Checkpoint for histogram

It takes a lot of render time to get a usable result, and it's not that interesting. Committing so I can save the work if I want to revisit it, but abandoning the idea for now.

blog/2024-11-15-playing-with-fire/1-introduction/index.mdx

@@ -198,8 +198,7 @@ import chaosGameWeightedSource from "!!raw-loader!./chaosGameWeighted";
 
 <CodeBlock language={'typescript'}>{chaosGameWeightedSource}</CodeBlock>
 
-import BrowserOnly from "@docusaurus/BrowserOnly";
 import GasketWeighted from "./GasketWeighted";
 import Canvas from "../src/Canvas";
 
-<Canvas><BrowserOnly>{() => <GasketWeighted/>}</BrowserOnly></Canvas>
+<Canvas><GasketWeighted/></Canvas>

blog/2024-11-15-playing-with-fire/2-transforms/FlameFinal.tsx

@@ -24,6 +24,12 @@ import {VariationEditor, VariationProps} from "./VariationEditor";
 import {CoefEditor} from "./CoefEditor";
 import {Transform} from "../src/transform";
 
+export const transforms: [number, Transform][] = [
+    [xform1Weight, transformPost(buildTransform(xform1Coefs, xform1Variations), xform1CoefsPost)],
+    [xform2Weight, transformPost(buildTransform(xform2Coefs, xform2Variations), xform2CoefsPost)],
+    [xform3Weight, transformPost(buildTransform(xform3Coefs, xform3Variations), xform3CoefsPost)]
+];
+
 export default function FlameFinal() {
     const {width, height, setPainter} = useContext(PainterContext);
 
@@ -43,12 +49,6 @@ export default function FlameFinal() {
     const resetXformFinalCoefsPost = () => setXformFinalCoefsPost(xformFinalCoefsPostDefault);
 
     useEffect(() => {
-        const transforms: [number, Transform][] = [
-            [xform1Weight, transformPost(buildTransform(xform1Coefs, xform1Variations), xform1CoefsPost)],
-            [xform2Weight, transformPost(buildTransform(xform2Coefs, xform2Variations), xform2CoefsPost)],
-            [xform3Weight, transformPost(buildTransform(xform3Coefs, xform3Variations), xform3CoefsPost)]
-        ];
-
         const finalBlend = buildBlend(xformFinalCoefs, xformFinalVariations);
         const finalTransform = buildTransform(xformFinalCoefs, finalBlend);
         const finalPost = transformPost(finalTransform, xformFinalCoefsPost);

blog/2024-11-15-playing-with-fire/2-transforms/index.mdx

@@ -142,11 +142,10 @@ The sliders below change the variation weights for each transform (the $v_{ij}$
 try changing them around to see which parts of the image are controlled by
 each transform.
 
-import BrowserOnly from "@docusaurus/BrowserOnly";
 import Canvas from "../src/Canvas";
 import FlameBlend from "./FlameBlend";
 
-<Canvas><BrowserOnly>{() => <FlameBlend/>}</BrowserOnly></Canvas>
+<Canvas><FlameBlend/></Canvas>
 
 ## Post transforms
 
@@ -161,10 +160,10 @@ $$
 
 import FlamePost from "./FlamePost";
 
-<Canvas><BrowserOnly>{() => <FlamePost/>}</BrowserOnly></Canvas>
+<Canvas><FlamePost/></Canvas>
 
 ## Final transform
 
 import FlameFinal from "./FlameFinal";
 
-<Canvas><BrowserOnly>{() => <FlameFinal/>}</BrowserOnly></Canvas>
+<Canvas><FlameFinal/></Canvas>

blog/2024-11-15-playing-with-fire/3-log-density/FlameHistogram.tsx

@@ -1,5 +1,30 @@
-import {VictoryArea} from "victory";
+import {VictoryChart, VictoryLine, VictoryScatter, VictoryTheme} from "victory";
+import {useContext, useEffect, useState} from "react";
+import {PainterContext} from "../src/Canvas";
+import {chaosGameHistogram} from "./chaosGameHistogram";
+import {PlotData, plotHistogram} from "./plotHistogram";
 
