The thirds anchor is chosen per union-find run, and runs only joined when the
group key matched within JOIN_GAP. That key folds CLUT, texpage, a 24px Y band
and the poly-vs-rect family together, so a digit and the box it is drawn on
could never land in the same run. They got independent anchors and were
squashed about different points, which pulls one piece of a readout toward a
screen edge and leaves the rest behind -- worse the wider the frame.
On WipEout 3's race HUD at 32:9 the lap readout draws its digits at
y=[219,227] x=[137,202] and the box they label at y=[228,244] x=[138,202].
The digits anchored left, the box anchored centre, and the box landed about
500 screen pixels from the digits it belongs to.
Join on being one visual element as well as on the key: share screen columns
and touch vertically within STACK_GAP. Both halves are needed. Column overlap
alone merged the top-left lap counter with the bottom-left lap timer 200
scanlines below, and since union is transitive that chained all 71 HUD
primitives into one run spanning the full width, which anchors centre and
drags the corners inward. A strict row intersection missed the stacked case
above, whose seam is one pixel.
WsUiGroupItem carries y/height for this; the anchor stays horizontal. After:
9 runs, bottom-left readout whole and anchored left, timer and energy bar
right, speed centre -- matching the 4:3 layout.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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