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Whats new on Update 0.3.910 (26-Mar-2018)
[Nodes]
-New: Mean : Arithmetic Harmonic Contraharmonic and Geometric mean
-New: Mean3: Arithmetic Harmonic Contraharmonic and Geometric mean (3 channel)
-New: Invert3: Invert 3 channels out=(1-In)
-New: vMotion: Video Motion Blur
-Mix3: Added Gray HSP and PS-like
-ADD & ADD3 added clamp 0-1 option
-Ramp: Small bug fix
-POW: Small bug fix
[Other]
-Auto check for Updates.
-Save "Resize mode" on Settings.ini
-Custom message box
-Node Setting's Auto Apply (Removed "Apply" button)
-Dark gray GUI
Attachment 157535

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Update 0.3.1040 (20-Apr-2018)
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-New: FormulaRGB: 3 Output Formulas having 3 inputs.
-New: NNart: Experimental Neural Network Reconstruction.
-New: QuantGNG3: Experimental Growing Neural Gas Quantizer.
-Formula; Formula2; Formula3: A lot faster performance and new inputbox.
-RGBscreen: Revisited to look more like a CRT Screen.
[Other]
-Bug fix on Save Project with "Project Filter" Activated

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-New: Mix3W: Mix 3 channels by 3 weights
-New: Technicolor: 2-Strip & 3-Strip Techincolor effect.
-MIX2: New option to clamp output between 0-1
-Pow; Pow3: Option to manage negative input this way: out = Sgn(in)*Abs(in)^Pow
-SNN; SNN3: Algorithm review.
[Other]
-vbRichClient: Newest Version 5.0.66
-Bug Fix: Crash on DropDownList Click


Example of Cartoonization Style (Autoscope) effect you can do with PhotoModularFX
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9xHX_6-KhM

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Update 0.3.1100 (24-jun-2018)
[Nodes]
-NEW: ColorContrast: Make Lighter choosen hue and darker complementary hue (inspired by Luminar)
[Other]
-Auto Adapt screen zoom to current screen DPI
-Animated connections on node click
-Icon minor change

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-NEW: SmoothMM: Smooth Min/Max
[Other]
-Bug fix on check for updates

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-Mousewheel support on Picker Valueinput and Slider
-Mousewheel fix on "Add Node/FX"
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Update 0.3.1153 (01-ago-2018)
[Modules]
-Blur; Blur3; Fast Mode
-ToneMap; ToneMap3; LocalMap; DoG; Noise2; PlasticWrap; -Faster (because of Internal faster Blur)
-PlastWrap: Changed 'Details' parameter (Now proportional to image size)
-RGB2HCY and HCY2RGB: reviewed colorspaces conversion algorithm
-EDGES: Reviewed algorithm
[Other]
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Update 0.3.1153 (01-ago-2018)
[Modules]
-Blur; Blur3; Fast Mode Many thanks to Tanner Helland
-ToneMap; ToneMap3; LocalMap; DoG; Noise2; PlasticWrap; -Faster (because of Internal faster Blur)
-PlastWrap: Changed 'Details' parameter (Now proportional to image size)
-RGB2HCY and HCY2RGB: reviewed colorspaces conversion algorithm
-EDGES: Reviewed algorithm
[Other]
-Added 'Add FX-Node Selector' Window
-Added Projects-Thumbs Preview. +50 MBytes
-Renaming 'Node' to 'Module'

This algorithm will be included in the next update. (for the truth already present but not working)

The module is: xChord

After a few attempts, I finally managed to implement the algorithm to create images like those of Petros Vrellis.
http://artof01.com/vrellis/index.html

This video was of fundamental help. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-S_l8GGxOhU

They consist of a series of nails placed in a circle, and of a single string passing through them.

In addition to creating images, the algorithm will create the necessary instructions to create a real one (made of nails and string).

Here are some examples:

Attachment 161925Attachment 161927

Example of Build Instructions (referring to 1st pic):

Code:

---

Number of Nails: 360
Nails coords in a circle:
N 1    X: 0.500    y: 0.000
N 2    X: 0.500    y: 0.009
N 3    X: 0.500    y: 0.017
N 4    X: 0.499    y: 0.026
N 5    X: 0.499    y: 0.035
N 6    X: 0.498    y: 0.044
N 7    X: 0.497    y: 0.052
N 8    X: 0.496    y: 0.061
N 9    X: 0.495    y: 0.070
N 10    X: 0.494    y: 0.078
...
N 357    X: 0.499    y: -0.035
N 358    X: 0.499    y: -0.026
N 359    X: 0.500    y: -0.017
N 360    X: 0.500    y: -0.009

NAIL SEQUENCE:
Step      Nail
00001      1
00002      343
00003      354
00004      353
00005      350
00006      348
00007      347
00008      357
00009      337
00010      340
....................
03800      50
03801      54
03802      144
03803      143
03804      142
03805      143
03806      44
03807      177
03808      52
03809      1
03810      360
03811      62
03812      309
03813      157
03814      222
03815      140
03816      270
End Sequence.

String Length (For a Diameter of 1 meter) :2414.951 Meters

MAX Number of string passes 24 at Nail 264
Average Number of string passes per nail 10.6
Number of string passes per nail:
Nail      Passes
N 1  -  13
N 2  -  10
N 3  -  11
N 4  -  12
N 5  -  12
N 6  -  12
N 7  -  10
N 8  -  14
N 9  -  14
N 10  -  12
N 11  -  19
...............
N 350  -  20
N 351  -  17
N 352  -  18
N 353  -  18
N 354  -  20
N 355  -  12
N 356  -  17
N 357  -  19
N 358  -  8
N 359  -  15
N 360  -  10

Parameter used:
75
360
2
0

---

To build a real one much depends on the diameter you want to use and the thickness of the string.
For this reason this algorithm could still be subject to improvements.

