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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'>Yes indeed would be great if sorted out sooner or later and widely adopted by "everyone"...thinking about this, the last Siggraph notes by Brecht,<div><span style="font-size: 12pt;">the google projects going to be finished or developed further (mostly depsgraph, viewport fx, multithreaded DG), and 2.7 series coming,</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 12pt;">i was wondering what are developers thoughts about which workflow might be pushed more for Blender in the near future.</span></div><div>the Pixar one with lower base mesh / OpenSubD / <span style="font-size: 12pt;">displacement with Ptex etc</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> or the "Arnold" one, with much more heavy base meshes...</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 12pt;">...any more recent thoughts?</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Thanks, MG.</span></div><div><div><br><div>> Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 15:07:07 -0400<br>> From: matt.heimlich@gmail.com<br>> To: bf-cycles@blender.org<br>> Subject: Re: [Bf-cycles] OpenSubdiv article<br>> <br>> Not the first time I've heard that Solid Angle's implementation is<br>> faster on the CPU. Hopefully that gets sorted out soon, as a standard<br>> would do the industry a world of good.<br>> <br>> On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 1:46 PM, Marco G <digitalbath86@hotmail.com> wrote:<br>> > Hi all,<br>> ><br>> > sharing a nice article about OpenSubdiv on fxguide for those who missed it.<br>> ><br>> > It does also mention why SPI nor SolidAngle is not yet implementing the<br>> > library, mostly because of bad optimization of the CPU code, something Pixar<br>> > should address in 2014.<br>> ><br>> > Cheers all, MG - link<br>> > http://www.fxguide.com/featured/pixars-opensubdiv-v2-a-detailed-look/<br>> ><br>> > _______________________________________________<br>> > Bf-cycles mailing list<br>> > Bf-cycles@blender.org<br>> > http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-cycles<br>> ><br>> _______________________________________________<br>> Bf-cycles mailing list<br>> Bf-cycles@blender.org<br>> http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-cycles<br></div></div></div>                                            </div></body>
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