[Bf-cycles] Summer of Code projects

[Geraldine Chua]

Hi,

Thank you for the interest in my project! I gave it a rather general title
as I proposed to implement a few different changes to improve volume
rendering in Cycles. Full volume support may be too much to expect from
this summer, but I will try my best to bring us ever closer to that goal.

In particular, I will be working on the following problems:

 - More efficient storage and sampling of volume data
 - Importing of OpenVDB* files into Cycles as images
 - Creation of a dedicated Volume primitive compatible with OpenVDB*

* OpenVDB is a widely used and robust volumes library optimized for storing
and editing volumetric data (http://www.openvdb.org/). Quite a lot of work
has been done in integrating OpenVDB into Cycles already (
https://developer.blender.org/D1308).

I am really interested to see what the Blender community has been doing
with regards to volumetric data! Although I expected to test with basic
volume objects (clouds, fire, etc), if it is not too much trouble for you,
I would really love to have the opportunity to play around with scientific
volume datasets as well. Thank you for the offer!

Best regards,
Geraldine


On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 9:42 PM, Paul Melis <paul.melis at surfsara.nl> wrote:

> Hi,
> On 04/23/2018 07:00 PM, Brecht Van Lommel wrote:
>
> This year 3 summer of code projects were accepted for Cycles:
> https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/organizations/4824370443190272/
>
> ...
>
> Further Development for Cycles' Volume Rendering
> Geraldine Chua
> Mentor: Lukas Stockner
>
> This is great news!
>
> At this very moment me and my colleague are giving a blender course for
> scientific visualization (in Amsterdam) and have had to disappoint a number
> of researchers that work with volumetric data. There is definitely
> demand/interest in general volume data support for Blender as well, not
> just Cycles, judging by publications like https://arxiv.org/pdf/1611.
> 06965.pdf (a 14-page description on how to use the Blender Voxel format
> when using BI rendering). So any steps forward in getting more general
> volume data and rendering support in Blender and Cycles would be awesome!
>
> Btw, if the GSOC student would like to test with scientific volumetric
> data at some point then we can easily provide test sets.
>
> Regards,
> Paul
>
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