[Soc-2010-dev] Sculpt Brushes Status Report - 5/28/2010

[Nicholas Bishop]

Nice work here. I particularly like your changes to brush spacing,
using the brush size instead of pixels makes so much sense in
retrospect, good catch there :)

I'm curious if you could describe more what the differences between
the flatten, fill, and scrap brushes are?

Thanks,
-Nicholas

On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 7:23 AM, Jason Wilkins
<jason.a.wilkins at gmail.com> wrote:
> I focused on three areas this week:
> 1.) Plane brushes - These are brushes that all determine the average plane
> of the vertexes under the brush and then pull or push vertexes relative to
> the plane.  These include
> - Flatten - pull vertexes towards the plane
> - Clay - offset the plane above or below the surface then draw vertexes
> towards it
> - Fill - pull vertexes up towards the plane
> - Scrap - pull vertexes down towards the plane
> - Contrast - push vertexes away from the plane
> 2.) Optimization - I've used a profiler to find functions that are taking
> large amounts of time and I optimize those functions (Wash, Rinse, Repeat)
> - eliminated dead code
> - removed unnecessary code
> - simplified overly complicated code
> - removed calls to calloc and memset
> - created multiple versions of a function when the default does too much
> work in some cases
> - however, I have not done any work to improve algorithms
> - I removed OpenMP for now, pending a better understanding of how to use it
> effectively
> - for smaller models (1 million polygons) the bottlenecks are no longer in
> the sculpt code itself, but elsewhere
> - for large models (6 million polygons before my machine croaks), optimizing
> sculpt more would help
> 3.) Brush Spacing - The distance between stamps is now based on the size of
> the brush instead of screen space pixels
> - this improves the consistency of spacing under different perspectives and
> brush sizes
> - the strength of the brush is attenuated according to how much stamps
> overlap
> I'll be taking it easy this weekend starting Friday.  I'll be monitoring
> feedback and planning my next move.
> Later,
> Jason Wilkins
>
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