Smart Smoother 2.1 Released

[sh0dan]

Smart Smoother 2.1 has been released.

It will temporary be located here (http://cultact-server.novi.dk/kpo/vdub/index.html), but when Donald gets time for an update, it can be downloaded from Donals Grafts filter site (http://sauron.mordor.net/dgraft/)


MMX optimized Average Pixels mode. Speedup in average mode is around 120% without Weighed with Difference. Without Weighed with difference the filter is now approximately 30-50% faster than Smart Smoother and Spatial Smoother on Athlon, which both have very similar smoothing algorithms, but with a slight worse quality in most cases. Quality is 100% the same as older versions.
Bug fix: Threshold was still wrong - would only trigger if ALL RGB values where above threshold. All users should upgrade.
Minor optimization to weighed mode

[bjfacca]

Just what I was looking for!

Thanks for posting this.

Bruno

[Ookami]

Thanks a bunch! Keep on runn.. er, working on it...

Cheers,

Mijo.

[sh0dan]

Just did a minor update to 2.11 - there is now a new feature "Visualize Blur". See the homepage for documentation.

It can still be found here (http://cultact-server.novi.dk/kpo/vdub/index.html) for a while.

Well - back to YUV-version ;)

[sprit]

When running on an Athlon XP, is there any difference between using the Athlon version and the P3/P4 version - in code (3dnow! vs SSE), speed, and/or quality?

[sh0dan]

There is in general only a very small difference between P3 and Athlon version. The only difference is some memoryhandling issues, so the code doing the actual stuff is 100% the same. But use the Athlon version - it'll probably give you a few extra percent.

In regard to quality, there is only a small difference between the plain version and the MMX versions - it shouldn't be anything that in real life actually would make a difference. (It's some rounding issues, that will only make a difference when using large diameters (more than 7).