[Soc-2008-dev] Week 6 report

[Nicholas Bishop]

a) Previous week:
Finally made progress on subdividing disps as per last week's goal.
What's working now is (after pressing 'Subdivide') the interior face
vertices' displacements are subdivided correctly. Verts along edges
and at face corners are still left unchanged, so it basically shows
seams along face edges. (These changes are still uncomitted.)

b) Next week:
First, need to get subdivision working on the rest of the
displacements. Next, this subdivision code needs to be extended to
subdividing displacements after sculpting lower multires levels.

c) Other:
--

d) Schedule:
Looking good; I hope to have these subdivision changes ready and
committed within the next few days.

-Nicholas

On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 7:40 PM, Dhanannjay (DJ) Deo <dhandeo at gmail.com> wrote:
> Work this week
> ===========
>
> 1: Code to write blender databases to a flat file, human readable -
> I am able to nicely read through the blender library data and dump the
> object info as necessary (this completes 1), also with the option of dumping
> python dictionary to file.
>
> 2: code to compare two of these dump files against each other and
> generate warnings
>
> I am not using best of the graph comparison algorithms, but I have
> something which works for 2. If there are some differences it can
> generate warnings, which can be selectively suppressed.
>
> 3: code to import a file, dump it to the human readable format, then
> compare against file in the (already created regression test suite).
>
> Tried for a controller2 file from blender regression suite. Requires further
> testing.
> Mostly because not many other file formats do not support hierarchial data.
>
> 4. demonstrate the mechanism to include exceptions, for the process of
>    native file-> imported data-> regression file comparison
>
> Have a simple exception which can be thrown from and caught at the test
> suite.
> Working on it right now, mostly will be done tonight, not willing to keep
> the report until then.
>
> 5. Also
> I was also supposed to create an input file for each file format (some
> cases)
> which describes which parameters to call the exporter with, for
> exhaustive calling of exporters within a test suite. This was
> necessary to bring consistency in the test suite, since not only
> exporters use parameters, but they also use different number of
> parameters.
>
> I am therefore adding a "test_exporter" function for each exporter
> (and later importer), which accepts a single parameter, a list of
> further parameters.
> The list which can be stored into a dump file, and created from it by
> the test suite in runtime.
>
> More details and tangible outputs have been reported to Mentor earlier this
> week.
>
> Work planned next week
> ==================
>
> I can now see the components and functional prototypes of are shaping up.
> The mid term report will contain testing and demonstrations of most of the
> features of the test suite.
>
> The mechanisms are now ready for rigorous testing, which should be done
> before midterm evaluations. More tangible targets will be decided during the
> meeting.
>
> The deadline for midterm evaluations is Monday 14th July, so there one full
> week to test all the features and documentation.
>
> Issues
> =====
> I dont have too many native files as of now, but the mechanism is ready for
> demonstration with whichever I have.
>
> Schedule
> =======
>
> The work has very much deviated from the original proposal and the idea, but
> have completed the targets as decided with the mentor for this week. And
> will continue to do so.
>
>
> Cheers ALL;
>
> Happy Independence Day.
>
> --
> Dhanannjay (DJ) Deo
>
> (Vidyaya Amrutam Ashnute, Let us go beyond life and death with the knowledge
> of truth)
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 4:19 PM, André Pinto <andresusanopinto at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> Week 5
>> ======
>>
>> Last week
>> ---------
>> This week I worked only on simple deform.. (it turned out I spend more
>> time on UI things.. and I didnt had time for touch BVH tree)
>>
>> So on simple deform:
>> *Added modes Squash and Strech to SimpleDeform (need testing.. and I
>> need to find the right math function XD)
>> *Changed the add modifier menu to show a submenu for selecting the
>> type of simpledeform.
>> *Added lower and upper options on all modes of simple deform
>> *Fixed bend
>> *Added vertex groups on SimpleDeform
>>
>>
>> Next week
>> ---------
>> I thought I would have add time to start addressing the bvhtree
>> (spherecasting) but it turned out wrong.
>> So thats my target for the coming week.
>>
>> Issues
>> ------
>> I spent more time than I initially planned on UI code, because I had
>> an hard time reading, understanding, and debugging it, since that was
>> a part of blender code I hadn't touched yet. (and also, pardon my
>> expression, because it looks a big mess).
>>
>> Also it seems a general agree on #blendercoders (or well to Briggs and
>> broken) that SimpleDeform should actually be several separated
>> modifiers (both on UI level as well on code level).. so that needs a
>> bit of review from my part.. to find an efficient way (in code terms)
>> to do it without code duplication and without bloating the code with
>> preprocessor code.
>>
>> Also doing that after the modifier refactor (proposed by Artificer)
>> goes effective would be nice.. so that I could make some design  that
>> fits that model better.
>>
>>
>> Schedule
>> --------
>> Blender UI made me lost quite a few time :S
>> Altought I still think I am on schedule.. but I need to be careful on
>> future not to waste time on UI
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>
>
> --
> --
> Dhanannjay (DJ) Deo
>
> (Vidyaya Amrutam Ashnute, Let us go beyond life and death with the knowledge
> of truth)
>
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