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approx.rs

1//! The approximation stage: a traced branch becomes curves.
2//!
3//! A traced branch is a polyline with a stated chord tolerance: honest, and
4//! not what anything downstream wants to hold. An edge wants a curve in space;
5//! a face wants that curve in its *own parameter space*, because splitting a
6//! face happens there and a curve the face cannot express is a curve it cannot
7//! be split along (`docs/DATA_MODEL.md` §6).
8//!
9//! So one branch becomes three fits sharing one tolerance: the 3D curve, and
10//! one pcurve per surface, each fitted from the samples the tracer already
11//! recorded. The tracer kept the parameters on both surfaces at every point
12//! precisely for this moment; re-deriving them here would be a projection per
13//! point, solving again what the marcher already solved.
14//!
15//! # The tolerance story, stated once
16//!
17//! The result's tolerance is a *sum of stated parts*, not a hope: the trace
18//! sits within its chord tolerance of the true intersection, and the fit sits
19//! within its own reported error of the trace. Both numbers are carried, and
20//! the total is what an edge built on this curve must widen its tolerance to.
21//! Nothing here rounds a miss up to a hit; a fit that could not reach its
22//! target says so, and the caller decides whether the looser curve is usable.
23//!
24//! # Seams
25//!
26//! A branch crossing a periodic surface's seam has parameter samples that jump
27//! by a period: the pcurve polyline tears even though the curve in space is
28//! smooth. The samples are unwrapped before fitting: each step is folded to
29//! the nearest image, so the pcurve runs continuously past the seam and may
30//! legitimately leave `[0, 2π)`. That is what a pcurve on a periodic surface
31//! is; folding it back would re-tear it.
32
33use ogeom_core::{OgeomResult, Tolerances, ogeom_bail};
34use ogeom_geom::{BSpline2d, BSplineCurve, Surface, SurfaceGeometry};
35use ogeom_math::Point2;
36
37use crate::march::Traced;
38
39/// A branch of an intersection, as curves.
40#[derive(Debug, Clone, PartialEq)]
41pub struct IntersectionCurve {
42    /// The curve in space.
43    pub curve: BSplineCurve,
44    /// The same curve in the first surface's parameter space.
45    pub on_a: BSpline2d,
46    /// And in the second's.
47    pub on_b: BSpline2d,
48    /// How far the *fits* may sit from the traced polyline.
49    ///
50    /// The worst of the three fits' reported errors. The distance to the true
51    /// intersection adds the trace's own chord tolerance on top; both are
52    /// stated so an edge built on this knows what to carry.
53    pub fit_error: f64,
54    /// Whether every fit met the tolerance it was asked for.
55    pub met: bool,
56    /// Whether the branch is a closed loop.
57    pub closed: bool,
58}
59
60/// Fit one traced branch to curves, within `tolerance`.
61///
62/// # Errors
63///
64/// [`OgeomError::Construction`](ogeom_core::OgeomError::Construction) if the branch has
65/// fewer than two points or the tolerance is not a positive distance.
66pub fn approximate_branch(
67    a: &SurfaceGeometry,
68    b: &SurfaceGeometry,
69    branch: &Traced,
70    tolerance: f64,
71    tol: Tolerances,
72) -> OgeomResult<IntersectionCurve> {
73    if branch.points.len() < 2 {
74        ogeom_bail!(
75            Construction,
76            "a branch of {} points is not a curve",
77            branch.points.len()
78        );
79    }
80
81    // Marching correction can leave consecutive samples closer than the
82    // rounding it converged within, and two samples at one chord-length
83    // parameter are a knot span with no data in it: the fitting system
84    // reports itself singular where the real defect is the duplicate. Thin
85    // them here, where the trace's own step says what "too close" means.
86    let mut points: Vec<ogeom_math::Point> = Vec::with_capacity(branch.points.len());
87    let mut kept_a = Vec::with_capacity(branch.on_a.len());
88    let mut kept_b = Vec::with_capacity(branch.on_b.len());
89    for (i, p) in branch.points.iter().enumerate() {
90        if let Some(last) = points.last()
91            && last.distance(*p) <= tol.confusion() * 10.0
92            && i + 1 != branch.points.len()
93        {
94            continue;
95        }
96        points.push(*p);
97        kept_a.push(branch.on_a[i]);
98        kept_b.push(branch.on_b[i]);
99    }
100    if points.len() < 2 {
101        ogeom_bail!(Construction, "a branch of coincident points is not a curve");
102    }
103
104    // One fit in seven dimensions: the curve and both parameter images
105    // together. Fitted separately, each fit's parameter correction drifts
106    // its parameterization independently and the three results silently stop
107    // being same-parameter: the boolean found pcurves claiming 1e-7 that
108    // evaluated millimetres from their own curve. Jointly, one
109    // parameterization and one knot vector serve all three, and the reported
110    // error bounds every coordinate.
