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KGtheway2B
KGtheway2B

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What's all this business I keep hearing about replacing Prof Grads with blends.

Anyone mind filling me in?
Posted: November 17, 2008 7:53 pm   Details E-Mail
jffe
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I heard Assemble HSL is "best" for renderng-time and solid colors set internally. Crapa ? smile:p

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Posted: November 17, 2008 10:41 pm   Details E-Mail
ThreeDee
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I didn't hear anything about that. I did hear about replacing blends with threshold which is very useful.
Posted: November 18, 2008 4:35 am   Details E-Mail
Crapadilla
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KGtheway2B wrote:
What's all this business I keep hearing about replacing Prof Grads with blends. Anyone mind filling me in?


That's just jffe going around spreading false rumors... smile;)

Ok, all kidding aside. Blends are faster than Profile Gradients according to Vladimir. The Assemble components are also slower than Blends (and harder to control). See Optimizing Filters for Speed.

I used to use Profile Gradients in several of my older filters to generate solid layers of color, but this has the disadvantage of making the filter discrete, and being slower than using Blend components. Consequently, I replaced all those Profile Gradients with Blends.
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Posted: November 18, 2008 5:30 am   Details E-Mail
Kraellin
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I used to use Profile Gradients in several of my older filters to generate solid layers of color, but this has the disadvantage of making the filter discrete,


dilla, how are you using 'discrete' here? i looked this up with a google define and there are about 20 separate definitions for that word. i couldnt tell which one you were using. so, what is 'discrete' about a profile gradient? what makes it more 'separate and distinct' than a blend?
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Posted: November 18, 2008 9:09 am   Details E-Mail
KGtheway2B
KGtheway2B

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I used to use Profile Gradients in several of my older filters to generate solid layers of color, but this has the disadvantage of making the filter discrete, and being slower than using Blend components. Consequently, I replaced all those Profile Gradients with Blends.


Ah gotcha. That's less exciting than I hoped.

Thanks anyhow guys, keep up the good work!
Posted: November 18, 2008 9:33 am   Details E-Mail
Crapadilla
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Kraellin wrote:
dilla, how are you using 'discrete' here?


'discrete', as in: Clicky! smile;)
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Posted: November 18, 2008 11:05 am   Details E-Mail
Kraellin
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thanks, dilla. i always have trouble remembering that one.
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Posted: November 18, 2008 4:25 pm   Details E-Mail

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