[Soc-2014-dev] Weekly Report #13 Cycles

[Thomas Dinges]

Hi,
here my report for this week: 
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/User:DingTo/GSoC_2014/Weekly_Reports/Week13

and my final report, which gives you an overview of all my work this 
summer: 
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/User:DingTo/GSoC_2014/User_Documentation

Best regards,
Thomas

= Week 13 =

== What I did this week ==
This week I wrapped up my GSoC project.

* Commited Volume optimizations to master, after testing them again with 
several test scenes. (5af00a3d12cb, 32a5313b4170, 6e5d188d17f2, 
5bdea8131939)

* I wrote my final report, which contains an overview of all the work I 
did this summer: 
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/User:DingTo/GSoC_2014/User_Documentation

== Wrapping Up and Thanks==
GSoC was a great experience and a lot of fun again. Nevertheless it was 
a challenge this year with ups and downs. Performance is a time 
consuming thing and you often work on something, which then doesn't turn 
out to be useful at all. Don't ask me how often I made Cycles slower in 
my tests this summer. :P

* I want to thank my mentor Sergey, for help and guidance throughout the 
summer, much appreciated. And it was fun to discuss and argue with you 
about Cycles. :D

* Also thanks to Brecht, who helped me at the beginning of this years 
GSoC, and gave me some great ideas beforehand on what I can work on. I 
hope you have a lot of fun at Solid Angle! :)

* Thanks to Lukas, who helped me with the Equi-Angular optimization.

* Thanks to Ton and the Blender Institute/Foundation for accepting me as 
a student for GSoC this year again!

Best regards,
Thomas