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The Vulkan renderer performs alpha blending in linear RGB space, which preserves hue better than blending sRGB-encoded values directly (as the gles and pixman renderers do), but unfortunately tends to give a too-bright result when blending dark and light colors. (In desktop usage, this especially affects dark, semi-transparent tooltips, which appear significantly more transparent than expected, affecting readability if light text underneath shows through.) This is a novel (I think) approach to compensating for this effect by adjusting the alpha value of the source texture - basically the result is that dark semi-transparent pixels are made a little more opaque, while light semi-transparent pixels are made a little more transparent. Alpha values of 0 and 1 are unchanged. I am somewhat new to science of color blending (Björn Ottosson's page, "How software gets color wrong" is very enlightening) but I think this approach makes at least a little bit of sense theoretically, and the result seems to me subjectively to be an improvement. Analysis from an expert on the subject would be greatly appreciated. v2: compensate alpha in solid color conversions also v3: un-premultiply average value for solid color conversion |
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| shaders | ||
| meson.build | ||
| pass.c | ||
| pixel_format.c | ||
| README-alpha-blend | ||
| renderer.c | ||
| texture.c | ||
| util.c | ||
| vulkan.c | ||