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fix(registry): enable alpha blending on the DotField material - #127

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Why

Stacked over another layer in one ShaderScene, DotField overwrote everything beneath it: its material never opted into alpha blending, so the GPU ignored the fragment alpha carrying the dot mask (MAT-93). The solo demo hid this because the transparent canvas let DOM compositing do the blending instead.

What changes

Alpha blending on the DotField material

Same fix as Blobs: material.transparent = true. The colorNode also stops premultiplying the color by the dot mask, since the blend already multiplies by alpha and doing both darkens the anti-aliased rim twice. Solo rendering is unchanged and the existing dot-field-default baseline passes as-is.

A stacked probe and spec

/dev/dot-field-stack-probe stacks DotField over a bright gradient, and a new spec asserts color fractions on the canvas instead of comparing a screenshot, so there is no baseline to regenerate and the check doesn't depend on which backend rendered it. Against the unfixed material it fails with a gradient fraction of 0.

Pixel-locked poster

The dot-field poster never matched the live shader. Its transparent gaps flattened to pure black instead of the demo page's #0a0a14 (fixed with the build script's background field, as aurora and god-rays already do), and objectFit: cover rescaled the capture to the demo box even though DotField sizes its grid in real CSS pixels, so the dot pitch was wrong at every box width except the capture's own. The poster now renders at its exact capture size, centered and cropped by the box (pixelSize on DemoPoster), the same way the shader anchors its grid. Measured poster-vs-shader pitch agrees within 0.4% at a 2x viewport.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved DotField rendering over backgrounds and gradients.
    • Preserved visibility of underlying colors between dots.
    • Improved dot transparency and edge smoothing for cleaner visuals.
    • Updated poster output with a consistent dark background.
  • Tests

    • Added visual coverage for dot stacking, gradient visibility, and expected rendering.
  • Development Tools

    • Added a dedicated preview for testing DotField rendering over gradients.
  • Improvements

    • Added support for poster-specific capture dimensions and pixel-accurate display.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The DotField shader now uses the dot mask as alpha and enables transparency. A development probe and Playwright test validate stacking over a warm gradient. Poster generation and display support per-poster capture dimensions, including 2048×1280 for DotField.

Changes

DotField stacking and poster output

Layer / File(s) Summary
Transparent dot material
registry/dot-field/shader.tsx, scripts/build-posters.sh
The material uses the full dot color with dotMask as alpha and enables transparent blending. Poster generation supports optional background colors and capture dimensions.
Stacking probe and visual validation
apps/docs/src/app/dev/dot-field-stack-probe/*, apps/docs-tests/visual/dot-field-stack.spec.ts
The probe renders a warm gradient beneath white DotField. The visual test checks gradient visibility and dot coverage.
Pixel-locked poster rendering
apps/docs/src/components/DemoPoster.tsx, apps/docs/src/app/components/dot-field/page.tsx
DemoPoster supports fixed pixel dimensions with centered cropping. The DotField poster uses [2048, 1280].

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 84cb8

The PR enables correct alpha blending for stacked DotField rendering and updates its poster background handling; no actionable merge-blocking risk remains beyond normal checks and review.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant VisualTest
  participant ProbePage
  participant ShaderScene
  participant DotField
  VisualTest->>ProbePage: Load stacking probe
  ProbePage->>ShaderScene: Render ProbeScene
  ShaderScene->>DotField: Render white dots over warm gradient
  DotField-->>VisualTest: Return rendered canvas
  VisualTest->>VisualTest: Analyze gradient visibility and dot coverage
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In `@registry/dot-field/shader.tsx`:
- Around line 157-158: Update the DotField material setup to enable
premultiplied alpha and adjust colorNode so only the RGB channels are
premultiplied by dotMask, while preserving dotMask as the alpha channel.
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