-Clarify the tooltip for the red squares in the Type column of the variations tree.
-Remove the Type field from the variations tree and instead just put the type indicator icon next to the variation name.
-Double clicking to toggle variation parameter spinners now resets the value to the default if there is one, else it uses zero. If it is already using the default, it is toggled to 0.
-Add a new button to toggle xaos on and off.
-When duplicating a flame, insert it immediately after the one being duplicated instead of at the end of the file.
-When switching between flames in a file, keep the same xform index selected rather than resetting it to the first xform each time.
-Create a threaded writer for the final render and EmberAnimate so the rendering process does not get delayed by file saving which may take a long time.
-Remove warning which said "Frames per rot cannot be greater than one while Rotations is zero" when generating a sequence.
-Add the Circle_Rand variation from Chaotica.
-Add and clarify various tooltips.
-Add a progress bar for sequence previews.
-Add a progress bar for preview renders.
-Increase precision of affine and xaos spinners.
-Increase precision of fields written in Xml files to 8.
-Show image index in the library and sequence trees.
-Automatically show animation preview when sequence generation is done.
-Add the ability in the final render dialog to start a render within a sequence from a given point, rather than always having to start from the beginning.
--Allow using the image index as its name rather than the file name.
-No longer automatically set sequence checkbox in the final render dialog when rendering a sequence. It's an outdated option for today's hardware.
-Users can now specify animation params on a per flame basis.
--These get saved with the flame file.
-Allow for rotating xforms around the world origin during animation.
-Make the Clear Flame menu item be more comprehensive in how it clears a flame out.
-Stop rendering process when a single render or save fails.
-Generating sequences using the following variations would be done incorrectly: circletrans1, collideoscope, crob, curlsp, glynnsim1, glynnsim2, hypercrop, julian, julian, mobiusn, nblur, waves2, wavesn.
-Adding/removing nodes from the color curve had accidentally been disabled.
-The applied xaos weight table was not showing normalized weight values.
-Changing the size of a flame was not observing the Apply To All checkbox.
-Do not clamp the Rotate field to +/-180, because this causes the rotation to switch from CW to CCW during sequence generation. Instead, leave it exactly as the user entered it so the rotations proceed in the same direction.
-Attempt to prevent crash when dragging in a new file while the previews from the current file are still rendering.
-When rendering on the CPU, if the number of threads didn't divide evenly into the number of rows, it would leave a blank spot on the last few rows.
-Fix numerous parsing bugs when reading .chaos files.
-Added Chaotica compatibility fixes and/or optimizations to the following variations:
-Add animation preview in the sequence generator output pane.
-Add two new options --width and --height to EmberRender and EmberAnimate to allow the user to specify absolute dimensions to render the image at.
-Add a new option to EmberAnimate --ignore-existing which makes it skip rendering a frame if the files from all of the requested extensions for that frame already exist.
-Add new preset dimensions to the right click menu of the width and height fields in the editor.
-Make various fields in the Options window be resettable via double click.
-Fix various bugs in stylesheets to get them working properly on Windows and Linux with Qt6.
--Change QSS stylesheets to properly handle tabs.
--Make tabs rectangular by default. For some reason, they had always been triangular.
--Set default style to Fusion.
-Change installer to install to program files for all users.
--Bug fixes
-Handle forward slashes better in file output paths.
-Start and end tags were not properly included in the final render backup file output.
-Numbering of rendered files was wrong.
-Truchet_hex_fill was not compiling with some newer Nvidia drivers.
-Contrast was too sensitive.
-Incremental rendering times in the editor were wrong.
-Proper sizing of vertical header on the xaos visualization table on Linux.
-Options window layout was completely broken.
-Error when saving screen on macOS at first time.
-Center progress bars on Linux.
--Code changes
-Upgrade openexr to version 3.1.3.
-Remove all dependencies on Intel Threading Building Blocks and write our own version of parallel_for().
-Test if directories exist before adding to INCLUDEPATH.
-Fix compiler warnings in XmlToEmber.
-Remove unused varIndex = IndexInXform.
-Change Sequence Preview to PREVIEW_SIZE (128).
-Add include for /usr/include/Imath for OpenEXR to defaults.pri because it wasn't building on some linux systems with out it.
-Fix warning about unused CLStrings.
-Migrate to VS2022 and no longer use a version specific folder for the VS solution and project files. It is now under a version agnostic folder called Solution.
-Migrate to Qt6. There is probably more work to be done here.
-Migrate to Wix 4 installer.
-Fix many VS2022 code analysis warnings.
-No longer use byte typedef, because std::byte is now a type. Revert all back to unsigned char.
-Upgrade OpenCL headers to version 3.0 and keep locally now rather than trying to look for system files.
-No longer link to Nvidia or AMD specific OpenCL libraries. Use the generic installer located at OCL_ROOT.
-Add the ability to change OpenCL grid dimensions. This was attempted for investigating possible performance improvments, but made no difference.
-Get build and deployment scripts working with latest versions of Qt6, AppImage, and various library dependencies.
-Add two new macros so it would build with the latest gcc: SINGLETON_DERIVED_DECL_T and SINGLETON_DERIVED_IMPL_T.
-Allow users to set the Exp value when using the Exp temporal filter type.
-Set the default temporal filter type to be Box, which does not alter the palette values at all during animation. This is done to avoid confusion when using Gaussian or Exp which can produce darkened images.
--Bug fixes
-Sending a sequence to the final render dialog when the keyframes had non zero rotate and center Y values would produce off center animations when rendered.
-Temporal filters were being unnecessarily recreated many times when rendering or generating sequences.
-Exp filter was always treated like a Box filter.
--Code changes
-Add a new member function SaveCurrentAsXml(QString filename = "") to the controllers which is only used for testing.
-Modernize some C++ code.
21.21.4.1 4/7/2021
--User changes
-Sort palette filename combo box.
-GPU rendering improvement on Mac.
-Fix misaligned menu icons in uranium.css stylesheet, requires reload.
-Rotate field now allows continuous adjustment and will loop around when reaching 180/-180.
-Tooltips for the show/hide affine toolbar buttons show the keyboard shortcut.
-Add vignette variation.
-Pitch and yaw can now be changed by dragging with the right mouse button while holding Shift and Alt.
-Allow for an opacity greater than 1, which can have the effect of highlighting a specific xform.
-Make a space bar press be the equivalent of a double click when inside of a spin box. This makes it easy to toggle without using the mouse.
-Make Shift+F keys select the flames in the file, and Shift +/- cycle through them.
-Allow for specifying linear or smooth interpolation when generating a sequence in the Library tab (was formerly hardcoded to smooth). This has the effect of exposing the --unsmoother option used in EmberGenome in the GUI.
-Clarify tool tips of the sequence interpolation fields in the animation group on the Flame tab.
-Change caption of the Bounds tab to be Bounds & Log.
-Change versioning scheme to be [TOTAL RELEASE COUNT].[2 DIGIT YEAR OF RELEASE].[MONTH OF RELEASE].[TOTAL RELEASE COUNT FOR THE YEAR].
--Bug fixes
-Add support for Chaotica files which specify xform weight as "Base weight" instead of "base_weight".
-Fix bug where Fractorium would crash when a new file was dragged in while previews were still rendering.
--This was done by changing the TreeItemChanged() events in the library tab use a direct connection rather than a queued connection.
--This obviated the need for QCoreApplication::processEvents() calls in the library tree code.
-Fix bug where renaming a flame within a file, then tabbing away did not commit the name change.
-Strip illegal characters from filenames before saving.
-Fix improper usage of rand() in cpow2, cpow3, hypertile1, hypertile3D1, hypertile3D2, juliac, juliaq.
-Fix program crashing during density filtering on some Nvidia cards.
-Parsing phoenix_julia when coming from Apophysis was wrong.
-Pixel_flow sincos x,y was inverted.
-bcircle was not properly setting output values to zero when the bcircle_borderwidth was zero.
-depth_blur2 was wrong.
-ETA in the final render dialog was not correct when doing incremental renders.
-Sequence generation was generating the wrong color curves when a non-default curve had less than 5 nodes in it.
--Code changes
-Migrate to Qt 5.12.8.
-Clean up some warnings about const variables.
-Upgrade installer to latest update of Visual Studio 2019.
-Optimize juliac, npolar.
-Add a new function Crand() which behaves like the legacy C rand() which returns an integer between 0 and 32766, inclusive.
-Use RandBit() in some places.
-Restructure OpenCL code for density filtering such that it does not hang after being compiled on some Nvidia cards, such as the gtx 1660. Remove barriers from conditionals where possible.
1.0.0.20 4/11/2020
--Bug fixes
-ETA time was wrong with incremental final renders after waiting for a period of time.
-Fix possible OpenCL bugs in cubic3D, cubicLattice_3D, dc_cube, falloff, falloff2, falloff3, waffle.
--Code changes
-Small change to prevent parsing error when using tbb on some systems.
-Upgrade to Visual Studio 2019.
1.0.0.19 3/13/2020
--User changes
-Add backward compatibility option for the following variations: cos, cosh, cot, coth, csc, csch, sec, sech, sin, sinh, tan, tanh.
-Add the ability to re-order variations by dragging them in the Info tab.
-Add menu item to create a reference file using all variations in both a grid and bars pattern.
-Add menu item to open example flames files form many artists which are now included.
-Allow dragging in folders which will be recursively traversed for flame files.
-Allow for adjusting scale via keyboard with the < and > keys.
-Show the count of opened flames on the header of the library tree.
-Add radio buttons on the xaos tab to specify how pasting or duplicating xforms should preserve xaos.
-Preserve prefix and suffix fields between open/close of the Final Render dialog.
-Entering xaos cells will always select the entire cell to make editing easier.
-Allow right mouse drag + shift perform panning the same way middle mouse button drag does, for users without middle mouse buttons.
-Miscellaneous OpenCL optimizations.
-Change Blur Curve math to be centered on 0,0 and create a more dramatic effect at lower values.
--Bug fixes
-Fix crash on palette editor when opening it with certain palette files in a particular order.
-An xform with only a post variation in it might have rendered wrong.
-The xforms combo box was obscuring the name of the xforms by not being wide enough.
-Make variation state preservation be a little bit more correct in OpenCL.
-Custom palettes were not being read correctly on non ANSI machines.
-EmberAnimate.exe was using 1-based indexing for filenames, but Fractorium and all of the documentation was using 0-based indexing. Make all use 0-based indexing.
-The left header column in the xaos visualization table had somehow disappeared.
-Fix OpenCL compilation bug when using Depth Blur with AMD on Mac.
-Blur Cuve never worked with strips.
-Images with temporal filter width values below 0.6 would sometimes create blank images.
--Code changes
-Make all iterators on the CPU use a temporary point.
-DoubleSpinBox now has a boolean which specifies whether it clears its selection on enter. Default true.
-Make AddXformsWithXaos() be a static member of FractoriumEmberController for quicker build times.
-Make a #define for fma() testing, but seems to make no difference.
-Optimize some of the OpenCL iteration kernel generation code.
1.0.0.18 1/31/2020
--User changes
<EFBFBD>-Add entries for 1 and 101 in the affine rotation and scale combo boxes.
<EFBFBD>-Allow for resuming a finished render in the final render dialog with a higher quality.
<EFBFBD>--This only applies to rendering a single image with no strips.
<EFBFBD>--Applies values from coloring & filtering controls in the main window first.
<EFBFBD>-Allow for saving the output from the final render dialog as a different image format without starting the rendering process over.
<EFBFBD>--Applies values from coloring & filtering controls in the main window first.
---These values will only be applied when rendering a single image with no strips.<2E>
<EFBFBD>-Make Clear Xaos apply to all when Apply All is checked.
<EFBFBD>-Improve performance in the following variations: cpow2, dc_cube, julia3d, julia3dz, julian2, log_db, nblur, npolar, waffle, wavesn, xtrb.
<EFBFBD>-Make the xform name field be a standard edit control so it's always editable.
<EFBFBD>-Allow for saving EXR as full 32-bit float per component per pixel. Only of engineering interest.
<EFBFBD>-Make the thresholds for determining left and right mouse clicks on the color curves control more desirable and intuitive.
<EFBFBD>--Larger threshold for left click, same for right click.
-Add new style sheet called uranium that is reminiscent of the old Winamp color scheme of the same name.
-Allow for keyboard presses to edit affines.
--Q: rotate counter clockwise
--E: rotate clockwise
--W: move up
--S: move down
--A: move left
--D: move right
--G: shrink
--H: grow
--Hold shift to decrease amount, control to increase amount.
--P/shift+P toggles visibility of pre/post xforms
--L/shift+L toggles visibility of all/selected pre/post xforms
---Change some menu shortcuts to accommodate these new affine editing shortcuts.
-Random xaos now just provides values of either 0 or 1, rather than 0-3. Hold control to get the old behavior.
-Changes to how xaos is "preserved" when adding new xforms, copying xforms and duplicating xforms.
--Duplicating xforms when no xaos is present in the flame now maintains not using xaos, and keeps all values as one.
--Duplicating xforms when xaos is present, will result in xaos rows and columns that are the same as the xforms being duplicated, with the new row and column area having values of 1.
--Duplicating xforms when xaos is present, while control is pressed, will result in xaos rows and columns that have values of 0, with the new row and column area having values of 1.
---Copying xforms has the same behavior as duplicating with control pressed.
--This is a hybrid of the original behavior and the new behavior added a year or so ago.
-Add new Blur Curve field which controls how blurring increases when moving from the center out.
-Optimization and correction for hexaplay3D and hexnix3D. They now look the same on CPU/GPU.
-Major optimization on the GPU for flames which only have one xform, by skipping all random xform selection code.
-Show/hide selected/all pre/post affine controls have been moved from the affine tab to the toolbar.
--Bug fixes
-Properly detect maximization of final render dialog when on linux.
-Fix variations: blob2 (broken on CPU), blur_zoom, epispiral, hole, waffle.
-Fix reading supershape variation from Apophysis.
-hexaplay3D, hexnix3D and post_smartcrop were wrong on the GPU because they are the rare variations which preserve state between iterations, and inter-iter state preservation has been incorrectly implemented until now.
-Changing the sub batch size would improperly run the wrong number of iterations.
--Code changes
-Rand range now uses multiply + shift rather than modulo.
-Add an include for Variations01.h which will allow a developer to make a build which is fully compatible with flam3.
-Change some enumeration types to be unsigned char since they only hold a few values.
-Make StripsRender() handle memsetting the final output image so calling code no longer has to.
-Make FinalRenderEmberController<T>::SaveCurrentRender() return the path that the image was actually saved to.
-Flip precalc sina/cosa and apply everywhere by flipping the usage. Flam3 had these reversed and it made the code confusing to read.
-Recreate the final render dialog each time it's shown.
-Pre/post variations are now checked for precalcs and global function requirements when creating the OpenCL kernel code.
-Change some enumeration types to uchar from uint.
-Add new field to Ember called m_BlurCurve, and the corresponding xml field is called "blur_curve".
-Some functions in Affine2D made const.
-Some arguments in some member functions of GLEmberController made const.
-Change in the index at which points and variation state are preserved between kernel calls.
1.0.0.17 6/24/2019
--User changes
-Add hex_modulus, inkdrop, Truchet_hex_crop and Truchet_hex_fill variations.
-Remove "Current" option for xform selection options. Now only Selected and All are available. If none are explicitly selected, it defaults to current being selected.
-Prevent mouse scrolling when panning the image with the middle mouse button down.
--Bug fixes
-Prevent the minus key from changing the current xform when being pressed in a textbox or spinner.
-Fix xform selection logic to prevent selecting hidden pre and post xforms.
1.0.0.16 6/03/2019
--User changes:
-Allow changes which do not trigger a full render to be added to the undo list.
--Bug fixes:
-auger, falloff2, falloff3, hypertile, hypertile1, hypertile2, mirror_x, mirror_y and mirror_z variations were wrong.
-Dragging library items to a new position was not properly resetting the current flame pointer, so subsequent edits would unintentionally overwrite different flames.
-Switching between SP/DP was resetting palette rotation.
-Right clicking when showing only current affines caused a crash.
--Code changes:
-Optimize hypercrop.
-Make dust, sin, cos, tan, sec, csc, cot, sinh, cosh, tanh, sech, csch, coth match Chaotica.
-Case insensitive comparisons via stricmp() were wrong on non-Windows systems.
1.0.0.15 5/13/2019
--User changes:
-Add a new stylesheet named lightdark.qss that provides a more modern looking dark theme.
-Show common folder locations such as documents, downloads, pictures in the sidebar in all file dialogs.
-Warning message about exceeding memory in final render dialog now suggests strips as the solution to the problem.
-Strips now has a tooltip explaining what it does.
-Allow more digits in the spinners on the color section the flame tab.
-Added a field called K2 which is an alternative way to set brightness, ignored when zero.
-Add manually adjustable size spinners in the final render dialog. Percentage scale and absolute size are fully synced.
-Default prefix in final render is now the filename when doing animations (coming from sequence section of the library tab).
-Changed the elliptic variation back to using a less precise version for float, and a more precise version for double. The last release had it always using double.
-New applied xaos table that shows a read-only view of actual weights by taking the base xform weights and multiplying them by the xaos values.
-New table in the xaos tab that gives a graphical representation of the probability that each xform is chosen, with and without xaos.
-Add button to transpose the xaos rows and columns.
-Add support for importing .chaos files from Chaotica.
--Pasting back to Chaotica will work for most, but not all, variations due to incompatible parameter names in some.
-Curves are now splines instead of Bezier. This adds compatibility with Chaotica, but breaks it for Apophysis. Xmls are still pastable, but the color curves will look different.
--The curve editor on the palette tab can now add points by clicking on the lines and remove points by right clicking on the points themselves, just like Chaotica.
--Splines are saved in four new xml fields: overall_curve, red_curve, green_curve and blue_curve.
-Clear all color curves when clicking Reset while holding down Ctrl.
-Interpolate color curves when generating a sequence.
-Allow for specifying the percentage of a sub batch each thread should iterate through per kernel call when running with OpenCL. This gives a roughly 1% performance increase due to having to make less kernel calls while iterating.
--This field is present for interactive editing (where it's not very useful), in the final render dialog and on the command line.
--On the command line, this is specified as --sbpctth for EmberRender and EmberAnimate.
-Allow double clicking to toggle the supersample field in the flame tab between 1 and 2 for easily checking the effect of the field.
-When showing affine values as polar coordinates, show angles normalized to 360 to match Chaotica.
-Fuse Count spinner now toggles between 15 and 100 when double clicking for easily checking the effect of the field.
-Added field for limiting the range in the x and y direction that the initial points are chosen from.
--This has no effect for many variations, but has a noticeable effect for some.
-Linux installer now uses a technology called AppImage which makes installations painless and totally dependency free, like it's been on windows for the past 20 years.
--The AppImage is wrapped in a .deb package, so installation remains familiar to ubuntu/mint users.
--RPM installer is now provided for Red Hat users.
-Added new variations:
arcsech
arcsech2
arcsinh
arctanh
asteria
block
bwraps_rand
circlecrop2
coth_spiral
crackle2
depth_blur
depth_blur2
depth_gaussian
depth_gaussian2
depth_ngon
depth_ngon2
depth_sine
depth_sine2
dragonfire
dspherical
dust
excinis
exp2
flipx
flowerdb
foci_p
gaussian
glynnia2
glynnsim4
glynnsim5
henon
henon
hex_rand
hex_truchet
hypershift
lazyjess
lens
lozi
lozi
modulusx
modulusy
oscilloscope2
point_symmetry
pointsymmetry
projective
pulse
rotate
scry2
shift
smartshape
spher
squares
starblur2
swirl3
swirl3r
tanh_spiral
target0
target2
tile_hlp
truchet_glyph
truchet_inv
truchet_knot
unicorngaloshen
vibration
vibration2,
waves22,
waves23,
waves3,
waves4,
waves42,
--hex_truchet, hex_rand should always use double. They are extremely sensitive.
--Bug fixes:
-Bounds sign was flipped for x coordinate of world space when center was not zero.
-Right clicking and dragging spinner showed menu on mouse up, even if it was very far away.
-Text boxes for size in final render dialog were hard to type in. Same bug as xform weight used to be so fixed the same way.
-Fix spelling to be plural in toggle color speed box.
-Stop using the blank user palette to generate flames. Either put colored palettes in it, or exclude it from randoms.
-Clicking the random palette button for a palette file with only one palette in it would freeze the program.
-Clicking none scale in final render did not re-render the preview.
-Use less precision on random xaos. No need for 12 decimal places.
-The term sub batch is overloaded in the options dialog. Change the naming and tooltip of those settings for cpu and opencl.
--Also made clear in the tooltip for the default opencl quality setting that the value is per device.
-The arrows spinner in palette editor appears like a read-only label. Made it look like a spinner.
-Fix border colors for various spin boxes and table headers in the style sheet. Requires reload.
-Fix a bug in the bwraps variation which would produce different results than Chaotica and Apophysis.
-Synth was allowed to be selected for random flame generation when using an Nvidia card but it shouldn't have been because Nvidia has a hard time compiling synth.
-A casting bug in the OpenCL kernels for log scaling and density filtering was preventing successful compilations on Intel iGPUs. Fixed even though we don't support anything other than AMD and Nvidia.
-Palette rotation (click and drag) position was not being reset when loading a new flame.
-When the xform circles were hidden, opening and closing the options dialog would improperly reshow them.
-Double click toggle was broken on integer spin boxes.
-Fixed tab order of some controls.
-Creating a palette from a jpg in the palette editor only produced a single color.
--Needed to package imageformats/qjpeg.dll with the Windows installer.
-The basic memory benchmark test flame was not really testing memory. Make it more spread out.
-Remove the temporal samples field from the flame tab, it was never used because it's only an animation parameter which is specified in the final render dialog or on the command line with EmberAnimate.
-The waves2b variation was never fully implemented on the GPU when the pwx or pwy value was between -1e-4 and 1e-4. Now the implementation is complete.
-EmberBench.ps1 would not run on linux.
-Deleting a flame in the library tree was taking three tries.
-Undo a change made last year which gave the wrong color index for final xforms when generating a sequence.
--Code changes:
-Add IsEmpty() to Palette to determine if a palette is all black.
-Attempt to avoid selecting a blank palette in PaletteList::GetRandomPalette().
-Add function ScanForChaosNodes() and some associated helper functions in XmlToEmber.
-Make variation param name correction be case insensitive in XmlToEmber.
-Add SubBatchPercentPerThread() method to RendererCL.
-Override enterEvent() and leaveEvent() in DoubleSpinBox and SpinBox to prevent the context menu from showing up on right mouse up after already leaving the spinner.
-Filtering the mouse wheel event in TableWidget no longer appears to be needed. It was probably an old Qt bug that has been fixed.
-Gui/ember syncing code in the final render dialog needed to be reworked to accommodate absolute sizes.
-Add fma() to a few more places in the OpenCL code.
-Add a new C# project named apoconv that attempts to convert Apophysis plugins to Fractorium style Variation classes. It's not entirely perfect, but gets most of the job done much more quickly than doing so manually.
--Add code in EmberTester to automatically detect such unused functions.
-No longer assume palettes are 256 elements. Can now read longer palettes.
-Ensure OpenCL images always get written when created.
-Change some menu capitalization to make the text easier on the eyes.
1.0.0.14 10/20/2018
--Bug fixes
-File saving was broken.
--Code changes
-File saving and opening dialogs were shared between a single object which was causing trouble. Make them all use their own objects.
1.0.0.13 10/9/2018
--User changes
-Disable Start button in final render dialog when Pause is clicked.
--Bug fixes
-Rapidly changing spinner values was causing the OpenCL renderer to report a failure, when it was really just aborting.
--Code changes
-Renderers never internally set abort to true due to a failure. Abort is only set to true by the calling code.
1.0.0.12 9/30/2018
--User changes
-Add a button to swap the pre and post affine values for all selected xforms.
--Bug fixes
-Remove the ability to change spinner values with +=-=, it was conflicting with other things and added no real value.
-All file dialog opening in Linux would freeze. No longer using native file dialogs, they are broken.
-Set default open path to the desktop if there is no settings file present, which will be the case on the first run.
-Amphibole_Supergroup.ugr palette had an invalid character in two of the palette names.
--Code changes
-Change some table header padding styles to work with new Qt. Qss reload is required.
-Ensure the open folder path setting always has a valid string in it before opening a folder.
1.0.0.11 9/27/2018
--User changes
-Double clicking on width or height spinner now resizes both, but scales to the one double clicked.
-Make variation tree background colors for zero and non-zero be theme-able.
-Give tabs a height of 4px in the qss files. Looks a little large on 4k screens, but just right on HD screens which are much more common.
-Allow for toggling whether to interpolate between colors in the palette editor, or to do hard cuts between colors.
-Allow for adjusting spinner values with the + = or up arrow keys to increase, and - _ or down arrow keys to decrease.
-Allow for responding to global presses of + = and - _ to cycle up or down to specify which xform is set as the current one.
-Allow for adding "layers" via xaos which will add a user-specified number of xforms, and set certain xaos values to 0 or 1.
-Add a new menu item under the Edit menu to copy the OpenCL iteration kernel source to the clipboard.
-Show text on the status bar which indicates that an OpenCL kernel compilation is taking place.
-Show xform name on xform combo box when expanded. Adjust size to fit all names.
-Prevent QSS dialog from styling its editor, which makes it easier to see text when creating styles which have custom colors for text boxes.
-Attempt to preserve xaos when adding xform copies. Note this is not an exact copy, but just a preservation of some values based on position.
-Add some acceleration to the changing of spinner values when dragging the right mouse button to adjust.
-Make the pivot be the center of the viewable area when doing drag/rotate/scale with the right mouse button.
--Clamp minimum scale to 10
--Draw a line from the mouse position to the pivot.
-Keep a cache of the last added final xform with each flame so that it can be quickly added, removed, then added back for testing its effect.
--This is not saved with the xml file and is solely for interactive editing.
-Add buttons to copy and paste affine transforms.
-Show xform names on the column headers of the xaos table.
-Add a color-coded third column to the variations tree which shows any properties of each variation which are non-standard. The column header has a tooltip which describes what the colors mean.
-Use a green dot for the x axis and purple dot for the y axis when drawing affines to help distinguish them more easily.
-Change the thickness of some of the lines used to draw the affine..
-Draw post affine circles using dashed lines.
-Draw a transparent circle over hovered xforms.
-Change how xforms respond to dragging. Rotate only is now the default, and scale will only happen with shift.
--Optionally do scale and rotate when holding shift, via a setting in the options dialog.
-Make the About box more presentable.
-Change qss files to make the text box in the About box be the same color as the one in the style dialog, so the link text is easier to see.
--This requires reloading the qss file.
-Add new palettes from user Rubydeva.
--Bug fixes
-Fix out of bounds crash in EmberGenome.
-Show grid setting was not being preserved during program run, only on close.
-Zooming with the mouse wheel was broken for images whose size is greater than the screen area.
-Manually typing xform weight when the xform had a name kept getting interrupted.
-Fix up some table layouts which seemed to have regressed/decayed over time for reasons unknown.
-Using undo/redo would create a new flame in the library every time.
-Solo was not being preserved when using undo/redo.
-File filtering in open and save dialogs was broken.
-Right clicking on integer spin boxes was causing the context menu to pop up, when it should be suppressed just like in double spin boxes.
-Deleting xforms was still broken.
-Snapping when dragging and holding ctrl was wrong sometimes.
-The program would very rarely crash on startup due to some values being in an uninitialized state.
-Pre/post assign method was wrong for Sphereblur, Concentric, RandCubes and PixelFlow.
-Avoid an occasional divide by zero in the OpenCL renderer when using the interactive editor.
--Code changes
-Update dependencies build script to use the latest version of openexr and other libraries.
-Update windows platform version.
-Make the solo flag be a part of the flame data now.
-Fix some tabification in the OpenCL code for EllipticVariation.
-Fix tabification in the varState code for OpenCL.
-Add an event called m_CompileBegun to RendererCL that is called right before an OpenCL compile is begun.
--This required making RendererCLBase not a pure virtual base class. Member functions just return defaults.
-Filter key presses on main window to only process the third one. This is due to Qt triggering three events for every key press.
-The palette preview table was installing an event filter for seemingly no reason. Remove it.
-Mark certain virtual functions as override in SpinBox and DoubleSpinBox.
-Refactor the code for adding and pasting xforms into a single global static function called AddXformsWithXaos().
-Change almost every variation to use fma() in OpenCL when doing computations of the form a * b + c. This provides a slight speedup, mostly in double precision mode.
-Also apply fma() to affine calculations.
-Cleanup of OpenGL affine drawing code.
-Separate the concept of hovering and selecting xforms.
-Update dependencies build script to use the latest version of openexr and other libraries.
-Update windows platform version.
