Symbols getting clipped when rendering too many
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Description
**mapbox-gl-js version**: 2.15.0
**browser**: Chrome version 114.0.5735.198
### Steps to Trigger Behavior
1. Create a source
2. Create a symbol icon type layer
3. Add more than 32768 points close to each other
4. Zoom out and then zoom in for show clipped symbols (error occurs on zoom 9-)

### Expected Behavior
Symbols render normally
### Actual Behavior
Symbols are not rendering
### Code to demonstration
```html
mapboxgl.accessToken = "<access_token>"
var map = new mapboxgl.Map({
container: 'map',
style: 'mapbox://styles/mapbox/streets-v12', // stylesheet location
center: [-46.50, -23.90], // starting position [lng, lat]
zoom: 9 // starting zoom
});
map.showTileBoundaries = true;
map.loadImage('https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7c/201408_cat.png', function(error, image) {
if (error) throw error;
map.addImage('custom-marker', image);
var points = [];
for (var i = 0; i < 42000; i++) {
var lngLat = [
-46.50 + (Math.random() - 0.5) * 0.40,
-23.90 + (Math.random() - 0.5) * 0.40
];
points.push({
type: 'Feature',
geometry: {
type: 'Point',
coordinates: lngLat
}
});
}
map.on('load', function() {
map.addLayer({
id: 'points',
type: 'symbol',
source: {
type: 'geojson',
data: {
type: 'FeatureCollection',
features: points
}
},
layout: {
'icon-allow-overlap': true,
'icon-image': 'custom-marker',
'icon-size': 0.05
}
});
});
});
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Research direction
Start by running the supplied Chrome reproduction with 42,000 symbol points and zooming around level 9. Trace the symbol rendering path to find where counts above 32,768 are clipped or omitted. Done means the symbols render normally while zooming in and out, with coverage for the reproduced case if the relevant test location is identified.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- javascript, typescript
- Domain
- computer-graphics, frontend
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100