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Animated SVG support, implemented as a strictly opt-in divergence from GNU (librsvg renders SVG statically; neomacs can compute the frames an SMIL timeline defines and expose them exactly like GIF frames).
feat(protocol) — the contracts: MediaClock (presentation ⇄ document time, one epoch, one pause domain), AnimatedVisual (next_event / is_continuous / period — the three questions the frame scheduler asks any animated source), SampleGrid (quantized sampling with exact rational delays: a 2s/60-slot grid reports 100/3 ms; MAX_SLOTS=256 hard cap), and ImageAnimationPolicy as the opt-in carrier.
feat(renderer) — the engine, svg_animation/{plan,eval,patch,sampler}.rs:
plan: roxmltree → pure data, compiled once at load (byte sites, parsed values, timing); nothing re-parses per frame.
eval: pure (plan, t) → attribute values; overrides carry rule indices, not references — plain owned data, sendable to the decode pool, no cost the borrow would have avoided.
patch: byte-splicing into the source text, the same technique svg.rs already uses for face colors / root dimensions.
sampler: grid slots rasterized through the ordinary svg::decode path; frames published via resolve_svg into the existing sequence cache — computed animation shares the 64 MiB budget, LRU, and retirement fencing with authored animation.
SMIL subset: animate/animateTransform/set, from/to/values, dur, begin offsets, repeatCount, fill, calcMode linear/discrete (spline/paced degrade to linear), keyTimes, parent/href targets. Anything outside drops its rule — unsupported animation degrades toward the static frame, never a failed load.
feat(image) — :animation spec property (Neomacs extension) parsed by both the evaluator and the layout engine into ImageAnimationPolicy, plumbed through ImageResolveRequest → AssetCommand::ImageLoad* → DecodeRequest → sampler. Elisp surface: neomacs-svg-animation defcustom, neomacs-image-spec-add-animation, neomacs-image-animate-svg. With the property on: image-multi-frame-p reports slot count + exact delay, :index selects slots, image-animate walks them.
Parity
The default (no :animation) is byte-for-byte GNU: animated SVG stays single-frame, :index on it stays ignored rather than a load failure. Pinned by divergence/image_svg_animation.rs (oracle) and a neovm-core parser-domain test. The elisp VM thread only participates at load/retire, exactly as for GIF.
Scope note
Frame advancement is the elisp image-animate timer walking :index — GNU's own mechanism, same as GIF today. Render-thread-paced driving (per-sequence MediaClock + a DemandReason::AnimatedImage cadence) is the declared follow-up; AnimationPlan already implements AnimatedVisual, so the vocabulary exists and the wiring is isolated. Also deferred, seams in place: compositor-tier transform/opacity rules, Vello rasterizer swap.
Verification
cargo nextest run -p neomacs-display-protocol — 849/849
cargo nextest run -p neomacs-renderer-wgpu svg_animation — 17/17 engine tests
cargo nextest run -p neovm-core image_spec_animation — parser domain
Affected-crate suites: 5909/5925 passed; all 16 failures reproduced identically on clean main (missing tmp/imgmsg fixtures; GUI/daemon tests requiring a display)
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This change adds opt-in computed SVG animation. Image specifications carry an animation policy through decoding. The renderer compiles supported SMIL rules, samples frames, and resolves them through the image sequence cache. The display protocol also adds animation timing contracts and a media clock.
The display protocol adds animation scheduling, a bounded sampling grid, an image animation policy, and media-clock APIs. Tests cover grid behavior, delays, and clock transitions.
SMIL planning, evaluation, and patching crates/neomacs-renderer-wgpu/src/svg_animation/*, crates/neomacs-renderer-wgpu/src/lib.rs, crates/neomacs-renderer-wgpu/src/svg.rs
The renderer compiles supported SVG animation elements into timeline rules, evaluates values, and patches SVG attributes. Tests cover compilation, timing, interpolation, and patching.
The renderer samples enabled SVG animations into decoded frames and resolves them through kind- and color-aware sequence-cache entries. Disabled or unsuccessful sampling continues through the existing still-image fallback.
Image specifications accept :animation as a boolean or positive FPS cap. The policy passes through image requests and renderer commands. Lisp adds a default-disabled customization and an animation wrapper.
Documentation and parity coverage docs/display-engine/ANIMATED_SVG.md, docs/plans/*, crates/neovm-oracle-tests/src/divergence/*
Documentation describes the supported animation subset and current advancement path. Tests check default static behavior. Plan and review documents record implementation stages, findings, and proposed architecture.
