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2020-01-06rtv: rework randomized module selectionVito Caputo
Switch to working through the set of modules in a random order, randomizing the order once per cycle. This way no modules get starved for display, which was pretty common in the old method.
2020-01-06stars: fat starsPhilip J Freeman
draw stars as circles that get larger as the approach the camera
2020-01-06spiro: spirograph emulatorPhilip J Freeman
This commit adds a module that emulates a spirograph
2020-01-03montage: bump Y tiles when root has large fractionVito Caputo
Ideally the number of modules can tile without leaving gaps, but as rototiller evolves over time modules are added piecemeal so try accomodate those awkward layouts.
2019-12-30montage: re-enable stars and pixbouncePhilip J Freeman
2019-12-30pixbounce: fix bugs, refactor for resizingPhilip J Freeman
- fix bug for square fragments - use create and destroy context hooks instead of globals - refactor to allow fragment resizing - handle extremely small fragments gracefully
2019-12-30stars: fix bugs, big refactor for resizingPhilip J Freeman
- use a context not globals - use floats and a "unit cube" to simulate the starfield
2019-12-18modules/rtv: remove stale random settings commentVito Caputo
Since 7a77cc1a landed this is no longer true, the .random member will be used to support randomizing non multiple-choice settings.
2019-11-26montage: add (threaded) to descriptionVito Caputo
While the montage doesn't deeply thread the per-tile/module rendering, the per-frame rendering is threaded with a work unit granularity of every module's tile. Meaning every module renders its tile in a single thread, but the tiles are all rendered in parallel. For the most part this works, and will only work better as more modules are added to rototiller increasing the granularity. In the mean time it's a bit coarse and some modules can be a lot more costly to render than others, and there can be a shortage of modules to schedule on idle CPUs. It would be an interesting task to try make each module's tile get subfragmented elastically. I didn't make any attempt to do that, but it might even be worthwhile on hidpi screens where even those small tiles may have a whole lot of pixels, especially on manycore CPUs.
2019-11-25meta2d: add a classic 2D metaballs moduleVito Caputo
2019-11-25din: don't include v3f.h in din.hVito Caputo
This requires a forward declaration of v3f_t and changing din() to take a v3f_t *. The swab module needed updating to supply a pointer type and a v3f_t definition. This is being done so din.h users can have their own v3f implementations. I might consolidate all the duplicated vector code scattered throughout the libs and modules, but for now I'm carrying on with the original intention of having modules be largely self-contained. Though the introduction of libs like ray and din has certainly violated that a bit already.
2019-11-24snow: only create n_cpus fragmentsVito Caputo
Since snow_context_t needs another member anyways, stick n_cpus in there to inform the fragmenter of precisely how many fragments to make. This renderer doesn't benefit from tiling or any such locality, so it uses the slice fragmenter and really only benefits from as many fragments as there are CPUs. Any additional fragments is just wasted fragmenting overhead.
2019-11-24snow: per-cpu rand_r() seed stateVito Caputo
Snow was already threaded, but used a global seed with rand_r() meaning the CPUs were hammering on the same address. There wasn't any locking or atomics, as it isn't terribly critical when generating white noise if the seed access is racy. But the writes still caused cache lines to ping-pong. This commit gives a ~15.5% speedup in my measurements on an i7-2640M. Note without the padded union, using just an array of ints, zero gain is realized. I used a padding of 256 just to have some headroom, x86 is 64 but other CPUs vary, POWER9 is 128 for example.
2019-11-24montage: rework fragmenterVito Caputo
This repurposes the generic fb_fragment_tile_single() to better fit the montage use case. Partially covered areas are simply skipped, and tiles no longer need to be square. In determining the tile width and height, I'm just using the sqrt of the number of modules and dividing the frame width and height. But when the sqrt has a fraction, it's rounded up on the width divide and rounded down on the height divide. So the width gets the extra column of tiles, and the height just throws away the fraction. I think it's OK for now, until someone gets a bug up their ass and wants to avoid having vacant tiles in the bottom right corner when the number of modules doesn't cooperate. One problem with the just skipping partially covered areas is they don't get zeroed out - no fragment is ever generated for them. To fix that there will prolly have to be a fb_fragment_zero() of the frame @ prepare :(. I guess it wouldn't be the end of the world if the fragmenter itself zeroed out skipped regions. It's kind of an ugly layering violation but this is a private montage- specific fragmenter.
2019-11-24montage: rework module skippingVito Caputo
The old approach was just to get things working, it's preferable to not have empty tiles on-screen where modules were skipped and have all tiles be smaller to accomodate vacancies. Now the modules list gets pruned @ context create, so the skipping only happens once and everywhere else is looking at a modules list and count of only the keepers. I also added stars to the skipped modules, for now, since both stars and pixbounce malfunction when the fragment size changes.
