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2023-01-11* turn til_fb_fragment_t.stream into a discrete parameterVito Caputo
This was mostly done out of convenience at the expense of turning the fragment struct into more of a junk drawer. But properly cleaning up owned stream pipes on context destroy makes the inappropriateness of being part of til_fb_fragment_t glaringly apparent. Now the stream is just a separate thing passed to context create, with a reference kept in the context for use throughout. Cleanup of the owned pipes on the stream supplied to context create is automagic when the context gets destroyed. Note that despite there being a stream in the module context, the stream to use is still supplied to all the rendering family functions (prepare/render/finish) and it's the passed-in stream which should be used by these functions. This is done to support the possibility of switching out the stream frame-to-frame, which may be interesting. Imagine doing things like a latent stream and a future stream and switching between them on the fly for instance. If there's a sequencing composite module, it could flip between multiple sets of tracks or jump around multiple streams with the visuals immediately flipping accordingly. This should fix the --print-pipes crashing issues caused by lack of cleanup when contexts were removed (like rtv does so often).
2023-01-10*: introduce paths for module contextsVito Caputo
There needs to be a way to address module context instances by name externally, in a manner complementary to settings and taps. This commit adds a string-based path to til_module_context_t, and modifies til_module_create_context() to accept a parent path which is then concatenated with the name of the module to produce the module instance's new path. The name separator used in the paths is '/' just like filesystem paths, but these paths have no relationship to filesystems or files. The root module context creation in rototiller's main simply passes "" as the parent path, resulting in a "/" root as one would expect. There are some obvious complications introduced here however: - checkers in particular creates a context per cpu, simply using the same seed and setup to try make the contexts identical at the same ticks value. With this commit I'm simply passing the incoming path as the parent for creating those contexts, but it's unclear to me if that will work OK. With an eye towards taps deriving their parent path from the context path, I guess these taps would all get the same parent and hash to the same value despite being duplicated. Maybe it Just Works, but one thing is clear - there won't be any way to address the per-cpu taps as-is. Maybe that's desirable though, there's probably not much use in trying to control the taps at the CPU granularity. - when the recursive settings stuff lands, it should bring along the ability to explicitly name settings blocks. Those names should override the module name in constructing the path. I've noted as such in the code. - these paths probably need to be hashed @ initialization time so there needs to be a hash function added to til, and a hash value accompanying the name in the module context. It'd be dumb to keep recomputing the hash when these paths get used for hash table lookups multiple times per frame... there's probably more I'm forgetting right now, but this seems like a good first step. fixup root path
2022-09-04modules/strobe: add rudimentary strobe light moduleVito Caputo
After reading about the Dreamachine[0], I wanted to experience this phenomenon. The javascript-based web implementations struggled to hold a steady 10Hz rate and would flicker like crazy, so here we are. Only setting right now is period=float_seconds, defaults to .1 for 10Hz. One limitation in the current implementation is when the frame rate can't keep up with the period the strobe will just stick on without ever going off, because the period will always be expired. There should probably be a setting to force turning off for at least one frame when it can't keep up. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreamachine
2022-09-04til: fixup til_fb_fragment_t.texture fragmentingVito Caputo
Until now when fragmenting with a texture present the texture pointer was simply copied through to the new logical fragment. The problem with that is when sampling pixels from the texture in a nested frame scenario, the locations didn't align with the placement of the logical fragment. With this change when the incoming fragment has a texture, the output fragment gets some uninitialized memory attached in the outgoing fragment's texture pointer. Then the fragmenter is expected to do the same populating of res_fragment->texture it already did for res_fragment, just relative to fragment->texture->{buf,stride,pitch} etc. It's a bit hairy/janky because til_fb_fragment_t.texture is just a pointer to another til_fb_fragment_t. So the ephemeral/logical fragments fragmenting/tiling produces which tend to just be sitting on the stack need to get another til_fb_fragment_t instance somewhere and made available at the ephemeral til_fb_fragment_t's .texture member. We don't want to be allocating and freeing these things constantly, so for now I'm just ad-hoc stowing the pointer of an adjacent on-stack texture fragment in the .texture member when the incoming fragment has a texture. But this is gross because the rest of the fragment contents don't get initialized _at_all_, and currently if the incoming fragment has no texture the res_fragment->texture member isn't even initialized. The fragmenters aren't really supposed to be expecting anything sensible in *res_fragment, but now we're making use of res_fragment->texture *if* fragment->texture is set. This is just gross. So there's a bunch of asserts sprinkled around to help police this fragility for now, but if someone writes new fragmenters there's a good chance this will trip them up.