Some opt-in SVG animations can show frames sampled for another setting or replay a one-time effect, and the helper’s usage instruction can fail. These bounded issues warrant owner follow-up but do not appear to block merging.
Security Architecture Review
Security architecture risk:🔵 Low · up to 2cec0
Animation remains explicitly opt-in and preserves existing restrictions on external resources. No new privilege or data-access bypass was established in the inspected paths. Repeated rendering increases local resource use, and some isolation and failure-recovery guarantees remain incompletely verified.
Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.
Security review details
Security Blast Radius
inferred — The inspected exposure is local image-processing work and the existing resource capability granted to an image. An attacker controlling SVG content must have that content loaded under enabled animation to reach computed sampling; no additional service, tenant or credential authority was evidenced.
Trust Boundaries and Controls
observed — The existing resolver remains the enforcement boundary for animated resource values. Isolated images have no local base directory; relative file references reject absolute paths and traversal, canonicalize beneath the supplied base directory, and undergo input-size and raster validation. Network fetching is not introduced by the animated path.
observed — Computed-cache lookup delegates source and resource identity to the sequence ID: it does not independently compare source bytes or resource context. The catalog allocates IDs by ImageResolveSource, while computed entries additionally match producer kind and colors. A cross-context reuse vulnerability was not established.
Resilience and Maintainability Implications
observed — The sampler limits one materialized sequence to 256 slots and a projected 64 MiB of frame pixels. The ordinary decoder checks its raster allocation against 64 MiB before allocating the output pixmap. These bounds constrain individual requests, but the resident cache budget is not a bound on all concurrent working memory or total rendering time.
Hardening Proposals
proposed — Consider coalescing concurrent computed misses, reserving aggregate sampling resources before work begins, and checking retirement between slots. These measures would reduce redundant or obsolete work under expensive opted-in documents; they are hardening proposals, not verified vulnerabilities.
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The disabled-policy decode path can return a cached animated frame for a source previously loaded with :animation enabled, breaking the stated byte-for-byte GNU default in an ordering-dependent way.
This PR adds opt-in computed animation for SVG, a deliberate divergence from GNU (which renders SVG statically through librsvg). When a spec carries the Neomacs-only :animation property, the renderer compiles the document's SMIL timeline into a pure plan, evaluates it at quantized document times, byte-splices the computed values back into the source, rasterizes each slot through the existing svg::decode path, and publishes the frames into the existing image-sequence cache so that image-multi-frame-p, :index, and image-animate all work exactly as they do for GIF. The default (no :animation) is intended to stay byte-for-byte GNU. Frame advancement reuses GNU's image-animate timer; render-thread pacing (MediaClock + a new DemandReason) is explicitly deferred, though the protocol vocabulary (AnimatedVisual, SampleGrid) is landed now.
Changes:
New display-protocol contracts: MediaClock, AnimatedVisual, SampleGrid (exact rational delays, MAX_SLOTS=256), and ImageAnimationPolicy.
New renderer engine svg_animation/{plan,eval,patch,sampler}.rs plus sequence-cache integration (resolve_svg, DecodedImageSequence::from_frames).
:animation spec property parsed by both the evaluator and layout engine and plumbed through ImageResolveRequest → AssetCommand → DecodeRequest → sampler; elisp surface (neomacs-svg-animation, helpers) and docs.
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Review comments at @crates/neomacs-renderer-wgpu/src/image_cache.rs:
- Around line 1146-1173: Update decode_file to run the enabled-policy
computed-sequence path for SVG sources, using SvgResourceContext::BaseUri(path)
and preserving the static fallback when animation is disabled or unavailable.
This ensures :file requests honor :animation just as :data requests do.
Review comments at @crates/neomacs-renderer-wgpu/src/svg_animation/plan.rs:
- Around line 186-197: Update the event filter in next_event so it excludes
fraction-boundary events before the rule’s begin time, while preserving the
existing now and end bounds. Locate the filter in the cycle and fractions loops.
- Around line 152-161: Update AnimationPlan::loop_period so finite rules
contribute timeline.begin plus their active duration, rather than active
duration alone. For indefinite rules, add a plan-level steady-state offset based
on the maximum begin time and loop period, and apply it to each sampled slot
start before evaluation so repeated samples preserve phase-shifted animations.
