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Extend rigid-soft DAT to full BVH primitives - #4936
Extend VBD rigid-soft DAT from stored contact points to complete mesh vertex–triangle, triangle–vertex and edge–edge primitives. Bounding only a rigid contact anchor can let a rotating triangle corner cross the division plane. This change certifies a separator for the entire primitive pair and truncates all participating soft vertices and rigid corners against it, including pairs that are ineligible for contact forces.
The collision/consumer changes are:
Retain all nearby mesh VT/TV/EE records, including fixed soft features and triangle edges omitted by SDF preprocessing. Collision groups, shape eligibility and distance bands still limit detection. Mesh force selection continues at the consumer's current positions.
Store rigid mesh face-vertex slots in Contacts.soft_contact_rigid_indices, with -1 padding; preserve this data through contact clearing and coupled-solver filtering. Analytic and penetration-recovery contacts keep their point-anchor behavior.
Use the wireframe edge region from Offset Geometric Contact, §3.5, Eq. (14) for EE forces: closest points must be interior to both edges, without the adjacent-face clips of Eq. (9). Endpoint cases remain VT/TV. Preserve short nonzero edges by passing zero for Warp's closest-point degeneracy tolerance; the separate angular-normal test remains.
This intentionally changes ordinary full-surface mesh contact behavior as well as DAT coverage. The Eq. (9) → Eq. (14) change and use of the complete mesh edge set for EE forces are intended with DAT both on and off, including edges omitted by SDF preprocessing. See the recorded force comparison and screenshot. Newly admitted wireframe EE forces need not satisfy the nearest-exit property of penetration-recovery rows; the recovery regression now checks that narrower guarantee explicitly. This does not claim to implement every part of OGC.
DAT requires initially separated geometry and unchanged topology/nonzero scales/radii during the motion bound. Uncertifiable primitive pairs freeze with a diagnostic. Contact-buffer overflow leaves incomplete coverage; users must stop and increase capacity. No new overflow-freezing policy is introduced.
Checklist
New or existing tests cover these changes
The documentation is up to date with these changes
USD schema/importer support is not applicable: the new field is generated runtime contact metadata, and DAT remains a runtime solver option
A user-facing changelog fragment is included
Test plan
The focused CPU/CUDA suite covers complete primitive indices and buffer reuse, query coverage, Eq. (14), fixed-triangle ownership, penetration recovery, short edges, both production DAT phases, graph replay, current-position force consumers and coupled metadata propagation. The new DAT cases are in the existing collision/VBD test files rather than separate test modules.
Commands for the main affected areas:
uv run --no-sync python -m unittest newton.tests.test_solver_vbd.TestVBDRigidDAT
uv run --no-sync python -m unittest newton.tests.vbd.test_vbd_current_mesh_filter
uv run --no-sync python -m newton.tests -k test_mesh_complete
uv run --no-sync python -m newton.tests -k test_mesh_ee_uses_edge_offset_region
uvx pre-commit run -a
Latest exact-candidate validation (f6a2c3645): 53 focused CPU/CUDA tests passed, including the coupled metadata-copy regression, with the local drive-limit fix absent. All repository pre-commit hooks passed, including lockfile, lint, formatting and Warp-array checks. The full repository suite remains for CI. The local example and benchmark harnesses are not included in this PR.
Bug fix evidence
A rotating triangle's far corner outpaces its stored contact anchor: point-only DAT permits a corner height of 0.020187 m past a 0.020 m plane; full-primitive DAT bounds it to 0.016149 m in the focused diagnostic.
A back-facing EE force normal can incorrectly freeze separating motion. The geometric separator permits that motion while still truncating approaching motion.
An interior standalone edge above a box reproduces the Eq. (9)/Eq. (14) distinction. Its closest points are about 0.700 mm apart, with the soft point 4.67 micrometers inside the top face's edge boundary. Of 19 identical detected rows, the old filter accepts zero EE rows and the new filter accepts one, producing a nearly upward force. The focused regression independently exercises rigid-side and soft-side face clipping and failed before the fix.
