The old implementation was a simple rounding operation and was not
implemented for full-frame compositor.
The issue with the old implementation is that it will not give
satisfactory results for images with high frequency details,
including cases when is used for a preview on Cycles render with
low number of samples. Additionally, when applied on animated
footage it produces very noisy result.
The new algorithm uses an explicit pixel size setting, which allows
the node to be used on its own, without need to have scale-down and
scale-up nodes. It also uses neighbour averaging, which produces
better looking result during animation and noisy input images.
The old tiled compositor setup will render without changes with
this change. This commit does not include modifications in the GPU
compositor implementation.
Ref #88150
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/117223
For high radii Kuwahara, we use a Summed Area Table (SAT) implementation
to accelerate the classic variant of the algorithm. The problem is that
due to limited floating point precision, the SAT can produce artifacts
in its output.
An attempt to fix this was implemented in #114191, and while that patch
improved precision by 10x, the artifacts still existed, albeit less
noticeable. But since the improved precision also meant a performance
penalty, it was decided that the improvement is not worth it.
Since the artifacts are only noticeable for scenes with very high
values, this patch adds a High Precision option that defaults to false
and can be enabled by the user upon noticing any artifacts. The option
simply uses direction convolution instead of SAT in this case. The
downside, of course, is that it can be orders of magnitude slower.
An alternative to using this option is for the user to clamp the input
or downsample the image. Both methods should be documented in the
documentation.
Fixes: #113578.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/115763
Along with the 4.1 libraries upgrade, we are bumping the clang-format
version from 8-12 to 17. This affects quite a few files.
If not already the case, you may consider pointing your IDE to the
clang-format binary bundled with the Blender precompiled libraries.
Followup to #114755. Initialize operation results explicitly if the input is constant. This patch unifies the size inference behavior of the following nodes/operation:
- Flip node
- Kuwahara (classic)
- Lens distortion
- Tonemap node
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/115733
This patch unifies the behavior of the scale node by removing the arbitrary limit of scaling images. The change applies to scale and transform nodes.
Note: with this change, Blender can crash for large resizing factors (around 10 000 x 10 000 relative factors). We think it's very unlikely users will run into this issue, so we agreed errors coming from failed memory allocation won't be handled, as is the case for GPU compositor.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/114764
The Glare node crashes in the full-frame compositor when its input is a
single value. Since the Glare node is constant foldable, do not inflate
its input and instead output a single value.
This patches refactors the compositor File Output mechanism and
implements the file output node for the Realtime Compositor. The
refactor was done for the following reasons:
1. The existing file output mechanism relied on a global EXR image
resource where the result of each compositor execution for each
view was accumulated and stored in the global resource, until the
last view is executed, when the EXR is finally saved. Aside from
relying on global resources, this can cause effective memory leaks
since the compositor can be interrupted before the EXR is written and
closed.
2. We need common code to share between all compositors since we now
have multiple compositor implementations.
3. We needed to take the opportunity to fix some of the issues with the
existing implementation, like lossy compression of data passes,
and inability to save single values passes.
The refactor first introduced a new structure called the Compositor
Render Context. This context stores compositor information related to
the render pipeline and is persistent across all compositor executions
of all views. Its extended lifetime relative to a single compositor
execution lends itself well to store data that is accumulated across
views. The context currently has a map of File Output objects. Those
objects wrap a Render Result structure and can be used to construct
multi-view images which can then be saved after all views are executed
using the existing BKE_image_render_write function.
Minor adjustments were made to the BKE and RE modules to allow saving
using the BKE_image_render_write function. Namely, the function now
allows the use of a source image format for saving as well as the
ability to not save the render result as a render by introducing two new
default arguments. Further, for multi-layer EXR saving, the existent of
a single unnamed render layer will omit the layer name from the EXR
channel full name, and only the pass, view, and channel ID will remain.
Finally, the Render Result to Image Buffer conversion now take he number
of channels into account, instead of always assuming color channels.
The patch implements the File Output node in the Realtime Compositor
using the aforementioned mechanisms, replaces the implementation of the
CPU compositor using the same Realtime Compositor implementation, and
setup the necessary logic in the render pipeline code.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/113982
Changes:
- Renamed Split Viewer Node to Split Node
- Split Node is now under `Utilities` (similar to Switch node)
- Versioning: split viewer from 4.0 and before is replaced with the new split node connected to a new viewer node.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/114245
Make size inference consistent with the viewport compositor (from a user's perspective). This patch uses constat folding to create a constant output out of constant inputs. This is consistent with the results of the realtime compositor.
Nodes not included in this patch require further refactoring or discussion. They will be addressed in future patches.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/114755
The compositor sometimes produces straight alpha even though
premultiplied alpha is expected. Moreover, there is an inconsistency
between the CPU and GPU compositors.
For the GPU compositor, this is because GPU textures sometimes store
straight alpha, while the compositor always expects premultiplied alpha,
so we need to premultiply the alpha in those cases.
For the CPU compositor, this is because the image operation didn't
premultiply the alpha of byte textures, so we need to ensure
premultiplied alpha in those cases.
