[Bf-committers] SOC Project Ideas?

[Scott Johnson]

Ok, I think I misunderstood then.  On the soc ideas page 
(http://mediawiki.blender.org/index.php/BlenderDev/SOC_2006_ideas), 
under the "Other" category, it lists:

- Recode radiosity to be threaded, or implement techniques that improve 
the realism of the lighting (in a threaded way).

I was wondering if anyone might be able to give me more details on what 
this would entail.

Thanks,

~Scott


Chris Want wrote:

> Scott Johnson wrote:
>
>> I noticed on the SOC project ideas page that one of the ideas 
>> mentioned involved added thread capabilities to radiosity rendering.  
>> I am very interested in this idea, but I am wondering what it would 
>> consist of.  Namely, my previous work with threading was that it was 
>> fairly implementation (i.e. OS) dependent (not the thread code 
>> itself, but the mutex code necessary to make sure synchronization is 
>> achieved).  I assume that a student who took on this project would 
>> more than likely be responsible for implementing mutex/thread code 
>> for all platforms, is this accurate?
>>
>> ~Scott
>
>
> Hi Scott,
>
> I'm no threading guru, but I think blender already has a cross-platform
> pthreads wrapper in source/blender/blenlib/intern/threads.c.
> The raytracer uses it.
>
> Regards,
> Chris
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