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This chapter of The DOs and DON'Ts of Filter Construction provides general thoughts on working habits for successful filter authors.
Harnessing the Infinite Workspace
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Not that we'd ever need it, but the Filter Editor provides filter authors with an infinite workspace. Now, don't panic! This really is a great advantage to those who know how to properly make use of all this space.
Think about it: Instead of dumping all your components onto chaotic heaps, forming pasta-like, dense jumbles of nodes, how about doing the opposite? For a change, we could actually arrange our components carefully, thus bringing meaningful structure to our filters. How easy it would suddenly become to maintain clear oversight of the construction process. What a breeze filter maintenance would be. And Oh! What a beautiful garden of learning the Filter Library would be, with all these authors having built such magnificent Filter Trees... Alright, I'm rambling! ;)
In short, when properly used, the infinte workspace allows filter authors to:
- Spread out and organize components to form logical groups.
- Arrange these logical groups into meaningful structures that facilitate filter readability by visually emphasizing the flow of image data.
- Conveniently rearrange logical groups or whole parts of a filter, making radical changes easier.
- Easily get an overview over the structure of a filter (the so-called filter tree).
-- Crapadilla
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