- Around line 254-257: Update the deduplication in the `plan.rules.retain` block
to compare the full `AttributeSite`, including `insert_pos`, so rules for
different target elements are retained. Add a test with sibling elements
animating absent `opacity` attributes and assert that both rules remain in the
plan.
- Around line 431-445: Update parse_color to validate that the hex string
contains only ASCII hexadecimal digits before slicing it by byte; return None
for invalid input so malformed animation colors cannot panic.
Review comments at @docs/display-engine/ANIMATED_SVG.md:
- Around line 96-97: Update the “The follow-up increment” text in ANIMATED_SVG
so “per-sequence” stays together on one line, avoiding a space before the hyphen
in the rendered Markdown.
Review comments at @lisp/neomacs-image.el:
- Around line 181-183: Update the animation-default condition in the
spec-handling code to check whether `:animation` is present, rather than whether
its value is non-nil. Preserve explicit `:animation nil` as a per-spec opt-out
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Full review archived at docs/plans/2026-10-04-animated-svg-codex-review.md (in 090df3e). Verdict: request changes — 4×P1, 12×P2. All four P1s and three P2s are fixed in 090df3e; the remaining P2s are tracked in the plan doc for the render-paced increment.
P1s fixed:
Budget after allocation — the sampler materialized every slot before the 64 MiB sequence-budget check; a 4096×4096 document with a long loop allocated up to 16 GiB before refusal. Now admitted during sampling with an exact projection (one slot's extent bounds all).
Double realize — computed frames baked the request's size/rotation/realization, then realize_bitmap applied them again (quarter-turn → half-turn, 2x scale → 4x). Frames now decode at intrinsic extent like GIF frames; realization applies exactly once.
Realization-blind cache key — computed frames are face-color-specific (currentColor, background rect) but the sequence key is source-only; a warm entry served wrong-colored pixels after a face change. Entries now record baked colors and replace on mismatch.
:file SVGs ignored the policy — decode_file had the parameter but never used it. Gated computed arm added with the file's resource context.
P2s fixed: unicode hex panic in parse_color (ASCII validation before octet slicing), plist-get → plist-member in the elisp helper (explicit :animation nil was overridden by the defcustom default), and the oracle parity test now embeds the document as a quoted Elisp string — the previous bare interpolation evaluated (void-variable <svg) in both emacsen, so the test passed vacuously without ever loading an image.
P2s tracked for the follow-up increment (all in the enabled-policy path): SMIL sandwich ordering instead of last-wins dedup, dedup key ignoring target identity, zero-width keyTimes selection, discrete keyTimes with last<1, fractional repeatCount, begin offsets excluded from loop periods, finite freeze/remove endpoint sampling, single-quote/entity-safe value serialization, SVGZ/namespaced prefilter, concurrent-miss grid coherence, in_flight RAII on panic.
Section 2 of the review (ideal long-term abstraction — MediaAsset/Playback/View/SampleKey identity split, time-dependent TemporalHint over the global is_continuous, rate limits decoupled from cache bounds, lazy sampling over eager loops) is the strongest design input yet for the render-paced increment and is being weighed against the plan's deferred list.
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It is a large, multi-crate GNU divergence whose own committed self-review documents numerous deferred correctness issues in the enabled animation path, so it needs human judgment on scope and risk.
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- Around line 348-368: Update SequenceCacheEntry and its matches method to store
and compare ImageAnimationPolicy for ComputedSvg entries. Pass the policy
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#!/bin/bashset -eu
printf'%s\n''--- image source/resource identity ---'
nl -ba crates/neovm-core/src/emacs_core/display/image_catalog/mod.rs | sed -n '240,330p'printf'%s\n''--- sequence entry matching and publication ---'
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rg -n -C5 'SampleGrid|policy\.fps\\(' crates/neomacs-renderer-wgpu/src/svg_animation
printf'%s\n''--- SVG decode and policy guards ---'
nl -ba crates/neomacs-renderer-wgpu/src/image_cache.rs | sed -n '1215,1300p'printf'%s\n''--- existing cache policy test ---'
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Match computed SVG entries by animation policy.
ImageCatalog assigns the same sequence ID to requests with the same source, but resolve_svg matches cached entries only by kind and colors. When two enabled policies use different fps values, the later request can receive frames sampled on the first request’s grid. Its frame index can select a different sample or fall outside the cached sequence. Store ImageAnimationPolicy on the cache entry and include it in lookup and publication matching.
