[Bf-committers] BIH, BVH news and a question

[Brecht Van Lommel]

Hi,

Sounds great. For debugging you can test for the pixel location with ShadeInput xs and ys.

Brecht.

>----- Oorspronkelijk bericht -----
>Van: Yves Poissant [mailto:ypoissant2 at videotron.ca]
>Verzonden: zaterdag, mei 10, 2008 01:01 AM
>Aan: 'bf-blender developers'
>Onderwerp: [Bf-committers] BIH, BVH news and a question
>
>After some time fiddling with the BIH and then reading some more papers, 
>thesis and ompf forum threads, I came to the conclusion that the BIH 
>implementation that was ripped from SunFlow and adapted to Blender was 
>optimal. But I was not satisfied with the results so I implemented a BVH 
>just to compare. The BVH alone is faster than the BIH for half of the scenes 
>I had for testing purposes. Then I implemented SAH (Surface Area Heuristic) 
>BVH and this one is clearly the winner. It is always faster than the BIH. 
>And it is as fast to much faster than the octree. So that is good news. I 
>still need to implement other triangle intersection functions and test them. 
>I'm convinced I can get even more speed with a good implementation of the 
>barycentric test. And I still haven't attempted to use SSE optimization yet.
>
>Here is the question: There are a few bugs though and I need to trace the 
>execution for specific pixels. What is the technique for tracing the code 
>execution for specific pixels? Say I want to break into to code at pixel 
>x:10,y:20. Is there a known way to do that? I can certainly find this out 
>but if someone already knows the trick, that would help me. I plan to do 
>that bug hunting this week-end.
>
>BTW, the bug is related to processing shadow rays vs non-shadow rays. 
>Non-shadow rays are much slower to process than shadow rays and there are no 
>reasons for that especially given that the non-shadow rays are quite slower 
>with BIH or BVH than with the octree. For example, it is no uncomon to get 3 
>to 6 times speed improvement with scenes that uses soft raytraced shadows 
>but that same improvement is difficult to get with scene that have a lot of 
>reflections. So I think there is a bug with the data returned by the 
>intersector when intersecting non-shadow rays.
>
>Yves Poissant 
>
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