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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.
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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
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For the sake of sdl_fb, move page flipping into the main thread
and run module render dispatch from another thread instead.
This eliminates the fb flipper thread, moving its functionality
into fb_flip() which synchronously consumes and performs a single
flip from the same queue as before - the function is verbatim
the loop body of the flipper thread.
Now main() calls fb_flip() in a loop where it previously dispatched
pages for rendering.
Rendering dispatch is now performed in a created thread.
See the comment in fb.c for more explanation of this shuffle.
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With fb backends entirely abstracted behind fb_ops_t, this is
no longer necessary.
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Since people are more likely to first run this from a GUI environment,
default to SDL which should work in most situations.
Then if they want they can switch to a linux console and explicitly use
the drm video backend.
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This should probably be split into multiple commits, but
for simplicity sake it's all cut over at once.
drm_fb.c sees major changes, migrating the remaining drm-specific bits
from drmsetup into it, behind the settings API.
rototiller.c sees a bunch of scaffolding surrounding the settings API
and wiring it up into the commandline handling and renderers and video
backends.
fb.[ch] see minor changes as settings get plumbed to the backend
drmsetup.[ch] goes bye bye
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Nothing wired up yet.
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Remove everything drm-related from fb.c, utilizing the implementation in
drm_fb.c instead.
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Add a hook for post-render serialized frame completion,
some of the renderers may have state to cleanup after rendering
a frame.
A future commit may change add a return value to control flow for
features like multi-pass rendering within a given module.
The raytracer for example may want to add concurrently executed
post filters, and having a non-void return from finish_frame()
would be a tidy way to tell rototiller "go back to prepare->render
for this context" as many times as necessary, keeping the pass state
in the context.
For now its return is void however, as I just need a cleanup hook
as the raytracer becomes more stateful per frame with a BIH spatial
index in the works.
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Rather than laying out all fragments in a frame up-front in
ray_module_t.prepare_frame(), return a fragment generator
(rototiller_fragmenter_t) which produces the numbered fragment
as needed.
This removes complexity from the serially-executed
prepare_frame() and allows the individual fragments to be
computed in parallel by the different threads. It also
eliminates the need for a fragments array in the
rototiller_frame_t, indeed rototiller_frame_t is eliminated
altogether.
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introduces create_context() and destroy_context() methods, and adds a
'void *context' first parameter to the module methods.
If a module doesn't supply create_context() then NULL is simply passed
around as the context, so trivial modules can continue to only implement
render_fragment().
A subsequent commit will update the modules to encapsulate their global
state in module-specific contexts.
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This is a simple worker thread implementation derived from the ray_threads
code in the ray module. The ray_threads code should be discarded in a
future commit now that rototiller can render fragments using threads.
If a module supplies a prepare_frame() method, then it is called
per-frame to prepare a rototiller_frame_t which specifies how to divvy
up the page into fragments. Those fragments are then dispatched to a
thread per CPU which call the module's rendering function in parallel.
There is no coupling of the number of fragments in a frame to the number of
threads/CPUs. Some modules may benefit from the locality of tile-based
rendering, so the fragments are simply dispatched across the available CPUs
in a striped fashion.
Helpers will be added later to the fb interface for tiling fragments, which
modules desiring tiled rendering may utilize in their prepare_frame()
methods.
This commit does not modify any modules to become threaded, it only adds
the scaffolding.
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Adding more context to the name in anticipation of adding a prepare_frame()
method to the module struct.
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Make consistent with the source directory structure naming.
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This is unoptimized, with a palette slapped together in vim, but still
pretty neat!
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Restoring some organizational sanity since adopting autotools.
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