[Bf-cycles] Cycles roadmap and how to help

[Brecht Van Lommel]

Hi,

The motion blur thesis is great, we're using the sampling pattern
described in it. The MSBVH I'm not so convinced about, the performance
improvements are quite modest for a pretty complex algorithm, there's
many more important optimizations we should do before trying this.

Brecht.

On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 6:06 PM, Matthew Heimlich
<matt.heimlich at gmail.com> wrote:
> Brecht,
>
> While I'm sure you've already seen it, this paper
> (http://gruenschloss.org/msbvh/msbvh.pdf) offers a decent solution for
> improving BVH traversal where time-interpolated nodes are involved.
>
> I'd also point you at http://gruenschloss.org/motion-blur/motion-blur.pdf
> although it's a pretty well-known paper as well. I figure it can't hurt to
> point it out though!
>
> Matt Heimlich
>
> On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 11:26 AM, Brecht Van Lommel
> <brechtvanlommel at pandora.be> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Some of you might have seen this presentation from the conference,
>> summarizing what we did last year, what we did not succeed at and what
>> the plans are for the next year:
>> http://users.pandora.be/blendix/bconf_2012_presentation.pdf
>>
>> The wiki developer documentation has also been updated, so here is the
>> current roadmap I'm thinking of:
>> http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:2.6/Source/Render/Cycles/Roadmap
>>
>> For developer who want to help out, they can of course work on those
>> big features, or pick up one of the smaller features on the updated
>> todo list here:
>> http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:2.6/Source/Render/Cycles/ToDo
>>
>> For rendering experts or anyone who likes to think about hard
>> problems, here's a number of technical issues that I've thought about
>> but can't seem to find a good answer for:
>>
>> http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:2.6/Source/Render/Cycles/Open_Questions
>>
>> For users who are not developers but want to contribute in some other
>> way, the documentation can always be improved. For example renders to
>> demonstrate texture nodes and their features, example .blend file
>> setups for nodes, details on how to achieve certain shading effects or
>> avoid artifacts, etc.
>> http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:2.6/Manual/Render/Cycles
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Brecht.
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