-Add animation sequence creation to Fractorium.
-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.
--Bug fixes
-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
-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.
-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.
-Cleanup some options text for the command line programs.
-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.
--Bug fixes
-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 becase drop is filtered on extension.
--Code changes
-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.
-Really fix locking of affine scale.
--Code changes
-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 locking 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 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.
-Allow for pausing the renderer in the main window. This makes is 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
--Bug fixes
-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:
-arch, bcircle, bCollide, bent, bent2, bisplit, blob, blur_linear, blur_square, bMod, boarders, boarders2, bSwirl, bTransform, butterfly, cardioid, cell, circleblur, circlize, circlize2, circus, collideoscope, cos, cosine, cosh, coth, cpow, cpow2, crescents, cropn, csc, csch, curl, curve, dc_gridout, deltaa, diamond, disc2, eclipse, eCollide, edisc, eJulia, elliptic, eMod, eMotion, ennepers, epispiral, ePush, eRotate, eScale, eSwirl, ex, exp, expo, exponential, fan, fdisc, fibonacci, fibonacci2, fisheye, flipcircle, flipy, flower, flux, funnel, glynnia, GlynnSim1, GlynnSim2, GlynnSim3, gridout, handkerchief, heart, hole, idisc, julia, julian2, juliaNab, kaleidoscope, lazyTravis, Lissajous, mask, MobiusN, mobius_strip, modulus, murl, murl2, npolar, ortho, oscilloscope, parabola, perspective, petal, phoenix_julia, pie (was also inconsistent between cpu and gpu), poincare, popcorn, popcorn2, power, pow_block, rational3, rays, rblur, rings, rippled, roundspher, sec, secant2, sigmoid, sin, sineblur, sinh, sinusgrid, sphericaln, spiralwing, spirograph, split, squarize, squirrel, squish, sschecks, starblur, stripes, stwin, super_shape, tan, tancos, tangent, tanh, TwinTrian, twoface, unpolar, waves, wavesn, wedge_julia, whorl, xheart, zblur, zscale.
--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.
-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.
-Prevent user from saving stylesheet to default.qss, it's a special reserved filename.
--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.
-General cleanup.
Add Curves.h, and CurvesGraphicsView.h/cpp to support bezier color curves.
Add Curves member to Ember.
Add curves capability to EmberCL.
Remove some unused variables in the kernel created in RendererCL::CreateFinalAccumKernelString().
Use glm namespace for vec classes if GLM_VERSION >= 96, else use glm::detail.
As a result of using glm namespace, all instances of min and max had to be qualified with std::
Split ComputeCamera into that and ComputeQuality().
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.
Provide functions to return the kernels from RendererCL to assist with diagnostics and debugging.
Prevent extra newline in EmberRender when only rendering a single image.
Add the ability to delete an ember at a given index in EmberFile.
Allow deleting/focusing ember in library tab with delete and enter keys.
Reorder some code in Fractorium.h to match the tabs order.
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().
Add the ability to save ember Xmls to an unique automatically generated name after the first time the user has specified a name.
--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.
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--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.
--Bug Fixes
Fix blur, blur3d, bubble, cropn, cross, curl, curl3d, epispiral, ho,
julia3d, julia3dz, loonie, mirror_x, mirror_y, mirror_z, rotate_x,
sinusoidal, spherical, spherical3d, stripes.
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.
