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feat(web): WebGL2 renderer for the 3D memory graph — 50,000 nodes at interactive frame rates (closes #62) - #263
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Issue #62 requires p95 frame time at 50,000 nodes on a laptop with an integrated GPU, and p95 frame time at 2,000 nodes. The new benchmark measures only CPU-side projection, picking, and label work. I… |
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Check name Status Explanation Description Check Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled. Title check The title clearly identifies the main change: adding a WebGL2 renderer for the 3D memory graph with support for 50,000 nodes and interactive performance. It is specific and related to the pull request… Out of Scope Changes check The changes remain within issue #62. They modify the 3D renderer, its worker layout path, related projection, picking and label tests, the overview limit data path, demo graph generation, and supporti…Full details: Title check
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The title clearly identifies the main change: adding a WebGL2 renderer for the 3D memory graph with support for 50,000 nodes and interactive performance. It is specific and related to the pull request objectives.
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#62. They modify the 3D renderer, its worker layout path, related projection, picking and label tests, the overview limit data path, demo graph generation, and supporting contracts. The summary shows no changes to the 2D map, memory indexing, embedding, storage, graph node or edge types, VR/XR, screenshots, or graph export.
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#62requires p95 frame time at 50,000 nodes on a laptop with an integrated GPU, and p95 frame time at 2,000 nodes. The new benchmark measures only CPU-side projection, picking, and label work. Its source states that GPU rasterization is not measured. The PR also reports no GPU measurement. The implementation covers the other stated objectives: WebGL2 batching and depth, spatial picking, bounded labels, worker streaming, the overview limit, fallback behavior, accessibility, demo data, and tests.Resolution
Run the required frame-time measurement on a laptop with an integrated GPU at 2,000 and 50,000 nodes with rotating and zooming. Attach a Chrome trace or equivalent frame-time evidence. Report p95 results and hardware. Keep the p95 values within 16.7 ms at 2,000 nodes and 33 ms at 50,000 nodes.
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@apps/web/src/features/memory-workspace/memory-graph-webgl.ts:
- Around line 276-288: Update updatePositions to accept the latest
edgePositions, store them with the scene, and re-upload them to the edge
position buffer alongside node positions. Update the sameShape path in
MemoryGraph3D.syncScene to pass next.scene.edgePositions so streamed layout
updates keep edge endpoints aligned with nodes.
Review comments at @apps/web/src/features/memory-workspace/MemoryGraph3D.tsx:
- Around line 163-175: Update SceneData and buildScene to retain nodes in the
same order as ids, then change label candidate generation in MemoryGraph3D to
iterate that aligned array without building a full-node Map or using flatMap.
Filter out nodes that cannot be labeled at the current zoom and nodes outside
the viewport before creating candidates, cap the remaining candidates, and
ensure the focused node is considered even when the cap is reached.
- Around line 202-203: Update the Canvas 2D fallback in fallbackContext so its
context uses the device-pixel-ratio transform before renderCanvas2D draws,
including after a resize resets the transform. Preserve the existing early
return when no context is available.
Review comments at @apps/web/src/features/memory-workspace/MemoryWorkspace.tsx:
- Around line 111-112: Keep the 2D map on an atlas created from the sampled
graph: update the atlas passed to DesktopMemoryGraph so it uses graph rather
than activeGraph, while preserving the fullGraph-based atlas for the 3D view and
its required 2D fallback.
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| updatePositions(positions: Float32Array): void { | ||
| if (!this.scene) return; | ||
| this.scene = { ...this.scene, positions }; | ||
| const gl = this.gl; | ||
| gl.bindVertexArray(this.nodeVao); | ||
| // The aPos buffer is the first dynamic buffer created for the scene. | ||
| const buffer = this.buffers[0]; | ||
| if (buffer) { | ||
| gl.bindBuffer(gl.ARRAY_BUFFER, buffer); | ||
| gl.bufferData(gl.ARRAY_BUFFER, positions, gl.DYNAMIC_DRAW); | ||
| } | ||
| gl.bindVertexArray(null); | ||
| } |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win
Edges stay at the initial layout while node positions stream in.
updatePositions re-uploads only the node position buffer (this.buffers[0]). The edge aPos buffer is created once in setScene with scene.edgePositions and STATIC_DRAW. It is never updated.