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lines 348 - 368:
Update SequenceCacheEntry and its matches method to store and compare
ImageAnimationPolicy for ComputedSvg entries. Pass the policy through
entry_of_kind and publish_decoded, and use it in resolve_svg lookup and
publication matching so cached frames are reused only for the policy that
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- Around line 143-161: Update intro_end to use the later of its current latest
begin and the latest finite rule end (begin plus active). For plans with an
indefinite rule, update period() to derive the loop period only from indefinite
rules, so finite rules are not replayed on each loop.
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Mixed plans do not loop seamlessly when a finite rule ends after intro_end.
The sampler starts at intro_end and repeats one indefinite dur. A finite rule can still be active after that origin. For example, take an indefinite spinner with dur="1s" and a finite fade with begin="0s" dur="3s". loop_period returns 3s, and the grid samples [0, 3s). The fade then replays on every loop, although SMIL plays it once. This mismatch exists because period() reports the 3s period as exact. The PR tracks finite freeze/remove endpoint sampling as a follow-up. This case is related to that item but is separate.
To fix this, take the origin from the latest finite end, max(begin + active), together with intro_end. For plans that contain an indefinite rule, derive the period only from indefinite rules.
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Update intro_end to use the later of its current latest begin and the latest
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rg -n --hidden --glob '*.el''(defun|defalias|defmacro|defvaralias|fset|provide|autoload|declare-function)[[:space:][:punct:]]+image-at-point([[:space:][:punct:]]|$)|image-at-point[[:space:]]*='.
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Use image--get-image to obtain the displayed image spec.
image-at-point is not defined in this checkout. A caller that follows this instruction can get a void-function error. image--get-image returns the image spec at point.
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you one). `image-animate' advances frames by mutating the very list it
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It is a large, cross-crate feature touching cache-keying and memory-budget invariants, and its opt-in path intentionally ships with several documented, unresolved SMIL correctness limitations that warrant human judgment before approval.
Minor: this doc comment says the conversion is "saturating rather than truncating", but Duration::as_nanos() returns an exact u128 — it neither saturates nor truncates. The reason for widening to u128 is to avoid overflow/truncation in the multiply-then-divide products below (as the inline comment on the next line correctly explains), not any saturation behavior. Consider rewording so a future reader doesn't look for saturation logic that isn't there.
…n policy
Stage 1 of the animated SVG pipeline (docs/display-engine/ANIMATED_SVG.md).
- MediaClock maps presentation time onto a media document's own timeline:
one epoch fixed at first presentation, one pause domain shared by every
presenter of a source, unit rate. Pausing while paused and resuming while
running are no-ops so visibility polls cannot corrupt the timeline.
- AnimatedVisual is the three-question contract between any animated source
and the frame scheduler: next discontinuity, continuity, loop period.
Pre-authored frame lists answer from delay tables; computed timelines
answer from compiled plans.
- SampleGrid quantizes a loop into at most MAX_SLOTS samples; it is the
memory bound for computed animation as much as a throttle, and reports
exact reduced rational millisecond delays (2s/60 slots is 100/3 ms).
- ImageAnimationPolicy carries the opt-in divergence: GNU renders SVG
statically through librsvg, so materializing computed animation must be
off by default; fps caps double as the frame-count bound.
Stage 2 of the animated SVG pipeline.
- plan.rs compiles a document's animation elements once into pure data:
byte sites (value ranges, insertion points), parsed keyframe values,
timing. The subset is what icons and spinners use: animate /
animateTransform / set with from/to/values, dur, begin offsets,
repeatCount, fill, calcMode linear/discrete (spline and paced degrade
to linear), keyTimes. Anything else drops its rule — unsupported
animation degrades toward the static frame, never a failed load.
- eval.rs is the pure evaluator: (plan, document time) -> attribute
values. N keyframes span N-1 segments under implicit uniform
keyTimes; colors interpolate channel-wise; transforms serialize as
their CSS function. Overrides carry rule indices, not references, so
results are plain owned data — sendable to the decode pool without
lifetime plumbing, at no cost the borrow would have avoided.
- patch.rs splices values into the source bytes, highest offset first —
the same byte-surgery technique the static pipeline uses for face
colors and root dimensions, so patched text flows through the
unchanged one-parse-one-raster path per sample.