2022-08-07til: til_fb_fragment_t **fragment_ptr all the thingsVito Caputo
Preparatory commit for enabling cloneable/swappable fragments There's an outstanding issue with the til_fb_page_t submission, see comments. Doesn't matter for now since cloning doesn't happen yet, but will need to be addressed before they do.
2022-07-21til: simplify and clarify module_render_fragment()Vito Caputo
This consolidates the prepare_frame+render_fragment potentially-threaded branch but more importantly introduces some asserts codifying the whole prepare_frame() must return a fragmenter /and/ be accompanied by a render_fragment(). Any single-threaded modules are expected to just populate render_fragment() and leave prepare_frame() unused.
2022-07-18til: wire seed up to til randomizersVito Caputo
til_setting_desc_t.random() and til_module_randomize_setup() now take seeds. Note they are not taking a pointer to a shared seed, but instead receive the seed by value. If a caller wishes the seed to evolve on every invocation into these functions, it should simply insert a rand_r(&seed) in producing the supplied seed value. Within a given randomizer, the seed evolves when appropriate. But isolating the effects by default seems appropriate, so callers can easily have determinism within their respective scope regardless of how much nested random use occurs.
2022-07-18til_args: add --seed= explicit PRNG seeding supportVito Caputo
This enables reproducible yet pseudo-randomized visuals, at least for the fully procedural modules. The modules that are more simulation-y like sparkler and swarm will still have runtime variations since they are dependent on how much the simulation can run and there's been a lot of sloppiness surrounding delta-t correctness and such. But still, in a general sense, you'll find more or less similar results even when doing randomized things like module=rtv,channels=compose using the same seed value. For the moment it only accepts a hexadecimal value, the leading 0x is optional. e.g. these are all valid: --seed=0xdeadbeef --seed=0xdEAdBeFf --seed=0x (produces 0) --seed=0xff --seed=deadbeef --seed=ff --seed= (produces 0) --seed=0 (produces 0) when you exceed the natural word size of an unsigned int on your host architecture, an overflow error will be returned. there are remaining issues to be fixed surrounding PRNG reproducibility, in that things like til_module_randomize_setup() doesn't currently accept a seed value. However it doesn't even use rand_r() currently, but when it invokes desc->random() the module's random() implementation should be able to use rand_r() and needs to be fed the seed. So that all still needs wiring up to propagate the root seed down everywhere it may be relevant.
2022-06-10til: introduce til_frame_plan_t and .cpu_affinityVito Caputo
modules/checkers w/fill_module=$module requires a consistent mapping of cpu to fragnum since it creates a per-cpu til_module_context_t for the fill_module. The existing implementation for threaded rendering maximizes performance by letting *any* scheduled to run thread advance fragnum atomically and render the acquired fragnum indiscriminately. A side effect of this is any given frame, even rendered by the same module, will have a random mapping of cpus/threads to fragnums. With this change, the simple til_module_t.prepare_frame() API of returning a bare fragmenter function is changed to instead return a "frame plan" in til_frame_plan_t. Right now til_frame_plan_t just contains the same fragmenter as before, but also has a .cpu_affinity member for setting if the frame requires a stable relationship of cpu/thread to fragnum. Setting .cpu_affinity should be avoided if unnecessary, and that is the default if you don't mention .cpu_affinity at all when initializing the plan in the ergonomic manner w/designated initializers. This is because the way .cpu_affinity is implemented will leave threads spinning while they poll for *their* next fragnum using atomic intrinsics. There's probably some room for improvement here, but this is good enough for now to get things working and correct.
2022-06-10til: add ticks to til_module_context_tVito Caputo
Also wire this up to the til_module_context_new() helper and all its callers. This is in preparation for modules doing more correct delta-T derived animation.