Runtime evidence and numerical follow-up
Pre-rebase measurements on RTX 6000 Ada / Warp 1.18.0 used warmed CUDA graphs and isolated runs. A controlled cloth/static-box fixture (17,424 particles, 64 meshes, ten iterations/substep) produced:
Query/EE version
DAT off (ms/substep)
DAT on (ms/substep)
DAT overhead
Before the query/EE changes
1.448
2.685
+85.5%
After the query/EE changes
1.493
2.591
+73.5%
These are medians of three process means, 140 measurements/process. DAT includes a second detection. Before/non-DAT uses a cooked edge subset (25,984 rows); the other modes retain all edges (34,560 rows). The fixture has static rigid geometry and does not measure moving-rigid trajectory cost. These small changes are not general performance claims or measurements of the final rebased commit. Both DAT-enabled versions already use full-primitive DAT.
The original timing experiment recorded one non-DAT trial becoming non-finite at frame 81; all six DAT trials stayed finite. That frame had no saved state. Subsequent investigation reproduced a membrane arithmetic failure and captured its input: evaluating the area ratio through the float32 Gram determinant lost the nonzero area of a stretched, nearly collinear triangle. Commit f6a2c3645 uses equivalent cross-product area and derivative formulas, preserving the material law, damping, projected Hessian and existing area floor.
The new CPU/CUDA regression fails before this fix and passes after. The captured production-kernel replay is finite after the fix; two 240-frame non-DAT scene runs and a 120-frame current-example run also remained finite. These establish the captured numerical fix, not the exact cause of the original unsaved frame-81 event or universal scene stability. Example runs used a separate local drive-limit fix; that fix, examples and benchmark artifacts are excluded from this PR. The static-box timing fixture does not exercise that fix.
New feature / API change
Given an initially separated model, enable the existing runtime DAT option with a solver-owned pipeline:
Full-surface mesh rows now provide complete rigid primitive indices automatically. No separate unfiltered-query option is added.
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New Features
Soft-to-rigid mesh collision detection covers full-surface vertex, triangle, and edge contacts, including short, nonzero edges and edges outside precomputed collision geometry. Complete rigid mesh features are retained for solver processing.
Rigid-soft Divide and Truncate can limit motion using full mesh primitives. If safe separation cannot be confirmed, affected particle and body motion is stopped.
Bug Fixes
Improved recovery for penetrating points and handling of mesh contact records.
Clarified collision coverage, contact-capacity requirements, and limitations. Contact overflow stops simulation; increase capacity and rerun. Sampled motion checks may miss collisions between samples.
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Walkthrough
Mesh collision detection retains full-surface rigid-soft candidates and records the corresponding rigid primitive indices. VBD DAT uses those indices to find separating planes and truncate particle and rigid-body motion. VBD membrane calculations also use cross-product area expressions.
Changes: Rigid-Soft Mesh Contacts and DAT
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Summary
Full-surface mesh queries and eligibility newton/_src/geometry/soft_contacts_mesh.py, newton/_src/sim/collide.py, newton/tests/test_deformable_rigid_regressions.py, newton/tests/vbd/test_vbd_current_mesh_filter.py, changelog/*
Mesh queries retain inactive soft features, unresolved-sign candidates, and all rigid triangle edges. Force selection checks activity and geometric eligibility. Tests cover feature ownership, recovery, short edges, and query coverage.
Mesh contacts record rigid primitive indices. Contact clearing resets the indices, and coupled filtering copies them to retained contacts. Tests cover propagation and buffer reuse.
For BVH contacts, DAT finds a separating plane for paired primitives and truncates soft and rigid motion. SDF contacts use the stored surface point and normal. Tests cover rotating contacts, back-facing edge-edge separators, small gaps, and direct and replayed execution.
Membrane area and derivative calculations use cross products instead of Gram-matrix subtraction. Tests cover stretched, degenerate, and near-degenerate triangles.
sequenceDiagram
participant CollisionPipeline
participant Contacts
participant SolverVBD
participant apply_rigid_soft_truncation
CollisionPipeline->>Contacts: Store mesh contacts and rigid primitive indices
Contacts->>SolverVBD: Provide contact records
SolverVBD->>apply_rigid_soft_truncation: Pass indices and mesh data
apply_rigid_soft_truncation->>SolverVBD: Truncate soft and rigid motion
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Major · Coupled filtering drops full-surface rows that reference pinned… · solver_coupled.py:4005-4015
newton/_src/solvers/coupled/solver_coupled.py:4005-4015 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift
Coupled filtering drops full-surface rows that reference pinned cloth vertices.
The filter at solver_coupled.py:4009-4015 returns early when any referenced corner lacks the active_particle_mask bit. The cloth builder clears ParticleFlags.ACTIVE on pinned corners (builder.py:11394-11403). The full-surface pass keeps VT/TV/EE rows that reference these fixed vertices. In a coupled VBD entry, the filter drops those rows before apply_rigid_soft_truncation runs. The rigid side then has no division plane against the pinned feature, so a rigid triangle can pass through the fixed cloth edge. This conflicts with the rigid_soft_enable_dat coverage statement for full-surface mesh contacts.
The same bit also marks view-local ownership, because disable_particles clears ACTIVE on a view-local copy (model_view.py:683). The filter therefore cannot distinguish a pinned corner from a non-owned corner.
Decide whether coupled DAT must cover pinned features. If it must, test ownership with a separate mask instead of ACTIVE. If it need not, document this limitation for coupled entries next to the rigid_soft_enable_dat coverage statement.
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Review comment at @newton/_src/solvers/coupled/solver_coupled.py around lines
4005 - 4015:
Update the coupled DAT corner filter so ownership is checked with a mask
distinct from active_particle_mask; retain rows referencing pinned corners while
still rejecting corners not owned by the coupled entry. Keep the existing
invalid-index checks and full-surface contact coverage behavior.
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Review comments at @changelog/+full-bvh-dat-8b5c19a7.added.md:
- Around line 1-8: Split the short-edge behavior into a separate fixed changelog
entry. Add a changed entry describing the expanded full-surface collision
records and revised TV/EE selection, with migration guidance to increase
soft_contact_max if overflow is reported. Update the added entry to name the
public Contacts.soft_contact_rigid_indices field.
Review comments at @newton/_src/geometry/soft_contacts_mesh.py:
- Line 1473: Update `_SoftContactFilterData` to carry particle flags and check
them in `_soft_contact_force_enabled`, rejecting mesh features only when all
participating particles are inactive. Preserve all mesh contact rows for DAT,
and allow active kinematic particles to contribute to rigid-side forces.
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Review comments at @newton/_src/solvers/coupled/solver_coupled.py:
- Around line 4005-4015: Update the coupled DAT corner filter so ownership is
checked with a mask distinct from active_particle_mask; retain rows referencing
pinned corners while still rejecting corners not owned by the coupled entry.
Keep the existing invalid-index checks and full-surface contact coverage
behavior.
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newton/_src/solvers/coupled/solver_coupled.py
newton/_src/solvers/vbd/rigid_vbd_kernels.py
newton/_src/solvers/vbd/solver_vbd.py
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Here is a reproducible production-kernel example showing why rigid-soft DAT needs to bound the complete rigid primitive, rather than only its stored contact anchor.
Left: initial geometry. Middle: pre-PR contact-point DAT. Right: full-primitive DAT. Gold is the division plane at z = 20 mm; blue is the stationary soft particle and its closest-point gap; purple is the stored rigid contact anchor. Vertical distances are exaggerated 40x for display only; the displayed measurements are physical millimeters.
The triangle rotates about -Y. Its far corner travels farther than the stored contact anchor. In the middle panel, the anchor remains below the plane at 16.149240 mm, but the far corner reaches 20.186550 mm, crossing the plane by 0.186550 mm. Full DAT bounds all triangle corners and limits that corner to 16.149343 mm, leaving 3.850657 mm below the plane.