-Make Hypershift2 use MwcNextRange() instead of MwcNext() %.
-Add m_HasPre to Xform similar to m_HasPost, to skip application of the affine if it's the ID matrix (in this case just assign the input x and y points). This gives a 5% speedup.
-Only treat NaN as a bad point. Previously anything too close to zero or too close to infinity was considered a bad value. Only testing for NaN allows for infinity to be processed. Denormals are still flushed to zero.
-Use exact comparisons in IsID() and IsZero() in Affine2D.
-For rendering with OpenCL on the command line and in the final render dialog, use an optimized kernel that does a direct assignment for any affines which are ID.
1.0.0.10 6/17/2018
--User changes
-No longer constrain pitch, yaw or depth spinners to -180 - 180.
--Bug fixes
-Properly set color index on padded xforms.
-Adding a padding final xform included a linear variation with a weight of zero to not appear empty. Made it have a weight of 1.
-Always write animate tag on final xform when saving to Xml.
-Motion was being applied to the wrong flame in SheepTools::Edge(), so apply it to the correct one.
-Prevent divide by zero when normalizing variation weights.
-Was accidentally adding the placeholder value of -9999 for motion_offset to varation weights and parameters when applying motion. Set to zero if no value present.
-Clamp flame rotation values to -180 - 180 when reading a flame from Xml.
-Events were not properly wired for user changes in the random rotations per blend controls in the sequencer.
-Fix major UI bugs with sequencer min/max random controls which made it nearly impossible to hand type values.
-Values from rotations per blend and rotations per blend max were not being saved to file between program runs.
-Checking animate for an xform was not applied to all flames even if Apply All was checked.
-Changing interpolation type, temporal filter width, temporal type, and affine interpolation type were not actually saving to the flame when changed.
-Grid on the main window was not being drawn at the right scale initially due to some OpenGL initialization occurring in the wrong order.
-Severe bugs in sequence generation code:
--Improperly detected padding xforms.
--When looking for specific variations during xform aligning, only presence was detected, when it should have been presence plus a weight greater than zero.
--When adding specific variations during xform aligning, must first remove any variations of that type.
--Two variables were unsigned when they should have been signed. This prevented large blocks of code from ever executing.
--When interpolating affines, an EPS that was too small was used, causing affine values to interpolate incorrectly. Instead use 1e-10 to ensure results equal to flam3.
--Code changes
-Modify FractoriumEmberController::UpdateXform() to pass the selected xform index as well as the absolute index to func().
1.0.0.9 5/13/2018
--Bug fixes
-Pausing did not work when using OpenCL renderer.
1.0.0.8 5/4/2018
--User changes
-Change variation spin boxes to only show the precision needed, and also allow scientific notation.
-Added pixel_flow variation from user bezo97.
-Add two new variations, hypercrop and hypershift2.
-Add the ability to drag the rotation of the current palette via the palette preview table.
-Allow for pausing and resuming of final renders.
-Allow for animating final xforms.
-More detailed diagnostics when any action in the OpenCL renderer fails.
-Allow for creating an OpenCL renderer which does not share a texture with the main window, and instead manually copies its final output image from GPU to CPU then back to GPU.
-Allow running command line programs from outside of the folder the executable is in on Windows, by adding the install folder to the PATH variable. This was needed to properly find the palette file (even though it's mostly unneeded).
--Bug fixes
-Fix a variety of very strange bugs when clicking around on palettes in different files in the palette editor.
-Fix bug where animate flag was not properly being set when checking the checkbox, and also did not work correctly when Apply All was checked.
-Text was not properly being copied out of the Info | Bounds text box.
--Code changes
-Convert OpenGL drawing code to use GLSL.
-Always use double precision extension defines in OpenCL programs, even if DP is not selected. This is because elliptic now always uses DP.
-Only instantiate float version of Palette and PaletteList, no need for double since it's never used.
-Allow for FinalRenderDialog to be queried on whether it's currently rendering.
-Remove Renderer::AccumulatorToFinalImage(v4F* pixels, size_t finalOffset), it's no longer needed or makes sense.
-Controllers no longer keep track of shared status, it's kept inside the renderers.
-Make getter functions in FractoriumOptionsDialog be public.
1.0.0.7 12/22/2017
--User changes
-Support 4k monitors, and in general, properly scale any monitor that is not HD.
-Allow for a spatial filter of radius zero, which means do not use a spatial filter.
-Use a new method for computing elliptic which is more precise. Developed by Discord user Claude.
-Remove the 8 variation per xform limitation on the GPU.
-Allow for loading the last flame file on startup, rather than randoms.
-Use two different default quality values in the interactive renderer, one each for CPU and GPU.
-Creating linked xforms was using non-standard behavior. Make it match Apo and also support creating multiple linked xforms at once.
--Bug fixes
-No variations in an xform used to have the same behavior as a single linear variation with weight 1. While sensible, this breaks backward compatibility. No variations now sets the output point to zeroes.
-Prevent crashing the program when adjusting a value on the main window while a final render is in progress.
-The xaos table was inverted.
-Place the xforms and palette tabs in a scroll area to prevent weird sizing problems on low resolution monitors.
-Allow group dragging and floating of dock widgets.
-Make some tables auto size to their contents because some text appeared obscured on Linux.
-Opening an Xml was not properly setting the background field on the GUI, even though it was correctly parsed and used.
-Clicking random palette when using a palette file with 2 palettes could lead to a program freeze.
--Code changes
-Convert projects to Visual Studio 2017.
-Change bad vals from +- 1e10 to +-1e20.
-Reintroduce the symmetry tag in xforms for legacy support in programs that do not use color_speed.
-Compiler will not let us use default values in templated member functions anymore.
1.0.0.6 09/02/2017
--Bug fixes
-Strips renders crashed.
-Better handling of large memory allocations by forcing a free of previous allocations.
-Final render dialog did not properly save last used extension setting.
-Density filtering progress bar in final render dialog did not update if only log scaling was being used.
1.0.0.5 08/28/2017
--User changes
-Add support for Exr files which use 32-bit floats for each RGBA channel.
-Allow for clearing an individual color curve.
-Allow for saving multiple image types in EmberRender and EmberAnimate. All writes are threaded.
-Remove --bpc command line argument. Add format png16 as a replacement.
-Remove --enable_jpg_comments and --enable_png_comments command line arguments, and replace them with --enable_comments which applies to jpg, png and exr.
-Add menu items to variations and affine spinners which allow for easy entry of specific numeric values like pi.
-Make final render dialog be wider rather than being so tall.
-Added panorama1 and panorama2 variations.
--Bug fixes
-Fix several OpenCL build errors that were occurring on Mac. Some still remain.
-Remove ability to save bitmap files on all platforms but Windows.
-Fix bug where clearing the final xform, but leaving it present, then editing it would crash the program.
-Disallow the use of synth when randomly generating xforms if the user has an Nvidia device present on their system.
-crackle had a bug with Nvidia GPUs.
-Only allow crackle_cellsize to be greater than 0.
-Typing in the xform color index spinner produced strange results.
-Returning from palette editor did not always update xform color indices.
-Cleaner exit on some failures.
-Better reporting of OpenCL errors.
--Code changes
-Improve the coloring code during final accum by getting rid of the last remnants of unnecessary scaling to 255 from flam3.
-New dependency on OpenEXR.
-Allow Curves class to interact with objects of a different template type.
-Make m_Curves member of Ember always use float as template type.
-Set the length of the curves array to always be 2^16 which should offer enough precision with new 32-bit float pixel types.
-Set pixel types to always be 32-bit float. This results in a major reduction of code in the final accumulation part of Renderer.h/cpp.
-Remove corresponding code from RendererCL and FinalAccumOpenCLKernelCreator.
-Remove Transparency, NumChannels and BytesPerPixel setters from Renderer.h/cpp.
-Add new global functions to format final image buffers and place all alpha calculation and scaling code in them.
-Blending is no longer needed in OpenGLWidget because of the new pixel type.
-Make new class, AffineDoubleSpinBox.
-Use static_partitioner in all parallel_for() calls.
-Use some CPU defines in CL code.
-Code in RendererClDevice::Init() to detect Nvidia was wrong even thought it technically worked.
-crackle now uses real_t* for cache rather than real2. This is what was causing the bug.
-Make the local offsets array used in crackle a precalc since it's the same for all. This reduces register pressure.
-Get rid of all usages of real3, just to be safe since Nvidia doesn't like them.
-#define TOTAL_GLOBAL_SIZE_END in the OpenCL iteration kernel just for debugging purposes to see how large the parvars buffer is.
-Remove some unused functions.
1.0.0.4 07/01/2017
--User changes
-Add support for adjusting xform color indices in the palette editor. Fixed palettes can now be displayed there, but they will have no color arrows as they are not editable.
-Add support for independent dimension scaling in the EmberRender and EmberAnimate programs to bring them in line with the final render dialog Fractorium. The options are -ws, -hs and -scaletype.
-Limit size of the left side of the palette editor.
-dark.qss is now per-OS.
--Bug fixes
-Opacity was accidentally being set to zero sometimes which could cause flickering when animating.
-Fractorium would occasionally freeze after dismissing the final render dialog because some values were not properly re-initialized.
-File paths with a space in them did not work in the command line programs.
-Any Xml file in the search paths would erroneously be treated as a palette file.
-The following variations were wrong: coshq, cothq.
-During iteration, the color index could become nan if all xform color speeds were negative. This could lead to bad results on the GPU. Fix to check for nan. Minimal speed difference.
-Fix crash when opening palette editor with a flame whose palette specifies no originating file.
-Any measurement of time which was sub-millisecond was wrong.
--Code changes
-Remove VS 2013 build files.
-Qualify many calls with std:: to avoid colliding with glm::
-Change some for loops to while loops when iterating through xforms.
-Allow FractoriumEmberController<T>::UpdateXform() to be able to apply the action to an xform at a specific index.
-Remove old code blocks build files that were never used.
-Make GetPath() return empty string if no path is present in the passed in file path.
-GetTotalXform() was always counting the final xform, even if it was unused.
-Make the following variations safer by using Zeps(): sinq, sinhq, secq, sechq, tanq, tanhq, cosq, coshq, cotq, cothq, cscq, cschq, estiq.
-Always pass -cl-no-signed-zeros -cl-denorms-are-zero to kernel compiles for both single and double.
-Flush all denormals to zero for all executable programs. This will likely lead to a speedup for badly behaving flames.
-Make the following variations safer by using Zeps(): conic, bipolar, edisc, whorl, tan, csc, cot, tanh, sech, csch, coth, auger, bwraps, hypertile3d, hypertile3d1, ortho, poincare, rational3, barycentroid, sschecks, cscq, cschq, scry_3D, splitbrdr, hexcrop, nblur, crob.
-Small optimization for gdoffs, use precalcAtanYX.
-Properly propagate z through circlesplit, cylinder2 and tile_log variations.
-Some values in truchet_fill could've been NaN.
-Make most installation files read only.
-Use auto in more places.
1.0.0.3 04/06/2017
--User changes
-Remove opacity adjustment from legacy flam3 code base, it can lead to erroneous results.
--Bug fixes
-Double clicking min/max DE filter spinners would not trigger a render reset if the other was non-zero. The fix has the downside of triggering a change event when scrolling even if the value is already capped. This is an acceptable tradeoff.
-On delete, select the library item closest to the last one which was deleted.
1.0.0.2 03/15/2017
--User changes
-Add many tooltips to help clarify functionality.
-Select multiple flames in library for del/move. Still only one allowed to be set as the current.
-Show checkbox for current flame. Remember this is not necessarily what's selected.
-User can now drag a square to select xforms, which keeps in sync with checkboxes.
-Remove --nframes from command line. Replace with new params: --loopframes, --interpframes, --interploops.
-Add two new options to EmberGenome: --cwloops --cwinterploops to specify whether rotation should go clockwise instead of the default counter clockwise.
--Add these to Fractorium as checkboxes.
-Apply All now also works for toggling animate flag on xforms.
-Options dialog now allows user to set whether double click toggles spinners, or right click does.
-Allow toggling on spinners whose minimum value is not zero.
-Add a palette editor.
-Add support for reading .ugr/.gradient/.gradients palette files.
-Allow toggling display of image, affines and grid.
-Add new variations: cylinder2, circlesplit, tile_log, truchet_fill, waves2_radial.
--Bug fixes
-Selecting final and non-final xforms, and then dragging the non-final did not drag the final with it.
-Selecting all xforms when a final was present, then deleting crashed the program.
-Selecting multiple xforms and rotating them would produce the wrong rotation.
-Switching between SP and DP kept reapplying the palette adjustments.
-cpow2 was wrong.
-Xaos has been wrong this entire time on the GPU because it was not selecting from the unweighted distributions on the very first iteration when fusing.
-Palettes with rapid changes in color would produce slightly different outputs from Apo/Chaotica. This was due to a long standing bug from flam3.
-Use exec() on Apple and show() on all other OSes for dialog boxes.
-Trying to render a sequence with no frames would crash.
-Remove support for ppm files in the command line programs, it's an outdated format.
-Better handling when parsing flames using different encoding, such as unicode and UTF-8.
-Save palettes values in flame files as uppercase.
-Query matrices when drawing affines even if they are set not to be drawn because the values are used elsewhere.
--Code changes
-Move build system to Visual Studio 2015 and Qt 5.8.
-SSE used during addition of points to the histogram.
-Remove last remnants of old flam3 C code and replace with C++.
-Remove unused code involving tbb::task_group.
-Make settings and PaletteList objects be global shared_ptr singletons, so they don't have to be passed around.
-Make all types concerning palettes be floats, including PaletteTableWidgetItem.
-PaletteTableWidgetItem is no longer templated because all palettes are float.
-Include the source colors for user created gradients.
-Change parallel_for() calls to work with very old versions of TBB which are lingering on some systems.
-Split conditional out of accumulation loop on the CPU for better performance.
-Vectorize summing when doing density filter for better performance.
-Allow palettes to reside in multiple folders, while ensuring only one of each name is added.
-Refactor some palette path searching code.
-Make ReadFile() throw and catch an exception if the file operation fails.
-A little extra safety in foci and foci3D with a call to Zeps().
-Cast to (real_t) in the OpenCL string for the w variation, which was having trouble compiling on Mac.
-Fixing missing comma between paths in InitPaletteList().
-Move Xml and PaletteList classes into cpp to shorten build times when working on them.
-Remove default param values for IterOpenCLKernelCreator<T>::SharedDataIndexDefines in cpp file.
-Change more NULL to nullptr.
