What's new in PixelController 2.1.0
Apr 17, 2014
- Add client/server architecture. PixelController can started headless on a server, connect to the server with the client GUI (same look as the standalone version)
- Add RaspberryPi WS2801 output driver
- Add custom led matrix mapping tool, see [http://pixelinvaders.ch/pixelcontroller/](http://pixelinvaders.ch/pixelcontroller/) for more details
- Add Bonjour/Zeroconf support, PixelController register itself as "pixelcontroller.local"
- Add new ROTATE_ Generator/Effect/Mixer/Colorset OSC command
- Add Noise generator
- Add Gamma 3.0 color correction
- Add TouchOsc layout for phone and tablet
- Add simple performance test (`PixelController.sh -perf` or `PixelControllerRPi.sh -perf`)
- Add Random Mode with selectable time-life (option `randommode.lifetime.in.s`) (Issue #44)
- Add more Blinkenlights movie files
- Add new effect Posterize
- Add new effect Darken
- Add PixelInvaders firmware for Arduino UNO, thanks Yves Alter. This should fix all UNO related issues.
- Add new output rotate option: FLIPPEDY
- Remove support for stealth panels
- Fix decouple fps setting of PixelController from the GUI update speed (Issue #61)
- Fix replace Pixel and Quality image resize code with custom implementations (nearest neighbour and bilinear), major performance improvement
- Fix add missing float parameter to the OSC server, only int values were parsed
- Fix the framerate configuration can be a float number (ex. fps=0.1) if you need a really slow update rate
- Fix refresh GUI settings when random mode kicks in
- Fix generator speed changes the target fps (0..200%), much smoother (Issue #46, #52 and #59)
- Fix generator speed and brightness were not stored as part of the preset (Issue #62)
- Fix capture generator, crashed if recording window was too small
- Fix Metaball generator resolution for different sizes
- Fix more code cleanup
- Fix optimize CPU usage in heavy beat detection mode
- Fix optimize preset load time, load resource files (image and blinkenlight) only if generator is used in preset
- Fix reduce rotozoom effect speed
- Fix visual size in GUI
- Fix rename preset.led -> preset.properties, all PixelController extension files have now the same file extension.
- Fix update build process, put RPi specifiy resources (Serial and pi4j) dependencies into special directory, do not include junit dependencies.
- Fix speedup Blinkenlight parser, some frames were displayed too long
- Fix Multliply and Negative Multiply mixer, output didn't respect ColorSets correctly
- Fix Subsat mixer - was completly broken
- Fix output layout for all *FLIPPEDY entries - all FLIPPEDY action were broken.
New in PixelController 2.0.0 (Apr 17, 2014)
- 877 files changed, 230934 insertions(+), 227347 deletions(-)
- Modularize Project, rewrote large parts
- Add new command line version of PixelController - run on a headless server (like an RPi)
- Add make speed of generators configurable via GUI and save it as part of the preset (Issue #46)
- Add Beat Workmode, define how beat input should be interpreted. Options: Linear, Moderate Sound and Heavy Sound
- Fix Update GUI much faster (instant feedback)
- Fix GUI, sort images and blinkenlights file dropdown content case insensitive
- Fix remove obsolete config options (initial.image.simple, initial.blinken, initial.text) but load a preset during startup
- Fix rename config options (maximal.debug.window.xsize -> gui.window.maximal.width, update.generators.by.sound -> sound.analyze.input)
- Fix typo, rename data/presents.led -> data/presets.led
- Fix respect maximal window size defined in the config file
- Fix adjust matrix simulation window for large resolutions
- Fix effect Rotate90 - works now for non-square resolutions
- Fix improve error reporting
- Much faster startup time
- Display gamma correction on output matrix
- Removed TCP Server, used by the old PureData frontend and CLI client
