Paper generation

[Boudewijn Rempt]

On Fri, 31 Mar 2006, Leonardo Giordani wrote:

> Wow, you are Alladin's lamp: I ask and you code it. Well... I want... Krita 
> 3.0 for next week... is it too much time? :-)

Hey, I said "try", not "succeed"!

> This weekend I will code a bit my watercolors: I have already implemented the 
> Kubelka-Munk reflectance model and the layer composing functions. I'm working 
> on fromQColor and toQColor. Because fo them I started implementing a paper 
> model: when you paint a watercolor its reflectance and trasmittance compose 
> with the underlying layers, that is paper, at least; so I need reflectance 
> and trasmittance of paper or its KM parameters.
> 
> I wanted to quickly reach a condition in which I can paint something, even 
> only black, from there I can play with optical composing and friends. Sadly 
> now Krita crashes just after selecting my colorspace and clicking Create; but 
> some methods are missing, so it is an expected crash.

Backtrace?

> Is there a minimal set of methods a colorspace must define to be usable? For 
> example if I want to paint in plain black and nothing more, what methods must 
> I define?

to/from QColor, convertToQImage, bitBlt are the main ones, as well as the administrative
things like pixelSize, get/setAlpha.

Boudewijn