2019-11-24montage: zero skipped fragmentsVito Caputo
Not doing this produces especially visible artifacts when shown by rtv.
2019-11-24montage: skip pixbounceVito Caputo
Segfaults were observed when montage came up in rtv, since pixbounce doesn't seem to be rendering properly at all just skip it for now. I suspect what's happening is rtv ran pixbounce before running montage, and pixbounce caches fragment knowledge @ initialization. So when montage ran pixbounce in a tile, that stale fragment knowledge was used and caused scribbling. Stars probably has similar problems actually.
2019-11-24montage: add montage moduleVito Caputo
This is somewhat unfinished as it uses the generic tiled fragmenter that's not interested in appearances but prioritizes total coverage and simplicity. Montage should have its own tiler that can produce non-square and even non-uniform tile dimensions, prioritizing filling the screen with mostly-uniform tiles. But that's a TODO item, this is good enough for now and exercises some fragment details previously irrelevant and often ignored/broken in modules. The pixbounce module in particular seems completely broken with small fragment sizes.
2019-11-24rototiller: rototiller_fragmenter_t s/num/number/Vito Caputo
Mechanical change removing abbreviation for consistency
2019-11-23rototiller: pass cpu to .render_fragment()Vito Caputo
Mostly mechanical change, though threads.c needed some jiggering to make the logical cpu id available to the worker threads. Now render_fragment() can easily addresss per-cpu data created by create_context().
2019-11-23rototiller: pass num_cpus to .create_context()Vito Caputo
Back in the day, there was no {create,destroy}_context(), so passing num_cpus to just prepare_frame made sense. Modules then would implicitly initialize themselves on the first prepare_frame() call using a static initialized variable. Since then things have been decomposed a bit for more sophisticated (and cleaner) modules. It can be necessary to allocate per-cpu data structures and the natural place to do that is @ create_context(). So this commit wires that up. A later commit will probably have to plumb a "current cpu" identifier into the render_fragment() function. Because a per-cpu data structure isn't particularly useful if you can't easily address it from within your execution context.
2019-11-20julia: vary divergent thresholdVito Caputo
This makes the visualization more interesting by adding more variety.
2019-11-20settings: add setting_desc_t.random() methodVito Caputo
To facilitate random setting of these flexible string-oriented settings, support a random helper supplied with the description. This helper would return a valid random string to be used with the respective setting being described. Immediate use case is the rtv module, which also gets fixed up to use it in this commit.
2019-11-19rtv: randomize module settingsVito Caputo
This is just a quick stab at randomizing settings, only multiple choice setings are randomized currently. For modules with settings, a new Settings: field is added to the caption showing the settings as the arguments one would pass to rototiller's module argument.
2019-11-18swab: add a perlin noise visualizationVito Caputo
This maps a different Z-slice through the noise field to each color channel. The slices are moved up and down through the field over time, and the size of the area each color samples is tweaked a bit to make them less coherent with the noise field cells. It could be improved, but I think the output is already neat enough to be worth sharing.
2019-11-16modules/rtv: conslidate time() callsVito Caputo
Consolidate the time() calls in setup_next_module() by using a now variable.
2019-11-16modules/rtv: fix repeat preventionVito Caputo
This broke when snow was added.
2019-11-16modules/rtv: add captionsVito Caputo
The idea is to have captions similar to how MTV did back in the 80s. It'd be nice to make the text resolution independent, but this is a good first stab for an afternoon of tooling around.
2019-11-16sparkler: use chunker in bspVito Caputo
This simplifies the bsp code while addressing cleanup
2019-11-16sparkler: remove assert from chunker_free_chunker()Vito Caputo
This assert prevents using the chunker for efficient freeing, maybe in the future add a flag for toggling this but for now it can just be commented out.
2019-11-16sparkler: plug some memory leaksVito Caputo
particles_free() didn't do all the necessary cleanup. bsp_free() remains mostly unimplemented. I think this wasn't done at the time because I was thinking bsp.c should use the chunker, then cleanup is just a matter of freeing the chunker instead of traversing the bsp.
2019-11-14rtv: add some snow between module switchesVito Caputo
This uses the newly added snow module as a transition between modules
2019-11-14snow: add a simple tv snow / white noise moduleVito Caputo
I wanted to add some noise to the rtv module and figured why not just add a snow module and make rtv pass through it briefly when switching modules. It's not interesting by itself, but as more composite/meta modules like rtv get made it might be handy beyond rtv.
2019-11-14rtv: implement "Rototiller TV" rendererVito Caputo
This is sort of a meta renderer, as it simply renders other modules in its prepare_frame() stage. They're still threaded as the newly public rototiller_module_render() utilizes the threading machinery, it just needs to be called from the serial phase @ prepare_frame(). I'm pretty sure this module will leak memory every time it changes modules, since the existing cleanup paths for the modules hasn't needed to be thorough in the least. So that's something to fix in a later commit, go through all the modules and make sure their destroy_context() entrypoints actually cleans everything up. See the source for some rtv-specific TODOs.