111    let unwrapped_a = unwrap_periodic(a, &kept_a, tol);
112    let unwrapped_b = unwrap_periodic(b, &kept_b, tol);
113    // A closed branch takes the loop-smoothing fit: the join's tangents are
114    // constrained to agree in all seven coordinates, so the section curve and
115    // both pcurves cross their own seam without a crease.
116    let (space, on_a, on_b) = if branch.closed() {
117        ogeom_geom::fit::fit_points_joint_closed(
118            &points,
119            &unwrapped_a,
120            &unwrapped_b,
121            3,
122            tolerance,
123            tol,
124        )?
125    } else {
126        ogeom_geom::fit::fit_points_joint(&points, &unwrapped_a, &unwrapped_b, 3, tolerance, tol)?
127    };
128
129    Ok(IntersectionCurve {
130        fit_error: space
131            .error
132            .max(space_error(a, &(on_a.clone(), space.met, space.error), tol))
133            .max(space_error(b, &(on_b.clone(), space.met, space.error), tol)),
134        met: space.met,
135        curve: space.curve,
136        on_a,
137        on_b,
138        closed: branch.closed(),
139    })
140}
141
142/// The fitted pcurve's error, converted back into space.
143///
144/// The pcurve was fitted in parameter units, against a scale estimated from
145/// the whole branch, but the surface's stretch varies along the curve, so an
146/// error acceptable in parameter units may be worse in millimetres where the
147/// surface stretches hardest. This converts the fit's parameter-space error
148/// through the local stretch at samples along the pcurve and reports the
149/// worst, so the number the caller reads is in the units the caller measures
150/// everything else in.
151fn space_error(surface: &SurfaceGeometry, fitted: &(BSpline2d, bool, f64), tol: Tolerances) -> f64 {
152    use ogeom_geom::Curve2d;
153    let (pcurve, _, parameter_error) = fitted;
154    // Convert the parameter-space error back through the surface's local
155    // stretch at a few places; take the worst.
156    let (lo, hi) = pcurve.domain();
157    let mut worst = 0.0_f64;
158    for i in 0..=16 {
159        #[allow(clippy::cast_precision_loss)]
160        let u = lo + (hi - lo) * f64::from(i) / 16.0;
161        let Ok(at) = pcurve.point_at(u, tol) else {
162            continue;
163        };
164        let Ok((du, dv)) = surface.d1_at(at.x, at.y, tol) else {
165            continue;
166        };
167        let stretch = du.magnitude().max(dv.magnitude());
168        worst = worst.max(parameter_error * stretch);
169    }
170    worst
171}
172
173/// Unfold parameter samples across a periodic surface's seam.
174///
175/// Each step is folded to the nearest image of the next sample, so a branch
176/// crossing `u = 0` continues to `-0.1` rather than tearing to `2π - 0.1`. The
177/// result may leave the surface's stated domain, which is what a pcurve
178/// crossing a seam *is*.
179fn unwrap_periodic(
180    surface: &SurfaceGeometry,
181    samples: &[(f64, f64)],
182    tol: Tolerances,
183) -> Vec<Point2> {
184    let ((ua, ub), (va, vb)) = surface.domain();
185    // Closure as well as periodicity: a converted drum is a clamped patch
186    // that meets itself at its seam, and a loop walked round it lands on
187    // either side of that seam by the walk's own rounding. Folded by the
188    // chart's span like a period, the trace is the continuous curve it is;
189    // left as sampled, it jumped a whole span at the seam and the closed
190    // fit chased the jump to a third of a millimetre.