Summary of Modules Included:

01 IO 0:3 INPUT The Loaded Picture
02 IO 0:4 INPUT2 Secondary support Input picture
03 IO 0:4 INPUTA The Loaded Picture with Alpha Channel
04 IO 3:0 OUTPUT The Output (saved as Jpg Picture). If you need Alpha channel use PNGout Module
05 IO 4:0 PNGOUT Save as PNG

01 ColorSpace 3:3 CHROMA Chromaticity Space, No Intensity information. (Also called Normalized RGBs)
02 ColorSpace 4:3 CMYK>RGB Convert CMYK (Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Black) colorspace to RGB
03 ColorSpace 3:3 HCY>RGB Convert HCY (hue-chroma-Luma) colorspace to RGB Color space
04 ColorSpace 3:3 HSL>RGB Convert HSL (Hue, Saturation, Luminance) to RGB colorspace with quasimondo.com , STANDARD , 'Darel Rex Finley HSP' algorithm or HSV
05 ColorSpace 3:3 LAB>RGB Convert Lab colorspace to RGB Color space
06 ColorSpace 3:4 RGB>CMYK Convert RGB colorspace to CMYK (Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Black)
07 ColorSpace 3:3 RGB>HCY Convert RGB colorspace to HCY (hue-Chroma-Luma) Color space - For simplicity consider it as HSL
08 ColorSpace 3:3 RGB>HSL Convert RGB colorspace to HSL (Hue, Saturation, Luminance) with quasimondo.com , STANDARD , 'Darel Rex Finley HSP' algorithm or HSV
09 ColorSpace 3:3 RGB>LAB Convert RGB colorspace to Lab Color space
10 ColorSpace 3:3 RGB>XYZ Convert RGB colorspace to XYZ
11 ColorSpace 3:3 RGB>YUV Convert RGB colorspace to Y'UV Y(Luma)UV (PAL), YCbCr or YIQ (NTSC)
12 ColorSpace 3:3 RGB>YXY Convert RGB colorspace to Yxy
13 ColorSpace 3:3 TECHNICOLOR Simulate old 2-strip and 3-strip technicolor films
14 ColorSpace 3:3 XYZ>RGB Convert XYZ colorspace to RGB
15 ColorSpace 3:3 YUV>RGB Convert Y'UV (PAL) , YCbCr or YIQ (NTSC) Colorspace to RGB
16 ColorSpace 3:3 YXY>RGB Convert Yxy colorspace to RGB

01 Blend 3:1 BLEND Blend - Mix the first-channel with the 2nd-channel by an amount given by 3th Input
02 Blend 7:3 BLEND3 Blend 3 - Mix the 3-first-channels with the 2nd-3-channels by an amount given by 7th Input
03 Blend 2:1 MIX2 Mix 2 channels
04 Blend 6:3 MIX2X3 Mix 6 channels 2 by 2 same way as MIX2 (First 3 Inputs as RGB-1 and 2nd 3 Inputs as RGB-2)
05 Blend 3:1 MIX3 Mix 3 channels
06 Blend 6:1 MIX3W Mix 3 inputs (1-2-3) by 3 weights (4-5-6)

01 Resize 3:3 CAIR Content Aware Image Resize. Seam Carving algorithm (Experimental)
02 Resize 3:3 CROP Crop Image (Use Carefully, watch out 2D connections sizes)
03 Resize 1:1 EXTENT Extent Canvas
04 Resize 3:3 EXTENT3 Enlarge Canvas
05 Resize 4:4 EXTENT4 Enlarge Canvas
06 Resize 1:1 SIZE2X Resize Width and Height by 2X
07 Resize 1:1 SIZEHALF Resize Width and Height by Half

01 Threshold 1:1 LOCALOTSU Experimental Local Nobuyuki Otsu Multi-level Thresholding (Faster with Bigger Radius since Thresholds are interpolated)
02 Threshold 1:1 LOCALTHR Local Threshold (Imocha Singh)
03 Threshold 1:1 OTSU Nobuyuki Otsu Multi-level Thresholding
04 Threshold 1:1 SAUVOLA Sauvola Thresholding (Global or Local)
05 Threshold 1:1 SUPPRESS 'Cut' values between thresholds ( Soft Thresholding )

01 Blur 1:1 BILAOA Orientation-Aligned Bilateral Filter (WIP)
02 Blur 1:1 BILAOAEX Extended Orientation-Aligned Bilateral Filter (WIP)
03 Blur 1:1 BILATERAL Edge preserving smoothing filter.
04 Blur 1:1 BLUR Gaussian/Box Blur
05 Blur 3:3 BLUR3 3 Channels Gaussian/Box Blur
06 Blur 1:1 KUWAHARA Non-linear smoothing filter that preserves edges
07 Blur 1:1 KUWANISO Anisotropic Kuwahara
08 Blur 1:1 MEDIAN Median Filter
09 Blur 1:1 MTBLUR Motion BLUR (1 channel)
10 Blur 3:3 MTBLUR3 Motion BLUR 3 channels
11 Blur 3:1 PAINT Set first 2 Input as Outputs of FLOW, and 3th as Source to 'paint' to
12 Blur 1:1 SNN Symmetric Nearest Neighbour (Edge Preserving Smoothing)
13 Blur 3:3 SNN3 RGB Symmetric Nearest Neighbour (Edge Preserving Smoothing)
14 Blur 1:1 SPINBLUR Spin Blur
15 Blur 3:3 SPINBLUR3 Spin Blur (3 channels)
16 Blur 1:1 THRBLUR Threshold Gaussian Blur
17 Blur 3:3 THRBLUR3 Threshold Gaussian Blur, 3 channels
18 Blur 3:3 VMOTION Video Motion blur. Use only with videos frames
19 Blur 1:1 ZMBLUR ZOOM BLUR (1 channel)
20 Blur 3:3 ZMBLUR3 ZOOM BLUR 3 channels

01 Misc 1:2 FLOW Calc Gradient Flow - Outputs 1-Magnitude, 2-Angle (Range 0-1)
02 Misc 2:1 HUE-HARM HUE Harmonizer (Input 1 = HUE, Input 2 = Saturation)
03 Misc 3:3 LENS Camera Distorsion
04 Misc 3:3 MAGNIFIER Magnifier Glass
05 Misc 3:3 PLASTICWRAP Plastic Wrap Effect

01 Art 3:3 MOSAIC WIP
02 Art 3:3 NNART Experimental Neural network reconstruction (SLOW!)
03 Art 1:1 OILPAINT Oil Painting classic effect
04 Art 3:3 OILPAINT3 Oil Painting classic effect (3Channels)
05 Art 1:1 PENCIL Pencil Drawing (Still Developing)
06 Art 3:3 PHOTOMOSAIC WIP DO NOT USE !!!! Tile Photo Mosaic Artwork (WIP)
07 Art 3:3 PIXELATE Pixelate
08 Art 3:3 SKETCH Sketch style Abstraction on RGB channels
09 Art 1:1 STIPPLING Stippling (static)
10 Art 3:3 VORONOI Experimental Voronoi Tassellation
11 Art 1:1 XBIRO 'Messy curve Biro Draw Effect'
12 Art 3:1 XCHORD 'Chord Effect'
13 Art 1:1 XMESH Creates a Mesh by selecting the most relevant points and drawing them according to proximity
14 Art 3:3 XPAINTER Painter Effect
15 Art 3:3 XPEN Experimental Pencil
16 Art 3:3 XPOIS Experimental Pois Art
17 Art 3:3 XSTROKES Experimental Art-Draw Strokes

