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fix(geometry): resolve IfcHalfSpaceSolid subtypes at the clipping gate - #60

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Stacked on #59. Both PRs regenerate docs/coverage.md and
parity/testdata/baseline.json, so they serialise. Review #59 first; this
branch rebases onto main once it lands.

clipMeshByDifference gated a boolean's second operand on
second.IsA("IfcHalfSpaceSolid"). step.Instance.IsA matches the exact
type keyword — there is no EXPRESS schema behind this library — so the subtype
IfcPolygonalBoundedHalfSpace never passed. All 11 instances in the public
corpus declined, and the bounded-clipping path below the gate, which was fully
written, was dead code. It is Revit's standard mitred wall/slab/beam join, so
the cost was paid on ordinary architectural models.

Measured result

Model OBB rate before after
ifcopenhouse 0.0% 0.0%
duplex_a 1.9% 0.0%
fzk_haus 2.4% 0.0%

(The "before" column is the state after #59, not main.)

The unhandled-item table is now empty. The freed elements land in the
Extrude column, not Brep — which is the correct signature of a real clip:
clipMeshByDifference inherits its GeomSource from its recursed first
operand, and these are extrusions. Landing in Brep would have been the
suspicious outcome.

The audit behind the three-line predicate

Every IsA(<supertype>) call in geometry/ and model/ was checked against
entity counts from the whole corpus. IfcHalfSpaceSolid is the only supertype
with live subtypes: IfcFaceSurface, IfcEdgeLoop and IfcBoxedHalfSpace all
have zero occurrences. So this is a predicate rather than a subtype
registry, and docs/design/2026-09-24-tessellation-gaps-and-placement-dos.md
records the condition for revisiting that.

unhandled.go gated on the same keyword and moves in the same commit —
otherwise the generated, byte-compared coverage page would keep advertising a
gap that no longer exists. bbox.go already enumerated all three keywords by
hand and now shares the predicate, so the package holds one answer instead of
two that had already drifted apart once.

The AgreementFlag convention held

clipTrianglesByBoundedPlane had never executed against a dispatched real
file — it had unit tests, but the gate always rejected its input, so its sign
convention was derived from the oracle-validated plain half-space path rather
than validated itself. It passed on the first run, and was independently
re-derived from the buildingSMART spec text ("the agreement flag is TRUE if the
normal to the BaseSurface points away from the material") and from
IfcOpenShell's own kernel behaviour. No inversion.

A real under-reporting bug, found and fixed before merge

Opening the gate exposed something the gate had been hiding. The footprint is
approximated by its AABB in the polygon's local frame, and the comment claimed
that was "a safe superset". It is the opposite. The kept set is
(non-material side) ∪ (material side ∩ outside-footprint); since
footprint ⊆ AABB, outside(AABB) ⊆ outside(footprint), so the approximation
removes more than the real boolean and the bound comes out tighter than
truth
— the one failure a quantities consumer cannot defend against.

A 2×2×3 box cut by a triangular boundary reported half its true height, as a
genuine extrude tessellation rather than a fallback, so nothing downstream
signalled the degradation. A square rotated 45° within its own local frame
fails identically.

Gate 1 could not catch this: all 11 corpus boundaries are axis-aligned
rectangles in their own local frame, where the AABB is exact.

So a boundary that is not its own AABB now declines to the conservative OBB
path rather than under-reporting. The test is a shoelace area comparison
rather than a vertex count, because duplex_a #4266 is a rectangle carrying
a redundant collinear vertex and must still clip — all 11 corpus instances do,
and the measured gains above are unaffected. The misleading comment is
rewritten, since as written it would have licensed widening this path on a
false safety argument.

A per-edge half-plane clip would handle the general case exactly for a convex
boundary; that is noted as the reason to revisit, but it would ship
general-case geometry with only synthetic coverage, whereas declining keeps the
pre-existing safe behaviour for shapes the corpus cannot vouch for.

Also: halfSpacePlane defaulted agreeInside = true when AgreementFlag was
absent. That is a mandatory attribute, and guessing is a 50% chance of removing
the wrong half — one outcome of which under-reports. It now declines.

