-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.
--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
-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.
--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.
--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.
-Remove support for ppm files in the command line programs, it's an outdated format.
-Switching between SP and DP kept reapplying the palette adjustments.
--Code changes
-Move build system to Visual Studio 2015 and Qt 5.6.
-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 object a global shared_ptr singleton, so it doesn't have to be passed around.
-Make stagger a double instead of a bool.
-Save stagger values to settings.
-Random stagger was being set in the wrong place.
-Save rotation values as double rather than int.
-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.
-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.
-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.
-Command line programs now default to using double precision.
-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 argument 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.
--Bug fixes
-Continuous update was broken.
-Undo list was broken with new Library tab design.
-Force repaint on xform checkbox change to ensure circles are immediately drawn around selected xforms.
--Code changes
-Remove save to back to file in memory icon, document-hf-insert.png.
-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.
-Draw selection circles around all selected xforms plus the current one.
--Bug fixes
-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
-Add function Fractorium::IsXformSelected() to determine if an xform has been selected with the checkboxes.
-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.
-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 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.
-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 toolbar buttons to switch some rendering options without having to open the options dialog.
--Bug fixes
-Only update summary on render completion, no need to constantly update it.
-Properly handle cancel even on variations dialog.
--Code changes
-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.
Native menu bar recreation is hooked up to the focusWindowChanged signal in
QGuiApplication. Emittng this when the window is shown ensures that Qt
creates the menubar at the correct time.
Fixesgh2k/fractorium#1
-Add variations filter/selection dialog.
--Bug fixes
-Fix summary window not properly indicating the presence of pose affine.
-Remove a file named Fractorium.aps which had been erroneously committed a year ago.
--Code changes
-Use qobject_cast instead of dynamic_cast where appropriate.
-Add more override keyword where appropriate.
-Add variations list to settings for filter dialog.
-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().
-Better default/min/max sizes for docks/tabs.
-Add a reset workspace menu item.
--Bug fixes
-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.
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.
More efficient table on the Xaos tab when using xaos on a flame with a large number of xforms.
--Code changes
Use QTableView instead of QTableWidget for the xaos table.
Add custom DoubleSpinBoxTableItemDelegate for this.
Make row and column toggling functions work for QTableView and QTableWidget.
Remove some dead code from Fractorium.h/cpp
Miscellaneous hacks to keep it building on Linux.
Implement copying and pasting xforms between flames.
--Code changes
Make palette filename be a shared_ptr<string> to avoid duplication.
Ensure random seeds in RendererCL have no duplicates and are not zero.
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.
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.
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
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.
--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.
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.
Make EmberRender and EmberAnimate place their output renders in the same folder of the input parameter file. Previously it was just placing them in the same folder as the executable, which is wrong.
--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.
0.4.0.9 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().
0.4.0.7 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.
