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bootchk / resynthesizer

Suite of gimp plugins for texture synthesis
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Multi-CPU version for Windows installation? #36

Open apreisler opened 7 years ago

apreisler commented 7 years ago

Hi,

first of all, a big thank you for keeping this most useful plugin alive and working! I read in the readme of the most downloaded Windows v1.0 version this sentence:

(This is v1.0 of the resynthesizer. A later version, v2.0, does the same things, only faster, if you have a multicore processor.)

And I was wondering how to install this version? Is it possible to do it the same wasy way of copying files do plug-ins folder as the v1.0? I haven't found the same files I think. Is it necessary to compile it?

Thanks for you time, Adam Preisler

bootchk commented 7 years ago

Yes you would need to compile it. I don't know why "the most downloaded WIndows version" is not v2.0. Maybe you should persuade that distributor to build it. I myself do not build it for Windows, and other people build it for other distributions (Debian?) The multi-threaded version is not much faster (an 8 core machine does NOT speed it up by a factor of 8, maybe a factor of 2?) Due to the nature of the algorithm (many passes, each a search.) Unless you use it a lot, not worth the trouble.

SanderBouwhuis commented 6 years ago

Can someone help me with a newer version of Resynthesizer for Windows? Has anyone compiled it? Can I compile it myself using Visual Studio, or does it require external dependencies?