[Bf-committers] Project Proposal

Joe Eagar joeedh at gmail.com
Thu Oct 4 20:16:36 CEST 2007


So did anyone ever comment on this, off the list?

Joe

roger.liang at utoronto.ca wrote:
> Hi everyone.
>
> We are 4th year computer engineering students at the University of  
> Toronto. For our capstone design project, we decided to contribute  
> some exciting features to Blender under the supervision of Keir Mierle.
> .
>
> The current plan of our project involves extending the nodes system of  
> Blender by implementing new nodes. We gathered inspiration from the  
> commercial procedural image generation software Filter Forge which  
> uses a node system similar to what Blender has right now. After a bit  
> of research we have decided that we are going to focus on the nodes  
> under following 5 catalogues.
>
>   External nodes
>   Gradients
>   Processing nodes
>   Curve ops
>   Curves
>
> A brief description of each node can be found at:
> http://blender.astrometry.net/wiki/listofnodes
>
> However, the implementation of those nodes will require introducing  
> one data type to the current Blender node system. In Filter Forge, the  
> nodes under Curve and Curve ops operates with one a unique data type  
> ?curve input?. A curve input represents a curve function in a  
> specified range and is often used to provide inputs for other nodes to  
> define their behaviors.
>
> A more detailed description on Filter Forge?s curve system can be found at:
> http://www.filterforge.com/more/help/Components/CurveComponents.html
>
> Therefore, if we are to extend Blender?s node system to the level of  
> Filter Forge, two changes in the current Blender node system will be  
> needed:
> 1.	Implementation of the new data type ?curve input?
> 2.	Possibly revision on some of the existing nodes to take advantage  
> of the new data type.
>
> Also we suspect that we could implement the new curve input data type  
> in a way that it will be useable for both composite and shader nodes.  
> However we lack the knowledge of the current system to come to a  
> conclusion.
>
> Any feedback will be greatly appreciated and we look forward to hear from you.
>
>
> Thank you very much
>
> Roger Liang
> Nicolas Wu Sak Wing
> Christopher Leung
>
>
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