Wurstbrot: desktop GUI

[johnny-morrice]

I am planning a graphical (desktop) client to enable movie generation for the next release. It will consist of several tiny apps that communicate through pipes. It will begin life in a new package, but I have to document this somewhere.

Viewer

Takes input:

• Stream of Godelconfig
• Stream of fractal .PNG (greyscale)

Sends output:

• Stream of selection state (highlighted area for zoom)

Side effects:

• GUI manipulation

Operation:

• Colours greyscale fractal and puts it on screen.
• Mouse is used to highlight new zoom regions.

  Zoomer

Takes input:

• Stream of selection state

Sends output:

• Stream of Godelconfig
• Stream of fractal .PNG (greyscale)

Side effects: (None)

Operation:

• Renders each frame.

  Saver

Takes input:

• Stream of Godelconfig
• Stream of fractal .PNG (greyscale)

Sends output:

• Stream of Godelconfig
• Stream of fractal .PNG (greyscale)

Side effects:

• GUI manipulation

Operation:

• Allows user to save current frame into movie.

  Movie Maker

Takes input:

• Stream of Godelconfig
• Stream of fractal .PNG (greyscale)

Sends output: (None)

Side effects

• Writes Godelconfig files
• Writes fractal .PNG files (greyscale)

Operation

• Interpolates between user selected frames
• Saves interpolated frames to disk.

[johnny-morrice]

We'll just work on the web interface for the first release.

[johnny-morrice]

Note the automovie guff has been accomplished on the backend with #5

[johnny-morrice]

Bit vague about platform etc. Let's focus on the backend and web interface for now.