User:Vasco.costa/GSoC15/logs

Community Bonding Period

I have made two patches for OpenCL (OCL) shot code. One patch refactors the existing sph (Sphere) shot code, and the another patch implements ehy (Elliptical Hyperboloid) shot code.

• https://sourceforge.net/p/brlcad/patches/341/
• https://sourceforge.net/p/brlcad/patches/346/

Background Research

• http://graphics.cs.kuleuven.be/publications/LD08CFRGRT/
• http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/cloop/garanzhaloop2010.pdf

Development Phase

Week 1 : 25-31 May

• Created some example .g files in mged for the primitives to be implemented this week. The Quick Reference Card proved to be quite useful.
• Do the matrix ops for ehy (Elliptical Hyperboloid) in the OpenCL side.
  • https://sourceforge.net/p/brlcad/patches/346/

• Made patch for ell (Generalized Ellipsoid) and arb8 (Arbitrary Polyhedron) OpenCL shots:
  • https://sourceforge.net/p/brlcad/patches/370/
• M1 complete.

• Tried out a bunch of code browsing tools (cscope, LXR, doxygen, etc). The NetBeans IDE seems the most promising.

Week 2 : 1-7 Jun

• Read code to better understand the main rendering loop. It seems to be something like this:

do_frame() → do_run() → worker()* → do_pixel()* → rt_shootray()* → rt_*_shot()

The code is recursive (which is problematic for OpenCL). I'll work on a simplified version of the rendering loop which only does the primary rays in C as a first approach. After I get the non-recursive parallel friendly C code I'll work on the OpenCL port.

• Updated project proposal on Google Melange.

• SVN r65153 fails to compile with a bogus error of an unused variable that's actually being used its just that GCC 4.9.1 is too dumb to figure that out.
  • https://sourceforge.net/p/brlcad/bugs/365/

Upgraded Ubuntu and GCC.