01 Histogram 1:1 HISTOEQU. HISTOGRAM Equalization. (CLHE - Contrast Limited Histogram Equalization)
02 Histogram 2:1 HISTOMATCH Histogram Matching - Change Input1 to match Input2 Histogram
03 Histogram 1:1 LOCALHE Local Histogram Equalization (CLAHE - Contrast Limited Adaptive Histogram Equalization)
04 Histogram 3:3 LOCALHE3 3 channels Local Histogram Equalization (CLAHE - Contrast Limited Adaptive Histogram Equalization)
05 Histogram 1:1 LOCALHEII Local Histogram Equalization[2] (CLAHE - Contrast Limited Adaptive Histogram Equalization) for each pixel
06 Histogram 1:1 STRETCH Histogram Contrast Stretch
07 Histogram 3:3 STRETCH3 Histogram Contrast Stretch (3 channels)

01 Contrast 1:1 ACE Adaptive Contrast Enhancement
02 Contrast 1:1 ADV.LC Advanced Local Contrast (Still developing.. )
03 Contrast 3:3 COLORCONTRAST Color Contrast: Make Lighter choosen hue and darker complementary hue (inspired by Luminar)
04 Contrast 1:1 LCN (Local) Contrast Normalization - Set Radius to 0 to do a Global Contrast Normalization
05 Contrast 1:1 LCONTRAST Set Radius
06 Contrast 1:1 VRACE Variable Radius Adaptive Contrast Enhancement
07 Contrast 1:1 VRCLAHE Variable Radius CLAHE (a sort of Fake HDR) - Very slow, since for each pixel is done a Contrast Limited Histogram Equalization using its pixel neighbour window
08 Contrast 1:1 VRLCN Variable Radius Local Contrast Normalization (WIP)

01 Mapping 1:1 CUBICBEZIER CubicBezier through 2 given points
02 Mapping 1:1 CURVE Simple 5Points Spline Curve transformation (X at every 1/4)
03 Mapping 1:1 CURVE9 Simple 9Points Spline Curve transformation (X at every 1/8)
04 Mapping 1:1 LOCALMAP Local Map range using Input Min and Max range values mapped to New Min and New Max Values. [0 - 100] = NORMALIZE (Output not Clamped)
05 Mapping 1:1 LOCALNORM Change Local mean and variance to defined values
06 Mapping 1:1 MAP Map range using Input Min-Max range values mapped to New Min and New Max Values. [0 - 100] = NORMALIZE (Output not Clamped)
07 Mapping 3:3 MAP3 Map range using Input Min and Max range values mapped to New Min and New Max Values. [0 - 100] = NORMALIZE (Output not Clamped)
08 Mapping 1:1 NORMALIZE Image Normalization: Change global mean and variance to defined values
09 Mapping 3:3 NORMALIZE3 Image Normalization: Change 3Channels global mean and variance to defined values
10 Mapping 1:1 TONEMAP Tone Mapping Single channel (Use ToneMap3 for all RGB channels)
11 Mapping 3:3 TONEMAP3 Tone Mapping (3 channels)

01 Math 1:1 ADD Add a constant Value to Input
02 Math 3:3 ADD3 Add/Sub RGB Values (it can be used even with other channels types)
03 Math 1:1 CLAMP01 Clamp channel values between 0 and 1 - The Outputs of some modules can be outside of 0-1 range
04 Math 3:3 COLORMATRIX Color Matrix
05 Math 1:1 EXP-LOG Perform Exp() or Log() function. More precisely: EXP=(Exp(x)-1)/(Exp(1)-1), LOG=Log(x*(Exp(1)-1)+1)
06 Math 1:1 FORMULA Formula - Custom Formula ...
07 Math 2:1 FORMULA2 Formula2 - 2 inputs Custom Formula ...
08 Math 3:1 FORMULA3 Formula3 - 3 inputs Custom Formula ...
09 Math 3:3 FORMURGB FormulaRGB - 3 inputs 3 Outputs Custom Formulas
10 Math 1:1 INVERT Invert a channel: Output = 1 - Input
11 Math 3:3 INVERT3 Invert 3 channels: Output = 1 - Input
12 Math 1:1 MEAN Arithmetic Harmonic Contraharmonic and Geometric mean
13 Math 3:3 MEAN3 Arithmetic Harmonic Contraharmonic and Geometric mean
14 Math 1:1 MUL Multiply by a Value (base 0.5 means an X shift by -0.5)
15 Math 3:3 MUL3 Multiply 3 channels by a Value (base 0.5 means an X shift by -0.5)
16 Math 1:1 POW Standard Power
17 Math 3:3 POW3 Standard Power on 3 Channels
18 Math 1:1 POWEX Hi values decrease contrast, Low Values Increase Contrast - Special Kind of Power function (see PDF)
19 Math 3:3 POWEX3 Hi values decrease contrast, Low Values Increase Contrast - Special Kind of Power function (see PDF)
20 Math 2:1 SMOOTHMM Smooth Min/Max
21 Math 1:1 SMOOTHST Smooth Step (Threshold)
22 Math 1:1 STDDEV Standard Deviation
23 Math 3:3 STDDEV3 Standard Deviation 3
24 Math 0:1 VALUE A constant Value (No input, only 1 output)
25 Math 0:3 VALUE3 3 constant Values (No input, only 3 outputs)

01 Quantize 1:1 K-MEAN1D Set N of Clusters
02 Quantize 2:2 K-MEAN2D Set N of Clusters
03 Quantize 3:3 K-MEAN3D Set N of Clusters
04 Quantize 3:3 QUANTGNG3 Growning Neural Gas Quantization
05 Quantize 1:1 QUANTIZE Simple quantization

