Make dense lane figures readable: label fit, palette and legend - #994
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The string palette cycled WHEEL_ORDER, so the nineteenth distinct value reused the first one's color. An inventory path naming twenty-one values drew three pairs identically, and a legend whose swatch means two things is worse than no legend at all. Past what the wheel holds, values now walk the hue circle by the golden ratio instead, held near tab20's saturation so the two schemes sit together in a figure whose other lanes still take the wheel.
Three things kept a dense lane figure from reading. The labels were measured before the legend was drawn. Constrained layout then reserved that legend's width, and the axes lost close to a quarter of its own, so every label was judged against a box wider than the one it landed in and the survivors overlapped their neighbors. The fit now runs last, once the legend and any colorbars have taken their room, and a label must clear its box by a few pixels rather than merely equal it. Measuring correctly on its own left almost nothing drawn: three labels of eighty-five on the inventory path this came from, since the boxes are metres wide on an axis of kilometres. A label too wide for its box is now turned on its side and kept when it fits that way, which is most of them; only what fits neither way falls through to the legend. The legend itself was one column anchored beside the axes, and a figure naming more values than its axes is tall ran off the bottom of the page. Such a legend is laid out in columns below the lanes instead, and path() counts the rows it will take so the lanes do not give up the room.
Review of the two commits before this one turned up four ways they were still guessing. Only a constrained layout keeps room for a legend outside the axes, so "outside lower center" on any other figure put it under the canvas. The engine is now checked for what it is, and a figure which lays out nothing is given the room explicitly: the legend goes at its foot and the axes is moved up by what the legend took. How wide matplotlib draws a legend column was estimated from the longest label, and the estimate was low enough that thirty values overhung an eight inch figure by forty pixels. The widest layout is drawn and then narrowed until it is inside the figure, which needs no estimate. A renderer rounds each glyph to whole pixels, so text comes out a tenth wider at 50 dpi than at 300 and the fit was partly a question about resolution. Turning a label on its side asks that question twice, which made it much worse: across a sweep of label widths, twenty-one of thirty-six were decided differently at different dpi, against four before any of this. Labels are now measured from their outlines, in points, and none of the thirty-six is. Lastly path() counted every distinct value toward the room to keep for a legend, including numbers, which earn a colorbar, and every value in a figure given one color, which earns no legend at all.
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe lane plotter now uses shared Matplotlib text metrics, expanded color generation, and adaptive legend placement. Inventory plots derive rendered legend names and reserve figure height when needed. Tests cover multiline labels, math text, mappings, figure ownership, and backend-independent layout. ChangesLane visualization layout
Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to Lane labels containing both plain and math text on separate lines may still be measured incorrectly, which can cause poor fit decisions for those labels. This is a localized correctness risk, so the PR is mergeable with explicit owner follow-up. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5✅ Passed checks (5 passed)
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In `@dascore/viz/_lanes.py`:
- Around line 423-449: Update the legend-sizing loop in
dascore/viz/_lanes.py:423-449 to require the final legend bounds to fit both
figure width and height, with a fallback when one column still does not fit. In
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Three things the PR bots found. A legend under an axes was drawn at the foot of the whole figure while only that axes moved up, so in a figure of several panels it covered whichever one sat below. It is the axes' own legend now, anchored at the foot of the axes, and the axes rises by exactly what the legend took, so the two together cover what the axes covered before. Only a figure which lays itself out is asked for room outside the axes at all. Measuring a label as outlines is slow enough to want a cache, and the key held only the text and its size. The font family, style, weight and stretch all change the answer -- a name is eight percent wider in the mono family than the sans -- so a figure drawn under one rc_context and another under a different one shared measurements they did not agree on. The font is part of the key now, and usetex is passed through. Lastly path() counted only strings toward the legend it makes room for, but a mapping names whatever it holds, numbers included.
Six reviewers over the three commits before this one, and most of what they found came back to guessing at something that could be measured. Matplotlib already measures text without a renderer, so the outlines and the cache keyed on the font behind them are gone. It is thirty times faster, which is why there is no cache left to key wrongly; it returns the advance rather than the ink, which is the right number for asking whether a label fits; and it does not fall over on a label of nothing but spaces, which the outlines did, taking the whole figure with them. Labels of several lines are measured a line at a time and stacked, since neither measurer reads a newline the way the text artist lays one out. Whether a legend fits beside the lanes was predicted from a synthetic row pitch and got the near cases wrong in both directions. It is drawn beside, measured, and moved below only if it really is taller than the axes. That deletes the pitch fudge and the helper holding it. Two ways the legend could take room that was not its to take. Asking a figure for room outside the axes moves every other axes on it, so it is now only ever asked of a figure the call built itself -- path() says so explicitly, since it builds the figure but hands over an axes. And where the axes gives up the room instead, it gives up at most half of itself and remembers what it gave, so a legend taller than the axes can no longer push the lanes off the page and drawing twice into one axes does not shrink it twice. path() reserved rows for a legend below, and the reserved room was then enough for the legend to sit beside instead, leaving the room unused. It decides now, and says which it decided, rather than growing the figure and letting the renderer choose again on the strength of that growth. The rows themselves come from the labels rather than from a fixed column width, so long names no longer overflow what was kept for them, and a mapping which names some of a lane's values reserves room for those and not for the rest. Lastly the hue walk told two values apart by a light and a dark shade, which put a pair of near-identical colors thirty-five values in; it walks five shades now, which pushes that past what a legend can carry anyway. Three of the tests turned out to pin nothing: the one for overlapping labels passed against the old code, where no label was drawn at all; the one for label clearance had two hundred pixels of slack; and the one for a narrow figure asserted only that figsize was passed through. Each now fails against dev, and the ones for whitespace, several lines, a vector backend and a legend naming nothing are new.