-function F() {
+function* plotChaosGame(width: number, height: number, setPdf: (data: PlotData) => void, setCdf: (data: PlotData) => void) {
-    return <VictoryArea data={}
+    const emptyImage = new ImageData(width, height);
+    for (let histogram of chaosGameHistogram(width, height)) {
+        const plotData = plotHistogram(histogram);
+        setPdf(plotData);
+        yield emptyImage;
+    }
+}
+
+export default function FlameHistogram() {
+    const {width, height, setPainter} = useContext(PainterContext);
+    const [pdfData, setPdfData] = useState<{ x: number, y: number }[]>(null);
+
+    useEffect(() => setPainter(plotChaosGame(width, height, setPdfData, null)), []);
+
+    return (
+        <VictoryChart theme={VictoryTheme.clean}>
+            <VictoryLine
+                data={pdfData}
+                interpolation='natural'
+            />
+        </VictoryChart>
+    )
 }

blog/2024-11-15-playing-with-fire/3-log-density/PlotHistogram.ts

@@ -1,35 +0,0 @@
-// hidden-start
-import {VictoryChart} from "victory";
-import {camera, histIndex} from "../src/camera";
-// hidden-end
-export class PlotHistogram {
-    public readonly pixels: Uint32Array;
-
-    public constructor(private readonly width: number, height: number) {
-        this.pixels = new Uint32Array(width * height);
-    }
-
-    public plot(x: number, y: number) {
-        const [pixelX, pixelY] = camera(x, y, this.width);
-        const pixelIndex = histIndex(pixelX, pixelY, this.width, 1);
-        this.pixels[pixelIndex] += 1;
-    }
-
-    public getHistogram() {
-        const data = new Map<number, number>();
-        this.pixels.forEach(value => {
-            const bucket = 32 - Math.clz32(value);
-
-            if (bucket in data) {
-                data[bucket] += 1;
-            } else {
-                data[bucket] = 1;
-            }
-        })
-
-        const output: {x: number, y: number}[] = [];
-        data.forEach((bucket, value) =>
-            output.push({x: Math.pow(bucket, 2), y: value}));
-        return output;
-    }
-}

blog/2024-11-15-playing-with-fire/3-log-density/chaosGameHistogram.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+import {plot} from "./plotHistogram";
+import {randomBiUnit} from "../src/randomBiUnit";
+import {randomChoice} from "../src/randomChoice";
+import {buildTransform} from "../2-transforms/buildTransform";
+import {transformPost} from "../2-transforms/post";
+import {transforms} from "../2-transforms/FlameFinal";
+import * as params from "../src/params";
+
+const finalTransform = buildTransform(params.xformFinalCoefs, params.xformFinalVariations);
+const finalTransformPost = transformPost(finalTransform, params.xformFinalCoefsPost);
+
+const step = 1000;
+const quality = 1;
+
+export function* chaosGameHistogram(width: number, height: number) {
+    let iterations = quality * width * height;
+    let histogram = new Uint32Array(width * height);
+
+    let [x, y] = [randomBiUnit(), randomBiUnit()];
+
+    for (let i = 0; i < iterations; i++) {
+        const [_, transform] = randomChoice(transforms);
+        [x, y] = transform(x, y);
+        [x, y] = finalTransformPost(x, y);
+
+        if (i > 20)
+            plot(x, y, width, histogram);
+
+        if (i % step === 0)
+            yield histogram;
+    }
+
+    yield histogram;
+}

blog/2024-11-15-playing-with-fire/3-log-density/index.mdx

@@ -23,6 +23,13 @@ We'll render the reference image again, but this time, counting the times
 we tried to turn on a pixel.
 
 import CodeBlock from "@theme/CodeBlock";
-import plotHistogramSource from "!!raw-loader!./PlotHistogram";
+import plotHistogramSource from "!!raw-loader!./plotHistogram";
 
 <CodeBlock language="typescript">{plotHistogramSource}</CodeBlock>
+
+import Canvas from "../src/Canvas";
+import FlameHistogram from "./FlameHistogram";
+
+<Canvas width={400} height={400} hidden={true}>
+    <FlameHistogram/>
+</Canvas>

blog/2024-11-15-playing-with-fire/3-log-density/plotHistogram.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+// hidden-start
+import {camera, histIndex} from "../src/camera";
+// hidden-end
+export function plot(x: number, y: number, width: number, hitCount: Uint32Array) {
+    const [pixelX, pixelY] = camera(x, y, width);
+    const pixelIndex = histIndex(pixelX, pixelY, width, 1);
+    hitCount[pixelIndex] += 1;
+}
+
+export type PlotData = {x: number, y: number}[];
+export function plotHistogram(hitCount: Uint32Array) {
+    const data = new Map<number, number>();
+    hitCount.forEach(value => {
+        const bucket = 32 - Math.clz32(value);
+        const currentCount = data.get(bucket) ?? 0;
+        data.set(bucket, currentCount + 1);
+    })
+
+    const output: PlotData = [];
+    data.forEach((value, bucket) =>
+        output.push({x: Math.pow(2, bucket), y: value}));
+    return output;
+}

blog/2024-11-15-playing-with-fire/src/Canvas.tsx

@@ -1,23 +1,80 @@
 import React, {useCallback, useEffect, useState, createContext} from "react";
 import {useColorMode} from "@docusaurus/theme-common";
+import BrowserOnly from "@docusaurus/BrowserOnly";
 