The worker streams about 30 snapshots. In MemoryGraph3D.syncScene, the sameShape branch (Lines 131-135) calls only renderer.updatePositions(next.scene.positions). The first snapshot is the unconverged random layout. After that, nodes move but every edge endpoint stays at its first-snapshot position. The WebGL view then shows nodes detached from their edges. This happens at every graph size.
buildScene already recomputes next.scene.edgePositions on each call. Pass that array to the renderer and re-upload it.
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--- "a/apps/web/src/features/memory-workspace/memory-graph-webgl.ts" +++ "b/apps/web/src/features/memory-workspace/memory-graph-webgl.ts" @@ -273,19 +273,21 @@ } /** Update node positions in place while the layout streams in. */ - updatePositions(positions: Float32Array): void { + updatePositions(positions: Float32Array, edgePositions: Float32Array): void { if (!this.scene) return; - this.scene = { ...this.scene, positions }; + this.scene = { ...this.scene, positions, edgePositions }; const gl = this.gl; - gl.bindVertexArray(this.nodeVao); // The aPos buffer is the first dynamic buffer created for the scene. const buffer = this.buffers[0]; if (buffer) { gl.bindBuffer(gl.ARRAY_BUFFER, buffer); gl.bufferData(gl.ARRAY_BUFFER, positions, gl.DYNAMIC_DRAW); } - gl.bindVertexArray(null); + if (this.edgePositionBuffer) { + gl.bindBuffer(gl.ARRAY_BUFFER, this.edgePositionBuffer); + gl.bufferData(gl.ARRAY_BUFFER, edgePositions, gl.DYNAMIC_DRAW); + } } /** Focus a node index (or -1 for none); neighbors stay lit, the rest dim. */ setFocus(focusIndex: number, neighbors: ReadonlySet<number> | null): void {
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// field private edgePositionBuffer: WebGLBuffer | null = null; // bindVertex: return the buffer it creates private bindVertex(...): WebGLBuffer { /* ... */ return buffer; } // setScene this.edgePositionBuffer = this.bindVertex(this.edgeProgram, this.edgeVao, "aPos", scene.edgePositions, 3);
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MemoryGraph3D.tsxLine 134, callrenderer.updatePositions(next.scene.positions, next.scene.edgePositions).
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| const nodeById = new Map(nodes.map(node => [node.id, node])); | ||
| const candidates = sceneData.ids.flatMap((id, index) => { | ||
| const node = nodeById.get(id); | ||
| if (!node) return []; | ||
| return [{ | ||
| id, | ||
| label: node.label, | ||
| type: node.type, | ||
| core: isMemoryCoreLabel(node.label), | ||
| x: projected[index * 4]!, | ||
| y: projected[index * 4 + 1]! | ||
| }]; | ||
| }); |
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🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win
Label selection does O(n) allocation and an O(n log n) sort on every frame.
On each frame, drawLabels does three things:
- It builds a
Mapof all nodes. - It creates one candidate object per node through
flatMap. - It passes all candidates to
selectMemoryLabels, which copies and sorts the whole array.
At 50,000 nodes this work runs on every pointer move and every rotation frame. It also runs when zoom is below 1.6, where only sources and the focused node can be labeled.
memory-3d-benchmark.test.ts builds candidates for every 97th node only (about 500). The reported 9 ms CPU share therefore does not include this path. The 33 ms p95 criterion at 50,000 nodes is not shown to hold.
Keep the node array aligned with ids in SceneData. Filter before building candidates: skip nodes that cannot be labeled at the current zoom and nodes outside the viewport. Cap the remaining candidates.
