Add object picking via OptiX single-ray raycasts#54
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Add RTX.pick() method that wraps trace() for single-ray picking, returning geometry ID, hit position, normal, and primitive/instance IDs. Add _screen_to_ray() to InteractiveViewer for window-to-world ray conversion, right-click picking in the interactive viewer, ViewerProxy.pick() for REPL access, and help text entry.
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RTX.pick(origin, direction)method that fires a single OptiX ray and returns hit info (geometry ID, position, normal, primitive/instance IDs)_screen_to_ray()toInteractiveViewerfor window-to-world ray conversionViewerProxy.pick(screen_x, screen_y)for programmatic picking from the REPL (v.pick(400, 300))Test plan
'terrain'as geometry IDv.pick(400, 300)and verify returned dictpytest rtxpy/tests/test_simple.py -k instance_ids