Lion ponderings

 Pondering a method to always use opengl, regardless of downstream stages not supporting it.  It would require testing if handle_opengl() was an override of the base class.  Then it would call VDeviceX11::copy_frame to move from SCREEN to RAM before running the CPU plugin. Given the rarity of histogram ever coming after overlay, it's been a tough sell just to handle readback after shared plugins. Having said that, it is a desirable chain.   The GPU to CPU case after a shared plugin ended up being solved in an obscure stage where VAttachmentPoint::render has to prepare all of the output channels for ingestion into the next stage.  It normally copies from the PBUFFER to a texture for the preparation, but based on the use_opengl flag, it can copy to the CPU. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Discovered Widmer world this year & used it to cap off the 100 mile week. Surmised th...

  A 28 miler brought the lion kingdom to 70 miles in 5 days.  30 miles in the next 2 days would reach the 100 mile threshold in 7 days.  The forecast had a brief window between storms.  Many animals aspire to run 100 miles in 7 days.  Lions would have to do it through a combination of walking & running.  If the tendon was still 48, it wouldn't be a big deal.   It was down to walking for the last mile.  The tendon did surprisingly well. Back chafing became a real problem.  Loading it with vaseline got it managed but not recovering. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ On the next day, set out to go as far as possible at walking speed & see what happened.  The 1st 3 were really painful & full of doubt about ever reaching 10.  Walked an entire 18 miles, leaving just 12 more to break 100.   Power usage was 530mAh/mile once the headlights came on....

 Blur was 1 of the very 1st effects lions ported from Gimp from 1998-2000.  The date & memory of writing it is lost, but it was definitely done before March 2000.  The memory of that time is manely of writing MPEG support, quicktime support, & capture.  That was the only demo media which survives.  A lot of that time was spent on writing effects, but there wasn't any demo media of it. Other effects were rudimentary histogram, brightness, sharpness, & oil painting.  The expansion of the video effects library was 1 of the foundational steps before capture support, because lions didn't have the money.  It used IPC & was largely a variation of the audio framework done from 1997-1998.  At some point blur got a floating point setting & around 2011, it got an alpha to blur radius option.  Those 2 options added a lot of problems.  Radius below 1.0 didn't work at all & unique radius per pixel only worked with certain value...

    Did not know the oval office was not in the mane building but in an obscure corner of the 1st floor of the west wing. The aliens always zapped the wrong building in the movies & the news always showed the wrong building. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Final attempt to find egg nog didn't yield any, but it did yield some unobtainable gingerbread.  All was right with the mane. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Clive revealed himself to be a 60 year old virgin.  Lions sometimes ponder what it would have been like to die a virgin.  It nearly happened.  Lions only had sex from age 31-38 & never again.  It wasn't very fun, but lions never knew anyone who qualified as a supermodel.  The attractiveness of the woman probably was essential for any pleasure.  There's always ...

The mane problem with running at night for xmas is the tendon not allowing fast enough running to keep warm.  There's going to be a brutal warmup phase where it can't really warm up.  Then there's the battery problem.  Full lighting adds 600mA or 100mA per mile.  26 miles would require 3 5Ah batteries.  It's a real brick with just 2 batteries. Went with another shorter, southerly run in daylight, since rain was coming into the north.  22 miles ended up being about the maximum for the tendon.  Not loading it for 3 days deconditioned it. It was pretty slow.  Of course, only used the metronome for the last 11 miles which might have degraded results.   Somehow, that destination is coming in at 11 miles despite past memories of it being an even 13.  The energy burn was 250mAh/mile despite carrying a large mass for the last 3 miles & 2 batteries.  It only used headlights for the last .5.  26 miles with headlights would probably c...