A tile has to come back to the cut it started with for the clip to
loop, so every tile swapped at least twice a clip, and below that
rounding left every tile still: the bottom of the slider was either
frozen or busy. Swap rate is now the average per tile: below two swaps
a clip only a share of the tiles swap (twice each), fewer the lower it
goes, and above it each tile rounds up or down by its own draw.
ParamSpec::slider() takes an optional curve: the scale runs over the
slider's travel and sliderValue/sliderPosition map it onto the number
as position^curve. Swap rate uses a curve of 3, so the low end gets
most of the slider; the command line and project file are unchanged.
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A new ParamSpec::slider() marks an Int or Double param to be shown in
the interface as a Gtk::Scale with its minimum and maximum marked under
the ends, rather than a spin button; the command line and the project
file are unchanged. Swap rate uses it, and now runs from 0 to 5 in
steps of 0.01 (was 0 to 30 in steps of 0.1): with every tile swapping
on its own, even 0.1 swapped the canvas many times a second.
Version 0.8.2.
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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.
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