In the line-art async function, pass ownership over the resulting
buffer to the async object, so that the buffer is properly freed in
case the async in canceled after line-art computation is complete,
but before the completion callback is called.
Also, clear the tool's async pointer in the completion callback, to
avoid leaking the last issued async.
The "update" signal on drawable or projection can actually be emitted
many times for a single painting event. Just add new signals ("painted"
on GimpDrawable and "rendered" on GimpProjection) which are emitted once
for a single update (from user point of view), at the end, after actual
rendering is done (i.e. after the various "update" signals).
Also better support the sample merge vs current drawable paths for
bucket fill.
Since commit b00037b850, erosion size is not used anymore, as this step
has been removed, and the end point detection now uses local thickness
of strokes instead.
Move swap/cache and temporary files out the GIMP user config dir:
libgimpbase: add gimp_cache_directory() and gimp_temp_directory()
which return the new default values inside XDG_CACHE_HOME and the
system temp directory. Like all directories from gimpenv.[ch] the
values can be overridden by environment variables. Improve API docs
for all functions returning directories.
Add new config file substitutions ${gimp_cache_dir} and
${gimp_temp_dir}.
Document all the new stuff in the gimp and gimprc manpages.
app: default "swap-path" and "temp-path" to the new config file
substitutions. On startup and config changes, make sure that the swap
and temp directories actually exist.
In the preferences dialog, add reset buttons to all file path pages.
Previous algorithm was relying on strokes of small radius to detect
points of interest. In order to work with various sizes of strokes, we
were computing an approximate median stroke thickness, then using this
median value to erode the binary line art.
Unfortunately this was not working that well for very fat strokes, and
also it was potentially opening holes in the line art. These holes were
usually filled back later during the spline and segment creations. Yet
it could not be totally assured, and we had some experience where color
filling would leak out of line art zones without any holes from the
start (which is the opposite of where this new feature is supposed to
go)!
This updated code computes instead some radius estimate for every border
point of strokes, and the detection of end points uses this information
of local thickness. Using local approximation is obviously much more
accurate than a single thickness approximation for the whole drawing,
while not making the processing slower (in particular since we got rid
of the quite expensive erosion step).
This fixes the aforementionned issues (i.e. work better with fat strokes
and do not create invisible holes in closed lines), and also is not
subject to the problem of mistakenly increasing median radius when you
color fill in sample merge mode (i.e. using also the color data in the
input)!
Also it is algorithmically less intensive, which is obviously very good.
This new version of the algorithm is a reimplementation in GIMP of new
code by Sébastien Fourey and David Tschumperlé, as a result of our many
discussions and tests with the previous algorithm.
Note that we had various tests, experiments and propositions to try and
improve these issues. Skeletonization was evoked, but would have been
most likely much slower. Simpler erosion based solely on local radius
was also a possibility but it may have created too much noise (skeleton
barbs), with high curvature, hence may have created too many new
artificial endpoints.
This new version also creates more endpoints though (and does not seem
to lose any previously detected endpoints), which may be a bit annoying
yet acceptable with the new bucket fill stroking interaction. In any
case, on simple examples, it seems to do the job quite well.
Other bucket fills are now done as filter until committed, but basic
selection fill is still done automatically. So let's make sure the
canvas is updated immediately (as it used to be before my changes).
In the scale tool, when the "around center" option is toggled,
scale the item around its center not only through canvas
interaction, but also when entering width/height values through the
tool GUI.
The parallel_distribute() family of functions has been migrated to
GEGL. Remove the gimp_parallel_distribute() functions from
gimp-parallel, and replace all uses of these functions with the
corresponding gegl_parallel_distrubte() functions.
Nothing said what was going to be the order of the page, except by
testing. Now there will be an explicit text, which will be automatically
updated when checking the "reverse order" box.
I have not added all the options for this new tool yet, but this sets
the base. I also added a bit of TODO for several places where we need to
make it settable, in particular the fuzzy select tool, but also simply
PDB calls (this will need to be a PDB context settings.
Maybe also I will want to make some LineArtOptions struct in order not
to have infinite list of parameters to functions. And at some point, it
may also be worth splitting a bit process with other type of
selection/fill (since they barely share any settings anyway).
Finally I take the opportunity to document a little more the parameters
to gimp_lineart_close(), which can still be improved later (I should
have documented these straight away when I re-implemented this all from
G'Mic code, as I am a bit fuzzy on some details now and will need to
re-understand code).
Rather than just having a click interaction, let's allow to "paint" with
the bucket fill. This is very useful for the new "line art" colorization
since it tends to over-segment the drawing. Therefore being able to
stroke through the canvas (rather than click, up, move, click, etc.)
makes the process much simpler. This is also faster since we don't have
to recompute the line art while a filling is in-progress.