- sampler.rs quantizes the loop on a SampleGrid (fps ceiling doubles as
the frame-count bound, MAX_SLOTS caps the pathological case) and
produces frames shaped exactly like decoded GIF frames, carrying the
grid's exact rational delay.
- image_cache routes SVG decode through the sequence cache when the
policy opts in; resolve_svg mirrors the raster path's hit/miss/
publish/retire semantics so computed animation shares the 64MiB
budget and LRU policy with authored animation.
AnimationPlan implements AnimatedVisual (next_event, is_continuous,
period), the vocabulary the render-paced driving increment will consume.
Stages 3 and 4 of the animated SVG pipeline.
- The :animation image-spec property is a Neomacs extension parsed by both
the evaluator and the layout engine into ImageAnimationPolicy (t = the
default 30fps ceiling, a positive fixnum = that ceiling, anything else
= the GNU-compatible static frame). Both parsers share one domain so a
measurement can never disagree with a redisplay. The property rides
ImageResolveRequest, AssetCommand::ImageLoad*, and DecodeRequest to the
sampler; raw-pixel and internal reload paths stay statically disabled.
- Engine wiring is now live: an SVG under an enabled policy materializes
its grid frames through resolve_svg, so image-multi-frame-p reports the
slot count and exact delay, :index selects slots, and image-animate
walks them — the same elisp-driven mechanism GIF uses.
- Parity is pinned by an oracle divergence test: with the property absent
(the default), animated SVG stays single-frame in both renderers, and
:index on it stays GNU-ignored rather than a load failure. A neovm-core
parser test covers the property's domain.
- lisp/neomacs-image.el grows the neomacs-svg-animation defcustom,
neomacs-image-spec-add-animation, and neomacs-image-animate-svg.
- docs/display-engine/ANIMATED_SVG.md is the living design doc;
docs/plans/2026-10-04-animated-svg-computed-animation.md records the
staging and the deliberately deferred render-paced driving increment.
…ode path
PR review finding (Copilot, high): sequence identity follows the resolve
source, not the animation policy, so a warm entry from an earlier
:animation-enabled load of the same bytes was served to a later
policy-off request — through decode_raster_data's resolve hit path, which
asked no questions. The GNU-compatible default then depended on load
order.
Two-part fix:
- Entries carry their producer kind (AuthoredRaster vs ComputedSvg). A
hit is only a hit for the path asking for its own kind; the other kind
proceeds down its miss path, and publication replaces a mismatched
entry instead of being fenced out by first-wins.
- The decode gate in decode_data additionally requires
animation.is_enabled(), so disabled requests never even byte-scan for
animation elements.
Regression test pins the ordering: warm-with-enabled, then disabled on
the shared cache, must equal a cold disabled decode and differ from the
animated slot. Also renames key_timesreshape_segments (review nit).
…olor-keyed entries, file policy
Codex (gpt-6.1-sol, high) review of the PR found four P1 correctness
failures in the enabled-policy path; all fixed here, plus three cheap P2s.
- Sampling now admits bytes during the loop, not after: one slot's extent
bounds every other's, so the projection after slot zero is exact, and a
loop that would exceed the 64 MiB sequence budget at the requested
density stays a static image instead of being materialized then
rejected (a 4096x4096 document previously allocated up to 16 GiB
before refusal).
- Computed frames decode at the document's intrinsic extent and the
bitmap realization downstream applies size/rotation/device scale
exactly once, matching authored raster frames. The sampler previously
baked the request's realization and the outer realize_bitmap applied
it again: a quarter-turn became a half-turn, a 2x scale became 4x.
- Sequence entries record the face colors computed frames were baked
with (currentColor, background rect); a different color context is a
different materialization and replaces the entry instead of being
served wrong-colored pixels from a warm one.
- decode_file gains the policy-gated computed arm with the file's own
resource context: :file specs animate identically to :data specs.
- parse_color validates ASCII hex before octet slicing (a multi-byte
hex string panicked the worker); the elisp helper uses plist-member
so an explicit :animation nil is not overridden by the defcustom
default; the oracle parity test embeds the document as a quoted Elisp
string — the previous bare interpolation evaluated (void-variable
<svg) in both emacsen and passed vacuously.
The remaining P2 list (SMIL sandwich ordering, zero-width keyTimes,
fractional repeatCount, begin-aware periods, quote-safe serialization,
concurrent-miss grid coherence) is tracked in the plan doc for the
render-paced increment; the full codex review text lands alongside it.
