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With the 3D cursor on, Prism Glow's arrow and hand become glass crystals instead of an extruded PNG. It was the one original theme left extruded after #899.

  • Model: a mesh traced by hand on the theme's 2D art alone (design/cursors/prism-glow/model/), kept as simple as the drawing. Blender scene and glTF included; export_compositor.py writes the mesh into prism_mesh.rs and the three shaders.
  • Rendering (mode 15): the navy rim is the extruded silhouette, a distance field that gives coverage and shadows. The crystal is ray-traced, its triangles grouped in bounding boxes that a ray skips when it misses them, with refraction per colour channel (slight dispersion) and total internal reflection. It exits through its flat base onto the picture under the cursor. Facets glow faintly in their drawn colour, and a light line marks the folds.
  • Linux: the mesh sits in a uniform buffer. As a const or var<private> table in the WGSL, lavapipe copied it into every pixel of every layer, and a frame without any cursor rendered 3.4× slower (25.6 → 88 ms). With the uniform it is back to main's time.
  • Privacy blur: the glass refracts a copy of the frame taken just before the cursor is drawn: the recording, then its privacy blurs, then the cursor, sharp on top, then the camera and the other annotations, on all three backends. Only blurred pixels show through the glass.

Related issue

Refs #899

Type of change

  • Bug fix
  • Feature
  • Enhancement
  • Documentation
  • Refactor / maintenance
  • Performance
  • Security

Release impact

  • Patch
  • Minor
  • Major / breaking change
  • No release note needed

Desktop impact

  • Windows
  • macOS
  • Linux
  • Installer / packaging
  • Not platform-specific

Screenshots / video

Checked by hand in the Windows dev app (Prism Glow, 3D cursor on, flat and iso).

Testing

  • Windows: cargo test -p openscreen-compositor --lib --tests green. cursor_model_render checks that the crystal stands on the hotspot, casts its shadow and lets the screen show through (1479 px of the arrow, 1895 px of the hand).
  • Linux (WSL, lavapipe): the same suite green, with only the usual four skips.
  • macOS: the Metal port was not compiled locally. The macOS CI job is its only check.
  • JS: npm run test green (apart from stable-release-notes, red only on a Windows CRLF checkout). Both tsc configs pass, and Biome passes on the touched files.

Cost, 1080p, default size 3.6 (bench_the_modelled_cursor_at_1080p):

  • GPU (RTX 4070 Ti): arrow +0.2 ms, hand +0.4 to 0.7 ms.
  • WARP: arrow +6.5 to 7 ms, hand +13 to 14 ms. About half is the copy of the frame the glass refracts; the GPU does not feel it.

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  • New Features
    • Prism Glow’s arrow and hand cursors render as faceted glass crystals in 3D, refracting and subtly dispersing the image beneath them as they move.
    • The crystal cursor effect is supported on Windows, macOS, and Linux.
  • Bug Fixes
    • When a crystal cursor passes over a privacy-blurred area, it refracts the blurred image rather than revealing unblurred content beneath the blur.

The arrow and the hand are traced by hand on design/cursors/prism-glow/source.png
alone: its facets, a height designed for each, the art's colours kept per facet.
prism_geo.py writes prism.json; build_blend.py builds the Blender scene
(prism-glow.blend) and the glTF export (prism-glow.glb) from it.
With the 3D cursor on, mode 15 draws Prism Glow's arrow and hand from the mesh
instead of extruding their PNG. The navy rim is the silhouette extruded, a
distance field like the other sculpted models: it gives the coverage and the
shadows. The crystal is ray-traced triangle by triangle: refraction per colour
channel with a slight dispersion, total internal reflection, and an exit through
its flat base onto the recording under the cursor, read through the plane's UV
cut (trail_b). Each facet glows faintly in its drawn colour; a light line marks
the folds.

export_compositor.py writes the mesh into prism_mesh.rs and the three shaders;
a test checks they agree. On Linux the mesh sits in a uniform buffer: as a
const or private table in the WGSL, lavapipe copied it into every invocation of
every layer, and a frame without any cursor rendered 3.4 times slower.
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Prism Glow arrow and hand cursors now use generated faceted crystal meshes. The shaders refract a composed-image copy, which includes privacy blurs drawn before the cursor. Other annotations and, on Linux, the webcam render after the cursor.

Changes

Prism Glow Crystal Cursor

Layer / File(s) Summary
Generate and export cursor meshes
design/cursors/prism-glow/model/*, crates/compositor/src/prism_mesh.rs, crates/compositor/src/lib.rs
Adds arrow and hand geometry, Blender construction and compositor-export scripts, and generated Rust mesh tables containing model metadata, triangles, polygons, and spatial boxes.
Select Prism Glow sculpted models
crates/compositor/src/sculpt.rs, crates/compositor/src/frame_geometry.rs, src/lib/cursor/cursorThemes.ts
Resolves Prism Glow arrow and pointer states to sculpted shapes. The cursor plan marks models that use refraction, and the theme assets are marked as sculpted.
Bind mesh and render crystal refraction
crates/compositor/src/compositor_linux.rs, crates/compositor/src/shaders.metal, crates/compositor/src/vk_shaders/layer.wgsl
Provides mesh data to the shaders. Metal and WGSL add crystal tracing, refraction, dispersion, facet shading, and edge antialiasing.
Compose privacy blurs and refracted cursor
crates/compositor/src/compositor_*
Splits privacy-blur annotations from other annotations. Each backend supplies a composed-image copy to glass cursor draws; Linux draws the webcam and remaining annotations after the cursor.
Validate meshes and describe the crystal model
crates/compositor/src/sculpt.rs, crates/compositor/tests/cursor_model_render.rs, src/lib/cursor/cursorThemes.test.ts, design/cursors/*, docs/3d-effects-v2.md
Adds mesh, shader-table, bounds, and cursor-render checks. Updates describe Prism Glow as a faceted crystal rather than an extruded sprite.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant compose_frame
  participant privacy_annotations
  participant ann_copy
  participant cursor_model
  compose_frame->>privacy_annotations: Draw privacy-blur annotations
  compose_frame->>ann_copy: Copy composed image after privacy blurs
  ann_copy->>cursor_model: Supply image for crystal refraction
  compose_frame->>cursor_model: Draw cursor above privacy blurs
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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 56a09