2019-11-13ray: add rudimentary gamma correctionVito Caputo
color banding has been quite visible, and somewhat expected with a direct conversion from the linear float color space to the 8-bit integral rgb color components. A simple lookup table is used here to non-linearly map the values, table generation is taken from Greg Ward's REAL PIXELS gem in Graphics Gems II.
2019-11-10roto: drop roto64, turning roto32 back into rotoVito Caputo
Initially I was going to make 32 vs. 64 be a setting, but decided now that SDL is supported it's fairly likely there will be odd fb dimensions (arbitrary window sizes). Since this never really brought anything of significant value, just drop the version that mostly just demonstrated how to pack multiple pixels into a single u64 write to the framebuffer more than anything else.
2019-11-10submit: replace submit-softly with bilerp settingVito Caputo
This removes the submit-softly module, instead using a runtime setting to toggle bilinear interpolation on the submit module.
2019-11-10build: build contributed pixbounce moduleVito Caputo
2019-11-10pixbounce: add pixbounce modulePhilip J Freeman
2019-11-10flui2d: add some rudimentary settingsVito Caputo
Viscosity and diffusion are supported, it'd be neat to add a configurable size (the ROOT define) for the flow field in the future. I didn't go crazy here, it's just a list of orders of magnitude you choose from for each. It'd probably be more interesting to change this into a single knob with descriptive names like "smoke" "goop" "water" mapping to a LUT.
2019-10-16modules/flui2d: fix spelling of paper's authorVito Caputo
s/Joe/Jos/, I should wear my glasses more.
2019-10-14modules/flui2d: add 2D fluid dynamics simulationVito Caputo
This implements near verbatim the code found in the paper titled: Real-Time Fluid Dynamics for Games By Jos Stam It sometimes has the filename GDC03.PDF, or Stam_fluids_GDC03.pdf The density field is rendered using simple linear interpolation of the samples, in a grayscale palette. No gamma correction is being performed. There are three configurable defines of interest: VISCOSITY, DIFFUSION, and ROOT. This module is only threaded in the drawing stage, so basically the linear interpolation uses multiple cores. The simulation itself is not threaded, the implementation from the paper made no such considerations. It would be nice to reimplement this in a threaded fashion with a good generalized API, then move it into libs. Something where a unit square can be sampled for interpolated densities would be nice. Then extend it into 3 dimensions for volumetric effects...
2019-01-01modules/submit-softly: bilerp peripheral cellsVito Caputo
Remove the silly kludge avoiding peripheral cells
2018-12-31modules/submit-softly: shorten descriptionVito Caputo
2018-12-31modules/submit: add bilinearly-interpolated variantVito Caputo
This substantially reworks the cell sampling in submit. As a result, it's now threaded in the rendering phase which now resembles a texture mapper sans transformations. This produces a full-screen rendering rather than a potentially smaller one when the resolution wasn't cleanly divisable by the grid size. A new module, named submit-softly has also been added to expose the bilinearly interpolated variant. The transition between cells is also employing a smoothstep so it's not actually linear. The original non-interpolated version is retained as well, at the same submit module name. Some minor cleanups happened as well, nothing worth mentioning, except perhaps that the cells are now a uint8_t which is fine unless someone tries to redefine NUM_PLAYERS > 255.
2018-12-31libs/grid: fix grid_ops_t.taken player typeVito Caputo
Just making things consistent, also dropping unnecessary player assert from submit module. Future libs/grid may explore using the "unassigned" zero player in taken calls for unassigning cells like in simultaneously taken collision scenarios.
2018-12-30modules/stars: capitalize descriptionVito Caputo
2018-12-30modules/submit: add cellular automata game moduleVito Caputo
This module displays realtime battle for domination simulated as 2D cellular automata. This is just a test of the backend piece for a work-in-progress multiplayer game idea. The visuals were kind of interesting to watch so I figured may as well merge it as a module to share. Enjoy! PS: the results can vary a lot by tweaking the defines in submit.c
2018-03-19modules/ray: #include libray headers w/subdirsVito Caputo
Rather than require adding -Isrc/libs/$lib to every Makefile.am for every lib used, just add -Ilibs to those makefiles and prefix the lib dir in the #include <> header paths. Later I'll probably just move the -Isrc/libs someplace common so the per-module Makefile.am doesn't need to bother with this stuff.
2018-03-19ray: libize raytracer core, introduces src/libsVito Caputo
This is the first step of breaking out all the core rendering stuffs into reusable libraries and making modules purely compositional, consumers of various included rendering/effects libraries. Expect multiple modules leveraging libray for a variety of scenes and such. Also expect compositions mixing the various libraries for more interesting visuals.
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