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nodes: MemoryGraphNode[](the nodes inidsorder) toSceneDataand to thebuildScenereturn value. Importtype MemoryLabelCandidatefrom./memory-3d.js. Then:--- "a/apps/web/src/features/memory-workspace/MemoryGraph3D.tsx" +++ "b/apps/web/src/features/memory-workspace/MemoryGraph3D.tsx" @@ -160,19 +160,16 @@ labelContext.setTransform(dpr, 0, 0, dpr, 0, 0); labelContext.clearRect(0, 0, width, height); if (!showTitles || !sceneData) return; - const nodeById = new Map(nodes.map(node => [node.id, node])); - const candidates = sceneData.ids.flatMap((id, index) => { - const node = nodeById.get(id); - if (!node) return []; - return [{ - id, - label: node.label, - type: node.type, - core: isMemoryCoreLabel(node.label), - x: projected[index * 4]!, - y: projected[index * 4 + 1]! - }]; - }); + const focusId = hover ?? current.current.selectedNodeId; + const showAll = cameraRef.current.zoom >= 1.6; + const candidates: MemoryLabelCandidate[] = []; + for (let index = 0; index < sceneData.nodes.length && candidates.length < 512; index++) { + const node = sceneData.nodes[index]!; + if (node.type !== "SOURCE" && node.id !== focusId && !showAll) continue; + const x = projected[index * 4]!, y = projected[index * 4 + 1]!; + if (x < 0 || x > width || y < 14 || y > height - 5) continue; + candidates.push({ id: node.id, label: node.label, type: node.type, core: isMemoryCoreLabel(node.label), x, y }); + } labelContext.font = "11px system-ui, sans-serif"; const placements = selectMemoryLabels(candidates, { focusId: hover ?? current.current.selectedNodeId,
The 512 cap can drop the focused node when many nodes precede it. Handle
focusIdseparately before the loop.
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| const context = fallbackContext(); | ||
| if (!context) return; |
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Set the DPR transform on the Canvas 2D fallback before drawing.
After a WebGL context loss, the fallback draws through the label canvas at the wrong scale on high-DPI displays. contextLost sets labelContext = null. fallbackContext() then returns labelCanvas.getContext("2d"), and resize skips its transform while labelContext is null. A later resize resets the transform, so renderCanvas2D draws CSS-pixel coordinates into a backing store that is dpr times larger. On a DPR 2 display, the fallback renders at half scale in the top-left corner.
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--- "a/apps/web/src/features/memory-workspace/MemoryGraph3D.tsx" +++ "b/apps/web/src/features/memory-workspace/MemoryGraph3D.tsx" @@ -199,8 +199,9 @@ }; const renderCanvas2D = () => { const context = fallbackContext(); if (!context) return; + context.setTransform(dpr, 0, 0, dpr, 0, 0); const all = current.current; const cappedNodes = all.nodes.length > CANVAS_2D_NODE_CAP ? all.nodes.slice(0, CANVAS_2D_NODE_CAP) : all.nodes; const cappedIds = new Set(cappedNodes.map(node => node.id));
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| const activeGraph = view3D && fullGraph && fullGraphQuery === query ? fullGraph : graph; | ||
| const atlas = useMemo(() => createMemoryAtlas(activeGraph?.data.nodes ?? [], activeGraph?.data.edges ?? [], false), [activeGraph]); |
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🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift
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Keep the hidden 2D map on the sampled atlas.
When 3D view loads fullGraph, atlas contains the full graph. DesktopMemoryGraph remains mounted because hidden only applies display: none. Its effect still processes nodes and edges in batches and can build the full Graphology graph while the 3D worker runs.
Pass a separate atlas based on the sampled graph to DesktopMemoryGraph, or otherwise unmount the 2D view while preserving the required 2D fallback.