- Update documentation, see readme.pdf
New in PixelController 1.5.1 (Nov 14, 2013)
- 232 files changed, 12438 insertions(+), 12446 deletions(-)
- Add support for ExpeditInvaders output
- Add Fader effect if a preset is loaded, freeze current buffer and fade into new content
- Add Fader effect if current visual is randomized, freeze current buffer and fade into new content
- Add config option to make fader time configurable
- Fix Checkbox Mixer, make checkbox size dependent on output
- Fix PixelImage, possible exception
- Fix Geometrics and Cell generators, possible exception
- Fix rename Rainbowduino firmware to prevent crash
- Fix rainbowduinov3 firmware bug, the serial line could block
- Fix PixelInvaders, improve serial detection, *should* now works with regular Arduino boards
- Huge refactoring, improve unit testing
New in PixelController 1.5.0 (Oct 23, 2013)
- Add new Help Tab, display a short help how to use PixelController
- Add Zoom Effect, add Zoom options (zoom in, zoom out, vertical, horizontal)
- Add Textwriter option (PingPong scrolling, left scrolling)
- Add new Minimum and Maximum Mixer
- Add new keyboard shortcut to select tabs (arrow keys)
- Add new GUI option to save screenshot of all visuals
- Add missing option 'snake cabling' and 'mapping' for TPM2.Net device
- Add missing option 'snake cabling' and 'mapping' for Artnet/E1.31 devices
- Add multipanel support for Artnet/E1.31 output
- Fix use colorset name (instead of index) if a preset is saved
- Fix colorscroll GUI element initialization
- Fix Effect Rotate90 for non square output
- Fix Effect BeatHorizShift for exotic resolutions
- Fix Effect Rotozoom for exotic resolutions
- Fix Effect Texture deform for exotic resolutions
- Fix Mixer Checkbox for exotic resolutions
- Fix PixConCli JMX Query
- Fix ColorSet, rarely visible smoothness bug
- Cleanup GUI, make grouping of controls more strict
- Reduce filesize of distribution file, remove unneeded files
- Remove support for Adavision product - does not exist anymore
- Update PixConCli, improve message handling
- Update Fire Generator, remove visible random pixels
- Update Config example files
- Update PixelInvaders firmware, use the TPM2Net protocol to send data
- Testcase: 2 PixelInvader Panels, ColorScroll Generator, no sound update
- Framerate old fw: 35fps, Framerate new fw: 140fps -> 400% faster!
New in PixelController 1.4.1 (Sep 20, 2013)
- Fix update TPM2.net implementation (add total packet bytes)
- Fix cleanup unused files
- Fix OSC listener, increased buffer size to 50kb to large image content can be sent via OSC
- Fix OSC address, expected: "/NAME" was: "NAME"
- Fix shuffle Colorset in Random mode, fix Issue#37
- Feature: disable beat detection if sound volume is too low
- Remove all references to the MD5 class, use Adler as caching mechanism (20x faster)
- Keep aspect ratio if internal buffer size is calculated
New in PixelController 1.4.0 (Jul 10, 2013)
- Add new random preset mode
- Add Pass through mode: ScreenCaputure (always) and OSC Generator (depending on input) are now
- 24bpp generators, you cannot use effects/mixer/colorsets
- Add option to adjust the color for each PixelInvaders panel
- Add new gamme option, GAMMA 2.2
- Fix: if the Null output and another output is configured, ignore null output and start PixelController
- Fix: Preset numbering and loading Preset 0
- Fix: Load Presets: do not display non-existent files in the GUI
- Fix: Textwriter generator, use 8bpp as temp buffer to prevent artefacts
- Fix: Improve Add and Sub Mixer (rollover)
- PixelInvaders Output: Use Adler32 as caching mechanism instead of MD5 - much faster.
- md5 needs about 1ms to generate, adler32 needs about 0.2ms.
- 2 panels, 50fps, save: 80ms/s, 6 panels, 20fps, save: 96ms/s
- Optimize PixelInvaders Firmware, use Serial.readBytes instead Serial.read() (see http://www.pjrc.com/teensy/benchmark_usb_serial_receive.html)
- PixelInvaders Firmware is now 20% faster.