01 Unknown 3:3 8COLORS Retro 8Colors style
02 Unknown 1:1 AUS developing/testing pourpose WIP! DO NOT USE!
03 Unknown 3:3 BCS Brightness Contrast Saturation (RGB)
04 Unknown 1:1 BORDERS Darker Borders / Vignetting
05 Unknown 1:1 CANNYEDGE Canny Edge Detector (WIP)
06 Unknown 1:1 CARTMEV2 perform an Effect similar to LC (but separable) taken from an old program
07 Unknown 6:3 CHROMAK Chromakey Blend (1st 3 inputs: Main Image, Last 3 Input: BackGround Image) (The replacement is based on RGB-replace Hue)
08 Unknown 1:1 CORNERS SUSAN corner detection WIP! DO NOT USE
09 Unknown 1:1 DCT-BP EXPERIMENTAL Discrete Cosine Transform Band Pass
10 Unknown 1:1 DCTEQU Discrete Cosine Transform Equalizer
11 Unknown 1:1 DCTFX EXPERIMENTAL Discrete Cosine Transform FX
12 Unknown 1:1 DIFFUSION Iso/Anisotropic Diffusion
13 Unknown 2:1 DISPARITY Disparity Map WIP
14 Unknown 1:1 DISTORTION DISTORT, a set of spatial Deform algorithm (Rotate Too)
15 Unknown 1:1 DITHERING Error Diffusion Dithering
16 Unknown 1:1 DOG Difference of Gaussians (R2=R*2)
17 Unknown 1:1 DOGBYF Flow based DoG (Difference of Gaussians)
18 Unknown 1:1 EDGES Edges detector (Sobel Magnitude)
19 Unknown 1:3 EXPER1 Just a Experimental function
20 Unknown 1:1 FAKEHDR HDR tone Mapping. VERY SLOW. Deprecated. Instead use 'ToneMap' FX
21 Unknown 1:1 FAKEHDR2 Fake HDR2 Experimental
22 Unknown 1:1 FAKEHDR3 Fake Hdr Durand (Known as ToneMap Durand)
23 Unknown 1:1 FFTTEST EXPERIMENTAL fft Not Ready!
24 Unknown 1:1 FLIP Horizontal Vertical & Both Flip/Mirror
25 Unknown 3:3 FLIP3 Horizontal Vertical & Both Flip/Mirror
26 Unknown 1:2 FLOW2 Calc Gradient Flow - Outputs 1-Magnitude, 2-Angle (Range 0-1)
27 Unknown 1:4 FLOWEX EXPERIMENTAL DO NOT USE ! Extended FLOW
28 Unknown 1:1 GAMMA Forward / Inverse Gamma Correction
29 Unknown 3:3 GAMMA3 RGB Forward / Inverse Gamma Correction
30 Unknown 1:1 GLASS Glass effect (1 Channel)
31 Unknown 3:3 GLASS3 Glass effect (3 Channels)
32 Unknown 1:1 GLOW Glow Effect [Look projects 'Glow Constructed...' ] (also colled specular Bloom)
33 Unknown 1:1 HALFTONE Halftone
34 Unknown 1:1 HATCHING Hatching-Stipple - Still developing
35 Unknown 3:3 HAZE Create Haze
36 Unknown 1:3 HEATMAP Garyscale to HeatMap
37 Unknown 4:3 HMAPD Height Map Deform. Deform by Heightmap (4th input as heightmap)
38 Unknown 3:3 LCD-DISP. LCD Display Effect
39 Unknown 1:1 MORPHO Morphology
40 Unknown 0:1 NOISE NOISE - Fractional Brownian Motion
41 Unknown 0:1 NOISE2 Noise 2nd - Generate Noise tweaking 3 layers parameter
42 Unknown 1:1 NOISER Spatial Deform by Noise (Fractional Brownian Motion)
43 Unknown 1:1 OFFSET Horizontal Vertical Offset
44 Unknown 3:3 OFFSET3 Horizontal vertical Offset
45 Unknown 1:3 PALETTIZE Single channel to RGB Palette using Cos functions
46 Unknown 1:1 PYRAMIDD Pyramid Based Level-Details Enhancement / Reduction
47 Unknown 3:3 PYRAMRGB Pyramid Based Level-Details Enhancement / Reduction
48 Unknown 0:1 RAMP Gradient Ramp
49 Unknown 2:1 RENDER Draw 2nd channel (Foreground) to the 1st Input (Background) at a given position and size
50 Unknown 6:3 RENDER3 Draw 2nd triplet of inputs (Foreground) to the 1st triplet (Background) at a given position and size
51 Unknown 6:3 RENDER3EX Draw 2nd triplet of inputs (Foreground) to the 1st triplet (Background) at given 4 CORNERS position
52 Unknown 2:1 RENDEREX Draw 2nd channel (Foreground) to the 1st Input (Background) at given 4 CORNERS position
53 Unknown 3:3 RGBSCREEN RGB screen effect NOT Ready|
54 Unknown 0:1 SCRATCHES Scratches. to Simulate old film
55 Unknown 3:3 SEPIA Sepia - Vintage
56 Unknown 1:3 SEPIAGRAY Sepia - Vintage Starting from GrayScale Image
57 Unknown 1:1 SHIFT 'Shift' left/right - Very useful to HUE shift
58 Unknown 1:1 SHOCK Shock filter ... Still Developing
59 Unknown 1:1 SKELETON 'Skeletonize'
60 Unknown 1:1 SOLARIZE Classic Solarize effect (1 channel)
61 Unknown 3:3 SOLARIZE3 Classic Solarize effect (3 channels)
62 Unknown 3:3 SORTING Pixel Sorting
63 Unknown 1:2 SPLIT Vertical/Horizontal Half Split (Useful for Stereo Images)
64 Unknown 3:6 SPLIT3 Vertical/Horizontal Half Split (Useful for Stereo Images)
65 Unknown 6:3 STEREO Stereo Anaglyph
66 Unknown 1:1 STIPPLE Stipple effect still Developing!
67 Unknown 3:3 TEMPER. Temperature and tint
68 Unknown 1:1 THINNING Zhang Suen Thinning (Usually it't better to apply Otsu thresholding before) [Similar to Skeleton-Module]
69 Unknown 3:3 TILEFY Create a texture repetition DO NOT USE !!! (WRONG)
70 Unknown 3:3 TILTSHIFT Fake Miniature - ToyEffect - Good with 'Panoramas' Pictures
71 Unknown 1:1 TRACE Trace WIP - Still developing!
72 Unknown 1:1 USM Unsharp Mask
73 Unknown 3:3 VIBRANCE Vibrance
74 Unknown 0:1 WATERMAP Water Height Map , to use as input for HMD (HeightMap Deformer)

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Update 0.3.1264 (28-Sep-2018)
[Modules]
- NEW: Lens: Camera lens distorsion
- NEW: Magnifiers: Magnifier Glass (Hotspot)
- xChord: Improved algorithm.
- Bilateral: Polynomial: Experimental superfast algorithm.
- Normalize; Normalize3: Added New Variance proportionality option.
- DoG: Added "Ratio" parameter.
- xChord: Improved algorithm.
[Other]
- Filter Project checkbox caption and tooltip update after closing the module-selection-window.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpHAnQb3AK0

Coming soon Stippling effect based on Poisson Disc Distribution

Attachment 162481
~10K points

Attachment 162483
~13K points

https://youtu.be/C3EasECJb3c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfhcpw-sJQg

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Whats new on Update 0.3.1600 (20-Dec-2018)

[Modules]
- NEW: FastEPS: Fast edge preserve smoothing filter.
- NEW: FastEPS3: 3 channles Fast edge preserve smoothing filter.
- NEW: Stippling: Poission Disc Distribution Stippling effect.
- NEW: Fractalize: Experimental Picture to fractal effect
- NEW: Stipple2: New video Stipple algorithm.
- NEW: Mix2W: Mix 2 channels by 2 weights (same way as Mix3w)
- NEW: Clamp: Clamp Values between a custom Range.
- NEW: ABS: Absoulte Value.
- NEW: FLOW2: New Edge tangent Flow algorithm.
- NEW: Q-Bertify: Q-Bert blocks
- NEW: DCT and IDCT: Pure Discrete cosine transform (and inverse).
- NEW: Corner: SUSAN Corners Detection.
- NEW: RGB>LCH;LCH>RGB: Added Cie Lch colorspace conversion.
- RGB>HSL;HSL>RGB: Added HCL colorspace conversion.(experimental)
- ToneMap; ToneMap3: Added NoHalo(FastEPS) Option.
- Bilateral: New FAST algorithm option.
- BilaOAEX: 'Per level-Bilateral' option with fast algorithm.
- DogByF: (Flow Based Difference of Gaussian) Faster algorithm.
- Stipple: Faster algorithm.
- xChord: Improvements.
- Mosaic: New Algorithm (still incomplete)
- Sauvola: Bug Fix.
[Other]
- Added toggle Projects-Sorting-Mode by Clicking 'Load Project'-Label.
- Faster Tanh and Exp function. (approximated)
- Removed Displayed TXT file extension from Project List Names.
- Removed toggle Fullscreen.