1.0.0.1 06/21/2016
--Bug fixes
-Highlight power values less than 0 were accidentally disabled on the UI.
1.0.0.0 06/17/2016
--User changes
-Officially transition out of beta into a full 1.0 release.
-Add new options to EmberGenome to better help assess which variations have certain characteristics. The options are:
--sumvars: Display the names of all regular variations which have the default behavior of summing their outputs and exit.
--assignvars: Display the names of all regular variations which have the non-standard behavior of assigning their outputs and exit.
--ppsumvars: Display the names of all pre/post variations which have the non-standard behavior of summing their outputs and exit.
--ppassignvars: Display the names of all pre/post variations which have the default behavior of assigning their outputs and exit.
--dcvars: Display the names of all variations which use direct coloring and exit.
--statevars: Display the names of all variations which alter their state on each iteration and exit.
--parvars: Display the names of all variations which have parameters and exit.
--nonparvars: Display the names of all variations which do not have parameters (weight only) and exit.
-Add two new options to EmberGenome which are used when generating an animation sequence:
--startcount: Add this number to the filename of each flame.
--padding: Override the automatically calculated amount of padding zeroes added to each filename.
-Allow for filtering in the Variations Dialog based on the same types listed in the EmberGenome options.
-Add a button to randomize both pre and post affine transforms to values between -1 to 1.
-Add animation sequence creation to Fractorium.
-Add fractorium.com link to the about box.
--Bug fixes
-Fix final render dialog failure when minimizing and restoring during a render on Linux. Note this bug was not present on Windows.
-Switching between SP and DP before previews had finished would set the current flame back to the first one in the file.
-Prevent filenames in command line programs from using scientific notation when rendering a large number of frames.
-Fix tab orders to match newer GUI items which were overlooked in previous releases.
-Re-render previews if transparency value in the options dialog was changed. Re-rendering was previously only done if early clip or y axis up was changed.
-Use transparency when rendering thumbnail previews.
--Code changes
-Make VariationList vectors have const elements since no callers should ever change them.
-Add new function to VariationList to retrieve a const ref to the parametric variations.
-Move some search functions out of EmberTester and into EmberCommon.h.
-More correctly populate VariationList::m_ParametricVariations and VariationList::m_NonParametricVariations to account for variations which have params only used for precalc.
-Consolidate some of the code in VariationList which searches by name.
-Use references rather than pointers when grabbing pre/post affines.
-Wrap EmberCommon.h in a namespace called EmberCommon.
-Move FormatName() from EmberGenome to EmberCommon.h/cpp
-Add a prefix parameter to EmberFile::DefaultFilename() to allow for creating a default filename for sequences.
-When showing the final render dialog, allow specifying where it came from: the toolbar or the render sequence button.
-Refactor all preview rendering code out into its own class hierarchy with overrides for the main window and the final render dialog.
-Remove all preview render cancelling functions, they are now built into the new class hierarchy and a new render will not start until the previous one is stopped.
-Add two new function ConstrainLow() and ConstrainHigh() which wrap constraining two min/max spinboxes to each others' values.
-Add a bool to FractoriumEmberControllerBase::CopyEmberFile() to specify whether to copy the main file or the sequence file. This is somewhat of a hack and was done in a rush.
-Add a bool to FractoriumEmberControllerBase::SetEmberFile() to specify whether to move the file rather than copy. This is used in FinalRenderEmberController and improves efficiency.
-Add wrapper functions for variations filter dialog settings.
-Tooltip cleanups.
-General code cleanup.
0.9.9.6 Beta 05/05/2016
--User changes
-The concept of "saving back to file in memory" has been removed. The current ember is saved back to memory whenever the render completes and the thumbnail will be updated each time.
--Edits will not save back to the file in memory on render completion when preview renderer is running.
-Make the default interpolation type be smooth.
-Highlight power is now on by default.
-Better handling of crossed min/max DE filter values on the GUI.
-Changes to spatial and density filter values will no longer restart the entire render because a fixed size gutter is used.
-crackle is now 5-10 times faster as a result of using cached values as is done on the CPU. These were previously omitted due to a bug elsewhere in the code that was erroneously attributed to the crackle caching mechanism.
-Allow for adjustments on the Flame tab to apply to all open flames in the file.
--Add apply all functionality to flatten/unflatten menu items.
-Add two new buttons to the color tab to randomize and toggle the xform color indices.
-Change drag n drop behavior: the default is now to append, hold Ctrl to overwrite.
-Set max value of zoom to 25 because it will crash with values around 28 or 29 due to numeric overflow when scaling quality.
-Update links in About Dialog.
-Move the color curves control to the Palette tab.
-Change dark.qss to hide dotted selection outline around checkboxes. Users must reload it to take effect.
-Allow for dragging around flames in the library tab. This is useful for setting up the order of an animation.
-Make the opening of large files in Fractorium much more efficient when not-appending.
-Make the opening of large files in all EmberRender and EmberAnimate more efficient.
-Better error reporting when opening files.
-Command line programs now default to using double precision.
--Report precision in command line programs.
-Cleanup some options text for the command line programs.
-Make randoms in EmberGenome have default dimensions of 1920 x 1080.
-Changed/removed several command line options:
--Remove the option --intpalette to format the palette in the xml as ints. If they are not hex formatted, then they should always be float. This option was pointless.
--The --bits argument has been removed and replaced with --sp to specify single precision. If omitted, DP is used.
--Remove the --seed option, it was never used.
--Remove the --sub_batch_size option, it has been part of the Xml for a long time.
--Remove --hex_palette option for EmberRender, it only makes sense in EmberAnimate and EmberGenome.
--Set enable_jpg_comments and enable_png_comments to false by default. It was a very bad idea to have them be true because it reveals the flame parameters used to render the image which many artists guard closely.
--Remove --time option for EmberAnimate, it was redundant with --frame.
--Make --enable_jpg_comments and --enable_png_comments just be bools that when present mean true, rather than having to specify =true.
--Add a new argument --ts for EmberAnimate to allow the user to specify the temporal samples value to use for the entire animation. Useful for testing.
--Remove the --strip option from EmberGenome. It was useless and was likely just a carry over from flam3 during its early debugging stages when testing strips.
--Prevent --inter and --rotate in EmberGenome from rotating backward before the first flame since it doesn't really make sense.
-Support reading cam_zoom from xml as zoom since JWildfire uses cam_zoom.
-Ensure every loaded flame has at least one xform in it.
-Always force times of each flame to increase from zero when saving a file.
-Remove check for times when doing a sequence in EmberGenome because the original times are never used there.
--Bug fixes
-Place last.flame in ~/.config/fractorium on Linux.
-Attempt to prevent crash when selecting OpenCL in the final render dialog when unsupported hardware is present.
--This works by selecting the last known good device in the main window.
-Correctly label interpolation types in the combo in the animation table on the Flame tab.
-Remove extra space in info tree text when dealing with a linked xform.
-Update summary xform name field whenever xform name changes.
-Get rid of selection border on summary tab xform tree cells.
-Only add variations from Xml that have a non-zero weight. There seemed to be spurious flattens coming from Apo with a weight of 0.
-Get rid of leftover artifacts that would appear on preview thumbnails when either switching SP/DP or re-rendering previews.
-Filename extension was not being appended on Linux when saving as Xml, thus making it impossible to drag that file back in because drop is filtered on extension.
-Continuous update was broken.
-Force repaint on xform selection checkbox change to ensure circles are immediately drawn around selected xforms.
-dc_perlin was crashing on Nvidia when using SP.
-Crash when opening an Xml with less than 2 flames in it.
-Fix crash when using smooth interpolation in EmberGenome.
-Print error and exit EmberGenome when sequencing if times are not sorted.
-Multi-GPU synchronization was not actually thread safe and was likely doing less iters than requested. It is now properly synchronized.
-The saving of last.flame during editing was appending the file when it should have been replacing.
-It was impossible for EmberGenome to create a random flame. It can now be done by specifying no arguments: EmberGenome.exe
-Crossing in EmberGenome was not logging the performed actions to the edit Xml tag.
-Apply sub batch size and fuse count to template files used on the command line.
-Use new default filter types (log and smooth) with template files.
-Properly seed rands in EmberAnimate when specifying --isaac_seed and using more than one device with --opencl.
--Code changes
-Make DE block size always be 16x16, this should help stability on some Nvidia cards. No changes for AMD cards since they were that size already.
--Since the block size is now so small, do not reduce it further when supersampling.
-Clean up some variable names and documentation around OpenCL DE to be more clear.
-Gutters are now a fixed size of 8 * supersample.
-Use stl data() member to get pointer to first element instead of &vec[0].
-Eliminate extra calls in renderer to ComputeBounds(), CreateSpatialFilter() and CreateTemporalFilter() to only be done at the start of a render.
-Another attempt at vectorizing LogScaleDensityFilter(). Vectorizes, but not sure if it helps.
-Some other loop optimizations in Renderer.
-No longer check temporal samples in response to some control changes, they are always 1 in the interactive renderer.
-Make summing histograms from one or more secondary devices to the primary a little more elegant by using HOST_PTR. This requires one less copy.
-Move GCC compiler spec to C++14. Building with 5.3 now on linux.
-Use inline member data initializers.
-Make a #define for static for use in Utils.h to make things a little cleaner.
-Make various functions able to take arbitrary collections as their parameters rather than just vectors.
-Make library collection a list rather than vector. This alleviates the need to re-sync pointers whenever the collection changes.
-Subclass QTreeWidget for the library tree. Two new files added for this.
-Remove all usage of #ifdef ROW_ONLY_DE in DEOpenCLKernelCreator, it was never used.
-Add move constructor and assignment operator to EmberFile.
-Add the ability to use a pointer to outside memory in the renderer for the vector of Ember<T>.
-Make a lot more functions const where they should be.
-Remove save back to file in memory icon, document-hf-insert.png.
-Use raw array of floats in OpenCL for perlin noise, rather than float3/double3.
-Add some default cases to dc_perlin.
-Redo singleton pattern yet again.
-Pass XML_PARSE_HUGE to xmlReadMemory() to allow for reading large Xml files.
-Optimize Interpolater by making it a non-static class by adding some members used for caching values during interpolation.
-Cache values in SheepTools as well, which was already a non-static class.
-Use cerr in SheepTools instead of cout.
-Set m_SubBatchSize and m_FuseCount to default values in Ember::Clear().
-Make EmberOptionEntry<T>::operator() return a const reference instead of a copy.
-General cleanup.
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0.9.9.5 Beta 03/04/2016
--User changes
-None.
--Bug fixes
-Fix crash when using Lanczos2 filter with color curves due to negative numbers. Fix by passing abs() of first argument to pow() in Renderer::GammaCorrection().
-Fix crash in hexes with SP. Rounding error caused out of bounds index.
-Do not reset locked affine scale on new flame or undo.
-Gracefully recover from reading a bad palette file.
-Gracefully recover from reading flame file with unknown params.
-Available memory size checking in the final render dialog was accidentally removed during the multi-gpu work last year. Add it back in.
--Code changes
-Migrate to Qt 5.5.1
-Remove dependency projects from the solution. Move to a project design where they are built once via command line and stored in a /Deps folder.
--Because of this, libpng is built as a static lib instead of a dll because that's what its command line makefile supports.
--Remove libpng16.dll from Wix installer.
-Remove all configs except for debug and release.
-Remove all platforms except for x64.
-Add #define __TBB_NO_IMPLICIT_LINKAGE 1 to prevent tbb from looking for tbb_debug.lib by default on debug builds.
-Put Ember.rc in a filter folder in the project.
-Place pragma warning disable statements in PCH files rather than in projects. This makes it easier when using Qt Creator.
-Move all resource files to the MSVC folder.
-Set all targets in QtCreator project to their lowercase names to be more *nix friendly. Set -l link statements to use these new lowercase names for ember and embercl.
-Rework Qt projects to favor shadow builds.
-Remove the symlinks.sh file and all references to it. It was never needed. Instead, just specify multiple include and link paths in the .pro files.
-Change WIN32 to _WIN32.
-Fix a few code warnings.
-Make usage of VarFuncs more consistent by moving some global functions there.
-Make CircleTrans1 a little safer by calling Zeps() on m_Sc during precalc.
-Major work on Qt Creator builds.
0.9.9.4 Beta 02/21/2016
--User changes
-Allow for stopping the renderer in the main window. This makes it more efficient when entering many parameters, such as when following a tutorial.
-Add support for new variations: erf, gamma, jac_cn, jac_dn, jac_sn, logDB, pressure_wave, pRose3D, splits3D, w, waves2b, x, xerf, y, z.
-Inform user of the start and stop of file parsing in EmberAnimate because the files could potentially be very large.
-Move the follwing fields to a new table called Animation: Interpolation, Affine Interpolation, Temporal Samples, Temporal Filter Width, Temporal Filter Type.
--These currently have no effect on the interactive renderer and instead are used when running flames through EmberGenome to generate sequences, and then animating them in Fractorium or EmberAnimate.
-Add new parameter overrides for EmberRender and EmberAnimate which directly assign values to all flames being rendered, rather than scale:
--quality
--demin
--demax
-Allow locking of the scale at which affine circles are displayed.
-Allow user to toggle whether xform will be animated when generating sequences. Also show the animate value when loading.
-Add variations changes to the list of functionality that can be applied to all xforms using the Select tab.
-Allow for graphical affine adjustments to apply to multiple selected xforms.
-Slight optimization of the pie variation.
-Undo state is only saved when the render completes and the mouse buttons are released. This helps avoid intermediate steps for quickly completing renders while dragging.
-Add some keyboard shortcuts for toolbar and menu items.
-Make info tab tree always expanded.
-Draw selection circles around all selected xforms plus the current one.
--Bug fixes
-Crash when supersample minus final spatial filter width was negative.
-Left pad instead of right pad names of sequence outputs from EmberGenome.
-Unique file naming was broken for files which already had an underscore in them.
-Properly report that png is the default format of EmberRender and EmberAnimate output instead of erroneously claiming it was jpg.
-Make command line programs search these folders in this order for the palette file:
./
~/.fractorium
~/.config/fractorium
/usr/share/fractorium
/usr/local/share/fractorium
-Fix possible bad values in hexes.
-Better assignment of Z variables.
-Fix boarders due to use of poorly implemented rint() function from flam3. Use std::rint() now.
-wedge_sph was completely wrong due to having accidentally swapped the mapping of two parameters.
-Make juliascope juliascope_power parameter be of type REAL_NONZERO since it's used as a denominator.
-Make Z assignment compatible with the originals in:
-Make precalcs for all hypertile variations safer by using Zeps() for denominators.
