Showing posts with label computer memory. Show all posts
Showing posts with label computer memory. Show all posts

Wednesday, 16 May 2007

Rather odd blending bugs

Not long after committing the feBlend renderer, ScislaC found some rather odd bugs in it. Well, I'll show you the pictures:

What it looked like:

What it should have looked like:

So, what was up with this? Well, due to roundoff errors, under some circumstances feBlend renderer would output colours with more than 100% of some RGB components. The image compositing code didn't take such colours nicely...

Well, now this should be fixed in SVN.

On other topic, today I was looking for prices of new memory modules, so I could make this computer run smoother. It seems that increasingly often 512 MB just won't do it and the hard disk trashing begins. Now then, SO-DIMM memory is a bit on the expensive side, but for a bit less than 150 € / GB it would likely be worth the money...