2022-06-07modules/moire: implement rudimentary moire moduleVito Caputo
This introduces a very naive unoptimized moire interference pattern module, it's rather slow complete with a sqrtf() per pixel per center.
2022-05-29*: pivot to til_module_context_tVito Caputo
- modules now allocate their contexts using til_module_context_new() instead of [cm]alloc(). - modules simply embed til_module_context_t at the start of their respective private context structs, if they do anything with contexts - modules that do nothing with contexts (lack a create_context() method), will now *always* get a til_module_context_t supplied to their other methods regardless of their create_context() presence. So even if you don't have a create_context(), your prepare_frame() and/or render_fragment() methods can still access seed and n_cpus from within the til_module_context_t passed in as context, *always*. - modules that *do* have a create_context() method, implying they have their own private context type, will have to cast the til_module_context_t supplied to the other methods to their private context type. By embedding the til_module_context_t at the *start* of their private context struct, a simple cast is all that's needed. If it's placed somewhere else, more annoying container_of() style macros are needed - this is strongly discouraged, just put it at the start of struct. - til_module_create_context() now takes n_cpus, which may be set to 0 for automatically assigning the number of threads in its place. Any non-zero value is treated as an explicit n_cpus, primarily intended for setting it to 1 for single-threaded contexts necessary when embedded within an already-threaded composite module. - modules like montage which open-coded a single-threaded render are now using the same til_module_render_fragment() as everything else, since til_module_create_context() is accepting n_cpus. - til_module_create_context() now produces a real type, not void *, that is til_module_context_t *. All the other module context functions now operate on this type, and since til_module_context_t.module tracks the module this context relates to, those functions no longer require both the module and context be passed in. This is especially helpful for compositing modules which do a lot of module context creation and destruction; the module handle is now only needed to create the contexts. Everything else operating on that context only needs the single context pointer, not module+context pairs, which was unnecessarily annoying. - if your module's context can be destroyed with a simple free(), without any deeper knowledge or freeing of nested pointers, you can now simply omit destroy_context() altogether. When destroy_context() is missing, til_module_context_free() will automatically use libc's free() on the pointer returned from your create_context() (or on the pointer that was automatically created if you omitted create_context() too, for the bare til_module_context_t that got created on your behalf anyways). For the most part, these changes don't affect module creation. In some ways this eases module creation by making it more convenient access seed and n_cpus if you had no further requirement for a context struct. In other ways it's slightly annoying to have to do type-casts when you're working with your own context type, since before it was all void* and didn't require casts when assigning to your typed context variables. The elimination for requiring a destroy_context() method in simple free() of private context scenarios removes some boilerplate in simple cases. I think it's a wash for module writers, or maybe a slight win for the simple cases.
2022-05-23til: simplify fragment->cleared maintenanceVito Caputo
Just assume a fragment has been logically cleared after til_module_render() has done all its potential steps. I'm not certain this doesn't break some existing assumptions WRT fragmented/threaded clears and their propagation out to the outer frame. But I've been operating under the assumption that this was already happening in terms of an implicit setting of til_fb_fragment_t.cleared after a module's render happened. Except I don't see anything in the existing code or history actually doing that, which is odd. For modules that don't invoke til_fb_fragment_clear() explicitly because they are frame-fillers (think submit, swab, ray, julia, plasma, these are all full-frame renders that don't benefit from pre-clearing), they weren't leaving fragment->cleared set, despite having fully initialized the frame's contents. We should be able to just assume after prepare/render/finish has happened for a given module, the target fragment has been cleared. Commit 4e5286 had introduced somewhat complicated .cleared maintenance and propagation for threaded renders, but when we just treat all finished module renders into a given fragment as logically clearing the fragment we can just skip all that.