-Changing the current xform with more than one selected would set all xform's color index value that of the current one.
-Use hard found palette path information for randoms as well.
-OpenCL build and assignment errors for Z value in epispiral variation.
-Unitialized local variables in hexaplay3D, crob, pRose3D.
-Devices settings was empty on first run, so switching to OpenCL had no effect until the user manually selected a device in the options dialog. Fix by defaulting to device 0 if present.
-Add control key as a modifier to increase the amount a spinbox is changed when using right mouse drag to edit. Previously only observed shift key to decrease the value.
-Change the copy/paste selected xforms shortcuts to be Ctrl+X+C and Ctrl+X+V.
--Code changes
-Generalize Variation::PrecalcHelper() and rename to PrePostPrecalcHelper().
--Do the same for the OpenCL version and rename it PrePostPrecalcOpenCLString().
-Rename Variation::m_AssignType to m_PrePostAssignType since it's only relevant to pre/post variations.
-More conversion to C++11 style code.
-Add another value to the eXformUpdate enum called UPDATE_CURRENT_AND_SELECTED.
-Remove some old #defines.
-Change static member variables from m_ to s_.
-Get rid of excessive endl and replace with "\n".
-Remove old IMAGEGL2D define from before Nvidia supported OpenCL 1.2.
-Remove old CriticalSection code and use std::recursive_mutex.
-Make Affine2D Rotate() and RotateTrans() take radians instead of angles.
-Split VariationList into .h/cpp files.
--Make VariationList.cpp the only place where the variations files are included from. This speeds up the build, but variations can no longer be directly instantiated.
--Variations are no longer exported.
-Add function Fractorium::IsXformSelected() to determine if an xform has been selected with the checkboxes.
-Cleanup warnings.
-General cleanup.
0.9.9.3 Beta 01/17/2016
--User changes
-Add new variations: crackle, dc_perlin and post_smartcrop.
-Make default palette interp mode be linear instead of step.
-Make summary tab the selected one in the Info tab.
-Allow for highlight power of up to 10. It was previously limited to 2.
-Add the following modes to synth:
-MODE_SHIFTNSTRETCH 14
-MODE_SHIFTTANGENT 15
-MODE_XMIRROR 17
-MODE_XYMIRROR 18
-MODE_SPHERICAL2 19
-Clamp synth_mode, synth_*_type and synth_*_layer to valid values.
--Bug fixes
-Crash on linux when saving style due to null pointer in m_Theme variable.
-Omit duplicate entries in error reports.
-Properly report missing palette file in command line programs.
-Direct color calculations were wrong.
-Flattening was not applied to final xform.
-Fix "pure virtual function call" error on shutdown.
-Wrong point assignment in hexaplay3D, hexnix3D.
-Improper Z assignment in rblur.
-Fix inconsistency with original in circlecrop.
-synth was broken due to passing synth_mode to Interpolate, rather than synth_smooth.
-Changes in the xaos grid were not always being processed due to rounding.
-Long standing animation looping but that goes all the way back to flam3.
--Code changes
-Qualify math function with std::
-Allow for array precalc params in variations by adding a size member to the ParamWithName class.
-In IterOpenCLKernelCreator, memcpy precalc params instead of a direct assign since they can now be of variable length.
-Add new file VarFuncs to consolidate some functions that are common to multiple variations. This also contains texture data for crackle and dc_perlin.
-Place OpenCL versions of these functions in the FunctionMapper class in the EmberCL project.
-Add new Singleton class that uses CRTP, is thread safe, and deletes after the last reference goes away. This fixes the usual "delete after main()" problem with singletons that use the static local function variable pattern.
-Began saving files with AStyle autoformatter turned on. This will eventually touch all files as they are worked on.
-Add missing backslash to CUDA include and library paths for builds on Nvidia systems.
-Add missing gl.h include for Windows.
-Remove glew include paths from Fractorium, it's not used.
-Remove any Nvidia specific #defines and build targets, they are no longer needed with OpenCL 1.2.
-Fix bad paths on linux build.
-Convert all enums to class enum to be consistent with C++11 style.
-Convert some if/else statements in filter classes to case statements.
-Add overloaded stream operators to print various enums.
-Optimize crob, nBlur.
-Fix weird assignment statement in falloff3.
-Replace fabs() with std::abs().
-General cleanup.
0.9.9.2 Beta 11/22/2015
--User changes
-Add a new dialog for editing QSS stylesheets. Allow for saving, reloading and setting styles as default.
-Include a dark style with the installation called dark.qss.
-Also add support for themes such as Fusion.
-Resize some controls to better fit with the new style.
-Add an option to specify the number of random embers generated on startup. 1 is the minimum and the default.
-Add new variations: bubbleT3D, crob, hexaplay3D, hexcrop, hexes, hexnix3D, loonie2, loonie3, nBlur, octapol and synth.
-Allow for pre/post versions of dc_bubble, dc_cylinder and dc_linear whereas before they were omitted.
-When saving a file with multiple embers in it, detect if time values are all the same and if so, start them at zero and increment by 1 for each ember.
-Allow for numerous quality increases to be coalesced into one. It will pick up at the end of the current render.
-Show selection highlight on variations tree in response to mouse hover. This makes it easier to see for which variation or param the current mouse wheel action will apply.
-Make default temporal samples be 100, whereas before it was 1000 which was overkill.
-Require the shift key to be held with delete for deleting an ember to prevent it from triggering when the user enters delete in the edit box.
-This wasn't otherwise fixable without writing a lot more code.
--Bug fixes
-EmberGenome was crashing when generating a sequence from a source file with more than 2 embers in it.
-EmberGenome was improperly handling the first frame of a merge after the last frame of the loop.
-These bugs were due to a previous commit. Revert parts of that commit.
-Prevent a zoom value of less than 0 when reading from xml.
-Slight optimization of the crescents, and mask variations, if the compiler wasn't doing it already.
-Unique file naming was broken because it was looking for _# and the default names ended with -#.
-Disallow renaming of an ember in the library tree to an empty string.
-Severe bug that prevented some variations from being read correctly from params generated outside this program.
-Severe OpenCL randomization bug. The first x coordinates of the first points in the first kernel call of the first ember of a render since the OpenCL renderer object was created were not random and were mostly -1.
-Severe bug when populating xform selection distributions that could sometimes cause a crash due to roundoff error. Fix by using double.
-Limit the max number of variations in a random ember to MAX_CL_VARS, which is 8. This ensures they'll look the same on CPU and GPU.
-Properly enable/disable thread priority label in final render dialog in response to enable/disable of the OpenCL checkbox.
-Remove all inline stylesheets.
-Show xaos spinners with 6 decimal places.
--Code changes
-Generalize using the running sum output point inside of a variation for all cases: pre, reg and post.
-Allow for array variables in variations where the address of each element is stored in m_Params.
-Qualify all math functions with std::
-No longer use our own Clamp() in OpenCL, instead use the standard clamp().
-Redesign how functions are used in the variations OpenCL code.
-Add tests to EmberTester to verify some of the new functionality.
-Place more const and override qualifiers on functions where appropriate.
-Add a global rand with a lock to be used very sparingly.
-Use a map instead of a vector for bad param names in Xml parsing.
-Prefix affine interpolation mode defines with "AFFINE_" to make their purpose more clear.
-Allow for variations that change state during iteration by sending a separate copy of the ember to each rendering thread.
-Implement this same functionality with a local struct in OpenCL. It's members are the total of all variables that need to change state within an ember.
-Add Contains() function to Utils.h.
-EmberRender: print names of kernels being printed with --dump_kernel option.
-Clean up EmberTester to handle some of the recent changes.
-Fix various casts.
-Replace % 2 with & 1, even though the compiler was likely doing this already.
-Add new file Variations06.h to accommodate new variations.
-Remove redundant comparisons to nullptr, use ! instead;
-Give some controls valid names instead of the auto generated ones.
-DoubleSpinBoxTableItemDelegate.h: Add virtual keyword to overridden functions.
-General cleanup.
0.9.9.0 Beta 09/21/2015
--Bug fixes:
-Fix crash on startup when no GPU present.
0.9.9.0 Beta 09/19/2015 (Major contributions from Simon Detheridge)
--User changes
-Add option to display affines in polar coords.
-Show OpenCL program build errors on info tab, when compilation fails.
-Add color curves adjustment widget and corresponding entry in the flame xml file.
-Add the ability to delete/select an ember at a given index in EmberFile with delete and enter keys.
-Add the ability to save ember Xmls to an unique automatically generated name after the first time the user has specified a name.
-Add automatic filename padding to animations in EmberAnimate and Fractorium.
-Allow for multiple palette files rather than hard coding to flam3-palettes.xml.
-Make xaos display a matrix in its own tab rather than a single column in the xforms tab.
-Remove xaos from/to button since it's no longer applicable.
-Add the ability to apply operations to a selection of xforms, rather than just the current one.
-Add the ability to set the current xform by pressing F1 - F32.
-Add the ability to toggle an entire row or column of xaos values.
-Add the ability to click the right mouse button and drag to adjust values in spinners.
-Allow for toggling row and column of affine tables.
-Add the ability to copy and paste xforms between flames.
-Allow for setting rendering thread priorities.
-Show estimated time left on the final render dialog.
-Sort palette list by name, instead of by index in the palette file.
-Sorting can be flipped by clicking the column headers of the palette table.
-Allow for detaching of top level tabs in the dock widget so workspaces can be customized and saved between runs.
-Add linked xform support, with new button and icon on the xforms tab.
-Add an additional animation motion function named Saw (Simon Detheridge).
-Add motion support at the ember level instead of just individual xforms (Simon Detheridge).
-Add an offset to existing motion elements, to start them partway through their cycle.
-Add Summary tab to the info dock, place existing bounds related info in a new Bounds tab.
-Add a toolbar with the most common actions on it, remove old toolbar at the top of the library tab.
-Add variations filter/selection dialog that applied to randoms and is also saved in the settings.
-Remove Hue as a saved parameter, as well as animation parameters associated with it. It's now a GUI-only field that is never saved.
-Make histogram, density filter buffer, and all associated fields always float, even when using double. In that case, only the iteration calculations are now double. Suggested by Thomas Ludwig.
-Print all three kernels in EmberRender when the --dump_kernel option is specified.
-Add Simon Detheridge's name to the About Box.
-Add support for multiple GPU devices.
--These options are present in the command line and in Fractorium.
--Change scheme of specifying devices from platform, device to just total device index.
---Single number on the command line.
---Change from combo boxes for device selection to a table of all devices in Fractorium.
-Temporal samples defaults to 100 instead of 1000 which was needless overkill.
-Make combo boxes have zero margins, they were getting clipped on Linux.
-Make xform weight cell slightly wider, it was getting clipped on Linux.
-Adjust height of final render dialog to make it look better on Linux.
--Bug Fixes
-Fix status bar height on retina displays.
-Reduce the amount of ComputeCamera() and MakeDmap() calls on each incremental iter that doesn't use temporal samples.
-Fix clamping bug with DE filter widths.
-Prevent extra newline in EmberRender when only rendering a single image.
-Add and call ClearFinalImages() to clear buffers in controller to fix bug where previous CPU render would be shown for a split second when switching from OpenCL back to CPU.
-Refactor ember library pointer syncing to a function SyncPointers().
-Use a non-imbued stringstream to generate output filename.
-Fix NAN in equalized weight calculation when all weights are set to 0.
-Prevent xform index flickering whenever changing the number of xforms.
-Fix tab tool tips again.
-Only correct variation names/params during parsing when the source of the Xml file is not from Ember/Fractorium.
-Order of affine scale up/down buttons was reversed from what's intuitive.
-Projection was not properly being set when animating flames with 3D parameters.
-Eliminate delay when switching between single and double precision.
-Convert motion_frequency to floating point.
-Make loops and motion_frequency params to EmberGenome work correctly, and convert to double.
-Allow for empty fields in template files.
-Better application wide exception handling and diagnostics.
-Put Nvidia block size in DE back to 24 where it used to be. Nvidia fails when it's 32.
-Fix misspelling of the word "Rendering" in failure messages in final render dialog.
-Properly disable add final xform button when a final xform is present.
-Move some kernel initialization to a place where it's done once per render, rather than on every interactive iter chunk.
-FractoriumXformsColor.cpp: Checking for null pixmap pointer is not enough, must also check if the underlying buffer is null via call to QPixmap::isNull().
-Remove some old style sheet code on the xforms tab that doesn't seem to make sense and was probably just a workaround for a transient Qt bug, of which there are hundreds.
-Set auto fill background for all of the nested tabs on the ui. This has ping ponged back and forth since the beginning of this project.
--Code Changes
-General code cleanup in many places.
-Major work to build on Mac and Linux.
-Better use of const functions.
-Force all float literals in OpenCL variations to correct precision.
-Remove ReadMe.txt from all project files.
-Provide functions to return the kernels from RendererCL to assist with diagnostics and debugging.
-Remove unnecessary resize() in Interpolate().
-Explicitly namespace calls to sqrt() and isnan().
-Clean up strange nested usage of Update([&]()) calls when changing xform color index via either the spinner or scroll bar. Made no sense.
-Make ISAAC RandBit() use RandByte() to be slightly more efficient.
-Put FillXforms() in the controller where it belongs, rather than the main window class.
-Add UpdateXform() function to the controller to handle applying operations to multiple xforms.
-Remove the word "Current" out of most xform related functions because they now operate on whatever is selected.
-Properly use Update() for various xform operations whereas before it was manually calling UpdateRender().
-Also properly use Update() in places where it was erroneously using UpdateXform() for things that did not involve xforms.
-Block signals in FillXaosTable().
-Add new file named FractoriumXformsSelect.cpp to handle new xform selection code.
-Remove ForEach() wrappers and replace with range based for loops with auto.
-Replace every regular for loop with a range based one where applicable. Note this doesn't work everywhere.
-Make event filter application wide.
-Add parameter to FillXforms() to specify the index to select, default 0.
-Rename some scroll areas and layouts to names that make sense, rather than their designer defaults.
-Fix some pedantic gcc errors about missing template keyword.
-Use QTableView instead of QTableWidget for the xaos table.
-Remove unnecessary connect() statement in Variations tab.
-Variation tree and associated widgets no longer actually contain variation objects, only IDs.
-Refactor code to make a color visible on a background into VisibleColor() in FractoriumCommon.h
-Add IsXformLinked() to determine if an xform is linked to another.
-Remove SetPaletteRefTable() and GetQRgbFromPaletteIndex() from FractoriumEmberControllerBase and its derivations, unused.
