[gtk/wip/otte/lottie: 2439/2503] spline: Use Skia's tolerance checks

[Benjamin Otte <otte src gnome org>]

commit 4dee03f3a8024ae2965b0e6155ea757f8c08c9a5
Author: Benjamin Otte <otte redhat com>
Date:   Wed Nov 25 02:18:34 2020 +0100

    spline: Use Skia's tolerance checks
    
    This avoids measuring being too far off (it's still off, but it's less
    than a percent now.

 gsk/gskpathprivate.h |  4 ++--
 gsk/gskspline.c      | 26 +++++++++++++++++++++++---
 2 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
---
diff --git a/gsk/gskpathprivate.h b/gsk/gskpathprivate.h
index 7af9dbcaff..34ec4a549a 100644
--- a/gsk/gskpathprivate.h
+++ b/gsk/gskpathprivate.h
@@ -25,8 +25,8 @@
 
 G_BEGIN_DECLS
 
-/* Same as Cairo, so looks like a good value. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ */
-#define GSK_PATH_TOLERANCE_DEFAULT (0.1)
+/* Same as Skia, so looks like a good value. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ */
+#define GSK_PATH_TOLERANCE_DEFAULT (0.5)
 
 gsize                   gsk_path_get_n_contours                 (GskPath              *path);
 gboolean                gsk_path_foreach_with_tolerance         (GskPath              *self,
diff --git a/gsk/gskspline.c b/gsk/gskspline.c
index e1e7f39c53..d429e9d04f 100644
--- a/gsk/gskspline.c
+++ b/gsk/gskspline.c
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ typedef struct
 {
   graphene_point_t last_point;
   float last_progress;
-  float tolerance_squared;
+  float tolerance;
   GskSplineAddPointFunc func;
   gpointer user_data;
 } GskCubicDecomposition;
@@ -103,6 +103,7 @@ gsk_spline_split_cubic (const graphene_point_t pts[4],
     memcpy (result2, (graphene_point_t[4]) { final, bccd, cd, pts[3] }, sizeof (graphene_point_t[4]));
 }
 
+#if 0
 /* Return an upper bound on the error (squared) that could result from
  * approximating a spline as a line segment connecting the two endpoints. */
 static float
@@ -180,6 +181,25 @@ gsk_spline_error_squared (const graphene_point_t pts[4])
     else
       return cerr;
 }
+#endif
+
+/* taken from Skia, including the very descriptive name */
+static gboolean
+gsk_spline_cubic_too_curvy (const graphene_point_t pts[4],
+                            float                  tolerance)
+{
+  graphene_point_t p;
+
+  graphene_point_interpolate (&pts[0], &pts[3], 1.0f / 3, &p);
+  if (ABS (p.x - pts[1].x) + ABS (p.y - pts[1].y)  > tolerance)
+    return TRUE;
+
+  graphene_point_interpolate (&pts[0], &pts[3], 2.0f / 3, &p);
+  if (ABS (p.x - pts[2].x) + ABS (p.y - pts[2].y)  > tolerance)
+    return TRUE;
+
+  return FALSE;
+}
 
 static void
 gsk_spline_decompose_into (GskCubicDecomposition  *decomp,
@@ -188,7 +208,7 @@ gsk_spline_decompose_into (GskCubicDecomposition  *decomp,
 {
   graphene_point_t left[4], right[4];
 
-  if (gsk_spline_error_squared (pts) < decomp->tolerance_squared)
+  if (!gsk_spline_cubic_too_curvy (pts, decomp->tolerance) || progress < 1 / 1024.f)
     {
       gsk_spline_decompose_add_point (decomp, &pts[3], progress);
       return;
@@ -206,7 +226,7 @@ gsk_spline_decompose_cubic (const graphene_point_t pts[4],
                             GskSplineAddPointFunc  add_point_func,
                             gpointer               user_data)
 {
-  GskCubicDecomposition decomp = { pts[0], 0.0f, tolerance * tolerance, add_point_func, user_data };
+  GskCubicDecomposition decomp = { pts[0], 0.0f, tolerance, add_point_func, user_data };
 
   gsk_spline_decompose_into (&decomp, pts, 1.0f);