…ds, honest elisp animate
coderabbit/Copilot round on the latest push. Two findings were already
fixed in 090df3e and skipped as stale (decode_file policy arm,
plist-member); these are the ones that held:
- Rule dedup compares the whole AttributeSite. The insertion position
identifies the target element, so two absent-attribute animations on
different elements (staggered dots animating opacity) no longer
collide — previously only the last element animated.
- loop_period is begin-aware and split by plan shape: a looping plan's
grid samples its steady state from intro_end (the last begin), so a
staggered spinner does not reset to base values on every wrap; a
finite plan's period is begin + active, so a delayed rule's animation
is inside the replayed span instead of never sampled.
- next_event never reports boundaries of pre-activation cycles: the
cycle index is clamped to the rule's own timeline, so a scheduler is
not woken once per phantom keyframe before begin (and a far-future
begin is still reachable).
- neomacs-image-animate-svg animates the displayed spec in place.
image-animate advances frames by plist-putting :index on the very
list it is handed, so the previous copy-tree helper walked frames
nothing displayed; it now mutates the caller's image object and adds
the defcustom property only when the spec carries none.
- The oracle parity test pins the value ("OK (nil)"), not just
agreement: both renderers materializing frames would previously
pass it.
Copilot review round 4 (previously-missed low): as_nanos is exact, so
the doc comment's 'saturating rather than truncating' described behavior
that does not exist. The u128 widening exists for the multiply-then-
divide products in the grid math; the comment now says so.
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Summary
Animated SVG support, implemented as a strictly opt-in divergence from GNU (librsvg renders SVG statically; neomacs can compute the frames an SMIL timeline defines and expose them exactly like GIF frames).
Design doc:
docs/display-engine/ANIMATED_SVG.md· Staging:docs/plans/2026-10-04-animated-svg-computed-animation.mdThree commits:
feat(protocol)— the contracts:MediaClock(presentation ⇄ document time, one epoch, one pause domain),AnimatedVisual(next_event / is_continuous / period — the three questions the frame scheduler asks any animated source),SampleGrid(quantized sampling with exact rational delays: a 2s/60-slot grid reports 100/3 ms;MAX_SLOTS=256 hard cap), andImageAnimationPolicyas the opt-in carrier.feat(renderer)— the engine,svg_animation/{plan,eval,patch,sampler}.rs:(plan, t) → attribute values; overrides carry rule indices, not references — plain owned data, sendable to the decode pool, no cost the borrow would have avoided.svg.rsalready uses for face colors / root dimensions.svg::decodepath; frames published viaresolve_svginto the existing sequence cache — computed animation shares the 64 MiB budget, LRU, and retirement fencing with authored animation.animate/animateTransform/set,from/to/values,dur,beginoffsets,repeatCount,fill,calcModelinear/discrete (spline/paced degrade to linear),keyTimes, parent/hreftargets. Anything outside drops its rule — unsupported animation degrades toward the static frame, never a failed load.feat(image)—:animationspec property (Neomacs extension) parsed by both the evaluator and the layout engine intoImageAnimationPolicy, plumbed throughImageResolveRequest→AssetCommand::ImageLoad*→DecodeRequest→ sampler. Elisp surface:neomacs-svg-animationdefcustom,neomacs-image-spec-add-animation,neomacs-image-animate-svg. With the property on:image-multi-frame-preports slot count + exact delay,:indexselects slots,image-animatewalks them.Parity
The default (no
:animation) is byte-for-byte GNU: animated SVG stays single-frame,:indexon it stays ignored rather than a load failure. Pinned bydivergence/image_svg_animation.rs(oracle) and aneovm-coreparser-domain test. The elisp VM thread only participates at load/retire, exactly as for GIF.Scope note
Frame advancement is the elisp
image-animatetimer walking:index— GNU's own mechanism, same as GIF today. Render-thread-paced driving (per-sequenceMediaClock+ aDemandReason::AnimatedImagecadence) is the declared follow-up;AnimationPlanalready implementsAnimatedVisual, so the vocabulary exists and the wiring is isolated. Also deferred, seams in place: compositor-tier transform/opacity rules, Vello rasterizer swap.Verification
cargo nextest run -p neomacs-display-protocol— 849/849cargo nextest run -p neomacs-renderer-wgpu svg_animation— 17/17 engine testscargo nextest run -p neovm-core image_spec_animation— parser domainmain(missingtmp/imgmsgfixtures; GUI/daemon tests requiring a display)