-export interface PainterProps {
+function invertImage(sourceImage: ImageData): ImageData {
-    readonly width: number;
+    const image = new ImageData(sourceImage.width, sourceImage.height);
-    readonly height: number;
+    image.data.forEach((value, index) =>
-    readonly setPainter: (painter: Iterator<ImageData>) => void;
+        image.data[index] = index % 4 === 3 ? value : 0xff - value)
+
+    return image;
+}
+
+type InvertibleCanvasProps = {
+    width: number,
+    height: number,
+    hidden?: boolean,
+    // NOTE: Images are provided as a single-element array
+    //so we can allow re-painting with the same (modified) ImageData reference.
+    image?: [ImageData],
 }
 
 /**
- * Context provider for child elements to submit image iterator functions
+ * Draw images to a canvas, automatically inverting colors as needed.
- * (painters) for rendering
+ *
+ * @param width Canvas width
+ * @param height Canvas height
+ * @param hidden Hide the canvas element
+ * @param image Image data to draw on the canvas
  */
+const InvertibleCanvas: React.FC<InvertibleCanvasProps> = ({width, height, hidden, image}) => {
+    const [canvasCtx, setCanvasCtx] = useState<CanvasRenderingContext2D>(null);
+    const canvasRef = useCallback(node => {
+        if (node !== null) {
+            setCanvasCtx(node.getContext("2d"));
+        }
+    }, []);
+
+    const [paintImage, setPaintImage] = useState<[ImageData]>(null);
+    useEffect(() => {
+        if (canvasCtx && paintImage) {
+            canvasCtx.putImageData(paintImage[0], 0, 0);
+        }
+    }, [canvasCtx, paintImage]);
+
+    const {colorMode} = useColorMode();
+    useEffect(() => {
+        if (image) {
+            setPaintImage(colorMode === 'light' ? image : [invertImage(image[0])]);
+        }
+    }, [image, colorMode]);
+
+    return (
+        <canvas
+            ref={canvasRef}
+            width={width}
+            height={height}
+            hidden={hidden ?? false}
+            style={{
+                aspectRatio: width / height,
+                width: '75%'
+            }}
+        />
+    )
+}
+
+type PainterProps = {
+    width: number;
+    height: number;
+    setPainter: (painter: Iterator<ImageData>) => void;
+}
 export const PainterContext = createContext<PainterProps>(null);
 
 interface CanvasProps {
     width?: number;
     height?: number;
     hidden?: boolean;
-    children?: React.ReactNode;
+    children?: React.ReactElement;
 }
 
