Hi, I've copied your mail to the code blog. :) Thanks,
-Ton- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ton Roosendaal Blender Foundation [email protected] www.blender.org Blender Institute Entrepotdok 57A 1018AD Amsterdam The Netherlands On 22 Jan, 2011, at 0:04, Tamito KAJIYAMA wrote: > Hi Ton, > >> If youre OK, I copy the intro text + image to our code blog too, nice >> to spread this as a reference. > > That is great! Please, feel free to use whatever portion of text and > image(s) you think are relevant. > > Thank you, > > -- > KAJIYAMA, Tamito <[email protected]> > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Ton Roosendaal" <[email protected]> > To: "bf-blender developers" <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, January 21, 2011 6:00 PM > Subject: Re: [Bf-committers] Developer irc meeting minutes, 16 Jan > 2011 > > >> Hi Tamito, >> >> Great update, cool blog :) >> If youre OK, I copy the intro text + image to our code blog too, nice >> to spread this as a reference. >> >> -Ton- >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Ton Roosendaal Blender Foundation [email protected] www.blender.org >> Blender Institute Entrepotdok 57A 1018AD Amsterdam The >> Netherlands >> >> On 17 Jan, 2011, at 3:16, Tamito KAJIYAMA wrote: >> >>> Hi Ton and all, >>> >>>> - Ton notices Tamito Kajuyama nicely keeps his Non-Photo-Realistic >>>> render branch (FreeStyle) upto date with the 2.5 trunk. Testers and >>>> reviewers welcome! >>>> http://projects.blender.org/scm/viewvc.php/branches/soc-2008-mxcurioni/?root=bf-blender >>> >>> Thank you Ton for bringing people's attention to the Freestyle >>> branch. >>> It is my great pleasure to see that the Freestyle integration work >>> is >>> recognized in this way. >>> >>> I take this opportunity to report the current status of the >>> Freestyle >>> integration project in response to the following message from Ton on >>> 6th of January: >>> >>>> During the next months the branch devs can report here on how >>>> stable >>>> migrations are, to make a planning that doesn't break 2.6 >>>> immediately, >>>> but do this in smaller steps and releases. >>> >>> >>> *** Freestyle integration status report January 2011 *** >>> >>> In December 2009, we defined a list of things that should be >>> finished >>> before the merge into the trunk is asked [1]. This to-do list >>> included >>> fixes of stability issues, recovery of missing features, and >>> additions >>> of a few new functionalities. >>> >>> Among these things, a strong emphasis was first put on addressing >>> the stability issues. Most critical bugs were fixed in the first >>> two >>> months after the definition of the to-do list. These fixes >>> addressed >>> (a) a long-standing source of various instability issues related to >>> 2D-to-3D inverse projection transformation [2, 3], (b) crash due to >>> objects behind the camera [4], and (c) fatal instability related to >>> the >>> orthographic camera [4]. Problem reports from branch users also >>> helped the consolidation of the branch a lot. As a result, the >>> stability >>> of the renderer has been substantially improved. >>> >>> After these stability improvements were made, the development >>> moved on to the recovery of missing features, including (a) >>> transparent >>> strokes [5], (b) image-space density and Z depth information [5], >>> (c) full-sample anti-aliasing [6], and (d) border rendering [7]. >>> >>> Some documentation work was also done to migrate the Freestyle >>> API reference manual into the new Sphinx-based documentation >>> system for Blender 2.5 [8]. >>> >>> Having most of the initial to-do items addressed, we refined the >>> list >>> of final targets in June 2010 based on users' requests and available >>> human resources. Less important missing features were dropped >>> from the list, while a key element was included. The updated to-do >>> list [9] consists of three items: >>> >>> 1. An artist-friendly GUI for interactive manipulation of line style >>> parameters >>> 2. Feature edge detection at the intersection of two faces >>> 3. Completion of Freestyle Python API improvements >>> >>> The new GUI aims to provide artists with an intuitive and easy-to- >>> use >>> line stylization toolset. To start with, several GUI design >>> approaches >>> were discussed [9], and GUI designs of commercial NPR software >>> were reviewed [10]. The basic framework for Freestyle in Blender >>> has been implemented as documented in [11]. The GUI is functional >>> and ready for tests by users. >>> >>> As of this report, subjective achievement rates of the three to-do >>> items >>> are 40%, 0%, and 80%, respectively. Taking the amount of unfinished >>> work and available resources into account, the completion of all the >>> to-do items is unlikely to happen earlier than the next summer. >>> >>> As cited above, updates on the development work have been posted >>> to the Freestyle integration blog: >>> >>> http://freestyleintegration.wordpress.com/ >>> >>> The Freestyle branch has been kept in sync with the trunk code base >>> by regularly merging changes from the trunk. Branch users have been >>> actively exchanging techniques, application ideas, and rendering >>> results >>> through the Freestyle thread in BlenderArtists.org: >>> >>> http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?t=89986 >>> >>> Thanks to volunteer builders, up-to-date Freestyle builds are >>> available at: >>> >>> http://www.graphicall.org/ >>> >>> Those who are interested in the reported new elements of Freestyle >>> are >>> highly encouraged to test and review this branch. >>> >>> >>> January 17, 2011 >>> KAJIYAMA, Tamito (T.K.) >>> >>> >>> [1] http://freestyleintegration.wordpress.com/2009/12/21/new-to-do-list/ >>> >>> [2] >>> http://freestyleintegration.wordpress.com/2010/01/10/weekly-update-december-28-january-10/ >>> >>> [3] >>> http://freestyleintegration.wordpress.com/2010/01/18/weekly-update-january-11-17/ >>> >>> [4] >>> http://freestyleintegration.wordpress.com/2010/02/01/weekly-update-january-25-31/ >>> >>> [5] >>> http://freestyleintegration.wordpress.com/2010/02/17/weekly-update-february-8-16/ >>> >>> [6] >>> http://freestyleintegration.wordpress.com/2010/03/29/weekly-update-march-15-28/ >>> >>> [7] >>> http://freestyleintegration.wordpress.com/2010/04/07/weekly-update-march-29-april-4/ >>> >>> [8] >>> http://freestyleintegration.wordpress.com/2010/04/18/weekly-update-april-5-18/ >>> >>> [9] >>> http://freestyleintegration.wordpress.com/2010/06/07/weekly-update-may-24-june-6/ >>> >>> [10] >>> http://freestyleintegration.wordpress.com/2010/06/27/weekly-update-june-7-27/ >>> >>> [11] >>> http://freestyleintegration.wordpress.com/2010/08/11/weekly-update-july-12-august-11/ >>> >>> -- >>> KAJIYAMA, Tamito <[email protected]> >>> >>> >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>> From: "Ton Roosendaal" <[email protected]> >>> To: "bf-blender developers" <[email protected]> >>> Sent: Sunday, January 16, 2011 4:29 PM >>> Subject: [Bf-committers] Developer irc meeting minutes, 16 Jan 2011 >>> >>> >>>> Hi all, >>>> >>>> 1) 2.5 project >>>> >>>> - Tracker went up to 67, enough work todo still! >>>> >>>> - Sergey announced that his "crazyspace" work to allow sculpting >>>> armature-deformed meshes is ready for final reviews. He'll get it >>>> reviewed first by Brecht, and then either commits or posts in >>>> tracker >>>> for further feedback. >>>> >>>> - COLLADA: Ton had a concerned mail from COLLADA lead Remi >>>> Arnaud, he >>>> and Khronos offer their support, they also would love to see >>>> Blender >>>> to soon get the official Khronos Conformancy Badge! Nathan >>>> Letwory is >>>> in contact with Remi to check on what can be done together. >>>> >>>> - Campbell mentions that all core IO scripts from 2.4 now are >>>> ported >>>> to 2.5. They work similar or better (x3d) even now. Campbell offers >>>> to >>>> make a test suite for Import/Export with default reference .blend >>>> files. >>>> >>>> - Nathan will post a diagram with the current state (support level, >>>> features) of our Import/Export scripts. >>>> >>>> 2) Other projects, branches >>>> >>>> - Lukas Toenne updated his blog about his particle node work: >>>> http://phonybone.planetblender.org/ >>>> >>>> - That post, and Jeroen's proposal for OpenCL could be copied to >>>> our >>>> code blog too! Ton will set this going. >>>> >>>> - This week we'll also check which of the tablet work from Mike >>>> Erwin >>>> can go to trunk. >>>> >>>> - Ton notices Tamito Kajuyama nicely keeps his Non-Photo-Realistic >>>> render branch (FreeStyle) upto date with the 2.5 trunk. Testers and >>>> reviewers welcome! >>>> http://projects.blender.org/scm/viewvc.php/branches/soc-2008-mxcurioni/?root=bf-blender >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> >>>> -Ton- > _______________________________________________ > Bf-committers mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers
