--Add support for Exr files which use 32-bit floats for each RGBA channel. Seems to come out too washed out.
--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 so tall.
Bug fixes:
--Fix some OpenCL compile errors on Mac.
--Remove ability to save bitmap files on all platforms but Windows.
Code changes:
--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 2^17 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.
--Attempt to make file save dialog code work the same on all OSes.
--Remove some unused functions.
--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
-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.
--Bug fixes
-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.
--Code changes
-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.
-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.
-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.
-Support reading cam_zoom from xml as zoom since JWildfire uses cam_zoom.
-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.
-Rename some controls in Options Dialog.
-Move the color curves control to the Palette tab.
--Bug fixes
-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.
--Code changes
-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.
-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.
-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 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.
--Code changes
-More conversion to C++11 style code.
-Add another value to the eXformUpdate enum called UPDATE_CURRENT_AND_SELECTED in anticipation of future work.
-Remove some old #defines.
-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.
-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.
-Apply variations filter to randoms.
--Bug fixes
-Fix bug where hue was not being preserved when switching controllers and embers. Very hard to repro bug, but mostly overcome by eliminating hue as a saved parameter.
--Code changes
-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.
-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.
--Code changes
-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.
-InitToolbarUI() is now empty since toolbar initialization happens automatically. Leave as a placeholder.
-Refactor code to get a palette color at a given index and convert it to a QColor to ColorIndexToQColor().
Allow for setting rendering thread priorities from the command line and final render dialog. Currently only implemented on Windows.
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.
--Code changes
Remove unnecessary connect() statement in Variations tab.
Add the ability to click the right mouse button and drag to adjust values in spinners.
Filling the palette controls will now also select the proper palette filename (if not empty) in the combo box.
Allow for toggling row and column of affine tables.
--Bug fixes
Fix tab tool tips again.
Fix palette list switching.
--Code changes
Palettes now keep the filename they originated from as a member.
Refactor table row and column cell toggling into their own functions.
Do not force random select on palette combo index change.
Add the ability to apply operations to a selection of xforms, rather than just the current one.
Update tool tips accordingly.
--Bug fixes
Fix NAN in equalized weight calculation when all weights are set to 0.
--Code changes
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.
Make xaos display a matrix rather than a single column. This will be moved out into its own tab since it's no longer xform dependent, but that will be in a future commit.
Remove xaos from/to button since it's no longer applicable.
Add test function to Isaac to return just one random byte. Might be used in the future.
Change PaletteList Count() member to Size() to be consistent with other code.
Remove PaletteImage option, it's unused. Improve documentation for some other options.
Make ComposePath() always return a unique string.
Add Random Palette and Random Adjustment buttons.
Another attempt at solving the locale bug with the affine adjustment combo boxes.
--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.