There is a data loss issue in case of byte images, since the IMB module
unpremultiplies premultiplied images then the compositor premultiplies
it again. But this will be handled in a different patch since it require
some design and refactoring first.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/114305
This patch changes the interpolation algorithm utilized by the Keying
Screen node to a Gaussian Radial Basis Function Interpolation. This is
proposed because the current Voronoi triangulation based interpolation
has the following properties:
- Not temporally stable since the triangulation can abruptly change as
tracking markers change position.
- Not smooth in the mathematical sense, which is also readily visible in
the artists sense.
- Computationally expensive due to the triangulation and naive
rasterization algorithm.
On the other hand, the RBF interpolation method is temporally stable and
continuous, smooth and infinitely differentiable, and relatively simple
to compute assuming low number of markers, which is typically the case
for keying screen objects.
This breaks backward compatibility, but the keying screen is only used
as a secondary input for keying in typical compositor setups, so one
should expect minimal difference in outputs.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/112480
The hash tables and vector blenlib headers were pulling many more
headers than they actually need, including the C base math header,
our C string API header, and the StringRef header. All of this
potentially slows down compilation and polutes autocomplete
with unrelated information.
Also remove the `ListBase` constructor for `Vector`. It wasn't used
much, and making it easy to use `ListBase` isn't worth it for the
same reasons mentioned above.
It turns out a lot of files depended on indirect includes of
`BLI_string.h` and `BLI_listbase.h`, so those are fixed here.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/111801
This patch implements the Anisotropic Kuwahara filter for the Realtime
compositor and replaces the existing CPU implementation with a new one to be
compatible with the GPU implementation. The implementation is based on three
papers on Anisotropic Kuwahara filtering, presented and detailed in the code.
The new implementation exposes two extra parameters that control the sharpness
and directionality of the output, giving more artistic freedom.
While the implementation is different from the existing CPU implementation, it
is a higher quality one that is also faster and conforms better to the methods
described in the papers.
Examples can be seen in the pull request description.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/110786
Include counts of some headers while making full blender build:
- BLI_color.hh 1771 -> 1718
- BLI_math_color.h 1828 -> 1783
- BLI_math_vector.hh 496 -> 405
- BLI_index_mask.hh 1341 -> 1267
- BLI_task.hh 958 -> 903
- BLI_generic_virtual_array.hh 509 -> 435
- IMB_colormanagement.h 437 -> 130
- GPU_texture.h 806 -> 780
- FN_multi_function.hh 331 -> 257
Note: DNA_node_tree_interface_types.h needs color include only
for the currently unused (but soon to be used) socket_color function.
Future step is to figure out how to include
DNA_node_tree_interface_types.h less.
Pull Request: #111113
Listing the "Blender Foundation" as copyright holder implied the Blender
Foundation holds copyright to files which may include work from many
developers.
While keeping copyright on headers makes sense for isolated libraries,
Blender's own code may be refactored or moved between files in a way
that makes the per file copyright holders less meaningful.
Copyright references to the "Blender Foundation" have been replaced with
"Blender Authors", with the exception of `./extern/` since these this
contains libraries which are more isolated, any changed to license
headers there can be handled on a case-by-case basis.
Some directories in `./intern/` have also been excluded:
- `./intern/cycles/` it's own `AUTHORS` file is planned.
- `./intern/opensubdiv/`.
An "AUTHORS" file has been added, using the chromium projects authors
file as a template.
Design task: #110784
Ref !110783.
Using ClangBuildAnalyzer on the whole Blender build, it was pointing
out that BLI_math.h is the heaviest "header hub" (i.e. non tiny file
that is included a lot).
However, there's very little (actually zero) source files in Blender
that need "all the math" (base, colors, vectors, matrices,
quaternions, intersection, interpolation, statistics, solvers and
time). A common use case is source files needing just vectors, or
just vectors & matrices, or just colors etc. Actually, 181 files
were including the whole math thing without needing it at all.
This change removes BLI_math.h completely, and instead in all the
places that need it, includes BLI_math_vector.h or BLI_math_color.h
and so on.
Change from that:
- BLI_math_color.h was included 1399 times -> now 408 (took 114.0sec
to parse -> now 36.3sec)
- BLI_simd.h 1403 -> 418 (109.7sec -> 34.9sec).
Full rebuild of Blender (Apple M1, Xcode, RelWithDebInfo) is not
affected much (342sec -> 334sec). Most of benefit would be when
someone's changing BLI_simd.h or BLI_math_color.h or similar files,
that now there's 3x fewer files result in a recompile.
Pull Request #110944
Both the `Math` node and the `Vector Math` currently only explicitly
support modulo using truncated division which is oftentimes not the
type of modulo desired as it behaves differently for negative numbers
and positive numbers.
Floored Modulo can be created by either using the `Wrap` operation or
a combination of multiple `Math` nodes. However both methods obfuscate
the actual intend of the artist and the math operation that is actually
used.
This patch adds modulo using floored division to the scalar `Math` node,
explicitly stating the intended math operation and renames the already
existing `"Modulo"` operation to `"Truncated Modulo"` to avoid confusion.
Only the ui name is changed, so this should not break compatibility.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/110728