Quantity
Pre-PR contact-point DAT
Full-primitive DAT
Accepted fraction of the proposed rotation
0.067293070
0.053833485
Far-corner height
20.186550 mm
16.149343 mm
Actual particle-to-triangle distance
3.846685 mm
7.077917 mm
Scope: this is a synthetic call to the actual DAT truncation kernel, not a full simulation. It demonstrates a violation of the chosen separation bound, not an actual triangle-particle intersection: the corner crosses near x = 1 m, while the particle is at x = 0.8 m, and both particle-to-triangle distances remain positive. Collision detection, force evaluation, and the solver's other motion bounds are not exercised here.
The ZIP includes the complete fixture, CPU reproducer, interactive viewer, measured outputs, screenshots, and README. The reproducer extracts pristine packages from pre-PR main b6d48f4daf776491a105920c1e5b34f3f447d347 and PR commit 88d294fd5cfd400d32873c6c3c218503dd4d97d7 with git archive, then runs each unmodified kernel in a separate process. It requires no donor checkout, local drive-limit fix, or earlier experiment files. Both runs and the Polyscope rendering were verified locally.
After extracting the ZIP, run from a Newton Git checkout containing both commits (replace /path/to/dat-corner-demo with the extracted directory):
The reproducer runs on CPU; the viewer needs a working desktop/OpenGL display. The README includes fresh-clone instructions and screenshot export commands.
Keep complete BVH records for DAT while rejecting forces from wholly
inactive soft primitives. Restore active-aware TV ownership so inactive
neighbors cannot suppress an active triangle's force.
Cover live activity, zero-mass participants, recovery and overflow in
existing regressions, and clarify changelog categories and documentation.
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🟠 P1: EE force selection changes for all full-surface VBD users, not only DAT
DAT only needs the extra rows to be retained, and _soft_contact_force_enabled already keeps force selection separate from them. This change also changes which rows apply forces, even with DAT off:
EE forces drop the Eq. (9) rigid-cone and soft-face clipping.
_build_rigid_features now feeds every edge into force selection. For SDF-cooked meshes, that includes the near-coplanar and fully concave edges that Mesh intentionally removes (types.py:1141-1161).
As a result, a soft edge over a flat face diagonal or a concave valley can now add an EE force on top of the VT/TV rows for the same patch. The pinch test was narrowed to recovery rows (test_deformable_rigid_regressions.py:733-737) because EE forces no longer point to the nearest exit. The description also reports a non-DAT punch-cloth run that went non-finite after the change, with the cause not isolated.
Options I see: keep the previous force selection and retain all rows only for DAT, or split the Eq. (14) change into its own PR with stability evidence. Which do you prefer?
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The force-selection changes are intentional and remain in this PR: Eq. (14) replaces the Eq. (9) adjacent-face clips, and the complete mesh edge set is used for EE forces, with DAT both on and off. This is broader than retaining extra candidates for DAT. DAT consumption and current-position force eligibility remain separate.
The recorded edge-near-box comparison and screenshot show why: identical geometry and 19 candidates produce zero EE forces under the old clip, versus one nearly upward EE force under Eq. (14). OGC §3.5 constructs its edge-only geometry from all mesh vertices and edges. The SDF-cooked subset's flat/concave pruning does not define that wireframe model. Additional eligible EE contributions alongside VT/TV are therefore intended; nearest-exit direction is a property of the penetration-recovery rows, not a requirement for every EE pair.
The numerical investigation also found a concrete membrane-area cancellation failure on captured simulation input. Commit f6a2c36 uses equivalent cross-product area/derivative formulas, preserving the material law and projected-Hessian model. The new CPU/CUDA regression fails before the fix and passes after; the captured kernel replay is finite, as are two 240-frame scene runs and a 120-frame current-example run. The original frame-81 event had no saved state, so these do not establish its exact cause or prove stability for every scene. The PR description now distinguishes that original observation from the reproduced and fixed arithmetic failure.
