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Closes #22

What

Add drawing-pad — an interactive drawing application that runs as a WASM
guest in the Oxide browser. It is a real, usable tool (not a minimal
placeholder), featuring freehand drawing with automatic circle recognition,
a multi-stage stroke-smoothing pipeline, four drawing tools, a color
palette, adjustable brush size, and a dock UI.

Why

The current examples lean toward simple single-file apps (hello-oxide,
timer-demo). This example demonstrates that Oxide can host genuinely
interactive applications with algorithmic depth — smoothing, shape
recognition, state machines — and it does so with a multi-file module
structure
rather than stuffing everything into one lib.rs.

That structure is intentional: it shows new contributors how to organise
a non-trivial Oxide guest app, and it makes each concern (geometry,
algorithms, UI, state) independently readable and maintainable. A single
1300-line file would be harder to navigate and less useful as a reference.

Files

File Role
examples/drawing-pad/src/lib.rs Crate root — module declarations + crate doc
examples/drawing-pad/src/geometry.rs Core types (Point, Color), palette, layout constants
examples/drawing-pad/src/smoothing.rs Stroke pipeline: Gaussian, resample, Douglas-Peucker, Chaikin, circle recognition
examples/drawing-pad/src/shapes.rs DrawTool, Geom, Shape — committed geometry + rendering dispatch
examples/drawing-pad/src/session.rs Drawing-session state machine with adaptive point sampling
examples/drawing-pad/src/render.rs Low-level canvas helpers (rect outlines, stroke tubes, live preview)
examples/drawing-pad/src/app.rs App singleton, start_app/on_frame WASM exports, dock UI layout
examples/drawing-pad/Cargo.toml cdylib crate with oxide-sdk dependency
Cargo.toml Workspace member added
examples/index/src/lib.rs New "Drawing Pad" card in the demo hub

Testing

  • cargo fmt --all --check — clean
  • cargo clippy -p drawing-pad -p index --all-targets -- -D warnings — clean
  • cargo test --workspace — passes
  • cargo build --target wasm32-unknown-unknown --release -p drawing-pad — builds
  • drawing_pad.wasm produced (78 KB)

Note: Full-workspace clippy --all-targets -- -D warnings has two
pre-existing failures in oxide-browser (subtitle.rs:13 question-mark
lint, ui.rs:669 as-chunks lint). These are untouched by this PR — no
oxide-browser files are changed (confirmed via git diff -- oxide-browser).

In-browser verification

Run cargo run -p oxide-browser, load drawing_pad.wasm, and confirm:

  1. Freehand drawing works with smooth output
  2. Drawing a circle is auto-recognized and snapped to ideal geometry
  3. Line / Rect / Circle tools produce correct shapes
  4. Brush size slider adjusts stroke width in real time
  5. Color palette switches the active drawing color
  6. Clear button (✕) resets the canvas

…e structure

Add a fully interactive drawing pad example that demonstrates a real Oxide
guest application, not a trivial hello-world: a complete tool with state
management, geometry algorithms, and a rich UI.

Features:
- Four drawing tools: freehand, line, rectangle, circle
- Real-time stroke smoothing pipeline (Gaussian filter, uniform resampling,
  Douglas-Peucker simplification, Chaikin subdivision)
- Automatic circle recognition that snaps freehand strokes to ideal geometry
- Color palette (12 colors), adjustable brush size slider, tool mode buttons
- Live preview during active drawing with rubber-banding for geometric tools
- Bottom dock UI with selection indicators and a clear-canvas button

Architecture: split across seven files rather than a single lib.rs, with
each module owning one concern:
  geometry.rs  - core types, palette, layout constants
  smoothing.rs - stroke-smoothing and circle-recognition pipeline
  shapes.rs    - DrawTool, Geom, Shape
  session.rs   - drawing-session state machine
  render.rs    - low-level canvas draw helpers
  app.rs       - App singleton, WASM entry points, dock UI
  lib.rs       - module declarations only

Also updates the demo hub (examples/index) to list the new example, and
adds the workspace member entry.
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The PR adds a workspace-integrated drawing-pad WASM example. It provides drawing tools, dock controls, shape rendering, adaptive stroke sampling, circle recognition, smoothing, and an index card for launching the example.

