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SiandClaude Opus 5.5 1b30a079e6 Add Tile swap, a video effect built from the source images
Tile swap lays tiles cut from the photographs over the canvas as Tiles
does, in a grid, in bricks or scattered, and swaps each one for another
cut at a moment of its own, so the mosaic keeps changing piece by piece.
The layout stays put for the whole clip; what a tile shows depends only
on the tile and how many times it has swapped, counted round the clip, so
it holds still between swaps and the clip loops without a jump. On the
command line it is -e tileswap with --tileswap-rate and the rest.

VideoEffect learns a second kind: an effect that answers needsSources()
writes compose() instead of animate(), and the base then takes no crop,
only the one seed, so it sees the photographs when it leads the chain and
the stage before it otherwise. Transforms render exactly as before. The
tile cutting and painting move out of tiles.cpp into tile_plan.hpp for
both effects to share; Tiles renders byte for byte as before. Version
0.8.0.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-26 19:22:26 +02:00
SiandClaude Opus 5.5 cdaadffc89 Split effects into image and video effects, with VHS tracking as the first video effect
Effect::video() says which kind an effect is. The Add effect menu lists the
two kinds in sections of their own, each scrolling on its own, and offers
video effects only in a video project; a video stage carries a film icon in
the chain and, in a still, is dimmed and skipped like a stage switched off.
enabledStages takes whether the render is a video and is the one place that
leaves video stages out of a still. --help groups the video effects under a
heading of their own, --list-effects marks them, and a video effect given
for a still is skipped with a warning.

VideoEffect is the base every video effect builds on, and keeps the rules a
moving stage has to follow: it takes one value from the shared rng, the same
on every frame, and hands the effect steady and per-frame generators and
loop-rounded time through a Moment, so a subclass writes only animate().
VHS tracking is the first, and the one to copy: the colour planes sway and
shake and a tracking bar rolls down the picture.

That motion moves out of channel split, which is an image effect again and
renders stills exactly as before; forVideo() goes with it. Version 0.7.0.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-26 19:03:39 +02:00