-Add FillSummary() to FractoriumEmberController. Call in Update(), UpdateXform() and other places where values are changed to force an update of the summary view.
-Add export statements to FractoriumInfo.cpp.
-Remove image parameter from SetPaletteTableItem(), it was a bad design.
-Refactor code to get a palette color at a given index and convert it to a QColor to ColorIndexToQColor().
-Remove a file named Fractorium.aps which had been erroneously committed a year ago.
-Use qobject_cast instead of dynamic_cast where appropriate.
-Add more override keyword where appropriate.
-Add small function ShutdownAndRecreateFromOptions() to wrap shutting down the timer and recreating the renderer.
-Use the overridden accept() and reject() functions more consistently across dialogs.
-De-templatized DEOpenCLKernelCreator and FinalAccumOpenCLKernelCreator. They now just take a bool as a parameter to specify double precision.
-To accommodate the buffers being float, introduce a new #define types in EmberCL called real4_bucket, and real4reals_bucket.
-Density and spatial filtering structs now use this type.
-ConvertDensityFilter() and ConvertSpatialFilter() no longer return a value, they just assign to the member.
-Make ConvertCarToRas() just assign to the member rather than return a struct.
-Make kernel string accessor functions in IterOpenCLKernelCreator, FinalAccumOpenCLKernelCreator and DEOpenCLKernelCreator be const and return a const string reference.
-Don't include atomic string unless locking on the GPU, which is never.
-Add bool to Alloc() to only allocate memory for the histogram. Needed for multi-GPU.
-Ember.h: Add case for FLAME_MOTION_NONE and default in ApplyFlameMotion().
-EmberMotion.h: Call base constructor.
-EmberPch.h: #pragma once only on Windows.
-EmberToXml.h:
--Handle different types of exceptions.
--Add default cases to ToString().
-Isaac.h: Remove unused variable in constructor.
-Point.h: Call base constructor in Color().
-Renderer.h/cpp:
--Add bool to Alloc() to only allocate memory for the histogram. Needed for multi-GPU.
--Make CoordMap() return a const ref, not a pointer.
-SheepTools.h:
--Use 64-bit types like the rest of the code already does.
--Fix some comment misspellings.
-Timing.h: Make BeginTime(), EndTime(), ElapsedTime() and Format() be const functions.
-Utils.h:
--Add new functions Equal() and Split().
--Handle more exception types in ReadFile().
--Get rid of most legacy blending of C and C++ argument parsing.
-XmlToEmber.h:
--Get rid of most legacy blending of C and C++ code from flam3.
--Remove some unused variables.
-EmberAnimate:
--Support multi-GPU processing that alternates full frames between devices.
--Use OpenCLInfo instead of OpenCLWrapper for --openclinfo option.
--Remove bucketT template parameter, and hard code float in its place.
--If a render fails, exit since there is no point in continuing an animation with a missing frame.
--Pass variables to threaded save better, which most likely fixes a very subtle bug that existed before.
--Remove some unused variables.
-EmberGenome, EmberRender:
--Support multi-GPU processing that alternates full frames between devices.
--Use OpenCLInfo instead of OpenCLWrapper for --openclinfo option.
--Remove bucketT template parameter, and hard code float in its place.
-EmberRender:
--Support multi-GPU processing that alternates full frames between devices.
--Use OpenCLInfo instead of OpenCLWrapper for --openclinfo option.
--Remove bucketT template parameter, and hard code float in its place.
--Only print values when not rendering with OpenCL, since they're always 0 in that case.
-EmberCLPch.h:
--#pragma once only on Windows.
--#include <atomic>.
-IterOpenCLKernelCreator.h: Add new kernel for summing two histograms. This is needed for multi-GPU.
-OpenCLWrapper.h:
--Move all OpenCL info related code into its own class OpenCLInfo.
--Add members to cache the values of global memory size and max allocation size.
-RendererCL.h/cpp:
--Redesign to accomodate multi-GPU.
--Constructor now takes a vector of devices.
--Remove DumpErrorReport() function, it's handled in the base.
--ClearBuffer(), ReadPoints(), WritePoints(), ReadHist() and WriteHist() now optionally take a device index as a parameter.
--MakeDmap() override and m_DmapCL member removed because it no longer applies since the histogram is always float since the last commit.
--Add new function SumDeviceHist() to sum histograms from two devices by first copying to a temporary on the host, then a temporary on the device, then summing.
--m_Calls member removed, as it's now per-device.
--OpenCLWrapper removed.
--m_Seeds member is now a vector of vector of seeds, to accomodate a separate and different array of seeds for each device.
--Added member m_Devices, a vector of unique_ptr of RendererCLDevice.
-EmberCommon.h
--Added Devices() function to convert from a vector of device indices to a vector of platform,device indices.
--Changed CreateRenderer() to accept a vector of devices to create a single RendererCL which will split work across multiple devices.
--Added CreateRenderers() function to accept a vector of devices to create multiple RendererCL, each which will render on a single device.
--Add more comments to some existing functions.
-EmberCommonPch.h: #pragma once only on Windows.
-EmberOptions.h:
--Remove --platform option, it's just sequential device number now with the --device option.
--Make --out be OPT_USE_RENDER instead of OPT_RENDER_ANIM since it's an error condition when animating. It makes no sense to write all frames to a single image.
--Add Devices() function to parse comma separated --device option string and return a vector of device indices.
--Make int and uint types be 64-bit, so intmax_t and size_t.
--Make better use of macros.
-JpegUtils.h: Make string parameters to WriteJpeg() and WritePng() be const ref.
-All project files: Turn off buffer security check option in Visual Studio (/Gs-)
-deployment.pri: Remove the line OTHER_FILES +=, it's pointless and was causing problems.
-Ember.pro, EmberCL.pro: Add CONFIG += plugin, otherwise it wouldn't link.
-EmberCL.pro: Add new files for multi-GPU support.
-build_all.sh: use -j4 and QMAKE=${QMAKE:/usr/bin/qmake}
-shared_settings.pri:
-Add version string.
-Remove old DESTDIR definitions.
-Add the following lines or else nothing would build:
-AboutDialog.ui: Another futile attempt to make it look correct on Linux.
-FinalRenderDialog.h/cpp:
--Add support for multi-GPU.
--Change from combo boxes for device selection to a table of all devices.
--Ensure device selection makes sense.
--Remove "FinalRender" prefix of various function names, it's implied given the context.
-FinalRenderEmberController.h/cpp:
--Add support for multi-GPU.
--Change m_FinishedImageCount to be atomic.
--Move CancelRender() from the base to FinalRenderEmberController<T>.
--Refactor RenderComplete() to omit any progress related functionality or image saving since it can be potentially ran in a thread.
--Consolidate setting various renderer fields into SyncGuiToRenderer().
-Fractorium.cpp: Allow for resizing of the options dialog to show the entire device table.
-FractoriumCommon.h: Add various functions to handle a table showing the available OpenCL devices on the system.
-FractoriumEmberController.h/cpp: Remove m_FinalImageIndex, it's no longer needed.
-FractoriumRender.cpp: Scale the interactive sub batch count and quality by the number of devices used.
-FractoriumSettings.h/cpp:
--Temporal samples defaults to 100 instead of 1000 which was needless overkill.
--Add multi-GPU support, remove old device,platform pair.
-FractoriumToolbar.cpp: Disable OpenCL toolbar button if there are no devices present on the system.
-FractoriumOptionsDialog.h/cpp:
--Add support for multi-GPU.
--Consolidate more assignments in DataToGui().
--Enable/disable CPU/OpenCL items in response to OpenCL checkbox event.
-Misc: Convert almost everything to size_t for unsigned, intmax_t for signed.
-Upgrade Intel Threading Building Blocks library to 4.4
-Upgrade glm to 0.9.7
-Add version resource files to Ember and EmberCL projects.
-Update copyright to 2015 for all version resources.
0.4.1.8 Beta 01/23/2015
--User changes
Thread image writing in EmberAnimate and when doing animation sequence in final render dialog.
Add total time output for verbose mode in EmberAnimate to match EmberRender.
--Bug Fixes
Fix incorrect parsing of legacy "symmetry" xform Xml element.
Fix incorrect iters ran/requested percentage in EmberAnimate to match EmberRender.
Fix motion blur being disabled when doing animations in final render dialog.
Allow for boolean command line options which default to true to be set to false.
--Code Changes
Minor changes to enable a Mac build.
Double the memory required for the final output buffer in RendererBase::MemoryRequired() when threading image writing.
Reuse same buffer for RgbaToRgb() in EmberRender and EmberAnimate.
Only resize in RgbaToRgb() if the two vectors are not the same.
Add a final output buffer ping-ponging mechanism to facilitate threaded writes in controllers.
0.4.1.7 Beta 01/02/2015
--User changes
Use actual strips count when computing memory requirements in the final render dialog.
Output CL_DEVICE_ADDRESS_BITS when passing --openclinfo to command line programs.
Warn if single/total allocations are greater than the max allowed for OpenCL in the final render dialog.
Make about box properly sized for different fonts.
Dock widget is slightly resizable now.
Center scroll area when loading a new ember.
--Bug Fixes
Fix bad values left in an ember when a render with strips > 1 fails in the final render dialog.
Fix incorrect calculation in dc_cube variation when using OpenCL.
--Code Changes
Major work to get it running on Linux.
Migrate from QGLWidget to QOpenGLWidget.
Delayed init due to QOpenGLWidget.
Break RendererBase::MemoryRequired() into two functions, it and HistMemRequired() and return a tuple.
Add GlobalMemSize() and MaxAllocSize() functions in OpenCLWrapper.
Change CHOOSE_XFORM_GRAIN to be 16384, so we can & with 16383 instead of using modulo when selecting an xform. This results in a 9% speed increase on the CPU.
Save each newly loaded ember in a file called "last.flame" in the executable folder. This will help diagnose crashes that occur when switching embers.
Use nullptr instead of NULL in the Fractorium project. It had previously been done in all other places.
0.4.1.6 Beta 11/29/2014
--User Changes
None.
--Bug Fixes
Fix broken continuity of randomness in OpenCL when using strips, broken in last build.
Fix broken density filtering dimensions in OpenCL which left black lines, broken in last build.
Fix broken preview update on when the only change is scale.
Update density filtering progress bar to 100% in final render dialog when DE radius is 0 (disabled).
--Code Changes
Make RendererBase::RandVec() virtual.
0.4.1.5 Beta 11/28/2014
--User Changes
Remove limit on the number of xforms allowable on the GPU. This was previously 21.
Show actual strips count to be used in parens outside of user specified strips count on final render dialog.
Allow for adjustment of iteration depth and fuse count per ember and save/read these values with the xml.
Iteration optimizations on both CPU and GPU.
Automatically adjust default quality spinner value when using CPU/GPU to 10/30, respectively.
--Bug Fixes
Fix severe randomization bug with OpenCL.
Fix undo list off by one error when doing a new edit anywhere but the end of the undo list.
Make integer variation parameters use 4 decimal places in the variations list like all the others.
New build of the latest Qt to fix scroll bar drawing bug.
Prevent grid from showing as much when pressing control to increase a spinner's increment speed. Still shows sometimes, but better than before.
--Code Changes
Pass count and fuse to iterator as a structure now to allow for passing more params in the future.
Slightly different grid/block logic when running DE filtering on the GPU.
Attempt a different way of doing DE, but #define out because it ended up not being faster.
Restructure some things to allow for a variable length xforms buffer to be passed to the GPU.
Add sub batch size and fuse count as ember members, and remove them from the renderer classes.
Remove m_LastPass from Renderer. It should have been removed with passes.
Pass seeds as a buffer to the OpenCL iteration kernel, rather than a single seed that gets modified.
Slight optimization on CPU accum.
Use case statement instead of if/else for xform chosing in OpenCL for a 2% speedup on params with large numbers of xforms.
Add SizeOf() wrapper around sizeof(vec[0]) * vec.size().
Remove LogScaleSum() functions from the CPU and GPU because they're no longer used since passes were removed.
Make some OpenCLWrapper getters const.
Better ogranize RendererCL methods that return grid dimensions.
0.4.1.4 Beta 11/04/2014
--User Changes
Remove custom focusing logic from spin boxes. This was originally done to overcome a bug in Qt that has since been fixed.
Add Random Xaos button.
Remove passes, they were never used.
--Bug Fixes
Fix uniqe names and estimated iter count in final render dialog.
Fix using non-zero rotation with strips.
Fix locale decimal commas bug with affine adjustment combo boxes.
Fix accidental disabling of post affine group box. The designer was clobbering it.
Remove PaletteImage option from command line programs, it's unused.
Improve documentation for some other command line options.
--Code Changes
Replace all instances of auto_ptr with unique_ptr.
Remove * operator from Affine2D, it was unused.
0.4.1.3 Beta 10/14/2014
--User Changes
Size is no longer fixed to the window size.
Size scaling is done differently in the final render dialog. This fixes several bugs.
Remove Xml saving size from settings and options dialog, it no longer applies.
Final render can be broken into strips.
Set default save path to the desktop if none is found in the settings file.
Set default output size to 1920x1080 if none is found in the settings file.
--Bug Fixes
Better memory size reporting in final render dialog.
--Code Changes
Migrate to C++11, Qt 5.3.1, and Visual Studio 2013.
Change most instances of unsigned int to size_t, and int to intmax_t.
Add m_OrigPixPerUnit and m_ScaleType to Ember for scaling purposes.
Replace some sprintf_s() calls in XmlToEmber with ostringstream.
Move more non-templated members into RendererBase.
Add CopyVec() overload that takes a per element function pointer.
Add vector Memset().
Replace '&' with '+' instead of "&" in XmlToEmber for much faster parsing.
Break strips rendering out into EmberCommon and call from EmberRender and Fractorium.
Make AddAndWriteBuffer() just call WriteBuffer().
Make AddAndWriteImage() delete the existing image first before replacing it.
Add SetOutputTexture() to RendererCL to support making new textures in response to resize events.
Remove multiple return statements in RendererCL, and replace with a bool that tracks results.
Add ToDouble(), MakeEnd(), ToString() and Exists() wrappers in Fractorium.
Add Size() wrapper in EmberFile.
Make QString function arguments const QString&, and string with const string&.
Make ShowCritical() wrapper for invoking a message box from another thread.
Add combo box to TwoButtonWidget and rename.
0.4.1.2 Beta 08/05/2014
--User Changes
Add --yaxisup and --supersample options for command line programs.
--Bug Fixes
Make certain options available only to the command line programs in which they make sense. Most were good, some were misplaced.
