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Stepping into the summer

April 27th, 2008
Posted in Blender . Coding . GSoC 2008

My first week as a SoCer is coming to an end. I’ve been added to a couple of SoC-related mailing lists; those gave me the opportunity to really feel the international breadth of this program. I’ve also had some exchanges with my mentor, Kent Mein. In particular, he reminded me that I should take care of [ READ MORE ]

Summer is starting now!

April 22nd, 2008
Posted in GSoC 2008

I’m both happy and proud to announce that my proposal for the Google Summer of Code 2008 has been accepted. I’ll be implementing the lightcuts algorithm in Blender. I started using Blender in 2005 and have been a Blender fanatic ever since, so I am particularly excited by this opportunity. My hope is that this experience [ READ MORE ]

Lightcuts in Blender: preliminary tests

April 7th, 2008
Posted in Blender

This weekend I’ve been performing some preliminary experiments to get a feeling for what could be delivered by a lightcuts implementation in Blender. In brief, the lightcuts algorithm is just a way to render insane amounts of point lights quickly, by adaptively selecting a different subset of the available lights at each pixel according to perceptual [ READ MORE ]

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