Closes #52

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  • New Features

    • Added support for generating meshes from face-based surface models in IFC files.
    • Added clipping support for polygonal bounded half-spaces with rectangular boundaries.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved clipping accuracy: non-rectangular boundaries and half-spaces with missing or invalid settings now use a bounding-box fallback rather than an inaccurate cut.
    • Improved geometry results for duplex_a and fzk_haus, with fewer elements relying on bounding-box approximations.

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Geometry processing now recognizes bounded half-space subtypes for clipping and tessellates face-based surface models. Tests cover successful processing and fallback cases. Coverage documentation and parity baselines report updated counts for duplex_a and fzk_haus.

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Geometry fallback handling

Layer / File(s) Summary
Bounded half-space clipping
geometry/clip.go, geometry/bbox.go, geometry/unhandled.go, geometry/clip_test.go, geometry/testdata/synthetic/clipped_by_*halfspace.ifc
The clipping path recognizes half-space subtypes. It clips supported rectangular boundaries and declines malformed or non-rectangular cases. Tests cover dispatch, clipping, and fallback behavior.
Face-based surface model tessellation
geometry/brep.go, geometry/geometry.go, geometry/unhandled.go, geometry/brep_test.go, geometry/testdata/synthetic/face_based_surface_model.ifc
The tessellation path now accepts IfcFaceBasedSurfaceModel. Tests cover successful tessellation and inputs that decline to the existing fallback.
Coverage and parity results
docs/coverage.md, parity/testdata/baseline.json
The coverage report and parity baseline reflect updated geometry counts. Both models report zero OBB fallbacks.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 52b5c

Some bounded clips can produce bounds tighter than the actual geometry, and partially tessellated face-based models can be treated as complete. Resolve those geometry risks before merging.

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Out of Scope Changes check ⚠️ Warning The PR adds IfcFaceBasedSurfaceModel tessellation in geometry/brep.go and geometry/geometry.go, plus dispatch, fixtures, tests, and coverage changes. #52 requires the half-space clipping fix and… Move the face-based surface-model implementation, fixtures, tests, and related baseline or coverage changes to a separate pull request, or provide a direct linked coding requirement that includes this work.
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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly identifies the primary change: resolving IfcHalfSpaceSolid subtype handling at the clipping gate. It is concise and specific.
Description check ✅ Passed The description provides the change, root cause, measured results, verification details, safety decisions, reviewer context, and issue reference. It does not use the template headings exactly, but it …
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The PR meets the coding requirements in #52. isHalfSpaceSolid admits IfcPolygonalBoundedHalfSpace and IfcBoxedHalfSpace with IfcHalfSpaceSolid. clipMeshByDifference, unhandled.go, and `bbo…
Docstring Coverage ✅ Passed Docstring coverage is 87.50% which is sufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 16 functions across 7 files.
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The PR adds IfcFaceBasedSurfaceModel tessellation in geometry/brep.go and geometry/geometry.go, plus dispatch, fixtures, tests, and coverage changes. #52 requires the half-space clipping fix and its measurements. It does not require this separate surface-model coverage feature. The added feature also changes the reported baseline independently of the clipping fix.


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In `@geometry/clip.go`:
- Around line 152-154: Update the footprint validation gate in the clipping
function to accept only polygons verified to match the AABB rectangle; remove
the relative-area tolerance that admits real area deficits, and decline
ambiguous boundaries so clipping falls back to the OBB path.

In `@geometry/geometry.go`:
- Around line 131-132: Update surfaceModelMesh handling for attrFbsmFaces so it
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clipMeshByDifference gated its second operand on IsA("IfcHalfSpaceSolid").
IsA matches the exact type keyword — there is no EXPRESS schema — so the
subtype IfcPolygonalBoundedHalfSpace never passed and the bounded-clipping
path below it was dead code on all 11 corpus instances. It is Revit's standard
mitred wall/slab/beam join, so the cost is paid on ordinary models.

unhandled.go gated on the same keyword and moves in the same commit: with only
the clip fixed, the generated coverage page would keep reporting a gap that no
longer exists. bbox.go already enumerated all three keywords by hand and now
shares the predicate, so the package holds one answer rather than two that had
already drifted apart.

