KDEReview for Mandelbrot Wallpaper Plugin

[Benoit Jacob]

Note: I'm not complaining in any way and I was just thinking that no
news was good news.
I'm only writing this as today on #plasma I was told I should have
written to k-c-d.

2009/4/27 Benoit Jacob <jacob.benoit.1 at gmail.com>:
> Hi,
>
> The Mandelbrot wallpaper plugin has been in kdereview for 2 weeks, but
> nobody seems to have looked at it because, following instructions I
> received on #plasma, I only sent an email to plasma-devel, which
> didn't get any reply.
>
> I hope it is still time for it to be reviewed in time for inclusion in
> kdeplasma-addons in KDE 4.3.
>
> Cheers,
> Benoit
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Benoit Jacob <jacob.benoit.1 at gmail.com>
> Date: 2009/4/14
> Subject: KDEReview for Mandelbrot Wallpaper Plugin
> To: plasma-devel at kde.org
>
>
> Hi,
>
> The Mandelbrot wallpaper plugin is now in KDEReview, at this address:
>
> /trunk/kdereview/plasma/wallpapers/mandelbrot/
>
> ***** Basic facts: *****
>
> 844 lines of code (according to sloccount)
> Stripped executable size: 68 kB.
>
> Nontrivial dependencies: Eigen >= 2.0 (in kdesupport).
>
> Should be completely portable.
>
> ***** Description: *****
>
> Allows to navigate through the Mandelbrot set,
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandelbrot_set
>
> To enable: go to the Desktop Settings dialog, then in "Wallpaper", in
> the "Type" combo-box, choose Mandelbrot.
>
> Use the "Lock view" checkbox to let it behave like a plain wallpaper.
>
> Features:
> * non-blocking rendering (in separate threads)
> * uses as many threads as you have CPU cores (Qt's idealThreadCount)
> * uses SSE2 or AltiVec if available (through the Eigen library) with
> graceful fallback if none available
> * on x86, both paths (with and without SSE2) are compiled and a
> runtime test using the Solid library determines if SSE2 is available
> * immediate previews based on previous image
> * tile-based rendering starting from the tile you're most interested in
> * supersampling up to 16x
> * caching of rendered image using Plasma::Wallpaper's functionality
> * color gradients based on HSV color mixing
>
> Cheers,
> Benoit
>