Prose review of the four commits before this one. The dpi-rounding argument was written out twice, once at the constant and once where the measuring happens; so was the reason labels are fitted last. Each is now where it is acted on and nowhere else. Two docstrings had drifted from the code. path() promised a label too wide for its box would be turned on its side "rather than dropped", but rotation is a second chance before dropping, not instead of it; and _legend_names claimed a lane of numbers always earns a colorbar, when a handful of them are read off the boxes they are printed in. The rest is naming. "Crossing the wheel" read as wrapping around it, which is what the branch below exists to avoid. "The one rule" had no referent. And 0.833, which is what matplotlib makes of the "small" the legends ask for, is a constant now rather than a number appearing twice with no account of itself.
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A value written on two lines stands two lines tall in the legend, but the height path() kept for one counted entries. A path whose labels carry a newline reserved half what its legend needed, and the legend then went below into room nobody had kept, taking it from the lanes. Both estimates count lines now: the standing height of one column, and the rows it breaks into at a given width, where a row is as tall as its tallest entry.
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377-383: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winMeasure math parsing per physical line.
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A lane figure of a real optical path was unreadable, and three separate things were wrong with it. The path below has seven lanes, twenty-one distinct label values and fourteen boreholes along two and a half kilometres of fiber.
Labels were measured against the wrong axes.
_fit_labelscompared each label to its box, thenplot_lanesdrew the legend and constrained layout reserved its width — the axes lost 879 px to 678, close to a quarter. Every label was judged against a box wider than the one it landed in, so labels which should have been dropped stayed and ran into their neighbours:fiber to 305 mneeded 81 px in a box which finished at 76, and read asfiber to 305 mfiber to 643 m. The fit now runs after the legend and any colorbars have taken their room, and a label must clear its box rather than exactly equal it.Measuring correctly on its own left almost nothing drawn — three labels of eighty-five on that path, because the boxes are metres wide on an axis of kilometres. Horizontal inside the box was the only placement
_fit_labelsknew, and anything wider than its box was deleted. A label too wide is now turned on its side and kept when it fits that way. On that path it takes the labels drawn from three to thirty-four: every borehole names itself in place, which is what fourteen swatches in a legend were standing in for.The palette silently reused colors.
_string_colorscycledWHEEL_ORDER, which holds eighteen, so the nineteenth distinct value took the first one's color. Twenty-one values gaveFSFandoutside_borehole_casingone color,MSFandsouthanother,N100andupa third. Past what the wheel holds, values now walk the hue circle by the golden ratio, held near tab20's saturation so the two schemes sit together.And the legend ran off the page. One column of twenty-five entries anchored beside a 4.1 inch figure spans from y=0.93 to y=-0.20 in figure fraction: the last five entries, the ones needed to read the
leganddriftlanes, were below the canvas. A legend naming more values than its axes is tall is now laid out in columns below the lanes, andpathcounts the rows it will take so the lanes are not squeezed to pay for it. Only a constrained layout keeps room for a legend outside the axes; a figure which lays out nothing is given the room explicitly.One thing measured along the way is worth stating. A renderer rounds each glyph to whole pixels, so the same text is a tenth wider at 50 dpi than at 300, and whether a label fits was already partly a question about resolution — across a sweep of label widths, four of thirty-six were decided differently at different dpi on
dev. Turning a label on its side asks that question twice and took it to twenty-one of thirty-six, so labels are now measured from their glyph outlines, in points, and none of the thirty-six is.Two things I did not change, both deliberate:
test_vocabulary_widens_the_palettedocuments, so this is more of the same rather than a new kind of surprise. It is stated in the docstring.One pre-existing thing this turns up without touching:
map()builds its own palette in insertion order whilepath()sorts, so the two already disagree about which color a value gets. Worth a separate look.Tested by hand against the inventory that prompted this, and the tunnel example is unaffected: it names six values, stays at 4.2 inches, and keeps its legend beside the lanes.
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Reviewed by Codex and five Claude reviewers in parallel, blind to each other, plus the PR bots. Four defects were flagged independently by two models each, and the last two commits are the fixes: text measured as glyph outlines (slow, and it crashed on a whitespace-only label) replaced by matplotlib's own metrics; the beside-or-below decision measured rather than predicted from a synthetic row pitch; a legend below no longer able to push the lanes off the page or move a sibling axes; and the reserved rows computed from the labels rather than a fixed column width. Three tests were shown to pin nothing and were rewritten to fail against
dev.Changelog
plot_lanesgives every value its own color past the eighteen the palette wheel holds, instead of reusing the first ones.Checklist
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