intersting paper about GI (maybe useful for Durian)

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Hi, just found this paper today, and thought it may be useful for Blender development.
It’s a technique that implements lightcuts with some sort of irradiance caching.
The author claims 1 or 2 orders of magnitude faster renderings compared to a classical photonmap+irradiance cache.
http://www.mpi-inf.mpg.de/~rherzog/
http://www.mpi-inf.mpg.de/~rherzog/Papers/herzogEG09.pdf

Since lightcuts algorithm has been implemented as a GoogleSOC, I wonder if that could be integrated in the Durian rendering recode. At first I thought about mailing the bf-committers, but maybe it’s better not pollute developer mailing lists.

So can anyone in touch with the developers tell them about this? :smiley: Thanks

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bump only 1 view: maybe I have to change the thread’s title to lure more people in? :frowning:

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The view counter is broken right now, so don’t sweat it too much. :smiley:

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looks interesting, i’d mail it to bf-commiters if I were you, that will let a lot of people know about it.

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oh, the counter is broken, thanks for telling me :o

@JayDez: I posted here first because I don’t think that spamming the mailing lists is a good idea. Maybe in a few days…
Or, be me and do it yourself :smiley:

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Your title…it is misleading…-anyway…they are interesting, but they are not “intended” for Durian/Sintel, as the title of this thread suggests.

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Yeah, you’re right. Sorry but english is not my native language. I’ve changed the title, is it better now?