--Code Changes
Include pure render time as part of stats.
Output iters/sec measurement in EmberRender and EmberAnimate.
0.4.1.1 Beta 08/03/2014
--Bug Fixes
Spatial filter would not be correctly recreated on subsequent runs of differing supersample values during final render.
Fix DCBubble, Funnel, SphericalN,
Wrong logic with some usage of DO_DOUBLE. Only relevant for testing.
Use uint64 for iters/sec calculation on final render dialog. int was overflowing on extremely fast GPU renders.
--Code Changes
Make density, spatial and temporal filters preserve the values they were created with. This helps in determining when a new instance is needed.
Better NULL checks when copying embers and xforms.
Rename members in FractoriumEmberControllerBase.h to omit duplicating the members declared in the base.
0.4.1.0 Beta 07/29/2014
--Bug Fixes
Final render dialog didn't create the renderer properly on first run when more than one platform was present.
0.4.0.9 Beta 07/27/2014
--User Changes
Properly set tab order on all controls.
Calculate and report iters/second in the final render dialog.
Immediately draw yellow dot on xform mouse down on previously unselected xform.
--Bug Fixes
Fix GlynnSim1, GlynnSim2, GlynnSim3 and juliaNab by ensuring the first argument to pow() is >= 0.
Ensure OpenCL platform and device combo boxes in the final render dialog expand as needed.
--Code Changes
Make VariationTreeSpinbox take its parent VariationTreeWidgetItem as a constructor argument. This makes SetupVariationTree() and VariationSpinBoxValueChanged() more efficient.
Make Interference2 and ho use fabs().
0.4.0.8 Beta 07/26/2014
--Bug Fixes
Fix falloff, falloff2, falloff3.
0.4.0.7 Beta 07/26/2014
--User Changes
Color code xforms like Apo does.
Change other aspects of xform color drawing.
Add option to invert the Y axis to both the options final render dialogs.
Coordinate Y axis setting with preview renders.
Add option to show all xforms when dragging. Previously, only the current one was shown.
Make final render dialog appear in the middle of the screen.
Immediately draw yellow selection dot on mouse down.
--Bug Fixes
Resize final render dialog vertically if it's taller than the 90% of the desktop area.
0.4.0.6 Beta 07/22/2014
--User Changes
Place certain areas of the UI on scroll panels so they are not obscured on low resolution monitors.
0.4.0.5 Beta 07/18/2014
--User Changes
Allow for vibrancy values > 1.
Add flatten and unflatten menu items.
Automatically flatten like Apophysis does.
Add plugin and new_linear tags to Xml to be compatible with Apophysis.
Unique filename on final render was completely broken.
Two severe OpenCL bugs. Random seeds were biased and fusing was being reset too often leading to results that differ from the CPU.
Subtle, but sometimes severe bug in the setup of the xaos weights.
Use properly defined epsilon by getting the value from std::numeric_limits, rather than hard coding 1e-6 or 1e-10.
Omit incorrect usage of epsilon everywhere. It should not be automatically added to denominators. Rather, it should only be used if the denominator is zero.
Force final render progress bars to 100 on completion. Sometimes they didn't seem to make it there.
Make variation name and params comparisons be case insensitive.
--Code Changes
Make ForEach and FindIf wrappers around std::for_each and std::find_if.
0.4.0.1 Beta 07/06/2014
--Bug Fixes
Fix name collision of mobius and Mobius. The former is treated as mobius_strip.
0.4.0.0 Beta 07/06/2014
--User Changes
Addition of over 200 new variations.
Almost all variations now come with pre and post version. Bringing the total to almost 900. Pre/post are omitted for some direct coloring variations.
Support for 3D fields from Apophysis: cam_zpos, cam_persp, cam_yaw, cam_pitch, cam_dof.
Support for direct coloring dc_ variations.
Allow for saturation spin box to go negative like Apo does.
Select all when first clicking in any of the spin boxes.
Add a Clear Xaos button to easily reset all xaos values to 1.
Default threads to processors - 1 for first time users to keep the UI more responsive.
The following variations have extra precalcs added to them and should run faster: bent2, bipolar, blob, cpow, curve, escher, fan2, flux, modulus, oscilloscope, rings2, separation, split, wedge.
--Bug Fixes
The wrong visibility value was being used on final xforms.
The options dialog was not being restored to the previous UI state when the user clicked cancel.
Pie variation was not properly using the slices parameter.
Erroneously included gutter when computing bounds and units of OpenGL display window.
Needlessly calling floor() when calculating histogram index during point accumulation.
--Code Changes
DoubleSpinBox
Change step.
Allow for selecting all on click by making the line edit a custom derived class.
Ember
Add new fields and functions for 3D projection.
Add new export macro to handle pre, regular and post variations.
Add function to get a list of pointers to the variations present in all xforms with no duplicates and only single entries for reg, pre and post types. Used to construct OpenCL function strings.
Better calling of CacheXforms() in interpolate.
EmberAnimate, EmberGenome, EmberRender
Print platform and device information when running with OpenCL.
EmberCLFunctions
Add new global math functions to correspond to the ones added in Utils.
EmberCLStructs
Add support for 3D fields.
Make m_LastXfUsed be a member of PointCL, rather than a local variable declared in the kernel.
EmberDefines
Add a define to only instantiate float type. Useful for reducing build times while debugging, and removed on release.
Add defines: M_2PI, M_3PI, CUBE, TLOW, TMAX, m3T, acosh and fma. The last two will be removed once the project moves to C++11 in the future.
EmberFile
Add UniqueFilename() function to ensure what we save is never overwritten with subsequent saves.
EmberTester
Add many test functions to test the integrity of the Variations design. This will be made into a formal testing suite in the future, but for now is just a collection of global functions.
EmberToXml
Write out legacy symmetry field in addition to color speed for each xform.
Write out name field for each xform for Apo compatibility.
FinalRenderDialog
Add MoveCursorToEnd() signal function to be called from the final render thread.
FinalRenderEmberController
Call invokeMethod to move cursor to the end rather than directly. This was possibly causing intermittent crashes before.
When saving on render complete, call new UniqueFilename() function for saving both the xml and the image to ensure no overwriting occurs.
Fractorium
Add functions to support 3D.
FractoriumColor
Add fields and functions to support direct coloring.
FractoriumPalette
Allow for saturation to go negative like Apo does.
FractoriumParams
Add functions to support 3D.
FractoriumVariations
Add min/max range for params.
Call SetParamVal() on spinner change rather than directly assining to the param to ensure values are in a valid range.
Interpolate
Use new SetParamVal() function for interpolating all params. This ensures the interpolated values are in the proper range specified by each variation.
Use M_2PI constant.
Isaac
Make ALPHA template argument 4 instead of 8 for more compactness.
Make functions inline.
Add check for modulo zero in ranged Rand().
Iterator
Add support for 3D projections.
During fuse loop, iterate on the same point rather than to the samples buffer to be more cache friendly. Gives a ~1% speedup.
IterOpenCLKernelCreator
Add support for 3D projections.
Add support for new pre/reg/post variation design.
Directly assign points rather than doing one field at a time.
OptionsDialog
Add reject() function to restore the UI to the previous state when the user clicks cancel.
PaletteList
Remove Isaac member and use the new global one instead.
Point
Add m_Z member for 3D.
Renderer
Make temporary Isaac seeds buffer match 1 << ISAAC_SIZE, rather than hard code to 256.
RendererCL
Copy new 3D and DC fields to EmberCL object.
Utils
Add a global Isaac object for use in places where none exists. Only to be used in single threaded scenarios.
Add many functions for use in new variations: ClampMod(), ClampLteRef(), Sign(), Sqr(), SafeSqrt(), Cube(), Hypot(), Spread(), Powq4(), Powq4c(), Zeps(), Lerp(), Fabsmod(), Fosc(), Foscn(), LogScale(), LogMap().
Add new int Floor<T>(T val) function that is faster than the system floor() and use it everywhere. Time test proved to be faster.
Variation
Complete redesign of variations. Split into multiple files to avoid one becoming unweildy.
Each variation will have a type: pre, regular or post, and will have an assignment type that dictates how the results will be assigned to the output points: direct assign or sum, to be used in pre and post variations. Regular ones always sum.
Variation enums are now sorted alphabetically rather than the traditional arbitrary sorting of flam3.
Add Precalc() and PrecalcOpenCLString() functions to be called with pre and post variations. Placed here instead of xform because they depend on the variation type, pre or post.
Add additional functions to help handle pre/post logic and naming.
Add fields to specify valid value ranges for parametric params. Taken from Apo.
Reserve 5 for params vector in parametric variations.
Add randomization function for parametric variations.
Use new range and value checked Set() function in CopyParamVals() instead of directly assigning values.
Add non-null checks in copy macros to delete to prevent a memory leak.
Add new macros to handle creating and copying pre and post variations.
VariationList
Add new macro for handling the adding of pre, regular, and post variations.
Add three new vectors to hold pointers, but not copies, to pre, regular and post variations.
Add helper function GetVariationCopy().
Xform
Add direct color support.
Major rework of Apply() function to use new style of pre/reg/post variations as well as direct coloring.
Add Read() functions and their OpenCL counterparts, to handle reading from the appropriate inputs for pre and post variations.
Move members around to match the order they're accessed to be more cache friendly.
XmlToEmber
Add support for 3D fields, direct color, and the legacy symmetry field.
Correct poorly named variations and their parameters.
Remove Isaac member and use the new global one instead.
0.3.7.3 Beta 05/04/2014 (Intermediate commit without an associated release)
--User Changes
Fix a bug that reset the render when adjusting a parameter of a variation whose weight was zero. Now only update the render if the variation is actually present with a non-zero weight.
Add many new variations, with more to come. Any Z coordinate functionality has been commented out for the time being until 3D support is added.
Preserve xform index during undo/redo.
In EmberRender and EmberAnimate, report iters as ran/requested rather than requested/ran.
--Code Changes
Solution
Update glm, libjpeg, libpng, libxml2 and tbb to their latest versions.
Change include/link order for every project for all configurations and platforms to prefer AMD over nVidia since AMD's OpenCL support is more current.
Variations
Split variations into three files, Variation.h, PreVariations.h, and PostVariations.h.
Add many new variations from the Apophysis plugins.
Place Variations in their own project filter folder in Ember.
Affine2D
Change the name of the template parameter to T instead of Tt.
Make T() function O().
Remove glm typedefs, they are global now.
EmberDefines
Add some new constant defines.
Add global glm defines.
Utils
Add some additional rounding functions needed in the newly added variations.
Xform
Split variations into three separate lists for regular, pre and post variations.
Add new function to retrieve the total variation count between all three lists.
Add other various functionality to handle the three lists.
EmberCLFunctions
Add OpenCL equivalent of new rounding functions.
EmberCLStructs
Add OpenCL equivalent of new constant defines.
Rearrange the members of the structures to match the order they are used in, and remove unused members.
IterOpenCLKernelCreator
Add support for the three variations lists in each xform.
OpenCLWrapper
Add #define to use Image2DGL for OpenCL 1.1 on nVidia, or ImageGL for OpenCL 1.2 on AMD.
Fix a glaring bug (device and platform = 0 in the constructor) that was compiling, but was causing an out of bounds memory read under the covers and was only detected in debug mode.
0.3.7.2 Beta 04/16/2014
--User Changes
Fix bug where images with a high number of bad values would crash the rendering process on nVidia cards.
Disable mouse wheel scrolling when it's held down for panning. This makes panning easier on sensitive mice.
--Code Changes
Variations
Begin implementing more variations from Apophysis, but leave them disabled for now.
Ember
Fixed a bug when adding symmetry to an ember that sorted all of the xforms by color speed value, instead of only the newly added symmetry xforms.
IterOpenCLKernelCreator
Fixed a bug where final xform was considered for the randomly selected xform during each iteration. It was never actually hit, but should have never been there regardless.
Major change in how bad values were being handled. They were failing out on nVidia but running ok on AMD, but giving worse images. Now it's done in a while loop to avoid severe warp divergence.
0.3.7.1 Beta 04/07/2014
--User Changes
Fixed a bug that accidentally disabled double precision support on nVidia cards in the last commit.
0.3.7.0 Beta 04/06/2014
--User Changes
Support for most recent AMD cards.
Final render dialog is now non-modal, allowing the main window to be minimized while doing a lengthy render.
Fixed device selection which was completely broken in the final render dialog.
Save backup Xml before rendering starts just in case it crashes mid way through. The backup file is deleted upon successful render completion.
Set the GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT env var to 100 to allow full usage of GPU memory.
New --dump_kernel command line option for EmberRender to print the kernel if using OpenCL.
Fix hiding of xform indices in the xforms combo when their count was >= 10 by making the combo slightly wider.
Add ABCDEF to affine xform values table to clarify the meaning of x1, y1, x2, y2, o1, o2.
Variations is now the default shown tab when clicking into the xforms tab.
When resizing a buffer, clear the existing one first to avoid having both resident in memory for a brief moment.
EmberCLStructs
Allow for 21 xforms per ember, was previously 17.
RendererCL
Support AMD.
Limit variations per xform to MAX_CL_VARS.
EmberTreeWidgetItem
Derive EmberTreeWidgetItem from EmberTreeWidgetItemBase to make casting possible since a templated argument can't be passed to invokeMethod().
Fractorium
New functions to allow updating the preview renders from within a thread better.
FractoriumLibrary
Better flushing of event queues when starting and stopping preview renderer.
Place a try/catch block around EmberTreeItemChanged() because it seems to get called spurriously for tree items that have already been deleted.
FractoriumEmberController
Fix bug where Fractorium would crash when opening a new file before the preview renders were finished by doing two things: Updating the thumbnail via invokeMethod() and using BlockingQueuedConnection for that call.
0.3.6.0 Beta 03/11/2014
--User Changes
Fix bug when using early clip.
Fix crash when more than once device is present.
Fix bug where saving the current Xml would continually prompt.
Fix bug where renderer wouldn't reinitialize after changing platform or device.
Add default click values for: brightness, gamma, gamma threshold, vibrancy, highlight power, spatial filter width, min and max DE radius, DE curve,
--Code Changes
EmberCL.vcxproj
Add paths for AMD APP SDK. Support will be coming in the following months.
Renderer
Fix bug in EarlyClip() function signature that prevented it from being overrided, add const in base.
Formatting cleanup.
EmberCLStructs
Remove typedefs for sbyte, byte and uint. They are not needed.
IterOpenCLKernelCreator
Change byte to uchar.
