cap
// ring lying ON the inscribed sphere) AND the cap-plane's analytic
// section ring are one circle minted twice, each carrying only its own
// pair's supports/pcurves. Assembly then builds duplicate edges that
// cannot both be two-use → one-use strands. Merge pieces whose curves
// coincide along their whole span (bidirectional max deviation within
// the weld band): keep the first, union the supports/pcurves/by_face
// registrations of the rest into it. Escape hatch:
// BREP_COINCIDENT_PIECE_MERGE=0.
lap("collect", &mut tail_lap, &mut tail_ms);
if std::env::var("BREP_COINCIDENT_PIECE_MERGE").as_deref() != Ok("0") {
let weld = assembler_weld(options.tolerance).max(options.tolerance * 10.0);
// Two pieces that coincide along their WHOLE spans (deviation within
// the weld both ways) also have matching end points, up to direction
// and a weld or two of overhang, so a piece whose ends are nowhere
// near the other's needs no 33-station projection sweep. The sweep is
// what made this pass quadratic in wall time: 630 pieces cost 3.2 s
// of a 3.8 s imprint on the 2026-09-12 mesh-import report, all of it
// rejecting pairs an end-point look already rules out.
let mut ends: Vec<[Vec3; 2]> = Vec::with_capacity(result.pieces.len());
for piece in &result.pieces {
let [d0, d1] = piece.curve.domain().or_refuse(KernelStage::Intersect, "domain")?;
ends.push([
piece.curve.evaluate(d0).or_refuse(KernelStage::Intersect, "evaluate")?,
piece.curve.evaluate(d1).or_refuse(KernelStage::Intersect, "evaluate")?,
]);
}
let end_band = 4.0 * weld;
// A CLOSED piece (a full ring) has no end points to speak of: two
// rings of the same circle seamed at different azimuths coincide
// along their whole spans while their domain ends sit anywhere on
// the ring, so a closed piece always takes the full sweep.
let ends_match = |a: &[Vec3; 2], b: &[Vec3; 2]| -> bool {
let near = |p: Vec3, q: Vec3| p.sub(q).length() <= end_band;
near(a[0], a[1])
|| near(b[0], b[1])
|| (near(a[0], b[0]) && near(a[1], b[1]))
|| (near(a[0], b[1]) && near(a[1], b[0]))
};
let mut removed: Vec<u64> = Vec::new();
let mut index = 0;
while index < result.pieces.len() {
let mut other = index + 1;
while other < result.pieces.len() {
let coincide = ends_match(&ends[index], &ends[other]) && {
let a = &result.pieces[index];
let b = &result.pieces[other];
max_curve_deviation(&a.curve, &b.curve)? <= weld
&& max_curve_deviation(&b.curve, &a.curve)? <= weld
};
if coincide {
let absorbed = result.pieces.remove(other);
ends.remove(other);
removed.push(absorbed.id);
let keeper = &mut result.pieces[index];
for pcurve in absorbed.pcurves {
if !keeper
.pcurves
.iter()
.any(|existing| {
existing.operand == pcurve.operand
&& existing.face_id == pcurve.face_id
})
{
keeper.pcurves.push(pcurve);
}
}
let keeper_id = keeper.id;
for record in &mut result.by_face {
if let Some(position) =
record.piece_ids.iter().position(|&id| id == absorbed.id)
{
if record.piece_ids.contains(&keeper_id) {
record.piece_ids.remove(position);
} else {
record.piece_ids[position] = keeper_id;
}
}
}
} else {
other += 1;
}
}
index += 1;
}
if !removed.is_empty() && std::env::var("BREP_DEBUG_BOOL").is_ok() {
eprintln!("coincident-piece merge: absorbed {:?}", removed);
}
}
// Rescue near-tangent SSI truncations BEFORE canonicalization so the added
// bridge pieces' endpoints (existing crossing/stub vertices) fold into the
// same junction merges as every other section.
lap("coincident_merge", &mut tail_lap, &mut tail_ms);
extend_truncated_sections(
&mut result,
&face_edge_lists,
solid_a,
solid_b,
&charts,
options.tolerance,
)?;
lap("extend_truncated", &mut tail_lap, &mut tail_ms);
canonicalize_imprint_junctions(&mut result, solid_a, solid_b, &charts, options.tolerance)?;
lap("canonicalize", &mut tail_lap, &mut tail_ms);
// ONE RIM, ONE EDGE: with vertex identity final, dissolve the section
// vertices that no operand edge passes through — the marcher's own
// parameterization origin, which `process_curve` cannot tell from a
// junction because it sees one pair at a time. See the method doc.
let dissolved = dissolve_section_origin_vertices(
&mut result,
&marched_pieces,
solid_a,
solid_b,
&charts,
options.tolerance,
)?;
if dissolved > 0 && std::env::var("BREP_DEBUG_BOOL").is_ok() {
eprintln!("origin-dissolve: {dissolved} parameterization vertex/vertices removed");
}
lap("origin_dissolve", &mut tail_lap, &mut tail_ms);
// B2: reuse an existing boundary edge as the shared section edge wherever a
// section coincides with one along its whole span (vertices are final after
// canonicalization; `face_edge_lists` holds each face's boundary edges on
// the healed operands). Runs here so both operands reference ONE edge.