Examples:

Original:
Attachment 164047

ToneMapping No Halo
Attachment 164049

Fast Edge preserve Smoothing "FastEPS3" (prj: FAST Edge Preserve 04 RGB)
Attachment 164051

Q-Bertify:
Attachment 164053


Very happy of my new Edge preserving smoothing filters:
FastEPS and FastEPS3 modules.
This algorithm is entirely designed and developed by me. (Inspired by Gaussian IIR Blur)
The interesting aspect is that it is very fast and depends only on the size of the input, not on the "Smooth" parameter.
This is a 1D test of the algorithm.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fL1JuDXHIbM

You can follow/partecipate discussion on PMFX github here

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Update 0.3.1777 (18-Mar-2019)
[Modules]
- NEW: Gain;Gain3: Inigo Quilez gain function
- NEW: LocalGain;LocalGain3: Local Inigo Quilez gain function
- NEW: BlurCirc;BlurCirc3: Circle Blur
- NEW: Clamp3: Clamp values between a range (3 channels)
- NEW: vSplit: Video split before-after (WIP)
- FLOW: Revisited.
- BLUR;BLUR3: Implementation of 'moving-average' Algorithm (Thanks TheTrick & Mikle)
- FastEPS;FastEPS3: New Parameter: Range Difference Mode (Linear;Squared)
- FastEPS;FastEPS3: Small speed gain.
- Normalize3: Option new mean as source (New mean = -1) now is per channel instead of global.
- Mix2x3: Added clamp outputs 0-1 Option.
- Mean: Added Alpha Trimmed Mean.
[Other]
- Save about 50MBytes ZIP file by downloading project-thumbs preview on Project-mouse-over.
- Speed gain thanks to Jacob Roman's "Faux"DoEvents. (by using GetQueueStatus)
- Use of Pade Approximant for Cos and Sin functions.
- On first run ask for desktop-shortcut creation.
- Changes on Widget FileList
- vbRC5BaseDlls folder merged to BIN folder.

Attachment 166671
created with "xPAINT test4" project

EDIT:
Added this Update:
Update 0.3.1780 (19-Mar-2019)
[Other]
- Fixed possible crash on program exit while downloading Project-Thumbs

I have implemented a technique that can perform a fairly fast blur of any shape.
the speed is about the same as the current BlurCirc(3)-node.

In next update
BlurCirc;BlurCirc3 will be renamed to ShapeBlur(3) and extended with quite fast implementation of other shapes like Triangle Square Pentagon Hexagon Line Star Moon Heart Eye

ORIGINAL
Attachment 167033

CIRCLE
Attachment 167035

SQUARE
Attachment 167039

PENTAGON
Attachment 167041

Line
Attachment 167043

star
Attachment 167045

moon
Attachment 167047

heart
Attachment 167049

eye
Attachment 167051

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Update 0.3.1805 (30-Mar-2019)
[Modules]
- New: Abs3: Absolute values (3 channels).
- BlurCirc;BlurCirc3 renamed to ShapeBlur(3) and extended with quite fast implementation of
other shapes like Triangle Square Pentagon Hexagon Line Star Moon Heart Eye.
- Suppress-Node renamed to SoftThrsh.
[Other]
- Downloading Project-Thumbs from https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mi...FX/HTML/Thumbs
+Optimization

Attachment 167365

Median filter is a filter I've never been crazy about.
I implemented it a few years ago, so I took the opportunity to review my algorithm.
I've improved it now, and it's much faster for squared kernels.
This means that, if the old algorithm to execute the effect takes a time T, the new algorithm will take about a time equal to sqr (T) * 2
I will probably do the same for Circle shaped kernel.

it will be available in next update

Quote:

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Update 0.3.1805 (30-Mar-2019)

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Does this update work for everyone?

Quote:

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Originally Posted by Tattia

Does this update work for everyone?

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Thank you for your interest.

Do you mean backwards compatibility or a specific windows version ?

About backwards compatibility there should not be any problem.
You can download the ZIP file and extract it in a different Folder. Since it is Portable you can made a test by yourself.

About windows version it should work from Win XP onwards.

at disposal for every other question

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Update 0.3.2000 (28-May-2019)
[Modules]
- New: MarchingS: Marching Squares abstraction.
- New: Median3: Median Filter on 3 channels
- New: Sphere: From flat to sphere effect (thanks to Olaf Schmidt)
- Median: Faster Algorithm.
- xChord: Extended text output filename
- LocalHEii: revisited
[Other]
- Restyle of a parameter setting widget.

I made a second version of the xPainter module.
Here you can see the first result.
(Maybe I will make some changes)
The xPainter2 module will be available in the next update

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkM0DIiaCZY

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Update 0.3.2255 (20-Ago-2019)
[Modules]
- New: Stippling2: Voronoi based stippling. Good but slow.
- New: xPainter2: Painter Effect V2.
- New: JigSaw Puzzle (thanks to Olaf Schmidt)
- New: Saturation: Saturation separately in R G B channels.
- New: Skin: Skin tone adjust (WIP)
- New: Straighten: Auto Straighten
- New: Droste: Experimental Droste Effect (WIP).
- New: SoftThrsh3: Soft Thresholding (3 Channels)
- Q-Bertify: Added "just hexagon" option (Hexagonal pixelate)
- Voronoi: Modified algorithm (similar to Stippling2)
[Other]
- Vertical Scrollbars sizes DPI aware.
- vbRichClient: Newest Version 5.0.69

I improved Stippling2 Algorithm

Available in next update

TEST:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McUPjlG5LCw

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Update 0.3.2500 (18-Sep-2019)
[Modules]
. Stippling2: Speed and aesthetic improvements.
- NEW: WhiteBal.: WhiteBalance using GrayWorld assumption.
[Other]
- Improved "Auto Arrange" algorithm.
- Added some CueBannerText(s)
- Fix watermark error on demo version.

