Paint order optimization with 2-opt TSP (Proposal 5)

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Summary

• Added TwoOptOptimizer class that applies 2-opt local search on top of the existing greedy BorstSorter output
• Unified cost function: W_palette * paletteChanges + W_distance * normalizedEuclideanDistance
• Integrated into BorstSorter.sort() — runs automatically after greedy sorting
• Feature flag: USE_TSP_OPTIMIZATION in AppConstants (default: true)
• Tunable weights: TSP_W_PALETTE=3.0, TSP_W_DISTANCE=1.0

Test plan

• testTwoOptReducesCost — verifies 2-opt reduces or maintains total cost vs greedy alone
• testAllShapesPreserved — verifies no shapes lost or duplicated during optimization
• testCostFunction — verifies cost function correctness for same/different blobs
• testPaletteChangeCount — verifies palette change counting (0-4 changes)
• testEdgeCases — empty, single, and two-blob lists
• testOptimizationPerformance — 500 blobs optimized within time budget
• testIntegrationWithBorstSorter — end-to-end test through BorstSorter.sort()
• ./gradlew clean build passes

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Pull request overview

This PR introduces an additional paint-order optimization pass using a 2-opt TSP-style local search to improve the greedy BorstSorter ordering, using a unified cost function that combines palette-change “click” costs with normalized cursor travel distance.

Changes:

• Added TwoOptOptimizer implementing 2-opt local search with a weighted (palette changes + normalized distance) cost.
• Integrated the optimizer into BorstSorter.sort() behind AppConstants.USE_TSP_OPTIMIZATION (default true) and added tunable weights.
• Added a new JUnit test suite covering correctness, edge cases, integration, and basic performance expectations.

Reviewed changes

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File	Description
src/main/java/com/bobrust/generator/sorter/TwoOptOptimizer.java	Adds 2-opt optimization logic and cost function for ordering blobs.
src/main/java/com/bobrust/generator/sorter/BorstSorter.java	Runs 2-opt after greedy sorting when the feature flag is enabled.
src/main/java/com/bobrust/util/data/AppConstants.java	Introduces the feature flag and cost weights.
src/test/java/com/bobrust/generator/TwoOptOptimizerTest.java	Adds tests for cost, preservation, edge cases, integration, and performance.

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[Copilot]

BorstSorter.sort() now runs 2-opt on the entire concatenated result list. Because the 2-opt implementation is O(n²) per iteration, this can become prohibitively slow (or effectively hang) when data.size() is large (the sorter already chunks work via MAX_SORT_GROUP, but this optimization ignores that and reintroduces a quadratic pass over all blobs). Consider capping optimization to a maximum N, running it per chunk/window, or making optimization opt-in at call sites for large runs.

Suggested change

	// Apply 2-opt local search to reduce palette changes + travel distance
	if (AppConstants.USE_TSP_OPTIMIZATION && result.size() > 2) {
	// Apply 2-opt local search to reduce palette changes + travel distance.
	// Cap optimization to the existing chunk size so large runs do not
	// reintroduce an expensive whole-list quadratic pass.
	if (AppConstants.USE_TSP_OPTIMIZATION
	&& result.size() > 2
	&& result.size() <= AppConstants.MAX_SORT_GROUP) {

[Copilot]

This test intends to compare greedy-only ordering vs 2-opt, but it uses BorstSorter.sort(...) as the "greedy" baseline. Since this PR integrates 2-opt into BorstSorter.sort() when USE_TSP_OPTIMIZATION is true, the baseline is already optimized, so the assertion no longer validates the intended behavior. To keep this meaningful, add a greedy-only sorter entry point (or a way to disable optimization for the call) and use that for the baseline here.

[Copilot]

The performance benchmark times optimizer.optimize(blobs), but the blobs are obtained via BorstSorter.sort(...), which now applies 2-opt already. This means you're measuring a second optimization pass on an already locally-optimized route and may substantially underreport runtime. For a representative benchmark, build the input route without 2-opt (greedy-only) before timing.

[Copilot]

The "all shapes preserved" check uses hashCode() counts as a proxy for identity. Since Blob does not override equals(), and hash codes can theoretically collide, this can produce false positives/negatives. Because optimization should only permute the existing object references, prefer an identity-based check (e.g., IdentityHashMap counts or comparing sorted lists of System.identityHashCode(...)).

Suggested change

	// Count occurrences by hashCode
	java.util.Map<Integer, Integer> beforeCounts = new java.util.HashMap<>();
	java.util.Map<Integer, Integer> afterCounts = new java.util.HashMap<>();
	for (Blob b : before) beforeCounts.merge(b.hashCode(), 1, Integer::sum);
	for (Blob b : after) afterCounts.merge(b.hashCode(), 1, Integer::sum);
	assertEquals(beforeCounts, afterCounts, "Same blobs before and after 2-opt");
	// Count occurrences by object identity to verify the optimizer only permutes references
	java.util.Map<Blob, Integer> beforeCounts = new java.util.IdentityHashMap<>();
	java.util.Map<Blob, Integer> afterCounts = new java.util.IdentityHashMap<>();
	for (Blob b : before) beforeCounts.merge(b, 1, Integer::sum);
	for (Blob b : after) afterCounts.merge(b, 1, Integer::sum);
	assertEquals(beforeCounts, afterCounts, "Same blob references before and after 2-opt");