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Create a new subcategory "design/architecture/time" and rearrange several pages related to time handling and time codes. NOTE: starting with this changeset, a ''Link-Farm'' is required for cross-links; since we don't have an automatic solution for this task yet, I have created the necessary forwarding pages manually in the website repository.
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Segmentation of Timeline
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.A junction between the models
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The term ``Segmentation of the Timeline'' describes both a data structure and a step in the
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build process, which translates the structures of the *high-level-Model* into a corresponding
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graph of Render Nodes. The latter is also known as the *low-level-Model* and can be seen
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as a set of preconfigured render pipelines. When such a pipeline is ``pulled''. the render
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computations are invoked. The _access points_ to all these pipelines are hooked into a
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_backbone_ data structure, designated as the *Fixture* -- which breaks down each top-level
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Timeline into a sequence of temporal segments: what differentiates these segments is the
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topology of the Render Nodes in the pipeline; whenever a change in this topology is
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necessary, a new segment is started. Such a change might e.g. be caused by a transition
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between two clips, which has to cover a range of some frames.
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As of 2025, this part of the model is only roughly drafted, mostly using placeholder code
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to achieve some level of functional integration.
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Detailed design planning and explanations can be found in the
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link:/x/fwd/DevWiki.Segmentation.html[DevWiki: Segmentation].
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