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5 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Brecht Van Lommel
8103381ded Cycles: threading optimizations
* Multithreaded image loading, each thread can load a separate image.
* Better multithreading for multiple instanced meshes, different threads can now
  build BVH's for different meshes, rather than all cooperating on the same mesh.
  Especially noticeable for dynamic BVH building for the viewport, gave about
  2x faster build on 8 core in fairly complex scene with many objects.
* The main thread waiting for worker threads can now also work itself, so
  (num_cores + 1) threads will be working, this supposedly gives better
  performance on some operating systems, but did not measure performance for
  this very detailed yet.
2012-05-05 19:44:33 +00:00
Brecht Van Lommel
9fba458a7f Cycles: float texture support. Due to GPU limitations there are now 95 byte,
and 5 float image textures. For CPU render this limit will be lifted later
on with image cache support. Patch by Mike Farnsworth.

Also changed color space option in image/environment texture node, to show
options Color and Non-Color Data, instead of sRGB and Linear, this is more
descriptive, and it was not really correct to equate Non-Color Data with
Linear.
2012-03-07 12:27:18 +00:00
Brecht Van Lommel
18387f3e3f Cycles: fix small memory leak in image loading. 2011-08-15 19:30:24 +00:00
Brecht Van Lommel
966e004bbe Cycles: OSL build & image manager fixes. 2011-05-31 16:21:30 +00:00
Ton Roosendaal
da376e0237 Cycles render engine, initial commit. This is the engine itself, blender modifications and build instructions will follow later.
Cycles uses code from some great open source projects, many thanks them:

* BVH building and traversal code from NVidia's "Understanding the Efficiency of Ray Traversal on GPUs":
http://code.google.com/p/understanding-the-efficiency-of-ray-traversal-on-gpus/
* Open Shading Language for a large part of the shading system:
http://code.google.com/p/openshadinglanguage/
* Blender for procedural textures and a few other nodes.
* Approximate Catmull Clark subdivision from NVidia Mesh tools:
http://code.google.com/p/nvidia-mesh-tools/
* Sobol direction vectors from:
http://web.maths.unsw.edu.au/~fkuo/sobol/
* Film response functions from:
http://www.cs.columbia.edu/CAVE/software/softlib/dorf.php
2011-04-27 11:58:34 +00:00