All 53 focused CPU/CUDA checks also pass on the exact publishing copy, without the local drive-limit fix. We are retaining the intended Eq. (14)/edge-set behavior rather than restoring the prior force filter.
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🔵 P2: Every collide() call now fills the whole soft_contact_rigid_indices buffer
This fill_ runs on every collide() call for every pipeline, including ones with no mesh contact data and with DAT off. It is a full soft_contact_max memset per substep that nothing reads in those configurations. When clear_buffers is set, it also repeats the fill that Contacts.clear() already does (contacts.py:584).
The mesh-features reset just above (lines 2693-2694) already handles this case with a gate. Consider gating this fill the same way: run it only when this pipeline has _soft_mesh_contact_data, or when the buffer previously held mesh rows (for example, contacts._soft_contact_mesh_features is not None), and skip it after clear().
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Implemented in f6a2c36. The rigid-index fill now runs only if the pipeline has mesh contact data or the Contacts buffer retains mesh-feature metadata from earlier use. It is an elif after contacts.clear(), so that path no longer clears the array twice. Fresh particle-only buffers already contain -1 and skip the extra fill.
The existing test_mesh_complete_rigid_indices_and_reuse now also reuses mesh Contacts in a particle-only pipeline, seeds stale rigid IDs, and checks both clear_buffers=False and True. CPU and CUDA pass. This preserves cross-pipeline reuse while removing the unconditional work.
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🔵 P2: New DAT wp.printf diagnostics lack the required Warning:/Error: prefix
CODING_GUIDELINES.rst (Logging section) requires kernel wp.printf messages to keep a Warning: or Error: prefix, because nothing else marks their level. The existing VBD overflow messages follow this (rigid_vbd_kernels.py:4175). This message and the Unsupported rigid-soft DAT primitive layout message at line 7945 do not.
This message also prints once per failing row on every truncation launch. A body frozen by a persistent uncertifiable pair will therefore repeat it every substep. Consider rate-limiting it, for example by counting failures in a device flag and reporting once from a dim=1 kernel, like the overflow warning.
Suggested change
"Rigid-soft DAT found no separating normal for BVH row %d: "
"Warning: Rigid-soft DAT found no separating normal for BVH row %d: "
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Fixed both required prefixes in f6a2c36: Warning: Unsupported rigid-soft DAT primitive layout and Warning: Rigid-soft DAT found no separating normal. The existing zero-gap regression now checks the prefixed warning and still checks the truncation result on CPU/CUDA.
I have deferred the optional rate-limiting suggestion: diagnostics retain the failing row/primitive details and their current per-row reporting behavior. This follow-up does not add a persistent reporting flag or claim to suppress repeated warnings.
vertex_sign == 0 means the nearest-face query found no face within r_mesh. All 32 lanes now continue into bvh_query_sphere with the same radius, which can only append a row if that query misses a face. When can that happen? If only for degenerate slivers, keeping the early return for other cases avoids extra traversal on every pair without a nearby face.
apply_rigid_soft_truncation loads and transforms the same 1-3 rigid corners four times: for the coordinate scale (8290-8300), in find_primitive_pair_separator, in the delta_rigid loop, and in the trajectory loop. mesh and X_wr_ref are also recomputed (8308-8309). Loading them once into a mat33 would remove the repetition.
The new tests use (feature[0] & 7) == 2 and == 1 (test_deformable_rigid_regressions.py:1277, 1316). Use soft_contacts_mesh._MESH_FEATURE_EE/_TV, as the same file already does for _MESH_FEATURE_RECOVERY.
Unresolved sign: Warp's normal and parity nearest-face queries explicitly skip sufficiently thin slivers, including nonzero-area triangles. The existing test_mesh_complete_bvh_query_coverage now asserts that both nearest queries fail for such a triangle while CollisionPipeline.collide() still emits its complete VT record. CPU/CUDA pass. An unresolved sign alone cannot distinguish this case from genuinely empty space, so the fallback remains. The 32 lanes query partitioned BVH roots, not 32 copies of the entire tree. A nearby comment points to the regression; no extra preprocessing flag was added.
