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Summary

Introduce interactive molecular picking and selection across the scientific viewer, together with the supporting command, shell, and rendering infrastructure.

Changes

  • Add structure-level selection identities and molecular-surface ownership mapping.
  • Implement molecule picking and selection paths in the renderer, including GPU picking, box selection, highlighting, and related shader support.
  • Introduce selection-aware molecular appearance, transparency, and visibility rendering.
  • Integrate viewport selection interactions and molecule appearance/representation controls in the desktop workbench.
  • Add typed selection, visibility, and render commands with command-history support.
  • Extend the built-in shell and terminal integration for molecular selection, visibility, and rendering operations.
  • Update document/workbench state and docking integration to coordinate molecular viewer operations.

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This branch is 6 commits ahead of main with 0 commits behind. It touches both scientific/rendering and command/workbench layers; review is best organized around:

  1. Stable atom/structure selection identities and surface ownership mapping.
  2. GPU picking and box-selection correctness, including coordinate transforms and stale results.
  3. Selection highlight, visibility, transparency, and representation behavior.
  4. Desktop viewport interactions, document state, and split-pane behavior.
  5. Command history, built-in shell, and terminal integration.
  6. Regression tests and CI across the affected crates.

Related issue

Related to #28 (molecular picking and selection).

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features
    • Select atoms by clicking, dragging a selection box, or entering atom specifications in the shell. Replace, add to, subtract from, or toggle selections, and inspect selection counts.
    • Hide or show selected atoms, all atoms, or atoms matching a specification.
    • Customize atom, polymer, and surface colors, styles, and opacity; choose a surface-generation backend.
    • Manage rendering panels from the shell by listing, entering, or leaving panels.
    • Undo and redo rendering, visibility, and selection edits using Ctrl+Z and Ctrl+Shift+Z.
    • See selected atoms highlighted in the molecular view.
    • Shell prompts show the active rendering panel when one is selected.

Add `panel list`, `panel enter <ID>`, and `panel leave` commands to the built-in
shell, with host-validated rendering targets and session-local context.

Expose stable rendering-panel descriptors, preserve the selected target in shell
submissions and execution history, update prompts when panel context changes, and
reconcile closed or renamed views without relying on UI focus. Add terminal
panel routing, control-character-safe labels, and regression tests for parsing,
selection, docking, session isolation, and target invalidation.
Introduce renderer-neutral command models for inspecting and changing atom,
polymer, surface, and surface-backend settings. Expose these operations through
the built-in shell with Clap-based parsing, validation, help, and value
completion.

Route desktop menus, keybindings, and shell sessions through a shared rendering
command dispatcher. Resolve commands against stable rendering-tab identities
instead of UI focus, support inactive tabs, preserve surface visibility when
changing backends, and return readable rendering status output.

Add regression coverage for command parsing, completion, explicit targeting,
inactive-tab updates, focus preservation, and unchanged representation state.
Add renderer-neutral commands for layer coloring and opacity, including uniform,
element, chain, and chain-element color schemes with validated RGB and opacity
values. Expose the controls through the molecular options menu and built-in
shell while preserving stable rendering-tab targeting.

Extend the molecule renderer with cached per-layer color ownership, surface
atom selection provenance, dynamic recoloring, and weighted blended
order-independent transparency for atom, polymer, and surface layers. Update
surface metadata, cartoon geometry ownership, docking controls, command
catalogs, and regression tests accordingly.
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Add structure-scoped atom selection indices with author-aware `/chain:residue@atom`
specifications, replace/add/subtract/toggle modes, and built-in shell commands
for selecting, clearing, and inspecting molecular selections.

Add viewport picking and Ctrl-drag box selection for visible atom, cartoon, and
surface geometry, including residue expansion, surface ownership resolution,
selection previews, and GPU selection outlines. Route selection through stable
rendering-panel contexts and preserve UI focus.

Introduce bounded undo/redo history for representation and selection edits,
including gesture coalescing, target invalidation, and keyboard actions. Extend
the command model, desktop dispatch, document state, renderer interfaces, and
regression tests accordingly.
Add ray traversal and bounds-based broad-phase queries for atoms, bonds,
cartoons, and surfaces, reducing picking and box-selection work on large
molecular meshes.

Restrict box selection to visible foreground geometry using camera-space depth
windows and triangle probes, while preserving surface ownership, residue
expansion, and opaque-layer ordering. Update molecule renderer selection APIs
and clarify the viewport contract accordingly.
Add typed `hide` and `show` commands for selected atoms, complete structures,
and author-based specifications such as `/A:42-60`. Route visibility changes
through stable rendering-panel contexts and expose hide-selected/show-all
actions in the molecular options menu.

Track hidden atoms independently from scientific selection, propagate visibility
through split document views, and add renderer-side visibility masks for atoms,
bonds, cartoon geometry, and surfaces. Update picking, box selection, residue
expansion, selection outlines, and draw ranges to ignore hidden objects.

Include visibility state in the shared undo/redo timeline and extend command
catalogs, shell completion, document state, and regression coverage.
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The pull request adds molecular atom selection, visibility, and appearance features across the structure, renderer, desktop, and shell layers. It also adds panel-targeted commands and a shared undo/redo history for rendering, selection, and visibility edits.

