[Bf-committers] Proposal: Blender OpenCL compositor

[Sean Olson]

You should probably put who you are and what your qualifications are on the
donation site as well.   I stumbled on the site through a twitter link
initially and had no idea who was doing the project.

-Sean

On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 10:07 AM, Jeroen Bakker <j.bakker at atmind.nl> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> The last few months I have worked hard on a the proposal of the OpenCL
> based compositor. Currently the proposal is ready that it is clear how
> the solution should work and what the impact is. As the proposal is on
> the technical level the end-user won't feel a difference, except for a
> fast tile based compositor system. In functionality it should be the same.
>
> There are 2 aspects that will be solved:
>  * Tiled based compositing
>  * OpenCL compositing
>
> To implement these I will introduce additional components:
>  * Tiled based memory manager
>  * Node (pre-)compiler
>  * Configurable automatically data conversion for compositor node systems
>  * OpenCL driver manager
>  * OpenCL configuration screen
>  * Some debug information:
>    * OpenCL program, performance etc.
>    * Execution tree (including data types, resolution and kernelgrouping)
>    * Visualizing tiles needed for calculation of an area.
>
> And introduce several new data types
>  * Kernels and KernelGroup
>  * Camera data type
>  * Various color data types
>
> I have put all the documents on a project-website for review. As the
> proposal is quite long and complex. (all decisions are connected with
> each other.)
> Please use bf-committers or #blendercoders to discuss the proposal also
> if something is not clear.
>
> http://ocl.atmind.nl/doku.php?id=design:proposal:compositor-redesign
>
> Cheers,
> Jeroen Bakker
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