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by alpistinho
Sun Apr 25, 2021 3:06 pm
Forum: Development
Topic: Cycle X (and OpenCL)
Replies: 92
Views: 79883

Re: Cycle X (and OpenCL)

There is the whole SYCL thing that tries to somewhat standardize things accross vendors. https://sycl.tech/

The Intel OneAPI is apparently one implementation of that and there is https://github.com/illuhad/hipSYCL that tries to build a multi-backend implementation for that, but I don't know how ...
by alpistinho
Wed Jan 27, 2021 8:43 pm
Forum: User Support
Topic: LuxCore Windows Compile Time
Replies: 6
Views: 3819

Re: LuxCore Windows Compile Time

On windows, for development I would disable the LTCG option in the build.

It takes a long time because it goes over all build artifacts to do linking-time optimization

It is really short without it
by alpistinho
Sat Apr 11, 2020 12:26 pm
Forum: Development
Topic: Limit CPU threads for compilation (Windows)
Replies: 10
Views: 7604

Re: Limit CPU threads for compilation (Windows)

When I am on Windows I always disable the LTCG flag (and also the Gy too, I think).
The issue is the linking-time optimization.
by alpistinho
Mon Apr 06, 2020 7:49 pm
Forum: Development
Topic: BlendLuxCore: Save image while render is paused
Replies: 35
Views: 18662

Re: BlendLuxCore: Save image while render is paused


The first code line by BYOB seem to not give me any result. there is no file saved and i have to search in all folder as i don't know wich exact folder get the file. but a quick search "exr" inside addon folder show nothing.

Alpistinho can you upload you're working modified final.py file so i can ...
by alpistinho
Mon Apr 06, 2020 7:37 pm
Forum: Development
Topic: BlendLuxCore: Save image while render is paused
Replies: 35
Views: 18662

Re: BlendLuxCore: Save image while render is paused


You have to rename the images or move them somewhere else if you want to prevent them from being overwritten.


I guess you could probably do something like:


import os
from datetime import datetime
os.rename('a.exr', '{}.exr'.format(datetime.now().strftime('%Y-%m-%d-%H-%M-%S')


Just change a ...
by alpistinho
Sat Mar 28, 2020 4:39 pm
Forum: Development
Topic: Blue noise dithered Sobol
Replies: 26
Views: 73499

Re: Blue noise dithered Sobol

Just to give an update, I haven't really been able to create something that:
Has blue-noise characteristics in screen space
Doesn't have a heavy correlation between dimensions
Doesn't need to generate an absurd amount of samples

The version using Owen scrambled Sobol samples works ok for the ...
by alpistinho
Fri Mar 27, 2020 3:03 pm
Forum: User Support
Topic: Activation problem with V 2.3
Replies: 6
Views: 4278

Re: Activation problem with V 2.3

Mint is based on Ubuntu.

The 18 release is still based on Ubuntu 16.04, if I'm not mistaken.
by alpistinho
Thu Mar 19, 2020 2:33 pm
Forum: Development
Topic: Blue noise dithered Sobol
Replies: 26
Views: 73499

Re: Blue noise dithered Sobol

Sharlybg wrote: Thu Mar 19, 2020 1:01 pm He it in the master ready for test ?

want to integrated theses improvements in my cycles vs luxcore test i'm working on.
Definitely not, the code is a bunch of patches thrown together and it is not even rebased for 2.4
by alpistinho
Thu Mar 19, 2020 2:26 pm
Forum: Development
Topic: Blue noise dithered Sobol
Replies: 26
Views: 73499

Re: Blue noise dithered Sobol


BTW keep in mind that I posted here an evolution of that method, this is the link:

https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02158423/file/blueNoiseTemporal2019_slides.pdf


This is only valid for animation rendering.
The counterpart for still rendering is the one I mentioned in the first post ...
by alpistinho
Wed Mar 18, 2020 11:55 pm
Forum: Development
Topic: Blue noise dithered Sobol
Replies: 26
Views: 73499

Re: Blue noise dithered Sobol

Thanks for the test.

As far as I understand, the method implemented in Cycles is described here: https://www.arnoldrenderer.com/research/dither_abstract.pdf
This method degrades into white noise as the rendering goes on, so I assume that by 200 samples there would be not that much difference ...