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Molecular workbench interactions

Layer / File(s) Summary
Structure selection and surface ownership
crates/chitin-bio/src/structure/*, crates/chitin-bio/src/surface/*
Adds structure-aware atom specifications and selection counts. Surface atom filtering uses shared scope rules, and surface vertices receive atom ownership according to scope and chain domains.
Command contracts and shell grammar
crates/chitin-command/src/model/*, crates/chitin-command/src/history.rs, crates/chitin-builtin-shell/src/*
Adds typed render, selection, visibility, and undo/redo commands. Shell parsing and completion support rendering controls, selection, visibility, and rendering-panel navigation.
Renderer picking, visibility, and appearance
crates/chitin-molecule-renderer/src/*, crates/chitin-molecule-renderer/Cargo.toml, crates/chitin-desktop/examples/msms-debug/*
Adds picking and box-selection queries, hidden-atom filtering, selection outlines, per-layer color and opacity, and weighted transparency. Surface source metadata records atom scope.
Panel state and viewport selection
crates/chitin-desktop/src/workbench/documents/*, crates/chitin-desktop/src/features/molecule/scene.rs, crates/chitin-desktop/src/features/molecule/viewport.rs
Stores selected and hidden atoms with rendering-tab state. Connects viewport gestures and picking to panel selection, and binds input to the current view revision.
Desktop commands and controls
crates/chitin-desktop/src/commands/*, crates/chitin-desktop/src/features/molecule/*, crates/chitin-desktop/src/keybindings/*
Dispatches render, selection, and visibility commands to rendering tabs. Adds controls for layer styles, color schemes, colors, opacity, surface backend, and visibility.
Shell panel context and history
crates/chitin-desktop/src/app.rs, crates/chitin-desktop/src/features/terminal/*, crates/chitin-desktop/src/keybindings/*, crates/chitin-desktop/src/commands/history.rs
Shell sessions retain rendering-panel context, and terminal prompts display that context. A bounded history records rendering, selection, and visibility edits for undo and redo.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Terminal
  participant DesktopShellHost
  participant ChitinApp
  participant DocumentPanelState
  Terminal->>DesktopShellHost: Submit command with captured rendering-panel context
  DesktopShellHost->>DocumentPanelState: Resolve rendering tab by stable ID
  DesktopShellHost->>ChitinApp: Dispatch render, selection, or visibility command
  ChitinApp->>DocumentPanelState: Read or update rendering-tab state
  ChitinApp-->>DesktopShellHost: Return command result
  DesktopShellHost-->>Terminal: Complete submission with output
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Rectangle selection can miss visible surface residues. Correct the perspective culling behavior before merging.

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Review comments at @crates/chitin-bio/src/structure/selection.rs:
- Around line 138-140: Update parse_residue so tokens containing letters and
digits can be parsed as residue names when they are not valid numbers, ranges,
or numbers with a single insertion code. Preserve the existing numeric and
insertion-code interpretations when forms are ambiguous, and allow leading-digit
names such as 1PE when they do not match those forms.

Review comments at @crates/chitin-desktop/src/commands/selection.rs:
- Around line 39-43: In the `SelectionCommand::Atoms` branch, return a dedicated
`RenderCommandError` variant such as `UnknownAtoms` when the requested atom IDs
are not a subset of the scene’s atom IDs. Add the variant and user-facing error
text to `RenderCommandError`, leaving `UnsupportedSelection` for unsupported
selection types.

Review comments at @crates/chitin-desktop/src/keybindings/application.rs:
- Around line 28-37: Update the shortcuts in the UndoWorkbenchEdit and
RedoWorkbenchEdit KeyBinding entries to use the secondary modifier instead of
ctrl, so undo and redo respond to Cmd+Z and Cmd+Shift+Z on macOS.

Review comments at @crates/chitin-molecule-renderer/src/picking.rs:
- Around line 466-477: Update the culling check in rectangle selection to
account for projection handedness by multiplying the computed winding area by
the MVP determinant before rejecting a face. Add a surface rectangle-selection
test using a perspective MVP and a triangle in front of the camera, and verify
its result matches pick at the rectangle center.

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if layers.atom_style().is_some() && opacity[0] > 0. {
for (row, atom) in colors.atoms.iter().zip(&self.atoms) {

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P2 Badge Include rendered atom geometry in box selection

When a box intersects an atom-layer primitive without containing an atom center—such as the middle of a long stick bond or the edge of a space-filling sphere—this branch produces no candidate because it only tests atom rows with inside(row) and never traverses bond_boxes or tests sphere/rectangle intersections. The geometry is visibly inside the selection rectangle, but the associated residue is omitted; query the rendered atom and bond bounds rather than requiring projected atom centers to be inside.

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Allow residue specifications to resolve ligand and modified-residue codes such
as `A2G`, `5CM`, `1PE`, and `0G6`, while preserving numeric residue numbers,
ranges, and single-letter insertion codes such as `42A`.

Prioritize valid numeric syntax before falling back to ASCII alphanumeric names,
reject malformed or overflowing terms, normalize residue names case
insensitively, and add parser and shell-command regression coverage for select,
hide, and show operations.
Add a dedicated `UnknownAtoms` error for atom IDs that do not belong to the
target rendering scene, instead of misreporting them as unsupported scientific
selection. Preserve the current selection when validation fails and add
regression coverage for the error type and state integrity.
Replace literal Ctrl-based undo and redo bindings with `secondary-z` and
`secondary-shift-z` so they map to Cmd on macOS and Ctrl on Windows/Linux.
Update the unknown-atom regression test to use an atom from a separate parsed
scene and avoid private ID constructors and forbidden `expect_err` usage.
Verify that invalid atom
Replace atom-center-only box selection with volume intersection witnesses for
rendered atom spheres and stick cylinders. Project sphere edge points and
clipped cylinder points into the selection rectangle so geometry is selected
even when its center or endpoints remain outside the box.

Reuse the existing spatial broad phase, preserve visibility and foreground-depth
occlusion rules, and add regression coverage for sphere edges, bond middles,
perspective projection, hidden geometry, and bounds-only false positives.
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