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…traint Users had no way to say "this point should live around here, but the layout may still move it". The tools were all-or-nothing: pinning fixes a point and removes it from the layout, and the cluster force pulls a whole group toward one shared position. Anchoring individual points to known positions (geographic, semantic, a user-dragged "home") while the rest of the layout stays organic — d3's forceX/forceY — was missing. The attractor force is one more term in the velocity sum: every point may carry its own target and its own strength, and the pull composes with links, repulsion, gravity, clusters and collision instead of overriding them. - setPointAttractors takes [x0, y0, x1, y1, …] with NaN meaning "no attractor"; setPointAttractorStrength takes one coefficient per point (default 1); simulationAttraction is the global coefficient. Both arrays follow the channel contract: a length mismatch disables the channel rather than reading another point's data, and the caller's arrays are never edited. - NaN is resolved at upload into an explicit has-target flag packed with (x, y, strength) in one rgba32float texel per point. The cluster force uses a negative coordinate as its "no position" sentinel, which silently breaks for negative space coordinates; the flag keeps every coordinate valid. - The pull is the same linear spring the cluster force applies — alpha * dist * coefficient * strength — so the two coefficients are directly comparable and default to the same 0.1. - It runs after the cluster force and before collision: it is an attraction force, and collision has to see the overlap it creates in the same tick or the two oscillate against each other. - Lifecycle follows the simulation-only forces (constructed with enableSimulation, rebuilt by ensureSimulationModules, torn down by destroySimulationModules); create() re-runs on setPointPositions and on either setter. run() is gated on the data having a valid attractor array, so a graph that never sets one pays a constructor and nothing else. A point with an attractor is pulled toward it every tick with a force proportional to its distance; a point whose attractor is NaN is left alone by this pass entirely. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Nikita Rokotyan <nikita@rokotyan.com>
…by chain links A per-point force is hard to read in a random graph: with links in every direction the result is a hairball and the attractors' effect is invisible. The example needs a layout where the attractor positions are the picture and the other forces are the visible disturbance. - 400 points are chained by links in order and their attractors are sampled along a parametric curve (heart, spiral, rose, Lissajous, star, lemniscate), so the attractor force draws the figure and the links trace it as a colour ribbon. - Every fifth point has no attractor. It is placed by its two chain links alone and settles between its neighbours — the visible proof that the constraint is soft, not a pin. - Gravity toward the centre is the competing force. At the default loose strength (0.15) the figure settles visibly shrunken; at firm strength (1) the attractors win and it expands to full size. A third button toggles gravity off, and right-click repulsion is on so the curve can be poked and watched recovering. - Each handler calls render() to apply the new arrays and then start(1): render() never starts or stops the simulation, and by the time a button is pressed the layout has usually settled, so without the reheat the new attractors upload but nothing moves. - The view is framed with an immediate zoom once the story's div has a size, not a fit-view transition: the points start in a pile at the centre and fitting to them would frame the pile. The story harness gains pointAttractors / pointAttractorStrength props so other stories can use the force the same way as clusters. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Nikita Rokotyan <nikita@rokotyan.com>
…le, history Adds setPointAttractors and setPointAttractorStrength to the API reference after the cluster methods, simulationAttraction to the configuration table, and a history entry with the why: the gap between pinning and clustering, how the force is packed and where it runs in the tick, why it is not just one-cluster-per-point (composition with real clusters, half the GPU work, no negative-coordinate sentinel), and the story that demonstrates it. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Nikita Rokotyan <nikita@rokotyan.com>
📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe change adds per-point attractors to the simulation. Graph accepts attractor coordinates and strengths, packs them for GPU processing, applies the force during simulation, and exposes configuration, documentation, and an interactive Storybook example. ChangesPoint attractor force
Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Change: Feature Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant Caller
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Caller->>Graph: setPointAttractors and setPointAttractorStrength
Graph->>GraphData: store raw attractor inputs
Graph->>GraphData: updateAttractors
GraphData-->>ForceAttractor: provide validated attractor data
Graph->>ForceAttractor: run attractor force
ForceAttractor->>SimulationState: write velocity
Graph->>SimulationState: update position
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In `@src/modules/ForceAttractor/index.ts`:
- Around line 47-51: Update the attractor filtering in ForceAttractor.create()
to reject undefined, NaN, Infinity, and negative Infinity coordinates before
writing attractorState. Apply the same finite-value validation to
pointAttractorStrength, falling back to 1 when it is absent or non-finite.
- Around line 32-34: Update the ForceAttractor state around create() and the
isActive getter to track whether at least one point passes the coordinate guard
and is uploaded as an active target. Reset this flag when attractor data is
absent, and require both available data and an active target in isActive so
all-NaN coordinates skip the force pass.
In `@src/stories/forces/attractors.ts`:
- Line 265: Update the gravity toggle in the attractor story to call
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| public get isActive (): boolean { | ||
| return this.data.pointAttractors !== undefined | ||
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Skip the force when no point has an attractor.
The API documents NaN coordinates as “no attractor” and requires one pair per point. When every pair is NaN, create() uploads no active targets, but isActive still returns true. Each simulation step then performs the attractor swap, full point-texture draw, and position update with zero force. The pass scales with the point count, including the documented hundreds-of-thousands-point workloads.
