Evaluate a procedural basis function graph Evaluates and exposes a library of procedural basis functions. Each of these basis functions can be evaluated in any number of dimensions, across any coordinate, without any need of referencing existing calculations. In addition, since they all share a common interface, basis functions can be combined together and evaluated in a function graph by cross-referencing several jit.bfg objects. Cycling '74 Jitter Jitter Generators in TEXT_HERE TEXT_HERE out TEXT_HERE dumpout TEXT_HERE char long float32 float64 Forward attributes to internal objects The word setattr, followed by the name of an attribute and value or list of values, forwards attribute messages on to internal objects (e.g. setattr basis abs 0 would set the basis function object's abs attribute to zero. Fractional alignment The fractional alignment for offsetting each plane. (default = 10) Auto-center the origin Flag for enabling or disabling automatically placing the origin at the center of the output matrix. (default = 0) Basis function name The name of the basis function to use for the evaluation. (default = none) Supported basis functions are:
Distance Functions
chebychev (Absolute maximum difference between two points)
euclidean (True straight line distance in Euclidean space)
euclidean.squared (Squared Euclidean distance)
manhattan (Rectilinear distance measured along axes at right angles)
manhattan.radial (Manhattan distance with radius fall-off control)
minkovsky (Exponentially controlled distance)
Filter Functions
box (Sums all samples in the filter area with equal weight)
gaussian (Weights samples in the filter area using a bell curve)
lanczossinc (Weights samples using a steep windowed sinc curve)
mitchell (Weights samples using a controllable cubic polynomial)
disk (Sums all samples inside the filter's radius with equal weight)
sinc (Weights samples using an un-windowed sinc curve)
catmullrom (Weights samples using a Catmull-Rom cubic polynomial)
bessel (Weights samples with a linear phase response)
triangle (Weights samples in the filter area using a pyramid)
Transfer Functions
step (Always 0 if value is less than threshold, otherwise always 1)
smoothstep (Step function with cubic smoothing at boundaries)
bias (Polynomial similar to gamma but remapped to unit interval)
cubic (Generic 3rd order polynomial with controllable coefficients)
saw (Periodic triangle pulse train)
quintic (Generic 5th order polynomial with controllable coefficients)
gain (S-Shaped polynomial evaluated inside unit interval)
pulse (Periodic step function)
smoothpulse (Periodic step function with cubic smoothing at boundaries)
sine (Periodic sinusoidal curve)
linear (Linear function across unit interval)
solarize (Scales given value if threshold is exceeded)
Noise Functions
cellnoise (Coherent blocky noise)
checker (Periodic checker squares)
value.cubicspline (Polynomial smoothed pseudo-random values)
value.convolution (Convolution filtered pseudo-random values))
sparse.convolution (Convolution filtered pseudo-random feature points)
gradient (Directionally weighted polynomially interpolated values)
simplex (Simplex weighted pseudo-random values)
voronoi (Distance weighted pseudo-random feature points)
distorted (Domain distorted combinational noise)
Fractal Functions
mono (Additive fractal with global simularity across scales)
multi (Multiplicative fractal with varying simularity across scales)
multi.hybrid (A hybrid additive and multiplicative fractal)
multi.hetero (Heterogenous multiplicative fractal)
multi.ridged (Multiplicative fractal with sharp ridges)
turbulence (Additive mono-fractal with sharp ridges)
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By default, jit.bfg will generate spatial coordinates across a grid, however, if a jit.matrix is attached to the left-most inlet, the matrix's planar values will instead be used (planar values correspond to dimensions for the coordinates e.g. RGB == XYZ). After creation, jit.bfg requires a basis to be specified before any evaluation will be performed.