Filling a bed left the outer row too far from the edge, and staggered rows
worse still. Two defects, both from anchoring the lattice at the region's min
corner:
- Odd rows offset by `radius` started at `MinX + 2·radius`, leaving a bare
strip a whole plop wide down one side of every other row.
- All the leftover slack piled up on the far edge, where plops hung 13cm
outside the bed on a 4×8ft garlic bed. Nothing clips them, so they drew
over the bed outline.
Spacing is a constraint between neighbouring plants competing for the same
soil, light and water. A bed edge is not a competitor, so the outer row owes
it half the spacing — the arithmetic inside every square-foot-gardening chart
(4/square = 6" apart, 3" from the square's edge).
The wrinkle: a plop is a CLUMP, not a plant. defaultPlopRadius is 1.5×spacing,
so keeping the whole circle inside the bed insets the outer row by 1.5
spacings, three times what the rule allows. So centre the lattice and set the
minimum centre-inset to `radius - spacing/2`: the clump may cross the edge by
up to half a spacing, putting its outermost plants exactly the half-spacing
from the edge the rule asks for. Capped there — a clump mostly outside the bed
would be a drawing of plants in the path.
Same bed, same 15 plops, now symmetric with a deliberate 6.5cm overhang inside
the 7.5cm budget instead of an accidental 13cm on one side only. The stagger
falls out of the centring for free: an offset row holds one fewer plop, and
centring that run puts it exactly half a pitch off its neighbours.
TestFillRegionDeterministicPacking expected 4 plops in a 60×60 bed; the fourth
was centred ON the east edge with half of it outside, well past the budget.
It is 3 now — the fix working, not a regression in it.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01H3zbym8Doka2d7D48maSgZ
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for future majordomo/executus agent tools, OIDC-first auth (Authentik),
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Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <[email protected]>
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