[Bf-committers] Blender Network Rendering in Erlang

[Martin Poirier]

I already have a working version of network rendering (in Python), so I don't really see the need to restart from scratch in Erlang, especially since that would mean having to write complete bindings to replace the part of the Blender python api that are needed.

Of course, people are free to do whatever they want with their own time.

Martin

--- On Mon, 10/5/09, Emmanuel Stone <emmanuel.stone at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Emmanuel Stone <emmanuel.stone at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Bf-committers] Blender Network Rendering in Erlang
> To: "bf-blender developers" <bf-committers at blender.org>
> Received: Monday, October 5, 2009, 2:47 PM
> I can testify that C interface to
> Erlang is functional. We use it
> where I work (Demonware).
> 
> Erlang is a good choice for any sort of distributed
> multi-server
> system, and sounds like a good choice for this.
> 
> -Emmanuel
> 
> 
> On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 6:11 AM, Nicholas Amorim
> <nicholas at montrealdevelopment.com>
> wrote:
> > Erlang has FFI (Foreign Function Interface).that
> allows to perform direct
> > calls of external C functions. I don't see it as part
> of default OTP - yet,
> > at least.
> >
> > http://muvara.org/crs4/erlang/ffi/
> >
> > Erlang itself provides the EI library to interfacing C
> with Erlang too:
> > http://erlang.org/doc/apps/erl_interface/part_ei_frame.html
> >
> > I'm currently inclined to write some glue code between
> Erlang and C than
> > drop down to shell and execute blender as a separate
> program.
> >
> > I really thinks that Erlang powers to create nodes on
> differentes machines
> > can be a power factor. I'm not sure if the overhead
> between converting C
> > types to Erlang and back and forth would be a big
> overhead.
> >
> > But I would like to give a try (test both approaches
> that I described here,
> > test them - I do prefer really using standard library
> than applying patch to
> > stuff, anyway).
> >
> > So this is it. I'm willing to try anyway, if you think
> it's a good idea, I
> > would start to dig into Blender's code (only saw it
> once) for render
> > functions and so on.
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