Task 12a. The Local ADS-B logic (index.js, models.js) no longer imports
Cesium. src/layers/localAdsb/render/cesium.js holds what it built, one
for one: the CustomDataSource of marker entities (billboard with
per-frame position/rotation/visibility CallbackProperties, the 2,000 km
DistanceDisplayCondition, the 978 MHz UAT ring as a PointGraphics), the
model PrimitiveCollection (models load, pose and leave through the shared
aircraft renderer's model part, adopting that collection), the selected
aircraft's trail (data/trailRenderer, as before) and live head segment,
and the camera reads. Registered for 'local-adsb' in the renderer
registry, created at init(viewer, {engine}).
- Clicks go through the engine's selection dispatcher (drill 8) instead of
the layer's ScreenSpaceEventHandler, with the layer's own rule kept as is
— a new `lookUnder` owner kind: its marker on top, or under picks no
layer owns and under trail lines, is selected (and re-selected);
another layer's contact on top, or empty map, releases only its own
selection; a trail line alone does nothing; no gesture rule. To the
other owners it is another layer, as its pick-owner registration made
it before. (The dispatcher's `drillThrough` would have taken the marker
from under another layer's contact, which the old handler never did.)
- models.js reads the camera through the renderer's view (frustum and
horizon tests, ground snap owner) and draws through renderer.models
(loadFleet/add/remove/destroy/setPose: the same MIX-tinted glTF options,
the same HPR frame with the Flights nose offset). The shared aircraft
renderer gains a loadModel seam (default Cesium.Model.fromGltfAsync).
- Cesium math → src/geo; the model tint is an Rgba equal to the old
Cesium.Color; check-import-directions: src/layers/localAdsb/ joins the
rendered layers.
Tests moved with the code, same meaning:
- index.test: the services fixture creates the layer's Cesium renderer and
the selection dispatcher; the click harness scripts the picks on a fake
engine registered for the fake viewer (was a fake ScreenSpaceEventHandler)
and the app's pick owners (trails, a Flights contact) are registered in
the pick registry (was an injected picking service).
- cockpitModels.test: the GLB loads are the aircraft renderer's loadModel
calls (Cesium.Model.fromGltfAsync by default), each asynchronous:false.
- trackingClickGesture.test: the dispatcher's empty click goes to the
plain owners (filter(plain)).
- renderers.test: local-adsb has an extracted Cesium renderer.
New: the dispatcher's look-under rule beside a plain owner (7 click cases).
W1 replay (flights, military, localAdsb) vs a fresh 7c7422e2 run: counts,
known objects, screen points, tracking poses, requests and every shot's
sha256 identical.
Task 11a. The military flights logic no longer imports Cesium: it draws
through the shared aircraft renderer (src/layers/aircraft/render/cesium.js)
with the military's parameters in src/layers/military/render/cesium.js
(sprite-order slot 'military', jet.glb's 180° nose offset), registered for
'cesium' in the renderer registry and created at init(viewer, {engine}).
The same pure move as flights in 10a:
- Fleet: the BillboardCollection and its sprite-order slot (enable keeps
restoreSpriteOrder, as before); sprites stay Billboard handles.
- Models: fleet/tracked/preload glTF loads (asynchronous:false, MIX tint at
MODEL_COLOR_BLEND_AMOUNT, IR boost as `unlit` → the UNLIT CustomShader),
the model collection, setPose. The per-class specs keep their own nose
offset: setPose takes an optional offsetDeg (default the layer's), on
both aircraft renderers (same arithmetic, test added).
- Tracked: the ENU billboard Entity with its position/colour/rotation
callbacks (#FFD166, transparent amber once the model owns the visual),
viewFrom, followed through viewer.trackedEntity + the one exact tracked
frame; refocusTrackedById through follow.refocus.
- Trail: the entity trail and the floored live head segment.
- View: camera/scene reads, frame number, frustum and horizon tests,
render requests, frame events.
- Clicks and Escape go through the engine's selection dispatcher (the
ScreenSpaceEventHandler and keydown listener are gone); the cross-layer
untrack watches the renderer's follow. Same rules: cockpit clicks are
inert, the tracked visual/model is a no-op, another layer's pick is not
empty space, an unowned pick is.
- Colours are engine-neutral Rgba (MIL_ICON_COLOR #FFB800,
TRACKED_ICON_COLOR #FFD166, AMBER_TRANSPARENT), NearFarScalar →
nearFarScale; Cesium math → src/geo.
