[Bf-committers] Google Summer of Code

[Jacob Merrill]

I always wondered, what are the advantages of 2d style openGL tools?



what about using faces as a interface and casting rays from the 'camera
point' (orthographic projection at 2d planes)
UV cord could = context hitPoint

or localized X,Y or ?

(so a flat plane with a image on it could be 10 commands)?



3d window = a plane textured by a camera in another 'scene'

this would make everything -> what did you hit -> what happens when you
feed it that.




like I hit a slider when I pressed 7 = (set value to 7)





the only caveat is real time text. (make a shader that scales and displays
text on a 2d plane?)

basically, BVHTree raycast as a UI, that can be changed / rebuilt at any
time.....


(just some thoughts/questions for 2.8x)



On Sun, Mar 13, 2016 at 8:08 PM, Mike Erwin <significant.bit at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hey Campbell,
>
> Was thinking mostly of the Viewport FX project branches for reference, plus
> these more recent ones for continued development.
>
> https://developer.blender.org/diffusion/B/history/temp_viewport_fx_merge/
> https://developer.blender.org/diffusion/B/history/GPU_data_request/
>
> Anyone working on a clean 2D UI drawing API should be aware of how that
> would fit into and affect the overall GPU API. Which is exactly what
> mentors are for! As described by Ton, this does sound like a good summer
> project.
>
> Also interested students should check out non-Blender prior work such as
> Quartz, Skia, NV_path_rendering.
>
> Mike Erwin
> musician, naturalist, pixel pusher, hacker extraordinaire
>
> On Sun, Mar 13, 2016 at 10:38 PM, Campbell Barton <ideasman42 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > On Sat, Mar 12, 2016 at 6:52 AM, Mike Erwin <significant.bit at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > > Hi Marcel,
> > >
> > > Here is some info about our plans for the 3D Viewport:
> > >
> > > http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:2.8/
> > > http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:2.8/Viewport
> > > http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:2.8/Source/OpenGL
> > >
> > > I don't actually think creating a new OpenGL drawing API from scratch
> is
> > a
> > > good GSoC project. There's a lot of previous and current work on that
> > topic
> > > by a number of developers. *Helping us refine and finish* what is
> already
> > > started is a better approach. Blender 2.8 needs plenty of GL work in
> > > general, so having an extra person for the summer is going to be great!
> >
> > Could you link to branches which are candidates for continued
> development?
> > I've checked on some of the branches and its not clear which are only
> > useful as a reference (because they're years old), and which we should
> > base new developments on.
> >
> > > Mike Erwin
> > > musician, naturalist, pixel pusher, hacker extraordinaire
> > >
> > > On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 7:36 AM, Marcel Santana Santos <
> mss8 at cin.ufpe.br
> > >
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > >> Hi everyone,
> > >>
> > >> My name is Marcel, I am a Brazilian student of Computer Engineering at
> > >> Federal University of Pernambuco. Here I am a researcher at a group
> > which
> > >> deals with graphics computer, computer vision and related areas. I
> have
> > >> worked on several projects of these areas in partnership with
> industry.
> > >>
> > >> I am very interested in participating of Google Summer of Code with
> the
> > >> Blender project. And I am motivated by two topics: Create an OpenGL
> > drawing
> > >> API or Normal Editing Tools.
> > >>
> > >> Could some mentor talk about these topics or send a reference, so I
> can
> > >> understand the specificities of each one and prepare a draft?
> > >>
> > >> Br,
> > >>
> > >> --
> > >>
> > >> Marcel Santana Santos
> > >> Undergraduate of Computer Engineering 2013.2 - CIn/ UFPE
> > >>
> > >> Voxar Labs Researcher (http://www.cin.ufpe.br/~voxarlabs
> > >> <http://www.cin.ufpe.br/~voxarlabs>)
> > >> Teacher Assistant of Linear Algebra for Computing (
> > www.cin.ufpe.br/~ma531)
> > >> Teacher Assistant of Graphics Processing (www.cin.ufpe.br/~if680)
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