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Adds Glass Lens, a sixth cursor theme (arrow and hand) after the macOS glass material: a clear lens in a defined graphite outline, with an outer rim of glass. The glass is real shader optics on the picture under the cursor, not a picture of glass.

  • 3D (mode 15). A new sculpted model (s_glass): a glass slab rounded across the rim, a lens dome inside the outline, a flat-topped graphite band. A ray that hits the glass is refracted per colour channel, crosses to the slab's flat underside and lands on the composed frame, the same copy the Prism Glow crystal refracts (glass_shade). Its shadow is lighter than an opaque model's.
  • 2D (new mode 19). With the 3D option off the theme stays glass: the compositor draws the same relief face on (cursor_glass_cb, cursor_glass) and refracts the picture the same way. The PNGs only feed the theme picker; scripts/generate-glass-lens-cursor.mjs draws them from the shaders' own distance fields.
  • Sprite contract. glass: "<theme>/<state>" next to sculpt, sent whatever the 3D option (resolveCursorSprites, compositorViewService, SceneCursorSprite).
  • Shapes reuse the Studio Ink arrow and glove; the outline runs between the fingers as ridges. All three backends: HLSL, Metal, WGSL.

Type of change

  • Feature

Release impact

  • Minor

Desktop impact

  • Windows
  • macOS
  • Linux

Screenshots / video

Rendered by the real D3D11 compositor at size 10: 2D (3D off) on the left, 3D on the right; a light page, a dark page, a checker.

Glass Lens renders

Testing

  • Windows, real D3D11 compositor: cargo test -p openscreen-compositor --release. Lib 401 passed and every integration test passed; only the bindgen ffi.rs doctests fail, as on main. New render test the_flat_glass_lens_refracts_the_picture, and Glass Lens added to the_sculpted_cursors_stand_at_the_hotspot.
  • Linux, WSL + lavapipe: cargo test -p openscreen-compositor --lib --tests, 439 passed. The glass tests measured real renders (no skip), with the same pixel counts as Windows.
  • WGSL: validated with naga, both pipeline variants.
  • Metal is not compiled locally: the macOS CI job is its first compile.
  • TypeScript: npx vitest --run (301 files, 4152 tests), tsc for app and tests, Biome.

Follow-up, not in this PR: the website's films note (films.depth.note.cursors, 8 locales) still lists five themes.

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  • New Features
    • Added the Glass Lens cursor theme, with arrow and pointer designs that refract and magnify the content beneath them.
    • Glass Lens works with both 2D and 3D cursor rendering and is available across supported desktop platforms.
    • The lens effect can bend and slightly disperse underlying imagery while retaining a defined outline and rim.

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This change adds the Glass Lens cursor theme and support for sculpted and flat glass rendering. The compositor can render flat Glass Lens cursors from the composed frame when 3D rendering is off. Theme metadata, shaders, tests, and rendering documentation are updated.

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Glass Lens cursor rendering

Layer / File(s) Summary
Theme assets and scene metadata
src/lib/cursor/cursorThemes.ts, electron/native-bridge/services/*, crates/compositor/src/scene.rs, crates/compositor/src/sculpt.rs, scripts/generate-glass-lens-cursor.mjs, src/lib/cursor/cursorThemes.test.ts, src/components/ai-edition/CursorPane.preview.test.tsx
The Glass Lens theme adds arrow and pointer assets with glass identifiers. Scene sprite data preserves the identifier, and the generator creates picker images from shader shape data.
Sculpted glass shader rendering
crates/compositor/src/sculpt.rs, crates/compositor/src/shaders.metal, crates/compositor/src/vk_shaders/layer.wgsl
The shaders add Glass Lens geometry, material shading, refraction, and reduced shadow opacity. Prism material checks are narrowed to the Prism material.
Flat glass rendering and compositor integration
crates/compositor/src/frame_geometry.rs, crates/compositor/src/compositor_*.rs, crates/compositor/src/shaders.metal, crates/compositor/src/vk_shaders/layer.wgsl, crates/compositor/tests/cursor_model_render.rs
Mode 19 builds and draws flat glass layers from the composed frame. Linux, macOS, and Windows compositor paths use the glass layer instead of the sprite when the glass identifier resolves. Tests cover cursor placement, glass coverage, and refraction.
Glass Lens rendering documentation
design/cursors/*, technical-documentation/architecture/cursor.md
The documentation describes Glass Lens assets, picker images, and flat and sculpted rendering behavior.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Compositor
  participant cursor_glass_cb
  participant LayerShader
  participant ComposedFrame
  Compositor->>cursor_glass_cb: Build mode-19 layer for glass cursor
  cursor_glass_cb-->>Compositor: Return layer geometry and clip
  Compositor->>LayerShader: Draw flat Glass Lens layer
  LayerShader->>ComposedFrame: Sample and refract composed image
  LayerShader-->>Compositor: Return premultiplied glass output
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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to d2b14

Glass Lens rendering has no established production defect, but its tests could miss a loss of refraction. Adding an edge-shift assertion is recommended; the remaining risk is bounded.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to d2b14

The new cursor theme preserves theme-controlled selection and samples the image after privacy filtering. No introduced security issue was established, but authorization and exceptional graphics-failure behavior were not fully verified.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The newly reachable operation is sampling and rendering the current composed image for a selected cursor, including when 3D is off. The inspected glass path does not establish new filesystem, credential, network, or cross-tenant authority; direct native callers remain outside the verified scope.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — For scenes with the required theme, the bridge replaces incoming cursorSprites using theme-owned assets and derived identifiers. Native shape lookup accepts only enumerated themes and arrow/pointer states, so glass metadata is not a new resource path.
  • observed — All three inspected backends copy the framebuffer after privacy annotations and before refractive cursor drawing. Glass samples explicitly use mip level zero, avoiding older pre-privacy lower mip levels. This establishes source-level ordering, not runtime behavior during device loss.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — Repeated motion-blur draws share a current-frame snapshot and accumulate into a separate target. Windows unbinds the snapshot afterward; macOS uses separate encoders, and Linux scopes texture bindings to prepared draw objects. Inspected skipped and fallback paths do not establish stale-image exposure under normal ordered execution.
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Assert spatial displacement in both flat-glass tests.

moved compares luminance at the same pixel index, so a translucent tint can meet its threshold without changing which screen pixel is sampled. Use a high-contrast edge and assert that its position shifts relative to the bare render.

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Review comment at @crates/compositor/tests/cursor_model_render.rs at line 930:
Update both flat-glass tests to measure spatial displacement rather than
same-index luminance differences: identify a high-contrast edge in the bare
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- Line 930: Update both flat-glass tests to measure spatial displacement rather
than same-index luminance differences: identify a high-contrast edge in the bare
render, compare its position with the tinted render, and assert that the edge
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I checked the Glass Lens path on Windows as well. The product behavior looks correct from my side: I can measure real spatial displacement through the lens — a landmark under the cursor moves up to ~8 px on the 3D paths while a control region away from the cursor stays put — and the privacy output is already part of the composed frame the glass samples.

The test-oracle concern CodeRabbit raised is real, though. As a negative control I locally disabled refraction (glass IOR → 1.0), and the current the_flat_glass_lens_refracts_the_picture still passed: its moved signal is a same-position luma change, which dimming alone can cross. A position-based oracle separates the two — real refraction gives measurable displacement, the IOR=1.0 control collapses to ~1 px.

So no runtime blocker from my side, but I'd strengthen that regression test so it actually fails when refraction disappears.

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