-Further work on the About box.
--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.
--Bug fixes
-Pre/post assign method was wrong for Sphereblur, Concentric, RandCubes and PixelFlow.
--Code changes
-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.
-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().
-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.
-Add new variations: concentric, cpow3, helicoid, helix, rand_cubes, sphereblur.
-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.
--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.
--User changes
-dark.qss is now per-OS.
-Properly set/reload palette when coming from the palette editor. The latter must be done if they've modified the current palette even if they've clicked cancel.
--Bug fixes
-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.
-Fix bug enabling/disabling overwrite button in palette editor.
-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.
--Code changes
-Make most installation files read only.
-Qualify many calls with std:: to ensure they're not colliding with glm::
-Use auto in more places.
--User changes
-Make all fonts be MS Shell Dlg 2. This will require reloading dark.qss if users are already using it.
-Limit size of the left side of the palette editor.
-Disable create from image buttons in the palette editor when working on a fixed palette.
--Bug fixes
-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.
--Code changes
-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 programs.
-Bump to version 1.0.0.3
-Remove all code for opacity adjustment, it's no longer needed.
-Small optimization on accumulating to the histogram on the CPU.
-Highlight power is now on by default.
-Allow for adjustments on the Flame tab to apply to all open flames in the file.
-Add two new buttons to the color tab to randomize and toggle the xform color indices.
-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.
-Make randoms in EmberGenome have default dimensions of 1920 x 1080.
-Prevent --inter and --rotate in EmberGenome from rotating backward before the first flame since it doesn't really make sense.
-Ensure every loaded flame has at least one xform in it.
-Change dark.qss to hide dotted selection outline around checkboxes. Users must reload it to take effect.
--Bug fixes
-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 with template files.
--Code changes
-Use cerr in SheepTools instead of cout.
-Set m_SubBatchSize and m_FuseCount to default values in Ember::Clear().
-Clean up some command line options text formatting.
-Edits will not save back to the file in memory on render completion when preview renderer is running.
--Bug fixes
-dc_perlin was crashing on Nvidia when using SP.
-Duplicate images were randomly getting added to the file in memory.
-Crash when opening an Xml with less than 2 flames in it.
--Code changes
-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. Deriving from a templated Singleton<T> class was creating a separate instance per module. Now only one instance of each type will ever be created and it will be wrapped in a shared_ptr which guarantees its deletion as main() exits.
-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.
-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 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.
--Bug fixes
-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.
--Code changes
-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.
-More C++11 work.
-General cleanup.
-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.
-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.
-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.
-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 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 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.
--Bug fixes
-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
-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.
-Allow for continuous update during interactive rendering.
--Code changes
-Make some variation related functions const where appropriate.
-Use auto keyword more.
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.
--Bug fixes
Prevent xform index flickering whenever changing the number of xforms.
--Code changes
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.
Carry logic from this fix to writing Xform Xmls as well.
Motion was not supported on some Xform fields as it was originally copied from flam3. Allow it on all but xaos now.
Fix clamping range for m_ColorSpeed at the end of ApplyMotion() to match the values we accept elsewhere.
--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.
--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.
0.4.0.5 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.
--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.