Track whether create() found at least one target that passes its coordinate guard. Reset that state when the attractor data is absent, and include it in isActive.
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In `@src/modules/ForceAttractor/index.ts` around lines 32 - 34, Update the
ForceAttractor state around create() and the isActive getter to track whether at
least one point passes the coordinate guard and is uploaded as an active target.
Reset this flag when attractor data is absent, and require both available data
and an active target in isActive so all-NaN coordinates skip the force pass.
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| if (!isNumber(x) || !isNumber(y)) continue | ||
| const strength = pointAttractorStrength?.[i] | ||
| attractorState[i * 4 + 0] = x as number | ||
| attractorState[i * 4 + 1] = y as number | ||
| attractorState[i * 4 + 2] = isNumber(strength) ? (strength as number) : 1 |
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Reject non-finite attractor values before upload.
isNumber rejects NaN but accepts Infinity and -Infinity. The public setters do not reject these values, and GraphData.updateAttractors checks only array lengths. ForceAttractor.create() therefore uploads them to the rgba32float attractor texture. The shader can produce non-finite velocity in velocityFbo; an infinite coordinate can then make the updated point position non-finite.
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- if (!isNumber(x) || !isNumber(y)) continue
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const strength = pointAttractorStrength?.[i]
attractorState[i * 4 + 0] = x as number
attractorState[i * 4 + 1] = y as number
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| if (!isNumber(x) || !isNumber(y)) continue | |
| const strength = pointAttractorStrength?.[i] | |
| attractorState[i * 4 + 0] = x as number | |
| attractorState[i * 4 + 1] = y as number | |
| attractorState[i * 4 + 2] = isNumber(strength) ? (strength as number) : 1 | |
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| !Number.isFinite(x) || !Number.isFinite(y)) continue | |
| const strength = pointAttractorStrength?.[i] | |
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In `@src/modules/ForceAttractor/index.ts` around lines 47 - 51, Update the
attractor filtering in ForceAttractor.create() to reject undefined, NaN,
Infinity, and negative Infinity coordinates before writing attractorState. Apply
the same finite-value validation to pointAttractorStrength, falling back to 1
when it is absent or non-finite.
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| gravityButton.addEventListener('click', () => { | ||
| gravity = !gravity | ||
| gravityButton.textContent = gravityLabel() | ||
| graph.setConfig({ simulationGravity: gravity ? gravityOn : 0 }) |
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Use setConfigPartial for the gravity toggle.
When the gravity button is clicked, setConfig resets the configuration to defaults before applying only simulationGravity. This removes the story's configured attraction, link settings, and right-click repulsion.
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- graph.setConfig({ simulationGravity: gravity ? gravityOn : 0 })
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| graph.setConfig({ simulationGravity: gravity ? gravityOn : 0 }) | |
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In `@src/stories/forces/attractors.ts` at line 265, Update the gravity toggle in
the attractor story to call setConfigPartial instead of setConfig, preserving
the existing attraction, link, and right-click repulsion settings while changing
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Summary
Adds an attractor force: every point may carry its own attractor position and strength, and is pulled toward it as one force among the others. It is a per-point soft position constraint — the gap between
setPinnedPoints(a point is fixed and leaves the layout) and the cluster force (a whole group shares one position). The d3 analogue isforceX/forceY.API
Both arrays follow the engine's channel contract: a length mismatch disables the channel instead of reading another point's data, and the caller's arrays are never edited.
How it works
src/modules/ForceAttractor/— aCoreModulein the shape ofForceGravityplus one data texture.create()packs(targetX, targetY, strength, hasTarget)into onergba32floattexel per point; NaN becomeshasTarget = 0at upload. The cluster force uses a negative coordinate as its "no position" sentinel, which breaks for negative space coordinates; the explicit flag keeps every coordinate valid.force-attractor.frag— full-screentexelFetchpass applying the same linear spring as the cluster force,alpha * dist * simulationAttraction * strength, so the two coefficients are directly comparable.runSimulationStep, with the usualswapFbo → run → updatePosition. Lifecycle follows the simulation-only forces;run()is gated on the data having a valid attractor array, so a graph that never sets one pays nothing beyond a constructor.Why not one cluster per point?
The force law is identical, so that emulation works today, but: a point can belong to only one cluster, so anchoring points that are also clustered is impossible; per-point clusters cost a centroid pass plus four extra textures every tick; and cluster positions cannot be negative. See the history entry for the full comparison.
Story
Examples / Forces / Attractors (
src/stories/forces/attractors.ts): 400 points chained by links, attractors sampled along parametric curves (heart, spiral, rose, Lissajous, star, lemniscate). Every fifth point has no attractor and settles between its chain neighbours. Gravity toward the centre is the competing force: loose strength (0.15, default) shrinks the figure, firm (1) lets the attractors win. Buttons cycle the shape, flip the strength and toggle gravity; right-click repulsion is on so the curve can be poked.Docs
setPointAttractors/setPointAttractorStrengthin the API reference,simulationAttractionin the configuration table, andhistory/2026/2026-09-10-attractor-force.md.Verification
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