Repeated loads:apply_rigid_soft_truncation now loads each rigid corner once and caches reference-world and body-frame coordinates locally. Coordinate-scale calculation, separator dispatch, approach calculation and trajectory bounds reuse them; soft reference positions are reused too. find_primitive_pair_separator accepts prepared positions and performs no mesh loads. There is one mesh_get_point call site in the kernel's corner loop and no new persistent buffer. Existing DAT tests pass; a local 48-case comparison additionally covers nonidentity body/shape transforms, scale, and both trajectory modes. The composed-transform reuse is mathematically equivalent but not bitwise identical at large float32 world coordinates; large-coordinate clearance tests pass.
Magic numbers: affected tests use the VT/TV/EE/EE_DEPTH constants and a shared internal family-mask constant; production decoding uses the same mask. The encoding is unchanged.
The exact publishing copy passes all 53 focused CPU/CUDA tests and all repository pre-commit hooks.
The full-primitive DAT extension is well motivated, and its kernel-level tests exercise rotation, back-facing EE, zero-gap, and graph-replay cases. The main open issue is that the PR also changes contact-force selection for all full-surface VBD users with DAT off, and the PR's own evidence shows an unexplained non-finite run on that path. Fit: fits if narrowed. The DAT coverage and the experimental Contacts.soft_contact_rigid_indices field fit, but the non-DAT force-law change should either be justified with stability evidence or split out.
I found no new P0 or P1 issues since the last review. The membrane rewrite uses the cross-product form, which gives the same area, gradients and Hessian coefficient as the old Gram-determinant form. The DAT truncation refactor keeps the old behavior, and the conditional reset of rigid indices in collide() still covers mesh-backed buffers that are reused.
Reuse prepared primitive positions across DAT stages, retain and test
sliver coverage when mesh sign queries fail, and name feature constants.
Skip redundant rigid-index clearing and prefix kernel warnings.
Avoid membrane-area cancellation using cross-product identities, with
a regression covering the captured failure and degenerate triangles.
The switch from Eq. (9) to Eq. (14) is intentional, including for full-surface contacts with DAT disabled. This is the previously recorded standalone edge-near-box example that motivated the change.
Both panels render the saved October 23 production-filter/force records: identical geometry and 19 identical candidate records. These compare the old and new EE filters, not fresh executions of main and the current PR head. Only EE forces are shown; zero on the left does not mean there are no VT/TV forces.
Same frozen configuration
Old Eq. (9) EE filter
New Eq. (14) EE filter
Accepted EE pairs
0
1
Total EE force magnitude
0 N
0.029300 N
The closest points are interior to both segments and 0.699984 mm apart. The soft closest point lies just 4.67 micrometers inside the box top-face boundary. The adjacent-face clip used by the old filter rejects this pair. The wireframe edge block in OGC §3.5, Eq. (14) instead uses the edge cylinder bounded by its endpoint planes: it does not impose that adjacent-face clip. The retained pair produces the nearly upward force shown in green, approximately (-0.000195385, -0.000000078, 0.029299365) N.
Orange is the soft edge; blue is the relevant rigid box edge. Geometry is at true scale, with enlarged markers for visibility. The arrow scale is 0.01 N per 10 mm. These records use quadratic contact, support 30 mm, and stiffness 1 N/m. No simulation was rerun to make the screenshot.
For the same reason, using the complete mesh edge set is intentional. Section 3.5 constructs the edge-only geometry from all mesh vertices and edges. SDF preprocessing's near-coplanar/concave edge removal is a separate approximation, so that cooked subset is not used to define this EE force geometry. DAT still consumes the complete candidate list independently of force eligibility. This changes full-surface force selection with DAT both on and off; it is not presented as a behavior-preserving refactor or a complete implementation of every OGC component.