191    let u_period = if surface.is_periodic_u() || surface.is_closed_u(tol) {
192        Some(ub - ua)
193    } else {
194        None
195    };
196    let v_period = if surface.is_periodic_v() || surface.is_closed_v(tol) {
197        Some(vb - va)
198    } else {
199        None
200    };
201    let fold = |previous: f64, next: f64, period: Option<f64>| match period {
202        None => next,
203        Some(period) => {
204            let mut candidate = next;
205            while candidate - previous > period * 0.5 {
206                candidate -= period;
207            }
208            while previous - candidate > period * 0.5 {
209                candidate += period;
210            }
211            candidate
212        }
213    };
214
215    let mut out = Vec::with_capacity(samples.len());
216    let mut at = Point2::new(samples[0].0, samples[0].1);
217    out.push(at);
218    for sample in &samples[1..] {
219        at = Point2::new(
220            fold(at.x, sample.0, u_period),
221            fold(at.y, sample.1, v_period),
222        );
223        out.push(at);
224    }
225    out
226}
227
228#[cfg(test)]
229#[allow(clippy::unwrap_used)]
230mod tests {
231    use super::*;
232    use crate::march::{Marching, branches};
233    use ogeom_geom::{Curve2d, Curve3d, CylinderSurface, PlaneSurface, SphereSurface};
234    use ogeom_math::{Cylinder, Direction, Frame, Plane, Point, Sphere, Vector};
235
236    const T: Tolerances = Tolerances::millimetres();
237
238    fn sphere(radius: f64) -> SurfaceGeometry {
239        SphereSurface::new(Sphere::centred(Point::ORIGIN, radius, T).unwrap()).into()
240    }
241
242    fn cylinder(radius: f64) -> SurfaceGeometry {
243        CylinderSurface::new(Cylinder::new(Frame::WORLD, radius, T).unwrap(), (-4.0, 4.0))
244            .unwrap()
245            .into()
246    }
247
248    fn plane(origin: Point, normal: Vector) -> SurfaceGeometry {
249        PlaneSurface::over(
250            Plane::through(origin, Direction::new(normal, T).unwrap()),
251            (-6.0, 6.0),
252            (-6.0, 6.0),
253        )
254        .unwrap()
255        .into()
256    }
257
258    fn options() -> Marching {
259        Marching {
260            chord: 1e-5,
261            ..Marching::default()
262        }
263    }
264
265    /// The distance of a fitted curve from both surfaces, sampled densely.
266    ///
267    /// This is the measure the whole stage exists for: the *fit* (not the
268    /// polyline it came from) is what downstream code holds, so the fit is
269    /// what must lie on both surfaces.
270    fn fitted_deviation(a: &SurfaceGeometry, b: &SurfaceGeometry, curve: &BSplineCurve) -> f64 {
271        let off = |surface: &SurfaceGeometry, p: Point| match surface {
272            SurfaceGeometry::Plane(x) => x.plane().distance_to(p),
273            SurfaceGeometry::Sphere(x) => x.sphere().distance_to(p),
274            SurfaceGeometry::Cylinder(x) => x.cylinder().distance_to(p),
275            _ => 0.0,
276        };
277        let (lo, hi) = curve.knots().domain();
278        let mut worst = 0.0_f64;
279        for i in 0..=800 {
280            #[allow(clippy::cast_precision_loss)]
281            let u = lo + (hi - lo) * f64::from(i) / 800.0;
282            if let Ok(p) = curve.point_at(u, T) {
283                worst = worst.max(off(a, p).abs().max(off(b, p).abs()));
284            }
285        }
286        worst
287    }
288
289    #[test]
290    fn a_fitted_branch_lies_on_both_surfaces_to_the_stated_total() {
291        // The tolerance story end to end: trace within 1e-5, fit within 1e-4,
292        // so the fitted curve is within the sum of the two of the true
293        // intersection, measured against the surfaces, not the polyline.
294        let a = sphere(3.0);
295        let b = cylinder(1.5);
296        let found = branches(&a, &b, options(), T).unwrap();
297        assert_eq!(found.len(), 2);
298
299        for branch in &found {
300            let fitted = approximate_branch(&a, &b, branch, 1e-4, T).unwrap();
301            assert!(fitted.met, "fit error {:e}", fitted.fit_error);
302            assert!(fitted.closed);
303            let off = fitted_deviation(&a, &b, &fitted.curve);
304            assert!(
305                off <= 1e-4 + 1e-5,
306                "the fitted curve is {off:e} off the surfaces"
307            );
308            // And it is compact: a curve, not a decorated polyline.
309            assert!(
310                fitted.curve.control_points().len() * 4 < branch.points.len(),
311                "{} control points for {} samples",
312                fitted.curve.control_points().len(),
313                branch.points.len()
314            );
315        }
316    }
317
318    #[test]
319    fn the_pcurves_lift_back_onto_the_curve() {
320        // A pcurve is only worth having if evaluating it and lifting through
321        // its surface lands on the intersection. Checked through both
322        // surfaces at matched ends and sampled interiors.
323        let a = sphere(3.0);
324        let b = cylinder(1.5);
325        let found = branches(&a, &b, options(), T).unwrap();
326        let branch = &found[0];
327        let fitted = approximate_branch(&a, &b, branch, 1e-4, T).unwrap();
328
329        for (surface, pcurve) in [(&a, &fitted.on_a), (&b, &fitted.on_b)] {
330            let (lo, hi) = pcurve.domain();
331            for i in 0..=200 {
332                #[allow(clippy::cast_precision_loss)]
333                let u = lo + (hi - lo) * f64::from(i) / 200.0;
334                let at = pcurve.point_at(u, T).unwrap();
335                let lifted = surface.point_at(at.x, at.y, T).unwrap();
336                // The lifted point is on its own surface by construction; what
337                // matters is that it is on the *other* one too, i.e. on the
338                // intersection.