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Update 0.3.2553 (20-oct-2019)
[Modules]
- New: xPencil2: Artistic pencil draw.
- TiltShift: Added Circular and elliptical Shapes.
- xBiro: Renamed to xScribble
[Other]
- Added Category Filter to FX-selector.
- ReStyle of Activation Form.
- Small performance improvements for BilaOA and GUI

About the list of modules (which can be connected in cascade) present in this program,
I started creating this github wiki page with the scope to be a little more comprehensive than the old one.


https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/kD...=w1024-h579-no

next update will have "Vivid Light" blend mode. (... among MANY other things)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Enj3zzJjDOQ

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Update 0.3.2671 (22-Nov-2019)
[Modules]
- New: Drawtext: Basic text on image.
- New: Nrmlzd.vec: Vector Normalization.
- New: Kuwahara3: 3 Channels Kuwahara.
- New: BilaOA3: Orientation Aligned Bilateral Filter on 3 channels.
- Kuwahara: Added various Sectors-Modes.
- KuwANISO: New algorithm. (WIP)
- DoGbyF and BilaOA: faster.
- Mix2; Mix2x3 added Vivid Light.
- Quantize: Added various Uniform Soft Staircase.
- PNGout: renamed to PNGoutA.
- New: PNGOut: Save as PNG without the Alpha input Channel.
[Other]
- Internal Changes: SaveProject function.
- Modules and other minimal UI changes.
- Lock UI while filtering projects List.
- Slight change on Lab2RGB color space conversion.
- Implemented Stretch Project-flow to Window Size (Not applied).

Construction and restylized UI example

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7jtCgbn4eo

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Update 0.3.2705 (05-Dic-2019)
[Modules]
- New: Falloff: Nice Curve (can be S-Shaped).
- New: Falloff3: Nice Curve (can be S-Shaped) (3 channels).
- BLUR; BLUR3: Added 'Scaled Radius' option.
- MIX3; Added 'global mean' and 'Glb Gray BT601'
- KuwANISO: Improved.
[Other]
- Faster Startup: Avoid writing (icons) contents to Disk.
- UI: blinking disconnected inputs.

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Update 0.3.2726 (03-Feb-2020)
[Modules]
- FastEPS; FastEPS3: Added Gaussian Range Weight
[Other]
- Small fixes (CenterOn)


This update in not so relevant, but next will include a new module: TinyPlanet
Here are examples of current outputs
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/Jx...Y=w781-h661-no

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/Bd...s=w652-h661-no

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/bB...=w1024-h543-no

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Update 0.3.2795 (21-Feb-2020)
[Modules]
- New: FLOWPaint: Compute ETF and paint along it (Similar to BilaOA)
- New: FLOWPaint3: Compute ETF for each of the 3 channels and paint along it (Similar to BilaOA3)
- New: TinyPlanet: Simple TinyPlanet effect.
- New: Script11: Experimental VB6-Script processing for 1 inp 1 out channel.
- New: Script33: Experimental VB6-Script processing for 3 inps 3 outs channels.
- stdDEV: Added "Scaled Radius" and "Circle Shaped" options.
- DoG: Bug fix (R-Ratio) update 0.3.1264 (28-Sep-2018)
[Other]
- vbRichClient: Newest Version 5.0.74.
- Cleanup unused Module Output Memory.
- Increased max Photo Size.
- Backend UI optimizations.

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Update 0.3.2850 (12-Apr-2020)
[Modules]
- New: xBrio: Experimental Biro effect.
- FLOWPaint; FLOWPaint3: Added 'Spiky' option.
- PNGout: Now works with "Save Before and After" option.
[Other]
- Added "online-Help" button on Form FX selector.
- Small changes to Kmeans modules.

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Update 0.3.2980 (27-May-2020)
[Modules]
- NEW: VRLC : Variable Radius Local Contrast (Replaced LCv2 Module).
- NEW: VRLC3: Variable Radius Local Contrast (3 Channels).
- NEW: Cartoonize: Miorsoft CartoonizeMe V2 Effect. (Replaced CartV2 Module).
- NEW: Rotate: Basic Rotate and Zoom.
- NEW: SMH: Shadows Midtones and Highlights Tweak.
- NEW: SMH3: Shadows Midtones and Highlights Tweak (3 Channels)
- NrmlzdVec: Added "Low Values Desaturation" Option
- Borders: Renamed to Vignette.
[Other]
- Added "Lock Image Zoom" to Lock Image size when Zooming UI with CNTRL-MouseWheel.
- vbRichClient: Newest Version 5.0.76
- Minor Improvements on Custom-MsgBox and Auto-Arrange.


Examples created with project "FlowART Pencil 3 2.txt"
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/_2...A=w998-h661-no

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/Pi...=w1024-h575-no


Example created with project "VRLC FakeHDR 00.txt"

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/pw...I=w496-h661-no

Started using PhotoModularFX a few days ago and I was immediately hooked! Great job @reexre!
Brainstorming on how to maximize your software and have a collaboration. I will speak to you soon. More power to you. Stay safe!

Thank you for this awesome software!

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Update 0.3.3000 (12-Jul-2020)
[Modules]
- New: MIX4: Mix 4 channels by wheighted sum and other ways.
[Other]
- Copy output image to the Clipboard using CNTRL-W.
- Basis setup for "no user manual operations" for update.
- vbRichClient: Newest Version 5.0.78

Example project "Retinex TOON Color."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afNp8H5TR_4

Thank You!

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Update 0.3.3042 (10-Sep-2020)
[Modules]
- FlowPain and FlowPaint3: Added "Kernel Mode" options.
- VRLC and VRLC3: Slight performance improvement.
- FallOff and FallOff3: Added "0-1 Input clamp" option.
[Other]
- (barely noticeable) background image of the app removed.
- Minor change on Modules-progess graphic.
- Modules error handlers: (temporarily) removed.


Added some nice Effects, check newest projects:

• Oleg Toon FEPS "n"
• TOON Classic Oleg ".."

Exmaple effects:

(Watch at 720p)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nJyhVQEBfg

Demo of a new effect available in next update
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1KRnbhuY0A

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Update 0.3.3180 (11-Nov-2020)
[Modules]
- NEW: FakeHDR2: Completely New algorithm.
- NEW: Resize2X_3; ResizeHALF3: Resize 2X and HALF for 3 channels.
- Size2X; SizeHalf: Added new algorithm and options.
- FlowPaint; FlowPaint3: Small performance improvement.
- LocalNorm: Slight improvement.
- xBiro: Completely New algorithm.
[Other]
- Small Fix: Correctrly show Show App Path on Update messages.
- Small Fix: Custom MsgBox Height.
- Nicer Modules tooltip.
- Small graphic embellishment of the module currently being processed.
- Changed Watermark text.
- vbRichClient: Newest Version 6.0.0.1 (RC6)
NOTE: This automatic update may fail. Do it manually: Extract the ZIP

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Originally Posted by reexre

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Ah, good to know that the change to RC6 was (apparently) not causing any issues in your (in the meantime) quite large Project.