The crystal documentation needs two localized corrections: update Linux texture bindings and clarify that privacy-protected regions remain blurred through refraction. These bounded documentation issues do not establish a runtime merge blocker.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 56a09

The glass cursor receives the picture after privacy blur is applied. The reviewed ordering supports that protection, but complete cross-platform behavior under rendering failures has not been established.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The relevant confidentiality exposure is recorded content reaching rendered preview or export frames. Refraction can relocate sampled content into the cursor footprint, so sanitizing the background before sampling is the important control. The inspected Windows downstream paths continue consuming the composed render target.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

  • observed — Incomplete blur records and unavailable privacy masks are skipped rather than replaced with an opaque mask. Base-source comparison confirms the same skips already existed, and privacy_mask is unchanged. This is an existing enforcement limitation, not a demonstrated security regression introduced by the crystal feature; ordinary application reachability of malformed records remains unestablished.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — The privacy pass produces the filtered recording layer before the glass snapshot is taken. Later camera and ordinary annotation layers are outside that snapshot. This ordering provides the inspected control against refraction reading raw pixels from successfully masked recording regions; it does not establish protection for later layers.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • inferred — Linux and macOS overwrite the glass snapshot during each glass frame and submit their ordered composition work only after the later passes. Missing-screen paths clear the output instead of drawing the cursor. These controls counter stale-background reuse during normal repetition and pre-submission errors, but do not prove fail-closed behavior after GPU execution failure.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Consider explicit rejection or fail-closed handling for an active blur record without a usable payload or mask. Treat this as hardening of the pre-existing annotation contract, not as a fix for a verified regression in this PR.
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🟡 Minor · Update the Linux mode 15 bindings in B.3 « Liaison ». · 3d-effects-v2.md:263-264

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Update the Linux mode 15 bindings in B.3 « Liaison ».

This PR changes the WGSL mode 15 bindings. layer.wgsl now reads the cursor sprite from binding 6 (texDof). It reads the R16F field from binding 4 (texMask), as in model_albedo, sd_sprite2 and sprite_texel. Bindings 1, 2 and 5 now carry the recording for the Prism Glow refraction.

Lines 263-264 still give the old Linux bindings: binding 1 (texY) for the sprite and binding 2 (texU) for the field. The specification now contradicts the shader. A maintainer who follows it will bind the wrong textures on Linux.

📝 Proposed fix
-- **Liaison** : sprite en t2 / `texture(2)` / binding 1 (`texY`), champ en t4 / `texture(4)` /
-  binding 2 (`texU`) sur Windows / macOS / Linux. Le cbuffer porte le coin du sprite
+- **Liaison** : sprite en t2 / `texture(2)` / binding 6 (`texDof`), champ en t4 / `texture(4)` /
+  binding 4 (`texMask`) sur Windows / macOS / Linux ; l'enregistrement reste en t0-t1 /
+  `texture(0)`-`texture(1)` / bindings 1, 2 et 5 pour le cristal de Prism Glow. Le cbuffer porte le coin du sprite
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Update the mode 15 “Liaison” entry to document the sprite at binding 6
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… on Linux

Linux drew the cursor last, over the camera and the annotations, where Windows
and macOS draw it under both. With Prism Glow's crystal, which refracts the raw
recording, that order let the glass show what a privacy blur hides. The cursor
now sits between the screen and the camera, as on the other platforms, and a
test checks that a blur leaves no sharp edge of the crystal under it.

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- Around line 3273-3275: Update the mode-15 refraction path in prism_screen to
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Each ray tested every triangle of the crystal, 130 for the hand. The exporter
now groups neighbouring triangles, eight at most, in a bounding box, and a ray
skips the boxes it misses or enters past its best hit. The picture is the same
(one pixel of the hand differs by 8 levels, a tie on a shared edge). The hand
costs 2 to 3 times less on the GPU, and up to 3 times less on WARP.
The crystal read the raw recording, so it could show what a privacy blur hides.
The previous fix put the blur over the cursor, which blurred the cursor itself
and still let a fringe through at the zone's edge. The order is now the
recording, its privacy blurs, the cursor, sharp on top, then the camera and the
other annotations, on all three backends. The crystal refracts a copy of the
frame taken just before it is drawn, so only blurred pixels show through the
glass. A Linux test hides fine stripes under a blur: they must not show through
the crystal, and the cursor must stay sharp.

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Comment thread docs/3d-effects-v2.md
et sortie par son fond plat sur l'image sous le curseur ; chaque facette luit un peu de sa
couleur du dessin, ses plis d'un liseré clair. Cette image est une copie de la frame composée
prise juste avant le curseur : le métrage, puis ses flous de confidentialité, puis le curseur,
net par-dessus. Seuls des pixels déjà floutés passent donc à travers le verre.

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Clarify which pixels pass through the crystal.

The refracted background is the composed pre-cursor frame, not only blurred pixels. This sentence incorrectly suggests that unblurred footage cannot pass through the glass. State instead that privacy-blurred regions remain blurred when sampled by refraction.

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