-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.
-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 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.
-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) and in the final render dialog.
--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.
-Added a field called K2 which is an alternative way to set brightness, ignored when zero.
--This has no effect for many variations, but hs a noticeable effect for some.
-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
--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 fix 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.
--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.
-Report error when assigning a variation param value 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 a palette editor.
-Add support for reading .ugr/.gradient/.gradients palette files.
-Allow toggling on spinners whose minimum value is not zero.
-Allow toggling display of image, affines and grid.
-Add new variations: cylinder2, circlesplit, tile_log, truchet_fill, waves2_radial.
--Bug fixes
-cpow2 was wrong.
-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.
-Selecting multiple xforms and rotating them would produce the wrong rotation.
-Better handling when parsing flames using different encoding, such as unicode and UTF-8.
-Switching between SP/DP didn't reselect the selected flame in the Library tab.
--Code changes
-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.
-Make all usage of palettes be of type float, double is pointless.
-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.
-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.
-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.
-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: crackle, dc_perlin.
-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.
--Bug fixes
-Direct color calculations were wrong.
-Flattening was not applied to final xform.
-Fix "pure virtual function call" error on shutdown.
--Code changes
-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.
-General cleanup.
-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.
--Bug fixes
-EmberAnimate, EmberRender, FractoriumSettings, FinalRenderDialog: Fix wrong order of arguments to Clamp() when assigning thread priority.
-VariationsDC.h: Fix NVidia OpenCL compilation error in DCTriangleVariation.
-FractoriumXformsColor.cpp: Checking for null pixmap pointer is not enough, must also check if the underlying buffer is null via call to QPixmap::isNull().
--Code changes
-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:
CONFIG(release, debug|release) {
CONFIG += warn_off
DESTDIR = ../../../Bin/release
}
CONFIG(debug, debug|release) {
DESTDIR = ../../../Bin/debug
}
QMAKE_POST_LINK += $$quote(cp --update ../../../Data/flam3-palettes.xml $${DESTDIR}$$escape_expand(\n\t))
LIBS += -L/usr/lib -lpthread
-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.
-Add motion support from Simon Detheridge at the ember level instead of just individual xforms:
Add the ability to manipulate camera pitch, yaw and other goodies during flame rotation using a new element specified at the top-level of the flame.
Create a new 'saw' motion function, so that these values can effectively be looped (e.g. yaw -1 to +1) over the course of a rotation.
Add an offset to existing motion elements, to start them partway through their cycle. This would (for example) enable creating circular motion of xform affines, by combining two offset sine waves, one with an offset of 0.25 or 0.75.
Fix loops in EmberGenome (they only had an on/off effect - this was broken in flame-genome as well) and make the loop count floating-point as well. For sequence animations, it's not necessary for clips to loop precisely if they're not designed specifically for the ES project.
Similarly, there's no need for motion_frequency to be an integer value either so this was changed to allow motion that doesn't necessarily start or end at the loop boundary.
I've attempted to keep each bit of functionality in its own commit.
There's an argument as to whether to call the new flame motion elements <flame_motion/> (to differentiate programmatically) or just <motion/> (for consistency within the file) -- I opted for the former because it was easier to modify the xml parser that way.
--Code changes
-Change FlameMotion.h to EmberMotion.h to keep the naming convention consistent.
-Made elements of EmberMotion.m_MotionParams into their own type, MotionParam, which allows for CopyVec() to work.
-Change m_FlameMotionElements to m_EmberMotionElements in Ember.
-Use CopyVec() for EmberMotion instead of manual copy in copy constructors.
-Add exports in Ember.cpp for EmberMotion.
-Format eEmberMotionParam enum with one entry per line since it has many entries.
-Use fabs() in XmlToEmber instead of glm::abs.
-Minor formatting.
This avoids clang error in release mode: atom not found in symbolIndex(__ZN7EmberNs11EmberReport23StaticErrorReportStringERKNSt3__16vectorINS1_12basic_stringIcNS1_11char_traitsIcEENS1_9allocatorIcEEEENS6_IS8_EEEE) for architecture x86_64