Note that this new behavior is not only for the line art mode, but also
any other fill criterion, for which it can also be useful.
Last change of behavior as a side effect: it is possible to cancel the
tool changes the usual GIMP way (for instance by right clicking when
releasing the mouse button).
Right now, this is mostly meaningless as it is still done sequentially.
But I am mostly preparing the field to pre-compute the line art as
background thread.
The older labelling based off CImg code was broken (probably because of
me, from my port). Anyway I realized what it was trying to do was too
generic, which is why we had to fix the result later (labeling all
non-stroke pixels as 0, etc.). Instead I just implemented a simpler
labelling and only look for stroke regions. It still over-label a bit
the painting but a lot less, and is much faster.
I don't actually need to loop through borders first. This is what the
abyss policy is for, and I can simply check the iterator position to
verify I am within buffer boundaries or not.
This simplifies the code a lot.
We actually don't need to compute distance map. I just make the simplest
priority map, with 1 any line art pixel and 0 any other pixel (in mask
or not), lowest priority being propagated first.
And let the flooding begin!
... labels buffer.
We can watershed directly the mask buffer being correctly flagged.
This commit relies on merge request gegl!8 being accepted and merged.
Also use more GeglBufferIterator on input GEGL buffer.
Using a char array is much less expensive and accelerated the line
erosion a lot!
Moving to GeglBufferIterator is not finished, but I do in steps.
When filling colors in line arts, you don't want to leave space between
the strokes and the color, which usually happen with any of the current
selection methods.
A "KISS" trick is usually to grow your selection a few pixels before
filling (adding an additional step in colorization process), which
obviously does not handle all cases (depending on drawing style and
stroke size, you may need to grow more or less) as it doesn't take into
account actual stroke geometry.
Instead, I label the selection and the "rest" differently and leave the
pixel strokes unlabelled. Then I let these unlabelled pixels be flooded
by the "gegl:watershed-transform" operation.
Note that this second step is different from the second step from the
GREYC research paper, as they use their own watershed algorithm taking
color spots as sources to color the whole image at once. This is a
different workflow from the one using bucket fill with a single color
source.
This commit implements part of the research paper "A Fast and Efficient
Semi-guided Algorithm for Flat Coloring Line-arts" from the GREYC (the
people from G'Mic). It is meant to select regions from drawn sketchs in
a "smart" way, in particular it tries to close non-perfectly closed
regions, which is a common headache for digital painters and colorists.
The implementation is not finished as it needs some watersheding as well
so that the selected area does not leave "holes" near stroke borders.
The research paper proposes a new watersheding algorithm, but I may not
have to implement it, as it is more focused on automatic colorization
with prepared spots (instead of bucket fill-type interaction).
This will be used in particular with the fuzzy select and bucket fill
tools.
Note that this first version is a bit slow once we get to big images,
but I hope to be able to optimize this.
Also no options from the algorithm are made available in the GUI yet.
Commented out the inactive plug-ins registry: no point linking to a dead page.
Added links to the roadmap page, main wiki page, and the bug tracker. Placed
the link to the bug tracker one level up from '<Image>/Help/GIMP Online'
to make it more visible.
When constructing CC_VERSION, escape backslash characters in the
compiler version string, so that they don't get interpreted as
escape sequences by the compiler. This is especially important on
Windows, where the version string of MinGW may contain backslash
characters as part of paths.
In gimp_drawable_transform_buffer_affine(), avoid modifying the
clipping mode when transforming layer masks, since this function is
used (among other things) to transform layer masks together with
their layer, in which case they should use the same clipping mode
as the layer.
This fixes a regression introduced by commit
2ae823ba2b, causing layer masks to be
transformed with a mismatched clipping mode during layer
transforms, leading to discrepencies between the transformed layer
and the transformed mask.
This commit merely reverts the necessary part of above commit,
fixing the regression, though note that this code is really up for
some serious refactoring: the logic for determining which clipping
mode to use when is spread all over the place.
... as I would like it to.
Use GimpSpinButton, added in the previous commit, in GimpSizeEntry,
instead of GtkSpinButton. This avoids updating the spin-buttons'
adjustment values when they lose focus, truncating the value if it
can't be accurately displayed using the corresponding spin-button's
digit count. Since size-entries can have multiple spin-buttons
using different units, this prevents the value from changing when
entring a value using one unit, and then shifting the focus to, but
not changing, another unit.
GimpSpinButton is a drop-in replacement for (and a subclass of)
GtkSpinButton. Unlike GtkSpinButton, it avoids updating the
adjustment value when losing focus, unless the entry text has
changed. This prevents accidental loss of precision, when the
adjustment value can't be accurately displayed in the entry.
Ell