As written in the "Version-log", in the new version I've completely changed the underlying "cairo-flat-library" compiling their newest sources.

This brought indeed a speed-up, especially in "Polygon-Filling" and "PixelSurface-based blending-ops" -
(I've measured about 30-40% speed-improvements there).

But what was also changed (underneath the COM-wrapper-methods) was especially the Font-Rendering -
(which I've now completely left to cairo again, whereas in the RC5-wrapper I had to resort to using the Windows-GDI, to finally render the Glyphs in good quality).

So, if there's a chance for "different, potentially surprising behaviour" in the new RC6 - it would be the Font-Rendering you should "keep an eye on".
(I've tested this of course in a few Widget-based Apps of mine, but yours is currently one of the largest of this kind out there, I guess).

At this occasion, your recent algo- and effect-additions (BarbieDoll, Painter, StipplingV2 & Co.) are fantastic.

Olaf

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Originally Posted by Schmidt

Ah, good to know that the change to RC6 was (apparently) not causing any issues in your (in the meantime) quite large Project.

As written in the "Version-log", in the new version I've completely changed the underlying "cairo-flat-library" compiling their newest sources.

This brought indeed a speed-up, especially in "Polygon-Filling" and "PixelSurface-based blending-ops" -
(I've measured about 30-40% speed-improvements there).

But what was also changed (underneath the COM-wrapper-methods) was especially the Font-Rendering -
(which I've now completely left to cairo again, whereas in the RC5-wrapper I had to resort to using the Windows-GDI, to finally render the Glyphs in good quality).

So, if there's a chance for "different, potentially surprising behaviour" in the new RC6 - it would be the Font-Rendering you should "keep an eye on".
(I've tested this of course in a few Widget-based Apps of mine, but yours is currently one of the largest of this kind out there, I guess).

At this occasion, your recent algo- and effect-additions (BarbieDoll, Painter, StipplingV2 & Co.) are fantastic.

Olaf

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Hi,
Yes, I had no problems upgrading to the RC6 version.

Speaking of font rendering, everything seems fine to me.

I take this opportunity to point out an anomaly that I had noticed in RC5 (and which at the moment I don't know has changed in RC6) regarding the rendering of tooltips.
I don't know how to explain it, but sometimes, (When VbCrLf characters are present) some lines at the bottom were missing.
And to remedy this, I added some space characters to the end of the text lines.

Getting compliments from you always flatters me. Thanks!

By the way I find this program very original and functional.
The possibility of "connecting" the various modules with a few clicks to your liking (plus the setting of the parameters of it) to achieve a customized effect I think is really a great thing.
But I didn't find much enthusiasm (in terms of numbers) from users.
I don't know if because I didn't do any promotion, or for some other reason, such as:
- Complicated interface (I tried to simplify it and reduce it to the bone)
- Difficulty in learning the operations that the various modules (now more than 260) carry out. (which in fact requires a non-trivial learning curve especially for newbies)
- Or some other reason.

However I am proud of this program, which over time (Absolutely not full time, but rather sporadically; in fits and starts) I have implemented and improved in quality and functions.

:thumb: I'll keep an eye on Font-Rendering.

@Olaf

BTW
I updated this project (with RC6) which do an intensive use of Polygons ( PolygonSingle )

to run it fast as it can, turn on the TURBO checkbox

( It seems faster, but not sure though )

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiJii-q5vjc

Quote:

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Originally Posted by reexre

I updated this project (with RC6) which do an intensive use of Polygons ( PolygonSingle )

to run it fast as it can, turn on the TURBO checkbox

( It seems faster, but not sure though )

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What's faster IMO "without doing anything" is the Blending-ops (CC.RenderSurfaceContent).

And what can be made faster now (manually) is the typical "Fill and then Stroke" sequence (on a Polygon-Path):

Code:

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  m.CC.SetSourceColor Obj.Color, 1, Refl
  m.CC.AntiAlias = CAIRO_ANTIALIAS_NONE: m.CC.Fill True
     
  m.CC.SetSourceColor vbBlack
  m.CC.AntiAlias = CAIRO_ANTIALIAS_FAST: m.CC.Stroke

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The above snippet is out of my new c3Dxxx supporting Classes, which I will integrate into the next RC6-release.

Normally, the CC.Antialias-Prop is sitting at CAIRO_ANTIALIAS_DEFAULT ...
(which in the RC6 version ensures a slightly better looking AntiAliasing, without loosing speed).

What's new is the enum-value CAIRO_ANTIALIAS_FAST (which looks nearly as good as the old RC5-CAIRO_ANTIALIAS_DEFAULT).

Further speedup comes from the little trick on the Fill-instructions (no Antialiasing, but that was available in RC5 as well).

In my 3D rendering tests (3000 Polygons or so), I see about:
- 15 FPS (when not touching CC.Antialias at all, leaving it at the Default)
- 25 FPS (with a "global" setting of CAIRO_ANTIALIAS_FAST - for both - Filling and Stroking)
- 36 FPS (with the little trick, which does the filling with no antialiasing, and the stroking with CAIRO_ANTIALIAS_FAST)

Just to give you some rough idea of the speed-ratios over the different modes.

HTH

Olaf

@Olaf Thank you! Good to know!

I tested on CAIRO_ANTIALIAS_FAST on PhotoModularFX (Drawing Interface [Nodes and connections]) and it's faster and keeping good quality.
Next update will have this improvement

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Originally Posted by Schmidt

The above snippet is out of my new c3Dxxx supporting Classes, which I will integrate into the next RC6-release.

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Wow something 3D is coming! ...

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Update 0.3.3265 (09-feb-2021)
[Modules]
- FlowPaint; FlowPaint3: Default and 'Spiky' Algorithms performance improvement.
- HUE-Harm: Minimal Revision.
- SmoothMM: From Quadratic to Cubic polynomial Smooth.
- NOISE; NOISER: High performance improvements.
- DCT; IDCT: Some performance improvements.
- MIX4: Bug fix on SUM.
- Yxy2RGB: Bug Fix.
[Other]
- Select and Move a Group of Modules at once. (by holding shift)
- Basis for Managing Modules-Groups.
- Bugs Fix.

@Olaf
Hi Olaf, I hope you see this post and can help me solve the problem.
ABOUT FONTS
So, I'm using RC6.0.0.4, and I've noticed a problem with Fonts appearing "blurry" .
This is regardless of Antialias settings or anything else (as far as I can tell).
Description:
I have custom widgets that are destroyed/created at the moment on top of another "Container" widget

Code:

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CNTRL() as Object
Set CNTRL(I) = W.Widgets.Add(New cwCustomWidget .....