The existing test_mesh_ee_uses_edge_offset_region regression independently covers the rigid-side and soft-side face clips; it failed under the old filter and passes under the new one on CPU/CUDA:
uv run --no-sync python -m newton.tests -k test_mesh_ee_uses_edge_offset_region
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Description
Extend VBD rigid-soft DAT from stored contact points to complete mesh vertex–triangle, triangle–vertex and edge–edge primitives. Bounding only a rigid contact anchor can let a rotating triangle corner cross the division plane. This change certifies a separator for the entire primitive pair and truncates all participating soft vertices and rigid corners against it, including pairs that are ineligible for contact forces.
The collision/consumer changes are:
Contacts.soft_contact_rigid_indices, with-1padding; preserve this data through contact clearing and coupled-solver filtering. Analytic and penetration-recovery contacts keep their point-anchor behavior.This intentionally changes ordinary full-surface mesh contact behavior as well as DAT coverage. The Eq. (9) → Eq. (14) change and use of the complete mesh edge set for EE forces are intended with DAT both on and off, including edges omitted by SDF preprocessing. See the recorded force comparison and screenshot. Newly admitted wireframe EE forces need not satisfy the nearest-exit property of penetration-recovery rows; the recovery regression now checks that narrower guarantee explicitly. This does not claim to implement every part of OGC.
DAT requires initially separated geometry and unchanged topology/nonzero scales/radii during the motion bound. Uncertifiable primitive pairs freeze with a diagnostic. Contact-buffer overflow leaves incomplete coverage; users must stop and increase capacity. No new overflow-freezing policy is introduced.
Checklist
Test plan
The focused CPU/CUDA suite covers complete primitive indices and buffer reuse, query coverage, Eq. (14), fixed-triangle ownership, penetration recovery, short edges, both production DAT phases, graph replay, current-position force consumers and coupled metadata propagation. The new DAT cases are in the existing collision/VBD test files rather than separate test modules.
Commands for the main affected areas:
Latest exact-candidate validation (
f6a2c3645): 53 focused CPU/CUDA tests passed, including the coupled metadata-copy regression, with the local drive-limit fix absent. All repository pre-commit hooks passed, including lockfile, lint, formatting and Warp-array checks. The full repository suite remains for CI. The local example and benchmark harnesses are not included in this PR.Bug fix evidence
Runtime evidence and numerical follow-up
Pre-rebase measurements on RTX 6000 Ada / Warp 1.18.0 used warmed CUDA graphs and isolated runs. A controlled cloth/static-box fixture (17,424 particles, 64 meshes, ten iterations/substep) produced:
These are medians of three process means, 140 measurements/process. DAT includes a second detection. Before/non-DAT uses a cooked edge subset (25,984 rows); the other modes retain all edges (34,560 rows). The fixture has static rigid geometry and does not measure moving-rigid trajectory cost. These small changes are not general performance claims or measurements of the final rebased commit. Both DAT-enabled versions already use full-primitive DAT.
The original timing experiment recorded one non-DAT trial becoming non-finite at frame 81; all six DAT trials stayed finite. That frame had no saved state. Subsequent investigation reproduced a membrane arithmetic failure and captured its input: evaluating the area ratio through the float32 Gram determinant lost the nonzero area of a stretched, nearly collinear triangle. Commit
f6a2c3645uses equivalent cross-product area and derivative formulas, preserving the material law, damping, projected Hessian and existing area floor.The new CPU/CUDA regression fails before this fix and passes after. The captured production-kernel replay is finite after the fix; two 240-frame non-DAT scene runs and a 120-frame current-example run also remained finite. These establish the captured numerical fix, not the exact cause of the original unsaved frame-81 event or universal scene stability. Example runs used a separate local drive-limit fix; that fix, examples and benchmark artifacts are excluded from this PR. The static-box timing fixture does not exercise that fix.
New feature / API change
Given an initially separated model, enable the existing runtime DAT option with a solver-owned pipeline:
Full-surface mesh rows now provide complete rigid primitive indices automatically. No separate unfiltered-query option is added.
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