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Enhance mouse click return

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
cpp, python

Research direction

Start at the Python polyscope.get_selection() entry point and trace how mouse picking reaches the C++ viewer. Determine how the click position should be represented and returned alongside the selected face or cell; no file or test is named in the issue, so completion should be checked against the selection API behavior.

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Description

enhancement Python

Currently polyscope.get_selection() in python only returns the face/cell you clicked on. It would be super useful for animation and interaction if we could additionally get just a little more info like the position on the mesh of our click!

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