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When Zoom is 100% no problem. Otherwise, sometimes the fonts appear blurry.
The strange thing is this:
The container widget is movable. If I move it with the mouse and release it, it happens that in some positions of the screen the Fonts are OK, while in other positions they appear blurred. (same Zoom)
This is a bizarre behavior that I can't explain.
To verify
-download the program,
https://miorsoft.github.io/Site/Phot...rFX/index.html
-select a project that has a node with parameters,
-select that node,
-CNTRL-rotate to zoom in and move the parameter container to different positions on the screen.

you will notice that if at a certain zoom value the fonts of the widgets inside the container widget appear blurred, by moving the container widget on some places of the screen the fonts will no longer appear blurred.

Quote:

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Originally Posted by reexre

it happens that in some positions of the screen the Fonts are OK,
while in other positions they appear blurred. (same Zoom)

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I know what caused this (since I've made some changes recently with regards to more precise Widget-Positioning with higher ZoomFactors) - but apparently failed to notice the negative side-effect this had with Font-Outputs (on my High-DPI-Display, Text is always sharp, no matter what)...

Will try to find a compromise in upcoming version 6.0.7 -
so that Font-Output remains sharp, regardless of the current Zoomfactor.

Olaf

yes, on a high resolution screen it is not very noticeable and annoying.
Anyway here is an example image:
Same Zoom and different positions.
2X magnified image

https://photos.app.goo.gl/6CmFQ2jZML2oJ1KA9


https://www.vbforums.com/images/ieimages/2021/03/7.jpg

Thanks for the Screenshot - and BTW - RC 6.0.7 was just uploaded to my Server...

Would be nice, if you could confirm whether everything works again "as before"...

Olaf

Thanks, yes, now with 6.0.0.7
As far as Fonts are concerned everything is ok.
I have a (widget) custom simple button.
Now, when the coordinates of the widget (widget.move) are not integer I'm experiencing problems in the button outline. For example it disappears in one of the 4 contour sides. (Top)

Code:

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            .RoundedRect 0, 0, dx, dy, mBorderRadius
            .Fill
            .SetLineWidth 1
            .SetSourceColor ... 
            .RoundedRect 0.5, 0.5, dx - 1, dy - 1, mBorderRadius         
            .Stroke

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Anyway by placing integer values on Widget.Move everything is fine.
it's a very small problem, which I didn't even intend to report.

PS : Seems to happen only at 100% Zoom


EDIT:
Maybe the problem is a bit more serious, because I notice that sometimes, changing Zoom, some buttons lose part of the bottom outline.
This happens even when widget.move has integer values.

[Widget.move is called only once at startup, then Zoom is changed and no more Widget.move calls.]

EDIT 2:
At the moment resolved this way:

Code:

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.RoundedRect 0.5, 0.5, dx - 2, dy - 2, mBorderRadius
.Stroke

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Update 0.3.3403 (11-apr-2021)
[Modules]
- NEW: Dices: Fill with dices according to grayscale.
- NEW: SandArt: Experimental SandArt effect. Very Slow! (WIP).
- CannyEdge: New 'Thinning' option.
- Quantize: Bugs fixes.
- OTSU: added 6 levels option.
- MAP3: added 'Global MinMax' option.
[Other]
- Basis for the effects implementation via DX-Shader.
- vbRichClient: Newest Version 6.0.0.7 (RC6)

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Update 0.3.3420 (14-jul-2021)
[Modules]
- MAP3: Bug fix on 'Global MinMax' option.
- Dices: Save Text file with the name of input picture.
[Other]
- Updater: removed vbRichClient dependency.
- vbRichClient: Newest Version 6.0.0.8 (RC6)

NEW UPDATE

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Update 0.3.3610 (10-jan-2022)
[Modules]
- NEW: FLATspace: Simplify RGB pixels cloud to a plane. (experimental)
- NEW: Pointillism: Simple Pointillism effect.
- NEW: DXtestNode: Perform effect via DX-Shader.
- Mosaic: Added New Algorithm.
- QuantGNG: Rewritten Algorithm.
- QUANTIZE: Added New mode: GNG (Growing neural Gas)
- Dices: Added GNG mode.
- Canny;Edges;HmapD;PlasticWrap;Mosaic;SandArt: minor changes.
- ShapeBlur;ShapeBlur3: Re-center Shapes (E.G.:Moon)
- ThrBlur;ThrBlur3: New Poisson-Disk Algorithm.
[Other]
- Settings Menu Basis.
- New theme: Neumorphism.
- New Option: Enable/Disable Node AutoConnect.
- Main Panel: Now moveable with click and drag.
- Manage missing d3dx9_43.dll error.
- vbRichClient: Newest Version 6.0.0.9 (RC6)


List of Modules

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q01b-LvKbqE

I love the concept, bravo, the principle works well ...

CORN

I no longer understand anything about microsoft ... no digital key, no window saying that the author could not be identified ... bang ... smartscreen is totally absurd.

How did you get recognition from the smartscreen system?

no digital key no identifier and the software is not bothered by "unknown authors" what to do with smatscreen?

All lme asks for hundreds of euros.

Quote:

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Originally Posted by apfelgluck

I love the concept, bravo, the principle works well ...

CORN

I no longer understand anything about microsoft ... no digital key, no window saying that the author could not be identified ... bang ... smartscreen is totally absurd.

How did you get recognition from the smartscreen system?

no digital key no identifier and the software is not bothered by "unknown authors" what to do with smatscreen?

All lme asks for hundreds of euros.

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hi
thanks for your interest and compliments.

"How did you get recognition from the smartscreen system?"

The crazy thing is that I don't know. I didn't do anything in particular.
I don't know much about smartscreen.

Maybe because it's portable (no installation needed)
I think someone else more experienced can explain this.

Quote:

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Originally Posted by reexre

hi
thanks for your interest and compliments.

"How did you get recognition from the smartscreen system?"

The crazy thing is that I don't know. I didn't do anything in particular.
I don't know much about smartscreen.

Maybe because it's portable (no installation needed)
I think someone else more experienced can explain this.

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I don't understand anything, I removed the self-signed keyf which ONLY works on my pc. I don't know, I don't understand anything other than buying a digicert key in order to have an identity ... The software itself scrupulously respects windows .. during installation no dll is replaced if it exists whatever its version, the installation is limited to a directory in the programfile of a few MB, the environment being very compact, the software creates a janus directory in roaming (each account has its own data) such than microsoft wants, and janus desktop does not come out of these two directories. The environment runs smoothly...nothing justifies a blue screen. all that smartscreen detects is "unknown software" "unknown author" (buy me a key).

The project is on hold, awaiting a solution.

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To return to the subject, the interface of your project is really pleasant to use, I would miss a small menu bar at the top with some functions ... templates and etc. Really a great project.