Summary

There is a race condition in SpaceRenderer._map_coordinates when rendering NetworkGrid environments. Currently, the method uses contextlib.suppress(IndexError) to handle cases where an agent's node index exceeds the bounds of the cached layout positions (pos).

The current logic is "all-or-nothing." If the simulation adds a new node/agent (e.g., node 100) before the visualization layout refreshes (which only knows nodes 0-99), the IndexError triggers. The suppress block catches this error but aborts the entire coordinate mapping assignment.

Bug / Issue

Fix #3064

Implementation

# Handle race condition 

# 1. Initialize result with NaNs (hidden from plot)
mapped_locs = np.full((len(x), 2), np.nan)

# 2. Identify valid indices that exist in the current layout
if len(pos) > 0:
    valid_mask = (x >= 0) & (x < len(pos))

    # 3. Map only valid agents
    if np.any(valid_mask):
        mapped_locs[valid_mask] = pos[x[valid_mask]]

mapped_arguments["loc"] = mapped_locs

Testing

Benchmarking with 5,000 agents shows a negligible overhead of ~0.13ms per frame vs the old unsafe method.
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