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Drawing Pad Example

Layer / File(s) Summary
Crate and geometry foundation
Cargo.toml, examples/drawing-pad/Cargo.toml, examples/drawing-pad/src/lib.rs, examples/drawing-pad/src/geometry.rs
The workspace registers the new crate. The crate defines shared point and color types, a palette, and dock layout constants.
Drawing model and rendering
examples/drawing-pad/src/shapes.rs, examples/drawing-pad/src/render.rs
The example defines line, rectangle, circle, and freehand geometry. Rendering supports committed shapes and live previews.
Input, sessions, and stroke recognition
examples/drawing-pad/src/session.rs, examples/drawing-pad/src/smoothing.rs, examples/drawing-pad/src/app.rs
The frame loop processes pointer input and dock controls. Sessions sample strokes, commit shapes, and pass freehand input through recognition and smoothing stages.
Example catalog registration
examples/index/src/lib.rs
The example index adds a red Drawing Pad card that references drawing_pad.wasm.

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Long freehand strokes may briefly hitch when released, but the issue is localized to the drawing-pad example and has a straightforward fix.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Host
  participant on_frame
  participant Session
  participant Smoothing
  participant Canvas
  Host->>on_frame: call on_frame(delta_ms)
  on_frame->>Session: begin, push, or finish pointer stroke
  Session->>Smoothing: process completed freehand points
  Smoothing-->>Session: return freehand or circle geometry
  on_frame->>Canvas: render committed shapes and live preview
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examples/drawing-pad/src/smoothing.rs (1)

94-115: 🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Limit the Gaussian kernel to ±3 samples.

Session::push has no point-count cap and can accept thousands of samples on long strokes. On mouse release, Session::finish runs gaussian_filter in the frame input phase, where 1,000 samples require 1,000,000 exp() evaluations. With σ = 1.0, a ±3 window omits only 0.027% of the discrete kernel mass and reduces the cost to O(n).

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In `@examples/drawing-pad/src/smoothing.rs` around lines 94 - 115, Update the
Gaussian weighting loop in gaussian_filter to consider only neighbors within ±3
sample indices of current_idx, clamping the range to valid points. Preserve
weighted-average normalization while reducing the work from all-pairs processing
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In `@examples/drawing-pad/src/smoothing.rs`:
- Around line 42-51: Update smooth_pipeline’s RecognizedShape::Circle branch to
return (Vec::new(), recognized) without running circle replacement,
Douglas-Peucker simplification, or Chaikin smoothing. In the freehand branch,
pass &resampled directly to simplify_douglas_peucker, preserving the existing
smoothing flow for non-circle strokes.

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In `@examples/drawing-pad/src/smoothing.rs`:
- Around line 94-115: Update the Gaussian weighting loop in gaussian_filter to
consider only neighbors within ±3 sample indices of current_idx, clamping the
range to valid points. Preserve weighted-average normalization while reducing
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Comment on lines +42 to +51
let with_ideal_arc = if let RecognizedShape::Circle { center, radius } = recognized {
// If the stroke is a circle, replace each point's position with the ideal
// circle point at the same angle — this snaps wobbly hand-drawn circles
// to perfect circular geometry.
replace_circle_with_ideal_arc(&resampled, center, radius)
} else {
resampled.clone()
};
let simplified = simplify_douglas_peucker(&with_ideal_arc, 2.0);
(apply_chaikin_smoothing(&simplified), recognized)

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🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Skip the circle point pipeline and move resampled in the freehand branch. smooth_pipeline allocates the ideal arc, Douglas-Peucker output, and Chaikin output after recognize_circle returns RecognizedShape::Circle. session.rs then commits Geom::Circle and discards the returned Vec<Point>. This violates the checked-in allocation-minimal guideline for WASM guest apps. Return (Vec::new(), recognized) for the circle branch and pass &resampled directly to simplify_douglas_peucker for freehand strokes.

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In `@examples/drawing-pad/src/smoothing.rs` around lines 42 - 51, Update
smooth_pipeline’s RecognizedShape::Circle branch to return (Vec::new(),
recognized) without running circle replacement, Douglas-Peucker simplification,
or Chaikin smoothing. In the freehand branch, pass &resampled directly to
simplify_douglas_peucker, preserving the existing smoothing flow for non-circle
strokes.

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Superseded by a cleaner single-commit PR.

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