Semiotic v3.8.5

Added

• CrucibleChart. A new physics-backed HOC (semiotic/physics) where
  bounded peer components undergo authored phases and events, form
  declared products, and settle into reason-labelled outlets with source
  lineage — the ledger/projection is authoritative, motion never infers
  classification, timing, membership, loss, or routing.
  buildCrucibleProductEvents(...) is pure authoring sugar for
  combine → contribute* → complete-product. The ref handle's replay()
  atomically restarts the deterministic tape mid-run; reset()
  restores-and-pauses. Ships with SSR support, AI/schema registration
  (CrucibleChart.capability.ts), and full test coverage.
• Word Trails recipe. wordTrailsLayout (semiotic/recipes) is a
  quantitatively anchored word-cloud layout: column = category, segment =
  ordered vertical position, weight = font size, with overlap-free stable
  placement. wordTrailsProgressiveReveal(...) fades future/past segments
  without reflow for scrollytelling-style reveals.
• Net Ensemble recipe. netEnsembleLayout (semiotic/recipes) lays out
  ensembles of disconnected/trivially-connected DAGs as small multiples in
  motif bands — splitting into weakly-connected components, classifying each
  by directedness (single sink vs. branching), and grouping order-isomorphic
  motifs via Weisfeiler–Leman fingerprinting. analyzeNetEnsemble(nodes, edges) is the pure headless census with no rendering. Demo at
  /recipes/net-ensemble.
• DistanceCartogram strip layout. A new cartogramLayout: "radial" | "strip" prop adds a Langren-style 1D cost-axis layout (origin left, cost
  right), used automatically in mode="sparkline" and available in any mode.
• ForceDirectedGraph node/edge stroke separation. nodeStroke/
  nodeStrokeWidth (node-only outline) and edgeColor/edgeWidth/
  edgeOpacity (edge-only stroke) let a caller style nodes and edges
  independently; the generic stroke/strokeWidth/opacity props continue
  to style all marks uniformly. Precedence per property: specific > generic >
  built-in default.
• RenderEvidence exposes the resolved margin and plot rectangle.
  renderChartWithEvidence now returns margin: {top,right,bottom,left} and
  plot: {x,y,width,height} — the actual geometry Semiotic used after
  auto-reservation (e.g. a legend), matching exactly where the SVG's
  data-area group is translated. A caller hand-drawing an SSR overlay no
  longer has to guess or conservatively bail when it can't reconstruct the
  plot rectangle from its input margin alone.
• Chart-aware numeric data audit. semiotic/ai, semiotic/ai/core,
  semiotic/utils, and semiotic/utils/core now export auditData,
  formatDataAudit, profileNumericFields, and toDataAuditNotifications.
  Serializable numericContracts on chart
  capabilities detect non-finite/non-numeric values, zero-span or single-row
  domains, invalid log inputs, negative size geometry, unsafe normalized or
  part-to-whole totals, and scale-dominating outliers with bounded row evidence.
  diagnoseConfig inherits the checks, schema-driven docs playgrounds show a
  live Data Truth Lens, and ChartContainer dataAudit can surface findings in
  its existing accessible notification bell.
• Data Viz for Dummies example. A scrollytelling example organizes seven
  chart families by a two-way taxonomy (data structure vs. analytical task)
  through a fictional basketball season.

Changed

• Frame-batched network ingestion. Sequential StreamNetworkFrame.push()
  calls now share one layout pass per animation frame instead of recomputing the
  whole layout for every edge. pushMany() absorbs pending single-push layout
  work into its synchronous batch; reads/mutations flush first, and clear()
  cancels uncommitted layout work so imperative semantics stay deterministic.

Fixed

• renderChart honors custom svgAnnotationRules server-side. A chart's
  svgAnnotationRules (top-level or frameProps) now runs during static/SSR
  rendering the same way it does on the client — custom annotation shapes
  (endpoint bulbs, hover guides, bespoke glyphs) no longer silently vanish from
  renderChart/renderChartWithEvidence output. Passed through for XY,
  ordinal, network, and geo static render paths alike.
• SSR annotation context now infers frameType from scales/projection,
  matching the client overlay. A non-ordinal static render (geo, bare
  network) no longer advertises a default vertical ordinal projection,
  which could make a custom svgAnnotationRules rule branching on frame type
  resolve incorrectly server-side.
• frameProps escape-hatch overrides for showAxes/showLegend/
  showLabels/showGrid/xLabel/yLabel/categoryLabel/valueLabel no
  longer silently dropped in renderChart. The static common-prop builder
  used to reassert each of these from the mode-resolved default after
  spreading frameProps, clobbering an explicit override the live HOC
  otherwise honors (frameProps spreads last there). A chart passing
  frameProps={{ showAxes: false }} (or any of the above) server-side now
  renders identically to the live component instead of always showing the
  mode's default axis/label chrome.
• Ordinal x-threshold annotation now renders in SSR. On a horizontal
  ordinal chart (bar, swimlane, etc.) the value axis IS the x axis, but the
  static renderer never populated an XY-style scales.x for ordinal frames,
  so x-threshold always silently dropped — while the client (OrdinalSVGOverlay)
  already resolved it correctly against the r-scale. x-threshold now mirrors
  the same orientation-aware resolution y-threshold already had.
• profileNumericFields no longer misclassifies dirty-numeric strings.
  Whitespace-only strings (" ") now count as missing rather than
  non-numeric, and an explicit "NaN"/"Infinity"/"-Infinity" string now
  counts as a non-finite hazard rather than being lumped in with unparseable
  garbage — distinguished from garbage (which also parses to NaN) by the
  literal token, not the parsed value.
• PhysicsSettledSVG's renderBodySVG now receives the resolved
  idPrefix. A custom body renderer emitting its own <defs> (a
  <filter>, a gradient) can namespace those ids — SVG ids are
  document-global, so without this, two settled-physics SVGs embedded in one
  document could collide and mis-apply each other's filter.
  CrucibleChart's settled-product glow filter now uses it.