fix(force): cull unclustered points from the centermass scatter

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Problem

The centermass pass computes each cluster's centroid by scatter: one vertex per point, positioned at its cluster's texel in the centermass framebuffer, accumulating [Σx, Σy, count] via additive blending. An unclustered point (cluster index [-1, -1]) fell through to a vec2(0.0) default scatter position — but (0, 0) in normalized device coordinates is not "nowhere", it is the center texel of the framebuffer, which belongs to a real cluster whenever the cluster count reaches that texel's index (cluster 4 of 9).

Every unclustered point then deposited its position and a +1 count into that cluster's aggregate: its centroid was dragged toward the mean of all unclustered points, its count inflated, its members settled in the wrong place, and getClusterPositions() reported the contaminated value. No stage fails, so nothing surfaced — and the bug appeared and disappeared as the cluster count changed, because a center texel past the cluster count is never read.

Fix

Make "no cluster" mean "no contribution": cull unclustered points off-screen (z = 2) instead of giving them a default position — the same guard the pass already applies to absent points. A clipped vertex rasterizes nowhere, so the additive blend never sees it. The guard is hoisted above the position fetch so rgba never carries the point's mass.

Invariant: an unclustered point feels no cluster force (the force shader already skips negative indices) and exerts no cluster mass.

Verification

Reproduced locally in a Storybook example: 9 clusters (texture size 3, odd, so the contaminated texel is deterministically cluster 4) on a 3×3 grid, plus 2,000 unclustered points parked in a far corner with gravity and repulsion at 0. Before the fix, cluster 4's 200 members migrated from the grid center (2048, 2048) into the corner — displaced by 2607.8 space units, exactly the center-to-corner distance. After the fix, displacement is ~2 units (collapse jitter) and the unclustered points stay inert.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • Fixed rendering for points that are not assigned to a cluster.
  • Unclustered points are now excluded from display instead of appearing at an incorrect default position.

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Walkthrough

The cluster center-mass vertex shader now culls points with negative cluster indices. Valid points continue to use their cluster texel coordinates.

Changes

Cluster point culling

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Discard unclustered points src/modules/Clusters/calculate-centermass.vert	The shader sets negative-index points to an off-screen position with zero point size. Valid points retain the existing coordinate calculation.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to bdbe2

The fix prevents unclustered points from contaminating cluster centroids. A small rendering-safety follow-up remains: discarded points should use a positive point size to avoid undefined behavior on affected platforms.

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In `@src/modules/Clusters/calculate-centermass.vert`:
- Around line 41-43: Update both discard branches in the centermass vertex
shader, including the absent-point branch and the pointClusterIndices check, to
assign gl_PointSize = 1.0 instead of a non-positive value while preserving their
clipped gl_Position behavior.

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