[Soc-2014-dev] Weekly Report #12 Cycles

[Thomas Dinges]

Hi,
here my report for week 12: http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/User:DingTo/GSoC_2014/Weekly_Reports/Week12

Best regards,
Thomas

= Week 12 =

== What I did this week ==
* Avoid some if checks in Volume code. (421ce2a57e4f , 28f8e253667d).

* Optimize Volume Equi-Angular Sampling with Binary search. The patch was on my hard drive for quite some time, Lukas and I worked on it a few weeks ago. There was a remaining issue, which prevented me from committing this so far (different render result), but now I finally solved it. (771d2f7a2425)

* Save some memory in BVH building code, pretty insignificant though. (2c331302773b)

Apart from that I worked a bit on Windows platform maintenance.

* Update SCons to 2.3.2 https://developer.blender.org/rS625d446ae8996ff1b3d660c44e2827fc832cf12b

* Remove old MSVC 2008 code from Blender (Build system s coming up next). (e3ed13cbd470)

* Bug tracker maintenance (check on reports, bisected one Cycles issue, close invalid/fixed ones...)

== Next week ==
I wanted to merge the volume results to master this week, but I want do to more tests, some scenes are faster, some are slower. I still need to investigate this. It would be helpful to get some Volume Test files for this, the scenes here with the default cube start to get boring. :D

== Questions ==
None.