Image Size
Fri, 06/15/2012 - 18:24
How would we go about making a Vertex/Fragment shader that works on an image larger than 2K? I was playing around with the framework and made some very fun new filters that I was processing on my photos but realized it was downscaling everything to 2K on the iPhone 4.
Do I need to process half the image at a time or setup a different FBO?
Novice GLSL here but I am picking it up quick and love it. It is so much fun to play with.
Yes, the maximum texture size on all devices before the iPad 2 is 2048x2048. Unfortunately, the iPhone 4 is the one device that generates images larger than this in its still photos, so I detect this and scale them to fit within the texture size.
I've been planning to implement a tiling mechanism to allow for processing arbitrarily-sized images, but haven't had the time to do this. It's not going to be a simple process, and will require slicing the image at the input source size, running through these tiles, and then assembling the image at the end. There's nothing at the shader side involved here, as this is simply a matter of the maximum hardware texture size.