[Soc-2008-dev] Week 2 Report

[Nicholas Bishop]

a) Previous week:
Unfortunately I didn't get much of significance done until today. I've
just moved into a new apartment, and it's taken me some time to get
back to normal. However, I've finally gotten my thoughts on design
issues together and emailed Brecht with a fun list of things to
discuss :)

b) Next week:
Figure out those important design issues mentioned above. In
particular, the proper way to integrate sculpting with modifiers and
derivedmeshes.

c) Other:
--

d) Schedule:
Not getting anything done this week obviously puts me back a bit, but
I'm confident that I'll get back on track now that I'm settled in.

-Nicholas

On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 6:47 PM, Davide Vercelli
<davide.vercelli at gmail.com> wrote:
> a) This week
>
> As expected my work has been less "juicy" than last week as I turned
> my attention more towards bug hunting and cleaning things up. I'm
> pretty happy though of what I've done as I understood better how the
> algorithm works, and I am more confident about what I have done so
> far.
>
> I've not updated the wiki as I wanted to but I posted a sort of FAQ on
> blenderartists:
> http://blenderartists.org/forum/showpost.php?p=1133514&postcount=24
> I will put this on the wiki later.
>
> I also added the "rendering time" stamp option, which, btw, I think
> should go in trunk ;)
>
> b) Next week
>
> There's one "big" bug left, that is, a scene that doesn't render
> correctly, and I have yet to look into that one: it could reveal
> serious problems or be trivial to solve, who knows. In parallel,
> though, I started writing the "cosine bounding code" that is
> fundamental to support material bounding (should speed up rendering
> times even more), specularity, more BRDFs, and oriented lights. Once
> this code is in place, the code should evolve pretty quickly. I plan
> to commit this next week.
>
> In order to debug more effectively, I also need some other tools, such
> as an "instant color picker" in the UV/Image editor, as well as
> displaying pixel coordinates under the mouse. At some point I may
> decide to suspend the lightcuts code and work for a couple of days on
> that, it may be worth the trouble.
>
> c) Issues
>
> None so far.
>
> d) Schedule
>
> At this stage it's still hard to tell. I would say I am on track, and
> I'm not worried. When updating the wiki I will also publish a revised,
> more detailed schedule.
>
> Cheers,
>
> UncleZeiv
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