annotate base/LogRange.h @ 537:3cc4b7cd2aa5

* Merge from one-fftdataserver-per-fftmodel branch.  This bit of
reworking (which is not described very accurately by the title of
the branch) turns the MatrixFile object into something that either
reads or writes, but not both, and separates the FFT file cache
reader and writer implementations separately.  This allows the
FFT data server to have a single thread owning writers and one reader
per "customer" thread, and for all locking to be vastly simplified
and concentrated in the data server alone (because none of the
classes it makes use of is used in more than one thread at a time).
The result is faster and more trustworthy code.

/* -*- c-basic-offset: 4 indent-tabs-mode: nil -*-  vi:set ts=8 sts=4 sw=4: */

/*
    Sonic Visualiser
    An audio file viewer and annotation editor.
    Centre for Digital Music, Queen Mary, University of London.
    This file copyright 2006 Chris Cannam.
    
    This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
    modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
    published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the
    License, or (at your option) any later version.  See the file
    COPYING included with this distribution for more information.
*/

#ifndef _LOG_RANGE_H_
#define _LOG_RANGE_H_

#include <vector>

class LogRange
{
public:
    /**
     * Map a linear range onto a logarithmic range.  min and max are
     * passed as the extents of the linear range and returned as the
     * extents of the logarithmic range.  thresh is the minimum value
     * for the log range, to be used if the linear range spans zero.
     */
    static void mapRange(float &min, float &max, float thresh = -10);

    /**
     * Map a value onto a logarithmic range.  This just means taking
     * the base-10 log of the absolute value, or using the threshold
     * value if the absolute value is zero.
     */
    static float map(float value, float thresh = -10);

    /**
     * Map a value from the logarithmic range back again.  This just
     * means taking the value'th power of ten.
     */
    static float unmap(float value);

    /**
     * Estimate whether a set of values would be more properly shown
     * using a logarithmic than a linear scale.  This is only ever
     * going to be a rough guess.
     */
    static bool useLogScale(std::vector<float> values);

};

#endif