OpenCLWrapper
Fix bug in DeviceAndPlatformNames() that would crash the program when more than one platform was present.
FractoriumLibrary
Fix bug where saving the current Xml would continually prompt.
FractoriumRenderer
Fix bug where renderer wouldn't reinitialize after changing platform or device.
OptionsDialog
Better initialization of the platform/device combo boxes when more than one platform/device is present.
0.3.5.0 Beta 02/14/2014
--User Changes
Add Hemisphere variation because it was needed for some testing. Many more to follow soon.
Integer spin boxes can be scrolled by 1 when shift is held down.
Support for dragging and dropping multiple files.
Support for DnD and pasting Xml over the current file or appending them to it.
Proper behavior when zero variations are present. This differs from flam3, but makes more sense.
Preview and scaling options when doing a final render.
Bug fix in EmberGenome that would crash when creating a sequence that included embers with final Xforms in them.
--Code Changes
Ember
Add two members to preserve the original raster width and height of an ember as it was read from file. This is used for aspect ratio calculations later on.
EmberDefines
Add two new enums for render status and scaling preference.
EmberToXml
Make some buffers size 128 instead of 100.
Add function AddFilenameWithoutAmpersand() to ensure an ampersand is never added to the edits because Xml can't parse those.
Error in ConvertLinearToPolar() was calling GetXform(). Changed to GetTotalXform().
PaletteList
Use a string instead of a vector because it's needed now to deal with ampersands.
Renderer, RendererCL
Rendering functions now no longer return just true or false. Rather, they return an enum indicating whether it ran ok, with an error, or aborted.
Ok function was inadvertently made not to be an override in OpenCL. Fixed by adding const to match the base.
SheepTools
Clean up to use our modern design instead of some remnants left over from flam3.
Consolidate variation weight normalization to a function call, NormalizeVariationWeights().
Utils
Add some functionality to EmberReport.
Add a function FindAndReplace() to replace all isntances of a value within a collection with a specified value.
Variation, VariationList
Formatting cleanup.
Add new variation Hemisphere().
Xform
Change the behavior for when zero variations are present to just treat them as linear variations with weight 1.
XmlToEmber
Formatting cleanup.
Preserve original raster width and height in new member variables.
Reserve space in the embers vector based on a rough estimate of how many are present in the file.
Account for strings which contain an ampersand, which Xml can't parse.
EmberCommon
Generalize CreateRenderer() function to work in all scenarios, which reduced code duplication in the GUI.
EmberRender, EmberAnimate, EmberGenome
Better error reporting when renderer creation fails.
IterOpenCLKernelCreator
Update GPU side to use the new Xform behavior when variations are empty.
DoubleSpinBox
Style cleanup.
EmberFile
Remove unused CreateRenderer() function.
EmberTreeWidgetItem
Use RGBA for previews because that's what QPixmap prefers.
FinalRenderDialog
General cleanup.
Support for new scaling features.
FinalRenderEmberController
Add support for preview renders.
Support for new scaling features.
Use new CreateRenderer() function.
Use invokeMethod() for all GUI updates inside of the render and preview threads. This was causing an occasional crash before.
Preserve the state of some of the checkboxes that were not being saved before.
Fractorium
Add support for drag n drop of multiple files at once.
Better drag n drop code.
FractoriumEmberController
Make the preview renderer keep one core free, instead of maxing out all cores.
FractoriumInfo
Use invokeMethod() to account for when ErrorReportToQTextEdit() is called from a thread.
FractoriumLibrary
General cleanup.
Add support for undo/redo list.
FractoriumMenus
Add support for undo/redo list.
Add support pasting Xml as an append, as well as a replacement.
Preserve original dimension with new m_OrigFinalRasW and m_OrigFinalRasH fields.
Better handling of unicode and html junk in pasted strings.
Stop preview render whenever the open file/list of embers changes in response to user action.
FractoriumRender
Add support for undo/redo list.
Clear both front and back screen buffers on the main window when showing the final render dialog.
Use new CreateRenderer() function.
FractoriumSettings
General cleanup and reordering.
Add support for saving scaling options from the final render dialog.
Preserve the state of some of the checkboxes that were not being saved before.
SpinBox
Add a default small step of 1 to be used when scrolling and holding shift. DoubleSpinBox already had this functionality.
0.3.4.0 Beta 01/26/2014
--User Changes
Fix bug where the last few rows of an image weren't being rendered.
Add commas to various command line numerical outputs to make them easier to read.
Apply sort mode to variations list every time filter is changed or cleared.
Prevent crash when clicking on main window before initialization is complete on program startup.
--Code Changes
OpenCLWrapper, RendererCL
Refactor to better separate OpenCL detection from initialization. This should help detect devices better.
EmberOptions
Fix small formatting errors in command line help text.
EmberFile
Prevent assign to self.
0.3.3.0 Beta 01/23/2014
--User Changes
More intelligent checking for OpenCL.
Greater zoom amount when scrolling the mouse wheel on the main window.
0.3.2.0 Beta 01/19/2014
--User Changes
Add previews to open embers in the Library tab.
Allow for starting and stopping the preview renderer.
Make library tab first and automatically selected.
Fix the ngon and rays variations to use the sum of the squares, instead of their square root. Ngon and rays were completely erroneous before this fix.
Add support for copying and pasting Xml text from and into the GUI.
Holding shift while scrolling xform weight adjusts the value by 0.001 for more precise manipulation.
--Code Changes
CarToRas
Prevent assign to self.
Remove padded variables for bounds checking, and check bounds properly. Also discovered that even when points are in bounds, the roundoff error from converting to raster can put them out of bounds. Add a final check in Accum.
DensityFilter
General cleanup.
Save the filter width (oddly enough, this wasn't being done before).
Add a vector of indices that is used in OpenCL to apply the filter by row, rather than moving from the center outward. This fixes a race condition when applying the DE filter on the GPU.
Remove FinalMinRad, FinalMaxRad and ActualMaxRad members and accessor functions.
Affine2D, Color, Ember, Palette, Point, Variation, Xform
Prevent assign to self.
Renderer
Fully setup gutter width the way smoulder does.
In GaussianDensityFilter(), do a more optimized assignment of the bucket hit count if SS=1.
Reorder the assignments for the case (jj == ii) to be cache efficient.
In Accumulate(), add one final check after Car to Ras conversion to make absolutely sure it's within bounds. This was the source of a seldom occurring, but lethal memory error.
EmberToXml
Clamp supersample to always be greater than 1 just to be safe.
XmlToEmber
Add a Parse() overload that takes a vector<unsigned char>.
More consistent formatting of error messages.
Add, but comment out, an attempt to capture missing variations when parsing. Revisit later.
FractoriumEmberController, FractoriumMenus
Properly account for scale when opening from file, dragging and dropping, or pasting Xmls into the GUI.
FractoriumParams
Allow brightness to go to 50 and gamma to go to 9999.
Allow spatial filter width to go down to 0.1, was 0.4 before.
FractoriumRender
Renderer was not properly being created when returning from options if params other than OpenCL or double precision were changed. Now properly construct for all options changes.
FractoriumSettings
Default XmlSupersample to 2 if not found in settings file.
FractoriumXformsAffine
Respect world vs. local pivot when flipping affine to mimic Apophysis behavior. Was previously always using world pivot behavior.
FractoriumXformsColor
NULL check for empty pixmap on startup.
GLWidget
Check for m_Init in SetSelectedXform() to avoid recursive paint operation.
EmberCLStructs
Remove pad members from CarToRas structures to mirrow the CPU side.
EmberCLFunctions
Remove AddToAccum functions, they are no longer used with new DE code. Add AccumCheck() function to check bounds, but not accumulate.
Change CarToRasInBounds() to check bounds the same way the new CPU code does.
IterOpenCLKernelCreator
Add histSize parameter to kernel.
Add (histIndex < histSize) check after call to CarToRasConvertPointToSingle() to match the extra check done on the CPU side now. This will guarantee memory errors will never happen while iterating.
RendererCL
Add support for different block widths and heights for DE.
Add a DE coefficients buffer for applying DE by row, which fixes the race condition problem that occurs when applying from the center outward.
DE blocksize is now 32x32, unless SS>1 or type is double, in which case they run at 32x30.
Add debugging code in GaussianDensityFilter() to fall back to the CPU for testing, leave commented out.
DEOpenCLKernelCreator
Re-design to apply filter by row, rather than from the center outward. This solves the race condition error that would lead to missing pixels on some images.
Eliminate needless variables and make every effort to get the kernel as compact as possible. This allows running a block size of 32x32.
Rename blockHistCol and blockHistRow to threadHistCol and threadHistRow since that's what they are.
In CreateGaussianDEKernel(), have the last row accumulate since it's slightly faster than having the first row do it.
In CreateGaussianDEKernel(), Change the local buffer to be size 3000.
0.3.1.0 Beta 01/06/2014
--User Changes
Changing size when dragging in an image (orig -> window), resizing (window -> window), or doing a final render (window -> final render) now compensates for scale (pixels per unit).
Spatial filter width now allows values >= 0 and defaults to 0.4.
All spinners now scroll by the normal step / 10 when holding shift. Variation spinners are a special case and scroll by 0.001 with shift held down.
Final render now shows pure render time along with total time.
Fix bug in final render dialog where only the first image in the file would get rendered.
Installer will now uninstall the previous version automatically.
Installer now includes this file.
About box now fully specifies version with 4 digits.
--Code Changes
-Ember
Add function SetSizeAndAdjustScale() to adjust the scale for a size change.
-RendererCL
Report error when adding spatial filter params fails, which can happen when GPU memory runs out.
-DoubleSpinBox
Add m_Step and m_SmallStep members to specify how much to scroll by based on the keyboard modifier.
-FinalRenderEmberController
Add m_TotalTimer member to differentiate between render time and total time.
0.3 Beta 12/27/2013
--User Changes
Support for single and double precision data types in Fractorium.
Support for single and double precision data types with OpenCL.
Support for --nstrips on the command line with OpenCL.
Support for --lock_accum on the command line.
Fix memory errors.
Fix affine circle selection bugs.
--Code Changes
Provide templated copy constructors and assignment operators for:
-Affine2D
-CarToRas
-Color
-Ember
-Palette
-Point
-Variation
-CarToRas
More clearly name raster bounds member variables.
-DensityFilter
Make a non-templated base with a single virtual function.
Make ToString() and other member functions const.
-Ember.cpp
Better export defines for single and double template classes.
Only export double template classes with the same type, no more type mixing.
-Ember.h
Add EqualizeWeights() function.
Replace INTERP macros with templated function that take member variable addresses as template parameters.
Supply proper template type for some mat2x3 objects in Interpolate().
Make TotalXformCount() const like XformCount().
Make CompareEmbers() static function conform to new std comparison signature, taking two references and returning a bool.
Make ToString() const.
EmberDefines.h
Explicitly specify types for all enums.
Isaac.h
Improve code style.
Palette.h
Require template argument for newRgb parameter in CalcNewRgb() to support copying to pixels of a different type (float to double, or double to float).
Renderer.h/cpp
Derive Renderer<T, bucketT> from a non-templated based named RendererBase.
Add virtual function MakeDmap() which creates the scaled, final palette to use so that RendererCL can override it to specifically use a float palette at all times.
Check results of AccumulatorToFinalImage() instead of blindly assuming it succeeded.
Add virtual function Callback() to set the callback object.
Fix bug in ogScaleDensityFilter() which was causing the last line not to be filtered by starting at the gutter width offset. Filter all pixels now.
Properly template temporary bucket objects in GaussianDensityFilter(), AccumulatorToFinalImage(), Accumulate(), AddToAccum() and GammaCorrection().
Fix bug in Iterate() where the returned iter count was junk due to overflow. Use unsigned __int64 for everything, including literals with the ULL suffix.
Properly template m_Dmap and m_AccumulatorBuckets members.
Add virtual MemoryAvailable() function to return how much memory is available on the CPU, or on the GPU in derived classes.
SheepTools.h
Allow it to take two template parameters to pass to the internal renderer.
SpatialFilter.h
Make ToString(), Filter() and other member functions const.
TemporalFilter.h
Make ToString() and other member functions const.
Utils.h
Add global static function CopyVec() to copy a vector of one type to another.
Add global static function RgbaToRgb() to copy an RGBA buffer to an RGB one.
Add global static function ClampGte0Ref() as a thin wrapper.
Variation.h
Supply templated copy constructors to support creating copies of variations using different types.
Use initializer in Variation constructor for m_Name to avoid unnecessary string constructor call.
Make ToString() const.
Add two new virtual functions to all variations to make a copy of themselves using a different type and placing the new object in a reference to a pointer passed in.
Add ParentXform() function.
Rename SetParentXform() to ParentXform().
Use real_t instead of float to support double in OpenCL.
-Xform.h
Rename m_Density member to m_Weight.
Make ToString() and other member functions const.
EmberRender, EmberAnimate, EmberGenome:
Take two template arguments to pass to renderer.
Better handling of erroneous arguments for bits per channel and thread count when using OpenCL.
Use proper std::sort() comparison function.
Support saving as 3 channel image, such as bmp or jpg when using 4 channels with OpenCL.
Add --lock_accum option.
Add full double precision support for OpenCL.
Add support for --nstrips when using OpenCL.
Ensure strips divide evenly into the final raster image height.
Move CalcStrips() out of EmberEnder.cpp and into EmberCommon.h.
Dump errors if anything went wrong while rendering.
EmberCL
Template all kernel creators to support float and double.
DEOpenCLKernelCreator.h/cpp
Put global barrier on all accum writes.
Only use no-cache version when using double.
EmberCLFunctions.h
Support double, including when doing atomics using ulong for the int part of the unions.
EmberCLStructs.h
Template all CL structures.
Remove m_MinRad and m_MaxRad from DensityFilterCL since they are never used.
FinalAccumOpenCLKernelCreator.h/cpp
Template all.
IterOpenCLKernelCreator.h/cpp
Template all.
Fix glaring bug in zeroize kernel that was writing past the end of memory. Most likely the source of previous crashes.
OpenCLWrapper.h/cpp
Add support for double.
RendererCL.h/cpp
Template to support double.
Use cached color values m_ColorSpeedCache and m_OneMinusColorCache instead of m_Density and m_ColorX.
In RunDensityFilter(), reduce the block size by 2 when running with double, else the GPU runs out of resources.
Fractorium.h/cpp
Complete rework to a controller architecture to move the processing code out of the GUI and to support templating.
0.2 Beta 11/2013
-Minor fixes.
-Install to Program Data to avoid admin privileges errors.
