Re: [brlcad-devel] Example of heterogeneous density + mass calculation

2017-07-30 Thread Mario Meissner
> > After it’s working, that’s the next logical step. Don’t want to > scope-creep the complexity prematurely, but we will eventually want > material objects defining the density (and other) material characteristics > of an object (as a replacement for .density files and _DENSITY objects). > Sure.

Re: [brlcad-devel] GPU Boolean Evaluation for CSG Ray-Tracing

2017-07-30 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
> On Jul 29, 2017, at 10:17 AM, Vasco Alexandre da Silva Costa > wrote: > > On Sat, Jul 29, 2017 at 11:42 AM, Marco Domingues > wrote: > Okay so this difference in time made me go check if I was doing things > correctly, and well, I wasn’t testing with a Rel

Re: [brlcad-devel] GPU Boolean Evaluation for CSG Ray-Tracing

2017-07-30 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
> The first column (1.208s) is the time it takes over the code currently in the > trunk (it uses a different bool_eval() function) and the 2nd column (2.198s) > is the time taken from the OpenCL branch code (which uses the bool_eval() > function with the boolean tree in RPN from Vasco). Ah! O

[brlcad-devel] New Committer: Marco Domingues

2017-07-30 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
Marco da Silva Domingues (mdtwenty) has been granted commit access. As most of you know, Marco has been working under Vasco’s tutelage on the conversion, cleanup, and optimization of librt’s Boolean evaluation support (boolweave+boolfinal). This is the last piece needed for converting over to

Re: [brlcad-devel] Example of heterogeneous density + mass calculation

2017-07-30 Thread Mario Meissner
Hi again! Attached goes current state of my new function. I've not even tried to run it yet as I still need to work on it before expecting anything to work. However, I would love to know if this is even remotely heading towards the right direction. Inside the code are some questions commented out

Re: [brlcad-devel] GPU Boolean Evaluation for CSG Ray-Tracing

2017-07-30 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
> Hmm okay, I was using the elapsed time… I will update the tables considering > this new information! > So this was the timing block output from the command ‘rt -z1 -l5 -s1024’ for > the havoc scene: > > That screenshot's timings clearly have some issue(s) that give pause. At a glance, I

Re: [brlcad-devel] Example of heterogeneous density + mass calculation

2017-07-30 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
> On Jul 30, 2017, at 12:25 PM, Mario Meissner wrote: > > Hi again! > > Attached goes current state of my new function. I've not even tried to run it > yet as I still need to work on it before expecting anything to work. I encourage you to approach this from a somewhat different development