4 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
kris
5c550d8524 Separate the details of the bitmap packing from operations on the
packed representation (diff, apply etc).  This allows the (D)HGRBitmap
classes to focus on the bitmap packing and share common logic.

Numpy has unfortunate long-standing bugs to do with type coercion of
np.uint64, which leads to spurious "incompatible type" warnings when
e.g. operating on a np.uint64 and some other integer type.  To work
around this we cast explicitly to np.uint64 everywhere.

Get tests working again - for now HGR tests in screen_test.py are
disabled until I finish implementing new packing.

HGRBitmap is still incomplete although closer.
2019-07-04 15:21:20 +01:00
kris
666272a8fc Checkpoint WIP for easier comparison to dhgr branch:
- naive version of NTSC artifacting, it uses a sliding 4-bit window to
  assign a nominal (D)HGR colour to each dot position.  A more
  sophisticated/correct implementation would model the YIQ signal
  directly.

- Switch DHGRBitmap implementation to use a 34-bit representation of
  the 4-byte tuple, comprised of a 3-bit header and footer, plus
  4*7=28-bit body.  The headers/footers account for the influence on
  neighbouring tuples from the 4-bit NTSC window.

- With this model each screen byte influences 13 pixels, so we need to
  precompute 2^26 edit distances for all possible (source, target)
  13-bit sequences.

- Checkpointing not-yet-working HGR implementation.

- Add new unit tests but not yet all passing due to refactoring
2019-07-02 22:40:50 +01:00
kris
ca817999f6 Parametrize the RGB palette to encode with, and support both NTSC and
IIGS palettes.

Move the palette diff_matrix generation into make_data_tables.py since
that is the only place it is used.

Demand-load the edit distance matrices when transcoding.
2019-06-15 21:02:00 +01:00
kris
fb14a20380 Precompute the edit distance between the 8-bit (2-pixel) and 12-bit
(3-pixel) sequences that may be modified when storing bytes to the
DHGR display.

This relies on producing an efficient linear representation of the
DHGR framebuffer in terms of a packed 28-bit representation of (Aux,
Main, Aux, Main) screen bytes.
2019-06-13 23:27:30 +01:00