About mipmapping and further planning

[Cyrille Berger]

On Sunday 11 July 2010, Boudewijn Rempt wrote:
> On Saturday 10 July 2010, Sven Langkamp wrote:
> > I think it would be better to decide in a case by case way. For example
> > we have some filter that can run on a scaled-down version like most
> > color adjustments. Since these are very common filters this would give
> > us a big speedup. In other case the filter would fallback to original.
> > To avoid these fallbacks it might be a good idea to limit adjustment
> > layers and filter masks to the filters that can do the shortcut.
> 
> I think that the most used filter for artists is blur -- and that can only
> work on the original sized image. I definitely want to keep that as an
> adjustment layer filter :-)
We can scale the blur parameters quiet easily. And I don't think we need to 
disable the filters which parameters can't be scaled, it will be slow to 
update, that is still better than not being able to update at all...

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Cyrille Berger