From 93b74186a37b8baf995be8400794ccc56250e40e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tofu Linden <tofu.linden@lindenlab.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 09:45:30 +0000
Subject: EXT-5553 improve alpha mask ('fast alpha') heuristic rev'd by davep

---
 indra/llrender/llimagegl.cpp | 62 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
 indra/llrender/llimagegl.h   |  2 +-
 2 files changed, 52 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/indra/llrender/llimagegl.cpp b/indra/llrender/llimagegl.cpp
index 3d8bd21609..2ab6e327b7 100644
--- a/indra/llrender/llimagegl.cpp
+++ b/indra/llrender/llimagegl.cpp
@@ -1639,7 +1639,7 @@ void LLImageGL::calcAlphaChannelOffsetAndStride()
 	}
 }
 
-void LLImageGL::analyzeAlpha(const void* data_in, S32 w, S32 h)
+void LLImageGL::analyzeAlpha(const void* data_in, U32 w, U32 h)
 {
 	if(!mNeedsAlphaAndPickMask)
 	{
@@ -1647,24 +1647,64 @@ void LLImageGL::analyzeAlpha(const void* data_in, S32 w, S32 h)
 	}
 
 	U32 length = w * h;
-	const GLubyte* current = ((const GLubyte*) data_in) + mAlphaOffset ;
 	
-	S32 sample[16];
-	memset(sample, 0, sizeof(S32)*16);
-
-	for (U32 i = 0; i < length; i++)
+	U32 sample[16];
+	memset(sample, 0, sizeof(U32)*16);
+
+	// generate histogram of quantized alpha.
+	// also add-in the histogram of a 2x2 box-sampled version.  The idea is
+	// this will mid-skew the data (and thus increase the chances of not
+	// being used as a mask) from high-frequency alpha maps which
+	// suffer the worst from aliasing when used as alpha masks.
+	if (w >= 2 && h >= 2)
+	{
+		llassert(w%2 == 0);
+		llassert(h%2 == 0);
+		const GLubyte* rowstart = ((const GLubyte*) data_in) + mAlphaOffset;
+		for (U32 y = 0; y < h; y+=2)
+		{
+			const GLubyte* current = rowstart;
+			for (U32 x = 0; x < w; x+=2)
+			{
+				U32 s1 = current[0];
+				U32 s2 = current[w * mAlphaStride];
+				current += mAlphaStride;
+				U32 s3 = current[0];
+				U32 s4 = current[w * mAlphaStride];
+				current += mAlphaStride;
+
+				++sample[s1/16];
+				++sample[s2/16];
+				++sample[s3/16];
+				++sample[s4/16];
+
+				sample[(s1+s2+s3+s4)/(16 * 4)] += 4;
+			}
+			
+			rowstart += 2 * w * mAlphaStride;
+		}
+		length += length;
+	}
+	else
 	{
-		++sample[*current/16];
-		current += mAlphaStride ;
+		const GLubyte* current = ((const GLubyte*) data_in) + mAlphaOffset;
+		for (U32 i = 0; i < length; i++)
+		{
+			++sample[*current/16];
+			current += mAlphaStride;
+		}
 	}
+	
+	// if more than 1/16th of alpha samples are mid-range, this
+	// shouldn't be treated as a 1-bit mask
 
-	U32 total = 0;
+	U32 midrangetotal = 0;
 	for (U32 i = 4; i < 11; i++)
 	{
-		total += sample[i];
+		midrangetotal += sample[i];
 	}
 
-	if (total > length/16)
+	if (midrangetotal > length/16)
 	{
 		mIsMask = FALSE;
 	}
diff --git a/indra/llrender/llimagegl.h b/indra/llrender/llimagegl.h
index f0870c3fc4..1b303307f6 100644
--- a/indra/llrender/llimagegl.h
+++ b/indra/llrender/llimagegl.h
@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ public:
 protected:
 	virtual ~LLImageGL();
 
-	void analyzeAlpha(const void* data_in, S32 w, S32 h);
+	void analyzeAlpha(const void* data_in, U32 w, U32 h);
 	void calcAlphaChannelOffsetAndStride();
 
 public:
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