- check-import-directions: src/layers/military/ joins the rendered layers
(cesium only in render/cesium*.js).
- The military registry and the flights' duplicate suppression are
untouched.
Source-text tests updated with the moved code, same meaning:
- militaryAwareness.test: military's hasContact guard reads fleet.visible().
- trackingClickGesture.test: the military gesture rules are the
dispatcher's (selection gesture before select, click classifier before
the empty-space clear), military answers the empty click with a
user-origin clear — the same assertion flights already had.
- ownership.test: the services fixture names selection and renderer; the
app-composed services build the layer's Cesium renderer.
- renderers.test: flights and military have extracted Cesium renderers.
New tests: the military logic over a plain-data renderer and a fake engine
(amber fleet, click-select, #FFD166 tracked glyph, no-op on the tracked
visual, empty-click and Escape release, the keyboard left on destroy); the
plain-data renderer moved to src/testSupport for both aircraft layers;
setPose with a per-model offset.
W1 replay vs 7c7422e2 (the 10a reference run): every layer's counts, known
objects, screen points, tracking pose after 2 s, requests and the
city/global/orbit shots (sha256) identical. qa-military-names (it checks
the installations layer): the same verdict as 7c7422e2 (the zoom-markers
assertion fails on both). Main chunk 2,890,763 B (−2.9 KB).
Task 10a. The flights logic no longer imports Cesium: every Cesium object it
built moved one for one into the shared aircraft renderer
(src/layers/aircraft/render/cesium.js; contract in render/contract.js), with
the flights' parameters in src/layers/flights/render/cesium.js, registered
for 'cesium' in the renderer registry and created at init(viewer, {engine}).
- Fleet: BillboardCollection + sprite-order slot; sprites stay Billboard
handles (field vocabulary documented for the Navara renderer).
- Models: fleet/tracked/preload glTF loads (asynchronous:false, MIX tint, IR
boost as `unlit` → the UNLIT CustomShader), the model collection, setPose
(same HPR frame with airplane.glb's 180° offset).
- Tracked: the ENU billboard Entity with its position/colour/rotation
callbacks, viewFrom, followed through viewer.trackedEntity + the one exact
tracked frame (kept as is; engine.camera.follow on Cesium would also end
the follow on any camera command, a behaviour change).
- Trail: the entity trail (data/trailRenderer, unchanged: its Primitive
predecessor failed below the mesh) and the live head segment.
- View: camera/scene reads, frame number, frustum and horizon tests,
projection, render requests, frame events, evidence render-loop hold.
- Clicks and Escape go through the engine's selection dispatcher (the
ScreenSpaceEventHandler and keydown listener are gone); the cross-layer
untrack watches the renderer's follow.
- Colours are engine-neutral Rgba (src/layers/shared/color.js), bit-equal to
the Cesium.Color constants they replace; NearFarScalar → nearFarScale.
- Cesium math in the logic → src/geo.
- check-import-directions: cesium only in render/cesium*.js and three/Navara
only in render/navara*.js for flights, aircraft and shared; a layer's
Navara renderer only through navaraMode's import().
Source-text tests updated with the moved code, same meaning:
- readLayerSource reads a layer's render/*.js and, for the aircraft layers,
aircraft/render/*.js (GLB-load, tracked-entity, CallbackProperty checks).
- modelScale.test: _normalBillboardScaleByDistance reads nearFarScale(...).
- spriteOrder.test: flights' enable calls fleet.restoreOrderOnEnable(); the
renderer wires it to restoreSpriteOrderOnEnable('flights', viewer).
- trackingClickGesture.test: the flights gesture rules are the dispatcher's
(selection gesture before select, click classifier before the empty-space
clear); flights answers the empty click with a user-origin clear.
- militaryAwareness.test: flights' hasContact guard reads fleet.visible().
- ownership.test: the services fixture names selection and renderer.
New tests: color, the Cesium aircraft renderer (contract, collections, pose,
loads, frustum/horizon, tracked entity, follow, trail head, adopted
collections), the flights logic over a plain-data renderer and a fake engine
(fleet, click-select, no-op on the tracked visual, empty-click release), the
boundary rule.
W1 replay vs 7c7422e2: counts, known objects, screen points (0 px), tracking
poses (0 m), requests and shots (same sha256) identical. Main chunk
2,890,982 B (+6.2 KB, +0.21 %: the renderer indirection).
src/time/clock.js is the app's own time in ms since the epoch: by default
Date.now exactly (read at each call), with freeze/offset/rate/reset for QA
and tests, and one frame time latched per engine frame (beginFrame). The
contract gains engine.clock { now, frameTime, ticked }, in the fake engine
(a controllable wall clock, fake.advanceTime, fake.appClock), the contract
suite (one frame time for every listener of a frame, latched before
preUpdate, never decreasing), Cesium and Navara.
