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2023-09-06modules/flow: fix elements overflow bugVito Caputo
s->count isn't always perfectly divisable by n_cpus, which is why ctxt->n_elements is computed from n_cpus * elements_per_cpu in the transition to threaded rendering for flow. That's all fine and dandy, but the ctxt->elements initialization loop was still using the vestigial s->count from the pre-threaded implementation. So on core counts where ctxt->n_elements was smaller than s->count, initialization scribbled. Thanks Sketch for assistance in chasing this down w/ASAN enabled on a box that exhibited crashing w/rtv,channels=flow.
2023-09-03modules/flow: add colorsVito Caputo
This is a first stab at colorizing the output. The flow field now has two v3f_t datums per cell, direction and color. It's a bit pastel-y and color choice/palettes definitely needs work, at least some gamma correction would make sense. But I kind of like the pastel look actually, some of the combinations start looking very 80s aesthetic. A good way to watch flow's possibilities is: --module=rtv,channels=flow,duration=10,context_duration=10,caption_duration=0 \ --video=sdl,fullscreen=on --defaults --go The long-ish duration really gives a chance to get into the groove of things before switching
2023-09-02modules/flow: minor cleanup of ff_new()/ff_free()Vito Caputo
Simplify ff_new() failure path by using ff_free(), also make ff_free() more ergonomic by returning NULL.
2023-09-02flow: implement a 3D flow field moduleVito Caputo
This is kind of a particle system, where the particles are pushed around through a 3D vector space treated as a flow field. No physics are being simulated here, it's just treating the flow field as direction vectors that are trilinearly interpolated when sampled to produce a single direction vector. That direction vector gets applied to particles near it. To keep things interesting the flow field evolves by having two distinct flow fields which the simulation progressively alternates sampling from. For every frame, both flow fields are sampled for every particle, but how much weight is given to the influence of one vs. the other varies by a triangle wave over time. When the weight is biased enough to one of the flow fields near a peak/valley in the triangle wave, the other gets re-populated while its influence is negligible, also interpolating its new values with 25% influence from the active field. The current flow field population routine is completely random. Yet there's a surprising amount of emergent order despite being totally randomized direction vectors. Currently supported settings include: size= the width of the 3D flow field cube in direction vectors (the number of vectors is size*size*size) count= the number of particles/elements speed= how far a particle is moved along the current sample's direction vector This was first implemented in 2017, but sat unfinished in a topic branch for myriad reasons. Now that rototiller has much more robust settings infrastructure, among other things, it seemed worth finishing this up and merging.
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