From 4c4adf2cc58163e704d7e170df221d6ed19e3e7d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Stewart Allen <stewart.allen@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2025 15:29:08 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] speed up shadow with grid bucketed recursive union. could be
 moved to workers

---
 src/geo/polygons.js     |  2 +-
 src/kiri/core/conf.js   |  4 +--
 src/kiri/core/widget.js | 71 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 3 files changed, 73 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/geo/polygons.js b/src/geo/polygons.js
index 7eadfb10..7f9c35f2 100644
--- a/src/geo/polygons.js
+++ b/src/geo/polygons.js
@@ -442,7 +442,7 @@ export function union(polys, minarea, all, opt = {}) {
 
     if (opt.wasm && geo.wasm) {
         try {
-            console.log({ wasm_union: polys, minarea });
+            // console.log({ wasm_union: polys, minarea });
             if (minarea) polys = polys.filter(p => p.area() >= minarea);
             let out = geo.wasm.js.union(polys, polys[0].getZ());
             opt.changes = length(out) - lpre;
diff --git a/src/kiri/core/conf.js b/src/kiri/core/conf.js
index 7e64df04..0df72e1a 100644
--- a/src/kiri/core/conf.js
+++ b/src/kiri/core/conf.js
@@ -455,7 +455,7 @@ export const conf = {
                 camContourTool: 1000,
                 camContourXOn: true,
                 camContourYOn: true,
-                camDepthFirst: false,
+                camDepthFirst: true,
                 camDrillDown: 5,
                 camDrillDownSpeed: 250,
                 camDrillDwell: 250,
@@ -472,7 +472,7 @@ export const conf = {
                 camExpertFast: false,
                 camFastFeed: 6000,
                 camFastFeedZ: 300,
-                camFirstZMax: false,
+                camFirstZMax: true,
                 camFlatness: 0.001,
                 camFlipAxis: "X",
                 camFlipOther: "",
diff --git a/src/kiri/core/widget.js b/src/kiri/core/widget.js
index cd7ee0a0..a3758bc6 100644
--- a/src/kiri/core/widget.js
+++ b/src/kiri/core/widget.js
@@ -959,7 +959,9 @@ class Widget {
                 .add(a[1].x, a[1].y, a[1].z)
                 .add(a[2].x, a[2].y, a[2].z);
         });
-        polys = POLY.union(polys, 0, true, { wasm: false });
+
+        // recursively merge grid constrained subsets of triangles
+        polys = unionTris(polys);
 
         // for a more perfect union, pump shadows to merge very close lines
         // todo: create clipper only version that avoids round trip thru geo classes
@@ -970,6 +972,73 @@ class Widget {
     }
 }
 
+/*
+ * recursively process triangle soup from mesh by bucketing them
+ * by grid cell locality with max depth. this minimizes the number
+ * of progressive small unions. results in a few unions of larger polys.
+ */
+function unionTris(polys, depth = 0) {
+    if (depth < 5 && polys.length > 1000) {
+        // Calculate bounding box of all triangles
+        let minX = Infinity, maxX = -Infinity;
+        let minY = Infinity, maxY = -Infinity;
+        for (let tri of polys) {
+            for (let pt of tri.points) {
+                minX = Math.min(minX, pt.x);
+                maxX = Math.max(maxX, pt.x);
+                minY = Math.min(minY, pt.y);
+                maxY = Math.max(maxY, pt.y);
+            }
+        }
+
+        // Create NxN grid
+        const gridSize = 3;
+        const cellWidth = (maxX - minX) / gridSize;
+        const cellHeight = (maxY - minY) / gridSize;
+
+        // Partition polygons into grid cells
+        const grid = Array(gridSize).fill(0).map(() => Array(gridSize).fill(0).map(() => []));
+
+        for (let i = 0; i < polys.length; i++) {
+            const poly = polys[i];
+            // Use polygon centroid to assign to cell
+            const bounds = poly.bounds;
+            const cx = (bounds.minx + bounds.maxx) / 2;
+            const cy = (bounds.miny + bounds.maxy) / 2;
+
+            // Clamp to grid bounds
+            let gx = Math.floor((cx - minX) / cellWidth);
+            let gy = Math.floor((cy - minY) / cellHeight);
+            gx = Math.max(0, Math.min(gridSize - 1, gx));
+            gy = Math.max(0, Math.min(gridSize - 1, gy));
+
+            grid[gx][gy].push(poly);
+        }
+
+        // Union within each cell
+        const cellResults = [];
+        let totalInCell = 0;
+        for (let gx = 0; gx < gridSize; gx++) {
+            for (let gy = 0; gy < gridSize; gy++) {
+                const cellPolys = grid[gx][gy];
+                if (cellPolys.length > 0) {
+                    totalInCell += cellPolys.length;
+                    const cellUnion = unionTris(cellPolys, depth + 1);
+                    cellResults.push(...cellUnion);
+                }
+            }
+        }
+
+        // Union the cell results
+        polys = unionTris(cellResults, depth + 1);
+
+    } else {
+        polys = POLY.union(polys, 0, true, { wasm: false });
+    }
+
+    return polys;
+}
+
 // Widget Grouping API
 const Group = Widget.Groups = {
     list() {