Cesium latches on the viewer clock's onTick, which CesiumWidget runs right
before scene.render, so scene listeners the app added before the engine
existed read the same frame time; the subscription appears on first use
and destroy removes it. The viewer clock itself is untouched: in the app
it never animates (shouldAnimate false, multiplier 1, its time frozen at
boot), and its time still drives Cesium's lighting as before. Navara
latches in the engine's handler of the view's preUpdate, and the look
reads the engine clock's frame time for the sun, so the app clock is the
one time source on Navara too.
src/time is a portable root in check-import-directions: no engine
packages, no browser globals.
The import-direction check now tells dynamic imports apart
(analyzeModule(source, { dynamic: true })) and rejects any static import
or re-export of src/globe/navara/** from outside that directory, so the
Navara engine can only be a lazily loaded chunk of the app.
Navara's prebuilt workers load their wasm by file name next to
themselves, which the bundler cannot see; a build-only Rollup plugin
copies the missing ones (draco decoder, font worker) into assets/ when
the bundle includes Navara, and adds nothing to a build without it.
Engine events get their own documented semantics (single registration,
branded instances); the fake follows Cesium's roll sign, angle ranges,
synchronous zero-duration flights, flyToSphere defaults and
computeViewRectangle. The contract adds viewProjection, horizonVisible,
flightActive, lookAtTransform/transform, zoomIn/zoomOut, input modifiers,
terrainHeight and clampToHeight, with geometric suite checks. Engine
import rules now follow each engine graph transitively.
src/globe/contract.js defines the engine-neutral GlobeEngine capabilities
(JSDoc), createEngineEvent with Cesium.Event semantics and
assertGlobeEngine. src/globe/testing adds a geo-based fake engine for shell
tests and an engine-agnostic contract suite that the fake passes in Node.
check-import-directions keeps the contract free of cesium, three and
@navaramap, and each engine directory free of the other engine.
An engine-neutral port of the CesiumJS 1.138 core maths gev uses: angle
maths, the WGS84 ellipsoid and geodetic coordinates, 2D/3D vectors, 3x3/4x4
matrices, quaternions and local east-north-up / heading-pitch-roll frames.
Formulas and operation order match Cesium, so outputs are bit-identical
(golden tests pin the centre, pole, -0 and quaternion branches).
- Values are plain-data instances of module-private constructors (own
enumerable fields only), so geo's hot functions keep their own V8 hidden
classes; matrices are plain column-major arrays Cesium accepts.
- Cesium's debug argument checks are ported with the same conditions, order
and DeveloperError messages, gated on DEBUG (src/geo/debug.js): on in Node
and the dev server, folded away by vite build, as Cesium's Build strips
them. A release-parity test compares DEBUG=false geo with Build/Cesium.
- The import-direction check forbids cesium and @cesium/* in src/geo;
CODE-BOUNDARIES.md and THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md document the port.
A view is a camera, data layers, visual style, map imagery and an aircraft,
military aircraft or satellite to follow, written in the share-link format
the app already restores. gods-eye-view/view builds, encodes and decodes one,
and share links take their style names from it. open_in_gods_eye_view now
builds its link from a full view: an area or camera, layers, style, map and
something to follow.
Move the composition of the default tool services from the Node MCP
server into gods-eye-view/tools/services, a portable export. Given a
fetch that resolves the sources' /api paths, it builds the same services
in a browser as on the local MCP server, so other surfaces can compose
the same catalog. Queries still read only their services.
Define tools that answer questions from the app's data once, independent
of the surface that exposes them. A tool declares its arguments and the
services it reads; applications compose tools with their own services and
optional call interceptors. Queries reuse the layers' portable source
factories, so they run wherever an application routes /api requests.
The first queries are get_earthquakes, get_active_fires and
get_recent_launches, with a shared area argument (place name, bounding
box, or point and radius) and capped lists.
gods-eye-view/tools/mcp adapts a catalog to the Model Context Protocol
with a small JSON-RPC handler and a stateless HTTP transport, adding no
dependencies. npm run mcp serves Core's tools over stdio to local clients
such as Claude Code, reading from a running app. Both exports are
portable and checked by check:boundaries; the app does not import them.
German Khokhlov