Refs #52

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
isHalfSpaceSolid was spliced into the middle of clipMeshByDifference's doc
comment block, so Go attached the whole combined comment to the predicate and
left clipMeshByDifference undocumented. Move the predicate above the block so
each function keeps its own doc. No behaviour change.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Regenerated by `make parity-report` and `make parity-baseline` after the
subtype predicate made the bounded-clipping path reachable. Gate 2 fails in
both directions by design, so a closed gap has to be recorded rather than
silently improving the numbers.

Closes #52

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
clipTrianglesByBoundedPlane approximates the polygon footprint by its AABB in
the polygon's local frame. The comment claimed that was a safe superset. It is
the opposite: the kept set is (non-material side) UNION (material side INTERSECT
outside-footprint), and since footprint is contained in its AABB, outside-AABB
is contained in outside-footprint — so the approximation removes MORE than the
real boolean and the bound comes out tighter than truth. A 2x2x3 box cut by a
triangular boundary reported half its true height, as a real tessellation
rather than a fallback.

Exact when the boundary IS its own AABB, which is every instance in the public
corpus and the standard Revit wall/slab/beam cookie-cutter. Anything else now
declines to the conservative OBB path rather than under-reporting. The area
test rather than a vertex count, so a rectangle carrying a redundant collinear
vertex still clips.

Also declines halfSpacePlane's AgreementFlag when absent or non-boolean
instead of defaulting to true — guessing gives a 50% chance of removing the
wrong half, and the mandatory schema attribute is present on all 11 corpus
instances, so this costs nothing measurable.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The gate declines a polygonal boundary that is not its own AABB by
comparing shoelace area against AABB area, but it did so with a 1e-6
relative tolerance. An area tolerance buys a LINEAR deviation of order
sqrt(relEps) * L, because a corner cut of side d costs only d^2/2 of
area: on a 20x20 boundary a 2.8 mm chamfer loses a ratio of ~1e-8 and
sailed through. The AABB clip would then remove a corner the real
footprint leaves intact, tightening the bound below truth — the one
failure a quantities consumer cannot defend against, and precisely the
failure this gate exists to prevent.

1e-12 admits ~1e-6 * L, micrometres on a metre-scale polygon and an
order of magnitude under Gate 1's own 1e-5 m, while still sitting four
orders of magnitude above the ~1e-16 relative error a float64 shoelace
sum carries. A rectangle with a redundant collinear vertex contributes
exactly zero area and still passes, which is what kept the area test in
preference to a vertex count.

The new test is mutation-proven: at 1e-6 the chamfered boundary clips
as "extrude" instead of declining to "obb". Both parity gates pass
unchanged and docs/coverage.md is byte-identical, so no corpus
boundary sat in the admitted band.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Tightening the area gate to 1e-12 made its numerics load-bearing, and
the raw shoelace sum is not accurate enough to carry that. Area is
translation invariant; the sum computing it is not. A millimetre file
placed on a site grid carries boundary coordinates near 1e6, whose
pairwise products land near 1e12 while the area they cancel down to is
~1e2, so the sum arrives with a relative error that swamps the gate by
orders of magnitude.

Measured on a 20x20 rectangle: at an origin of 1e6 + 0.13 the raw sum
reports a 3.1e-7 area deficit that does not exist. The gate declines,
the element falls back to a box, and the coverage this path exists to
win is silently lost on exactly the files it was written for. The
fractional part matters — on exact powers of ten the cancellation
happens to come out clean, which is why the first version of the
regression test passed against the bug.

Subtracting poly[0] from both ends of every term keeps the products
O(side^2), and the same rectangle then measures an exact zero deficit.
This only ever declines less, never more, so it cannot introduce an
under-report.

The test is mutation-proven: restored to the raw sum, the far-from-
origin rectangle declines to "obb". Both parity gates pass and
docs/coverage.md is byte-identical.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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