reuse_boundary_section_edges(
&mut result,
&face_edge_lists,
solid_a,
solid_b,
options.tolerance,
)?;
// Capstone step 1 — instrumentation only, zero behavior change: report
// every (section piece × boundary edge) contact where the piece runs
// within the scale-derived band of the edge over a real span. Measuring
// the bands here first validates the graze-contact model on the
// acceptance suite before step 2's common-block machinery replaces a
// grazed overlap with a shared edge.
lap("reuse_boundary", &mut tail_lap, &mut tail_ms);
report_graze_contacts(&result, &face_edge_lists, solid_a, solid_b, options.tolerance)?;
if profile.enabled {
let line = tail_ms
.iter()
.map(|(name, ms)| format!("{name}={ms:.2}"))
.collect::<Vec<_>>()
.join(" ");
eprintln!("imprint.stages {line}");
}
Ok(result)
}
/// Debug-only graze-contact survey (`BREP_DEBUG_GRAZE=1`): for each section
/// piece and each boundary edge of its support faces, sample the piece and
/// measure distance to the edge; report contacts whose in-band span exceeds
/// both the weld scale and 4× the minimum deviation (span-wise proximity, not
/// a point touch). `band_cap` reuses the residual-merge `sep_cap` ceiling —
/// measured, never grown. The output is the raw material for capstone step 2
/// (partial-span common-block): which contacts exist, their spans, and their
/// measured bands.
fn report_graze_contacts(
result: &ImprintResultRecord,
face_edge_lists: &HashMap<FaceKey, Vec<&EdgeRecord>>,
solid_a: &BrepSolid,
solid_b: &BrepSolid,
tolerance: f64,
) -> Result<(), KernelRefusal> {
if std::env::var("BREP_DEBUG_GRAZE").as_deref() != Ok("1") {
return Ok(());
}
let raw_extent = raw_solid_extent(solid_a).max(raw_solid_extent(solid_b));
let (_, band_cap) = residual_merge_bands(raw_extent, tolerance);
const SAMPLES: usize = 17;
for piece in &result.pieces {
let [t0, t1] = [piece.t0, piece.t1];
if !(t1 > t0) {
continue;
}
for key in piece.support_faces {
let Some(edges) = face_edge_lists.get(&key) else {
continue;
};
for edge in edges {
if edge.degenerate {
continue;
}
let mut in_band = 0usize;
let mut min_dev = f64::INFINITY;
let mut max_dev_in_band = 0.0f64;
let mut span = 0.0f64;
let mut prev: Option<(bool, Vec3)> = None;
for k in 0..SAMPLES {
let t = t0 + (t1 - t0) * k as f64 / (SAMPLES - 1) as f64;
let point = piece.curve.evaluate(t).or_refuse(KernelStage::Intersect, "evaluate")?;
let deviation = project_point_to_curve(&edge.curve, point).or_refuse(KernelStage::Intersect, "project_point_to_curve")?.distance;
min_dev = min_dev.min(deviation);
let inside = deviation <= band_cap;
if inside {
in_band += 1;
max_dev_in_band = max_dev_in_band.max(deviation);
if let Some((true, prev_point)) = prev {
span += point.sub(prev_point).length();
}
}
prev = Some((inside, point));
}
// Span-wise contact: several consecutive samples in band and a
// span that dwarfs the closest-approach (not a transversal
// crossing, which dips in and out at one sample).
if in_band >= 3 && span > (4.0 * min_dev).max(assembler_weld(tolerance)) {
eprintln!(
"graze: piece {} sup=[{}:{},{}:{}] ~ edge {}:{} span={:.3e} band=[{:.3e},{:.3e}] samples_in_band={}/{}",
piece.id,
piece.support_faces[0].operand,
piece.support_faces[0].face_id,
piece.support_faces[1].operand,
piece.support_faces[1].face_id,
key.operand,
edge.id,
span,
min_dev,
max_dev_in_band,
in_band,
SAMPLES
);
}
}
}
}
Ok(())
}
/// Are the two carriers TANGENT (normals parallel) where they both pass through
/// `point`?
///
/// The test the tangential-only refusal above needs: a point on the marched
/// intersection is a TANGENT NODE when the two surface normals there are
/// parallel. The threshold is the transversality bound the supplemental
/// detector already accepts seeds by (`TRANSVERSE_SEED_CROSS`), not the
/// far tighter pair-classifier bound — a node the march merely passes CLOSE to
/// still poisons the assembly, so this errs toward calling a pair singular.
fn pair_normals_parallel_at(
first: TaggedFace<'_>,
second: TaggedFace<'_>,
point: Vec3,
) -> Result<bool, KernelRefusal> {
let mut normals = [Vec3::default(); 2];
for (slot, face) in normals.iter_mut().zip([first, second]) {
let projection = project_point_to_surface(&face.face.surface, point)
.or_refuse(KernelStage::Intersect, "project_point_to_surface")?;
let Ok(normal) = face.face.surface.normal(projection.u, projection.v) else {
// A pole/singular parameter point cannot witness transversality;
// treat it as tangential so the pair stays refused.
return Ok(true);
};
*slot = normal;
}
Ok(normals[0].cross(normals[1]).length() <= crate::TRANSVERSE_SEED_CROSS)
}