[Bf-committers] GSoC: Morphing shaders

[alvaro.ricon at est.fib.upc.edu]

Hi Erwin,

Thanks for your response. I would like to port my project to Blender,  
with Animation Nodes or whatever; but there is no much time to  
discusse, afraid so.

Working on this project gave me huge experience with all kind of  
shaders. So, do you know any shader-related issue to code on Blender?  
Because if it's not possible or doesn't make sense implement my  
project, probably I could help developing shaders or improving shader  
capabilities of Blender.

I have less than a day to write my proposal and I need to know what's  
the best.

Thank you again,

Álvaro

Quoting Mike Erwin <significant.bit at gmail.com>:

> 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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