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4 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
1d8c798188 Cycles: support for motion vector and UV passes.
Most of the changes are related to adding support for motion data throughout
the code. There's some code for actual camera/object motion blur raytracing
but it's unfinished (it badly slows down the raytracing kernel even when the
option is turned off), so that code it disabled still.

Motion vector export from Blender tries to avoid computing derived meshes
when the mesh does not have a deforming modifier, and it also won't store
motion vectors for every vertex if only the object or camera is moving.
2012-04-30 12:49:26 +00:00
Brecht Van Lommel
fc42a6185d Cycles:
* Fix object scaling update issue with interactive rendering + static BVH.
* Fix negative scaling issue with static BVH.
* Fix #29217: excessive fireflies in first sample.
2011-11-12 14:29:52 +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