- Add a lot of new presets and cleanup unused presets
New in PixelController 1.3.2 Beta 2 (Jun 3, 2013)
- Add support for E1.31 devices
- Add more 8x8 icon images
- Add new effect, rotate 90 degrees
- Add option to hide internal Visuals to save CPU power
- Add new generator: VisualZero. use the first visual as generator, you can chain you effects.
- Fix: Checkbox mixer for larger resolutions
- Fix: find .png files in GUI
- Fix: Do not change current visual and output if a preset is loaded
- Fix: Handle missing config files
- Rainbowduino Output: Cleanup init code.
New in PixelController 1.3.1 (Jun 3, 2013)
- Updated PixelInvaders firmware, more speed, improved image quality
- Add two generic (OSC) input generators, see Processing examples (integration/Processing/OscSendImageData) how to use it.
- Hint: They get selected in random mode only if they are active (receiving data)
- Update OSC Server buffer size (32k) to accept image data
- Add OSC Statistics in GUI/JMX
- Artnet Output: respect color order (panel.color.order setting)
- Artnet Output: Add option to configure the Artnet broadcast address (was default 2.255.255.255)
- TPM2 Output: fix layout settings, for example ROTATE_180 caused an exception
- Serial Outputs (AdaVision, Rainbowduino v3, TPM2): fix serial port name issue, case sensitive (Issue #30)
- Add PixelInvaders Network device support using ser2net (for example using a Raspberry PI)
- Add output connection status for PixelInvaders panels
- Support Kinect for Xbox 360 via external Processing Sketch and OSC Generator
- Fix NPE during application launch and a key is pressed
- Fix NPE if using keyboard shortcuts to select a non existent generator (for example capture generator)
- Fix possible Freeze during Random Mode
New in PixelController 1.3.0 (Jun 3, 2013)
- add integrated GUI!
- add Color-Sets, predefined color definition for all generators, effects and mixers
- add support for UDP output device
- add support for TPM2 serial output devices
- add support for TPM2 net output devices
- add support for rainbowduino v3 output devices
- add start scripts for OSX
- add flipX and flipY effects
- implement gamma correction
- support more output formats (not only RGB and RBG), thanks to noxx6
- updated PixelInvaders SPI firmware (lpd6803 and ws2801), much faster than the bit banging version
- update AdaVision driver
- Texturedeform is not a generator anymore but an effect
- Integrate OSC Server
- Reduce CPU load
- fixed Blinkenlight video player race condition
- improved rxtx lib, fix some 64bit issues
- configuration fixes
- alot of bugfixes
- removed emboss effect, as the result was ugly
- removed Xor and MinusHalf mixer, as the result was ugly
- removed image zoomer generator, as it looks ugly and was a duplicate.
- Manual
New in PixelController 1.2 (Jun 3, 2013)
- PixelInvaders Firmware, fixed strip.doSwapBuffersAsap(0)
- Support AdaVision
New in PixelController 1.1 (Jun 3, 2013)
- add notification if random mode is selected or not
- more threads! the output gets calculated on the fly, this means wait until the visuals are generated.
- if they would run in seperate thread, that would be faster...
- decoupling visual generation from output update, should increase performance
- New Generators: ColorScroll, ColorFade and ScreenCapture. Removed Simple Colors
- PixelInvaders firmware: update initial image in firmware
- PixelInvaders firmware: add autonomous firmware mode, run simple animation if no computer is connected
- ScreenCapture: make capturing area visible to user
- create osc tabled gui for Control (OSC + MIDI)
- manual mapping to support fancy led mapping (OnePanelResolutionAwareOutput class). define a configuration property like
- output.mapping=1,2,5,6,3,4,7,8 ...
- Log output to a file instead the command line
- artnet output: make first universe id configurable
- possible to start pixelcontroller with a preset