339                let off = match (surface as &SurfaceGeometry, &a, &b) {
340                    _ if core::ptr::eq(surface, &a) => match &b {
341                        SurfaceGeometry::Cylinder(c) => c.cylinder().distance_to(lifted),
342                        _ => 0.0,
343                    },
344                    _ => match &a {
345                        SurfaceGeometry::Sphere(s) => s.sphere().distance_to(lifted),
346                        _ => 0.0,
347                    },
348                };
349                assert!(
350                    off.abs() < 5e-4,
351                    "a lifted pcurve point is {off:e} off the intersection"
352                );
353            }
354        }
355    }
356
357    #[test]
358    fn a_branch_across_the_seam_gets_a_continuous_pcurve() {
359        // A plane through a cylinder's axis at an angle produces an ellipse
360        // whose pcurve crosses the cylinder's u = 0 seam. Folded naively the
361        // pcurve tears by 2π; unwrapped it runs smoothly and leaves the stated
362        // domain, which is what crossing a seam means.
363        let a = cylinder(2.0);
364        let b = plane(Point::ORIGIN, Vector::new(0.0, 0.4, 1.0));
365        let found = branches(&a, &b, options(), T).unwrap();
366        assert_eq!(found.len(), 1, "an oblique plane cuts one ellipse");
367        let fitted = approximate_branch(&a, &b, &found[0], 1e-4, T).unwrap();
368
369        // Continuity: no two adjacent samples of the fitted pcurve jump by
370        // anything near a period.
371        let (lo, hi) = fitted.on_a.domain();
372        let mut previous = fitted.on_a.point_at(lo, T).unwrap();
373        for i in 1..=400 {
374            #[allow(clippy::cast_precision_loss)]
375            let u = lo + (hi - lo) * f64::from(i) / 400.0;
376            let at = fitted.on_a.point_at(u, T).unwrap();
377            assert!(
378                (at.x - previous.x).abs() < 1.0,
379                "the pcurve tears at the seam: {} to {}",
380                previous.x,
381                at.x
382            );
383            previous = at;
384        }
385    }
386
387    /// A loop walked round a converted drum is closed, seam or no seam.
388    ///
389    /// A cylinder converted to a patch is clamped, not periodic: it meets
390    /// itself at its seam. A plane across it cuts a circle the walk reaches
391    /// the seam on from both sides, each half stopping a fraction of a step
392    /// short of it, and the joined branch has coincident ends. Left flagged
393    /// as having left the domain, the arrangement downstream held a circle
394    /// with two ends at one point; it is closed, and fitted as a loop whose
395    /// chart image runs continuously across the seam.
396    #[test]
397    fn a_loop_cut_at_a_converted_drum_s_seam_is_closed() {
398        let drum: SurfaceGeometry = cylinder(2.0).to_bspline(T).unwrap().into();
399        assert!(matches!(drum, SurfaceGeometry::BSpline(_)));
400        let cut = plane(Point::new(0.0, 0.0, 1.0), Vector::new(0.0, 0.2, 1.0));
401        let found = branches(&drum, &cut, options(), T).unwrap();
402        assert_eq!(found.len(), 1, "an oblique plane cuts one loop");
403        assert!(found[0].closed(), "the loop closes on the seam");
404        let fitted = approximate_branch(&drum, &cut, &found[0], 1e-4, T).unwrap();
405        assert!(fitted.closed);
406        assert!(
407            fitted.fit_error < 1e-3,
408            "the loop fits as one: {}",
409            fitted.fit_error
410        );
411        let (lo, hi) = fitted.on_a.domain();
412        let mut previous = fitted.on_a.point_at(lo, T).unwrap();
413        for i in 1..=400 {
414            let u = lo + (hi - lo) * f64::from(i) / 400.0;
415            let at = fitted.on_a.point_at(u, T).unwrap();
416            assert!(
417                (at.x - previous.x).abs() < 0.5,
418                "the chart image tears at the seam: {} to {}",
419                previous.x,
420                at.x
421            );
422            previous = at;
423        }
424    }
425
426    #[test]
427    fn what_cannot_be_fitted_is_refused() {
428        let a = sphere(1.0);
429        let b = plane(Point::ORIGIN, Vector::Z);
430        let found = branches(&a, &b, options(), T).unwrap();
431        assert!(approximate_branch(&a, &b, &found[0], 0.0, T).is_err());
432        assert!(approximate_branch(&a, &b, &found[0], -1.0, T).is_err());
433
434        let empty = Traced {
435            points: vec![],
436            on_a: vec![],
437            on_b: vec![],
438            stopped: crate::march::Stopped::Stalled,
439        };
440        assert!(approximate_branch(&a, &b, &empty, 1e-4, T).is_err());
441    }
442}