[Bf-committers] GSoC 2017 - student introduction

[Tom M]

Hi Michael,

the deadline for submissions is April 3rd.

Congratulations on your international olympiad success.

Here is information about what UDIM is,

https://www.fxguide.com/featured/udim-uv-mapping/

http://bneall.blogspot.com/p/udim-guide.html

So whereever UVs are mapped to images in blender and cycles, will need to
have changes to support UVs outside of the 0-1 range.

I think Sergey mentioned a UDIM library but I'm not sure what he was
refering to - perhaps the UDIM support of openimageio?

Hopefully he can clarify,

For curved motion blur there are probably papers on it, but not sure which
would be relevant,

there is a recent paper for volumetric motion blur

http://jcgt.org/published/0005/01/01/paper.pdf

See
https://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Ref/GoogleSummerOfCode/2017/Students
for the GSoC application template,

Good luck,

LetterRip




On Sat, Apr 1, 2017 at 10:38 AM, Natalevich Mikhail <natalevichmv at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Good evening, Blender development community.
>
> My name is Michael Natalevich, and I'm pursing a Bachelor degree in CS at
> Belarusian State University (Minsk, Belarus).  I'm a successful olympiad
> participant, and won a silver medal at International Olympiad in
> Informatics 2016. That's why I enjoy optimization, improving quality and
> creating effective, complicated algorithms.
>
> About Blender and GSoC:
> I've heard about GSoC just few days ago from friends at the university.
> Blender caught my attention immediately, and I would like to work with you
> and contribute very much. I'm new to 3D graphics and rendering, but now I'm
> reading a lot about it, because I find it extremely interesting. In fact,
> now I would enjoy to write a renderer myself.
>
> Coding background:
> Having implemented lots of algorithms at various olympiads, I feel
> confident using C++ (STL in particular), and GitHub. I've also got a
> project on OpenCL about finding edges in the picture. Moreover, I have some
> (but not fluent) knowledge of Python. Unfortunately, I haven't contributed
> to open source projects yet.
>
> Blender projects:
> I would appreciate a chance to work on UDIM support, Cycles Motion Blur
> improvements or Cycles anamorphic breathing, because they require (I hope)
> deep analysis and interesting ideas.
>
> Questions:
> What concepts should I know to potentially work on one of these projects?
> Could you send a link to a good information source on the topic?
>
> Thank you in advance,
> Michael Natalevich.
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