[Bf-committers] GSoC: Morphing shaders

[Mike Erwin]

Hey Álvaro,
Your project sounds cool but I don't know how it would fit into Blender
from the brief description. Reminds me of things people are doing with
Animation Nodes. Or Shader Toy outside of Blender-land. Can someone here
who is into animation give more feedback?

Mike Erwin
musician, naturalist, pixel pusher, hacker extraordinaire

On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 3:12 PM, <alvaro.ricon at est.fib.upc.edu> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> My name is Álvaro Ricón. I am working on the Computer
> Engineering/Science final project, at the "Facultad d'Informàtica de
> Barcelona (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya)".
>
> The project I'm conducting, with the supervision of the teacher Àlvar
> Vinacua, is entitled "GPU Morphing". The idea is to study and develop
> mesh-morphing algorithms which harnesses the power and parallelism of
> current graphic processors. As the main goal of my work I decide to
> develop a set of morphing shaders to perform this transform at
> runtime, without needing user interaction.
>
> The mesh morphing I'm trying to get is an automatic transition between
> any pair of meshes. In order to be able to do this I would use every
> kind of shaders I need, from vertex to tessellation, even compute
> ones. In fact, I'm currently developing compute shaders to implement
> the first step: spherical parameterization.
>
> I plan to finish my project at the end of May, and I would like to
> port all my work to Blender in the following months, at Google Summer
> of Code.
>
> It could be a fast-computed animation tool. The vey first idea was to
> use it on videogames (Blender Game Engine?), due to its potential
> realtime computation, saving memory of useless pre-calculated
> animations for any kind of transformations the game demands, which it
> would make possible to be a lot. What do you think about about it? It
> is feasible to present as a proposal for GSoC? If it isn't, can I just
> work on implementing more shader capabilities to Blender code?
>
> Hope you like the idea, and if you have any doubt do not hesitate to
> contact me. Thank you in advance. Best regards,
>
> Álvaro
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