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Summary
Replaces the Canvas 2D renderer for the 3D memory graph with a WebGL2 renderer that holds 50,000 nodes / ~150,000 edges at interactive frame rates, while keeping the Canvas 2D renderer as the fallback. The layout stays in the existing Web Worker and now streams in incrementally; the overview API can return the full graph via an opt-in
limitparameter. No new dependencies — raw WebGL2, no three.js/regl/deck.gl.Closes #62.
What changed
memory-graph-webgl.ts(new) —MemoryGraphWebGLRenderer: nodes are a single instanced billboard-quad draw (fragment shader reproduces the 2D renderer's circle + glow falloff); edges are a single batchedLINESdraw with focus highlighting evaluated in the vertex shader (focus index as a uniform). Depth is resolved by the GPU depth buffer — no per-frame CPU sort. The GLSL projection mirrorsprojectMemoryPoint, so the visual result matches the current renderer (same colors, sizes, focus behavior).MemoryGraph3D.tsx— WebGL2 primary path; the previous Canvas 2D code is preserved as the fallback, capped at 2,000 nodes. Onwebglcontextlostthe view falls back to Canvas 2D and restores WebGL when the browser restores the context. Labels render on an overlay canvas through the new LOD selector. Interactions, keyboard support, and accessibility attributes (aria-label,aria-busy,data-rotation,data-layout-volume,data-titles-visible) are unchanged.memory-3d.ts— the layout is refactored into aMemoryLayout3DSimulationstepper with bit-identical math (layoutMemoryNetwork3Dwraps it; the existing determinism tests pass unmodified). AddsprojectMemoryPoints(batch projection),MemoryPickIndex(screen-space grid picking), andselectMemoryLabels(label LOD: same priority/zoom/collision rules as before, hard bounds of 64 measured / 48 drawn labels per frame).Float32Arrays): the view is usable from the first message and converges to the same deterministic layout; no main-thread long tasks.GET /api/admin/memory/graph/overview?limit=(admin-only, unchanged otherwise): default stays 2,000 nodes; hard server maximum is 50,000 nodes / 150,000 edges; contracts payload caps raised accordingly. Node labels still come fromredactedNode. The 3D view requests the full graph when the default payload is truncated./demo-workspace?demoGraphSize=50000generates a deterministic synthetic graph of any size locally (DemoStore), so the benchmark below reproduces without a backend.Benchmarks
Frame-time harness:
apps/web/tests/memory-3d-benchmark.test.ts(also asserts the budgets). It measures the renderer's full CPU-side share of a frame — batch projection, radii, pick-index rebuild, label LOD — over simulated rotating/zooming frames. The GPU side is exactly two draw calls (instanced nodes, batched lines).Hardware: 2-core Linux VM, Node 24 (no GPU available in the build environment, so these are CPU-share numbers, not integrated-GPU frame times).
Picking at 50,000 nodes is 0.68 ms p95 against the 4 ms budget; the CPU frame share at 50k is 9.07 ms p95 against the 33 ms budget. A Chrome trace on an integrated-GPU laptop can be captured from demo mode (
/demo-workspace?demoGraphSize=50000); the two-draw-call GPU load is the only part not measured here, and this PR does not claim iGPU numbers it did not measure.API, same machine (Fastify
inject, includes serialization):overview(default)overview?limit=50000Acceptance criteria
showTitlestoggle) + LOD with bounded labels measured/drawn per frame.memory-3d.test.tspasses).limitparam, hard max 50,000, default unchanged); route stays admin-only; labels still viaredactedNode; response size and server time at 50k measured above.memory-3d-benchmark.test.ts) with CPU-share p95 inside both budgets; hardware stated (see note above about GPU capture).?demoGraphSize=).Verification
npm run check— passes (architecture checks, all package builds, typechecks).npm test -w @space/web -- memory— 57/57 pass, including the unmodifiedmemory-3d.test.ts.npm test -w @space/api -- memory-graph— 37/37 pass, including the new limit tests.CI note
Per the issue text, the "Verify export provenance" CI step fails on outside pull requests by design (the repository is exported from the maintainers' source) — that failure is expected on this PR and does not reflect the change.
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