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.


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Discovered Widmer world this year & used it to cap off the 100 mile week.



























Surmised the collections were all donations over the last 40 years.  The satellite view showed the collections stay in place all year, even through the blazing hot summer.  No hot snot would survive.  

Zestimate shows it now cresting $2 mil with a property tax of $2600.  It's surprisingly low, considering the gigantic back yard.  A back yard that big is going to be at least $6 mil in 10 years. 




The guy was on oxygen & looking near the end, so it was now or never.  You can inherit a very large property which is unattainable for anyone nowadays, but you can't keep it.

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With the xmas cycle completed, it was time to finish the evil dead cycle with Evil Dead II.




This one had a lot more Xena devices, the sunset timelapses, the flying cameras, the bodies flying into walls, Joseph Lo Duca.  Bruce Campbell himself didn't reprieve any moves. 





Attainable vs unattainable.


Surprisingly highly rated on IMDB besides being nothing but 80 silly minutes with no point.  When that movie came out in 1987, lions just entered puberty.  Can only imagine animals 5 years older soaking it all in at the same time, in the Cinedome 7.

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The cinedome 7 where lions saw Back to the future & Pinocchio, was demolished in late 2016. 


Remember seeing it being built in the 80's, then remember it being replaced around 2008 but this memory never really happened.  It was empty during the daytime when lions were there, but it kept going at night until the very end of small big screen entertainment.  It sounded amazing in the 80's, coming from an era of only driveins & a home 19" TV.



Mane vs choc



















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