2022-05-21til: supply a seed to til_module_t.create_context()Vito Caputo
In the recent surge of ADD-style rtv+compose focused development, a bunch of modules were changed to randomize initial states at context_create() so they wouldn't be so repetitive. But the way this was done in a way that made it impossible to suppress the randomized initial state, which sometimes may be desirable in compositions. Imagine for instance something like the checkers module, rendering one module in the odd cells, and another module into the even cells. Imagine if these modules are actually the same, but if checkers used one seed for all the odd cells and another seed for all the even cells. If the modules used actually utilized the seed provided, checkers would be able to differentiate the odd from even by seeding them differently even when the modules are the same. This commit is a step in that direction, but rototiller and all the composite modules (rtv,compose,montage) are simply passing rand() as the seeds. Also none of the modules have yet been modified to actually make use of these seeds. Subsequent commits will update modules to seed their pseudo-randomized initial state from the seed value rather than always calling things like rand() themselves.
2022-05-21modules/shapes: add procedural 2D shapes moduleVito Caputo
Mostly for compositing purposes, here will be a corpus of 2D shapes, parameterized/procedurally generated and able to rotate and perhaps have other dynamics added. What shapes are there presently I had started implementing in checkers as "styles", before realizing they really should just be a separate module checkers can call into. Not terribly interesting by itself, but as blinds and checkers demonstrated, these things deliver a lot of value in compositional situations. They're creating the palette to draw from.
2022-05-01til: introduce "blank" built-in moduleVito Caputo
rtv special-cased handling a nil module to mean clear the fragment, and called this "none" But it really makes more sense for rtv to treat "none" as not doing anything at all for its snow_module - not even blanking. And it would be nice to have a consistent way to express a blank module throughout rototiller, so this introduces a concept of built-in modules accessible only via explicit lookup by name which don't get enumerated via til_get_modules(), as they're inherently uninteresting more utility-oriented modules for use by other modules. For now it's only "blank" that constitutes the built-ins list, but expanding this is only a matter of introducing more modules there. Future commits will rework rtv to use "blank" in place of its current "none", and rtv's "none" will be reworked to represent no snow mechanism at all, obviating the need to specify snow_duration=0,snow_module=none required today.
2022-05-01til: introduce some generic fragmenters for convenienceVito Caputo
Most of the threaded modules have settled down on two basic forms of fragmenter function: 1. a slice per cpu, where tile-oriented locality isn't useful 2. ~64x64 tiles, in scenarios where screen-space locality helps Now that n_cpus is wired up to the fragmenter, #1 can be fulfilled without requiring a module-private context plumbing n_cpus from create_context(). A future commit will replace some module-specific fragmenters by returning one of these instead as res_fragmenter in their prepare_frame(), wherever applicable.
2022-04-29modules/voronoi: voronoi diagram moduleVito Caputo
This adds a voronoi diagram module, which when used as an overlay produces a mosaic effect. Some settings: cells=N number of voronoi cells randomize={on,off} randomizes the cell locations every frame dirty={on,off} uses a faster sloppy/dithery-looking method Some TODO items: - use a more space efficient representation of the distance buffer, maybe use uint16_t relative offsets into the cells rather than pointers - capping their quantity to 64KiB - anti-alias edges between cells
2022-04-24*: s/void */til_setup_t */Vito Caputo
This brings something resembling an actual type to the private objects returrned in *res_setup. Internally libtil/rototiller wants this to be a til_setup_t, and it's up to the private users of what's returned in *res_setup to embed this appropriately and either use container_of() or casting when simply embedded at the start to go between til_setup_t and their private containing struct. Everywhere *res_setup was previously allocated using calloc() is now using til_setup_new() with a free_func, which til_setup_new() will initialize appropriately. There's still some remaining work to do with the supplied free_func in some modules, where free() isn't quite appropriate. Setup freeing isn't actually being performed yet, but this sets the foundation for that to happen in a subsequent commit that cleans up the setup leaks. Many modules use a static default setup for when no setup has been provided. In those cases, the free_func would be NULL, which til_setup_new() refuses to do. When setup freeing actually starts happening, it'll simply skip freeing when til_setup_t.free_func is NULL.
2022-04-22til: make til_module_randomize_setup() return -errnoVito Caputo
This makes the arg return optional by using a res_arg pointer, instead returning -ENOMEM when it would have returned NULL on allocation failures. This also makes it possible to detect when no setup was performed, by returning 0 in such a case. Now returns 1 when setup occurs and res pointers populated.
