Grid Generator

There are several methods in which grids can be created within a limited horizontal and vertical resolution. One method is to attempt to subdivide the space into x and y number of cells. The problem with this method is that one will never get equally-sized cells due to integer division. As a result, Grid Generator was developed so as to place as many equally-sized cells across the space until the end is reached, whereupon the remaining space is handled as the last cell. Although this results in an uneven cell at the horizontal and vertical ends, it was decided that this was more favorable than cells of uneven-sizes throughout. Additionally, the last cell can be easily cropped away whereas cells of uneven sizes cannot be handled well. One final method that could be considered (and was actually tried), was to use antialiasing to draw the grid and therefore sub-pixel cells would have different shading than the others. Once again, the result was not favorable so the first method outlined was chosen.

Grids: Defines the number of horizontal grid boxes.

Y Grids: Defines the number of vertical grid boxes.

Intensity: Controls (in percent) the intensity of the line.

Solid Background: Forces the background to be a solid color.

Line Color and Background Color: Specifies the line and background colors respectively.

Grid Aspect: Specifies the grid aspect ratio. Square aspect will lock horizontal and vertical cell sizes so as to produce square cells. Image Aspect will set horizontal and vertical cell sizes to match the image aspect ratio. Horizontal and vertical cells sizes will still be locked to one another in this mode, but will be proportional. Finally, Custom Aspect will unlock the vertical cell size and allow the user to specify their own value.

Border: Forces a border around image.

Changelog

• v1.0 – First release.
• v1.1 – Progress Bar now works.
• v1.2 – Plugin filesize is now less than half of v1.1.
• v1.2 – Previews are now substantially faster than previous builds.
• v1.3 – Fixed stretching interface.
• v1.5 – Re-organized user interface.
• v1.5 – Added RGB output options.
• v1.5 – Added Realtime display option.
• v1.5 – Recompiled with updated compiler.
• v1.6 – New GUI design.
• v1.6 – Windows Vista Compatibility.
• v1.7 – Added Y=X Proportional button.
• v1.7 – Added Y=X Absolute button.
• v1.7 – Preview image now scales correctly to zoom level.
• v1.7 – Preview no longer flickers on button / slider adjustment.
• v1.7 – Ability to use up to 3 GB of RAM under 32bit Windows (2000, XP, Vista) and 4 GB of RAM under 64bit Windows (2000, XP, Vista).
• v1.8 – 64 bit release.
• v1.8 – Interface and features simplified for increased ease of use.
• v1.9 – Fixed file access crashing bug in Windows 10.