 /**
@@ -27,131 +84,61 @@ interface CanvasProps {
  * a couple problems at once:
  *  - Incrementally drawing an image to the canvas
  *  - Interrupting drawing with new parameters
- *  - Dark mode
  *
  * Running a full render is labor-intensive, so we model it
  * as an iterator that yields an image of the current system.
  * Internally, that iterator is re-queued on each new image;
- * so long as that image is returned quickly, we keep
+ * so long as retrieving each image happens quickly,
- * the main loop running even with CPU-heavy code.
+ * we keep the main loop running even with CPU-heavy code.
+ * As a side benefit, this also animates the chaos game nicely.
+ * TODO(bspeice): This also causes React to complain about maximum update depth
+ * Would this be better off spawning a `useEffect` animator
+ * that has access to a `setState` queue?
  *
  * To interrupt drawing, children set the active iterator
  * through the context provider. This component doesn't care
  * about which iterator is in progress, it exists only
  * to fetch the next image and paint it to our canvas.
  *
- * Finally, we make a distinction between "render" and "paint" buffers.
- * The render image is provided by the iterator, and then:
- *  - If light mode is active, draw it to the canvas as-is
- *  - If dark mode is active, copy the "render" buffer to the "paint" buffer,
- *    invert colors, and then draw the image
- *
  * TODO(bspeice): Can we make this "re-queueing iterator" pattern generic?
  * It would be nice to have iterators returning arbitrary objects,
- * but we rely on contexts to manage the iterator, and there's
+ * but we rely on contexts to manage the iterator, and I can't find
- * no good way to make those generic.
+ * a good way to make those generic.
- *
- * @param width Canvas draw width
- * @param height Canvas draw height
- * @param hidden Hide the canvas
- * @param children Child elements
  */
 export default function Canvas({width, height, hidden, children}: CanvasProps) {
-    const [canvasCtx, setCanvasCtx] = useState<CanvasRenderingContext2D>(null);
+    const [image, setImage] = useState<[ImageData]>(null);
-    const canvasRef = useCallback(node => {
+    const [painterHolder, setPainterHolder] = useState<[Iterator<ImageData>]>(null);
-        if (node !== null) {
-            setCanvasCtx(node.getContext("2d"));
-        }
-    }, []);
-
-    // Holder objects are used to force re-painting even if the iterator
-    // returns a modified image with the same reference
-    type ImageHolder = { image?: ImageData };
-
-    const [paintImage, setPaintImage] = useState<ImageHolder>({ image: null });
     useEffect(() => {
-        if (paintImage.image && canvasCtx) {
+        if (!painterHolder) {
-            canvasCtx.putImageData(paintImage.image, 0, 0);
-        }
-    }, [paintImage, canvasCtx]);
-
-    const {colorMode} = useColorMode();
-    const [renderImage, setRenderImage] = useState<ImageHolder>({ image: null });
-    useEffect(() => {
-        const image = renderImage.image;
-        if (!image) {
             return;
         }
 
-        // If light mode is active, paint the image as-is
+        const painter = painterHolder[0];
-        if (colorMode === 'light') {
+        const nextImage = painter.next().value;
-            setPaintImage({ image });
+        if (nextImage) {
-            return;
+            setImage([nextImage]);
-        }
+            setPainterHolder([painter]);
-
-        // If dark mode is active, copy the image into a new buffer
-        // and invert colors prior to painting.
-        // Copy alpha values as-is.
-        const paintImage = new ImageData(image.width, image.height);
-        image.data.forEach((value, index) => {
-            const isAlpha = index % 4 === 3;
-            paintImage.data[index] = isAlpha ? value : 255 - value;
-        })
-        setPaintImage({ image: paintImage });
-    }, [colorMode, renderImage]);
-
-    // Image iterators (painters) are also in a holder; this allows
-    // re-submitting the existing iterator to draw the next frame,
-    // and also allows child components to over-write the iterator
-    // if a new set of parameters becomes available
-    // TODO(bspeice): Potential race condition?
-    // Not sure if it's possible for painters submitted by children
-    // to be over-ridden as a result re-submitting the
-    // existing iterator
-    type PainterHolder = { painter?: Iterator<ImageData> };
-    const [animHolder, setAnimHolder] = useState<PainterHolder>({ painter: null });
-    useEffect(() => {
-        const painter = animHolder.painter;
-        if (!painter) {
-            return;
-        }
-
-        if (!canvasCtx) {
-            setAnimHolder({ painter });
-            return;
-        }
-
-        const image = painter.next().value;
-        if (image) {
-            setRenderImage({ image });
-            setAnimHolder({ painter });
         } else {
-            setAnimHolder({ painter: null });
+            setPainterHolder(null);
         }
-    }, [animHolder, canvasCtx]);
+    }, [painterHolder]);
 
-    // Finally, child elements submit painters through a context provider
     const [painter, setPainter] = useState<Iterator<ImageData>>(null);
-    useEffect(() => setAnimHolder({ painter }), [painter]);
+    useEffect(() => {
+        if (painter) {
+            setPainterHolder([painter]);
+        }
+    }, [painter]);
 
     width = width ?? 500;
     height = height ?? 500;
     return (
         <>
             <center>
-                <canvas
+                <InvertibleCanvas width={width} height={height} hidden={hidden} image={image}/>
-                    ref={canvasRef}
-                    width={width}
-                    height={height}
-                    hidden={hidden ?? false}
-                    style={{
-                        aspectRatio: width / height,
-                        width: '80%'
-                    }}
-                />
             </center>
             <PainterContext.Provider value={{width, height, setPainter}}>
-                {children}
+                <BrowserOnly>{() => children}</BrowserOnly>
             </PainterContext.Provider>
         </>
     )