This patch delays applying transformations until realization happens on
some other domain.
Currently, transformations are applied immediately at the point of
transform nodes, this is problematic for a few reasons:
- If that result was then realized on some other domain, interpolation
will have happened two times, at the transform nodes and at the node
that required realization, causing less than ideal precision issues.
- It is not possible to repeat or extend a rotated result because its
empty areas will be zero filled, leaving gaps in its extension. So
this patch is a prerequisite for #132371 if we want full support for
repetition.
- Doing inverse transformations will introduce interpolation artifacts
which might be undesirable. Inverse transformations might be used to
do pixelation for instance, so this change will be undesirable in this
case. But we decided that this is not a use case that we want to
support, and we added explicit pixel size control to the pixelate node
as an alternative.
So this has four implications, two that might be considered bad:
- Transformations will now be higher quality and more precise.
- Repetition and other boundary extension methods will now be possible.
- Downsampling then upsampling will no longer produce pixelated results.
- Realization might happen multiple times with identical results in some
cases.
The last point not a big issue, since domain realization is not a big
bottleneck in the compositor, and the plan is to move realization into
pixel operations, so it will even be more efficient than it is now.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/133158
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