2022-04-22til: add til_module_randomize_setup() from rtvVito Caputo
This commit pulls the setup randomizer out of rtv into libtil proper, so other modules may make use of it. Other than adding an assert no functional changes occurred. It may make sense to split this into two functions; one which takes a til_module_t as-is, and a lower-level bare setup function callback based function that doesn't know about til_module_t the former would call into. That way generic setup randomization can occur (the same setup machinery is used in video contexts for example) without necessarily having a til_module_t on hand.
2022-04-22til: wire up modules/checkersVito Caputo
expose the checkers module to the rest of the world
2022-04-19modules/blinds: add simple 80s-aesthetic window blindsVito Caputo
This isn't super interesting but I might just start adding simplistic overlay style modules for compositing/transition use.
2022-04-14til: seed srand in til_init()Vito Caputo
A future commit will remove srand() calls from modules, relying instead on this srand() in til_init(). As mentioned in the comment, if modules actually want reproducible deterministic pseudo-random values they should use rand_r() (or their own PRNG) where they can control the seed.
2022-03-30*: wire up context-specific setup instancesVito Caputo
This is a preparatory commit for cleaning up the existing sloppy global-ish application of settings during the iterative _setup() call sequences. Due to how this has evolved from a very rudimentary thing enjoying many assumptions about there ever only being a single module instance being configured by the settings, there's a lot of weirdness and inconsistency surrounding module setup WRT changes being applied instantaneously to /all/ existing and future context's renderings of a given module vs. requiring a new context be created to realize changes. This commit doesn't actually change any of that, but puts the plumbing in place for the setup methods to allocate and initialize a private struct encapsulating the parsed and validated setup once the settings are complete. This opaque setup pointer will then be provided to the associated create_context() method as the setup pointer. Then the created context can configure itself using the provided setup when non-NULL, or simply use defaults when NULL. A future commit will update the setup methods to allocate and populate their respective setup structs, adding the structs as needed, as well as updating their create_context() methods to utilize those setups. One consequence of these changes when fully realized will be that every setting change will require a new context be created from the changed settings for the change to be realized. For settings appropriately manipulated at runtime the concept of knobs was introduced but never finished. That will have to be finished in the future to enable more immediate/interactive changing of settings-like values appropriate for interactive manipulation
2022-03-19*: de-constify til_setting_t throughoutVito Caputo
Now that til_setting_t.desc is not only a thing, but a thing that is intended to be refreshed regularly in the course of things like GUI interactive settings construction, it's not really appropriate to try even act like this these are const anymore.
2022-03-19til: add til_module_destroy_context() helperVito Caputo
2022-03-19*: normalize setting description capitalizationsVito Caputo
Always only capitalize the first letter, never capitalize like titles.
2022-03-12til_settings: always describe relevant settingsVito Caputo
The existing iterative *_setup() interface only described settings not found, quietly accepting usable settings already present in the til_settings_t. This worked fine for the existing interactive text setup thing, but it's especially problematic for providing a GUI setup frontend. This commit makes it so the *_setup() methods always describe undescribed settings they recognize, leaving the setup frontend loop calling into the *_setup() methods to both apply the description validation if wanted and actually tie the description to respective setting returned by the _setup() methods as being related to the returned description. A new helper called til_settings_get_and_describe_value() has been introduced primarily for use of module setup methods to simplify this nonsense, replacing the til_settings_get_value() calls and surrounding logic, but retaining the til_setting_desc_t definitions largely verbatim. This also results in discarding of some ad-hoc til_setting_desc_check() calls, now that there's a centralized place where settings become "described" (setup_interactively in the case of rototiller). Now a GUI frontend (like glimmer) would just provide its own setup_interactively() equivalent for constructing its widgets for a given *_setup() method's chain of returned descs. Whereas in the past this wasn't really feasible unless there was never going to be pre-supplied settings. I suspect the til_setting_desc_check() integration into setup_interactively() needs more work, but I think this is good enough for now and I'm out of spare time for the moment.
2021-10-01*: librototiller->libtilVito Caputo
Largely mechanical rename of librototiller -> libtil, but introducing a til_ prefix to all librototiller (now libtil) functions and types where a rototiller prefix was absent. This is just a step towards a more libized librototiller, and til is just a nicer to type/read prefix than rototiller_.
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