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Plans to add `view::screenCoordsToWorldRay` to polyscope-py?

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
cpp, python

Research direction

Start by locating the existing view::screenCoordsToWorldRay function and the corresponding polyscope-py viewer bindings. Determine how this functionality is exposed in Python and what interface the port should provide. Done means the function is available through the Python port with behavior matching the existing C++ viewer.

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Description

This addition would be a big help for an app my team is working on, which uses the python port of polyscope. Are there any plans to bring it over to Python soon? If not, we may be able to lend some development assistance, and could open up a PR if it doesn't seem like that big of a lift. (would be the least we can do for you providing this tool for free!)

Please let us know either way, and if it's not likely to be added soon, some rough implementation nodes / instructions on how we could go about introducing that function to python would be very appreciated!

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