Re: SVG Filter Regions confusion

Hi Stephan,

I agree that the current definition is very confusing. I believe it is also
implemented differently across browsers because of this. (Doesn't Opera
implement it in a way that people expect, while WebKit does it the
'correct' but hard to figure out way?)

We have discussed making these parameters optional (or default to auto) so
authors don't have to spend a lot of time calculating bounds.

I'm unsure if we resolved to make it part of the new FX filters spec...

Rik

On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 9:30 PM, Stephen Chenney <schenney@chromium.org>wrote:

> [Re-sending with correct outgoing email.]
>
> Dirk,
>
> I understand the defaults and how filter subregions are defined. My
> concern is with how the subregions on the filter effects interact with the
> filter region (that is, the x,y,width,height on the <filter> element), and
> how these determine the offscreen image sizes.
>
> As I understand the spec, nothing is ever drawn outside the filter region,
> so that limits the offscreen size. It all seems very clearly defined, apart
> from the one confusing sentence I originally pointed out. With your
> response in mind, and some more careful reading, I think the spec is really
> trying to say:
>
> "All intermediate offscreens are defined to not exceed the intersection of
> ‘x’, ‘y’, ‘width’ and ‘height’ with the filter region, enlarged to include
> whole pixels that only partly intersect the regions."
>
> Stephen.
>
> On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 2:06 PM, Dirk Schulze <dschulze@adobe.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Stephen,
>>
>> On May 23, 2012, at 7:58 AM, Stephen Chenney wrote:
>>
>> > The SVG 1.1 spec section 15.7.3 says this:
>> >
>> > --------
>> > All intermediate offscreens are defined to not exceed the intersection
>> of ‘x’, ‘y’, ‘width’ and ‘height’ with the filter region. The filter region
>> and any of the ‘x’, ‘y’, ‘width’ and ‘height’ subregions are to be set up
>> such that all offscreens are made big enough to accommodate any pixels
>> which even partly intersect with either the filter region or the
>> x,y,width,height subregions.
>>
>> > --------
>> >
>> > The first sentence explicitly defines the offscreen buffer size to be
>> the intersection of the filter region and the filter effect subregions. The
>> second sentence implies to me that the offscreen buffer size must be the
>> union of the filter region and the filter effect subregions. I'm totally
>> confused.
>> >
>> > Is this just a case of bad phrasing? In particular, the phrase "are
>> made big enough" could be "are big enough"  Is the intention to restrict
>> the valid values of the subregions such that they remain inside the filter
>> region?
>> >
>> > Otherwise, what does it mean?
>>
>> You can define the attributes 'x', 'y', 'width' and 'height' for every
>> filter effect. If you do that, then these values indicate your clipping
>> region. If one of the values is not defined, the clipping region on the
>> missing dimension depends on the union of previous filter effects.
>>
>> For this pseudo example the effect region is the union of the two effects
>> 1 and 2.
>>
>> <feOffset result="1"/>
>> <feOffset result="2"/>
>> <feComposite in="1" in2="2"/>
>>
>> For this pseudo example, the effect is the region defined by the
>> attributes 'x', 'y', 'width' and 'height'.
>>
>> <feOffset result="1"/>
>> <feOffset result="2"/>
>> <feComposite in="1" in2="2" x="0" y="0" width="1" height="1"/>
>>
>> The filter region depends on the union of the input effects for the
>> dimension attributes that are missing.
>>
>>
>> Greetings,
>> Dirk
>>
>> >
>> > Stephen.
>>
>>
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