We finally started porting the core of the voxel viewer to the GPU using OpenCL. This is our first debug build after a few hours playing around with it. We don’t fully rasterize the mesh yet nor do we have any textures like we do in the CPU version. And yes there is noise but hey, we’ve just started ;)
Here’s a more interactive video, it shows the model being scaled through voxelspace.
Together with a friend of mine ( Quinten Lansu ) I started a new project which will also be part of an assignment in our GPU programming course. Our idea is to create modelviewer which doesn’t show meshes the normal way but convert it to voxels on the GPU or CPU ( depending on the settings ) in realtime.
Read moreHere’s the latest version of the NDP, still a POC and far from finished. Project has been put aside until we have more time. Read the readme.txt to see how to get it up and running.
2 clients connected this time. Pretty pictures even faster. And yes the hostnames are the same, I forgot to actually clear the list, not really an issue regarding the rendering.
First render came through, all seems to be working! Finally getting somewhere.
Note: This is one client running on the same system as the server itself. Still need to test it on multiple systems.
An update from my previous post, clients are now fully reconized and stored by the server. Here’s the view as of 11:57pm, this shows the server running in the background and a client connecting to the server and showing up in the list. This might seem like nothing but it’s actually some work to get this all working properly with clients connecting and disconnecting the whole time.
I’ve started a project with 2 friends, Martijn and Wessel. It started as a college assignment but we took it a bit further. My initial idea was to do something that is network distributed in terms of rendering, kinda like a renderfarm for example.
I initially thought about raytracing which is quite nice to have at a decent speed and gives fancy results to look at. Martijn opted for a pathtracer.
Read morePrevious blog post which has most of the story:
http://blog.0x3a.com/post/2826619813/the-stupidity-of-the-public-transit
They finally send me a partial refund, with partial I mean that again they are fighting amongst each other I think.
I received the refund for the train tickets, the subway is still to come. At least we’re getting somewhere :)
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Wednesday the 19th of january
I’m a student and in the Netherlands you get this thing called an “Studenten OV-Kaart” which gives you the ability to travel freely through the country either during the week or the weekend. You have to choose this before you get it.
Since yesterday my card started to malfunction. I checked in at the subway-station, the gates opened but as soon as I set one foot through them they immediately closed with me in-between. I got onto the platform, possibly with a few bruises but I’ll survive that. I made it to my station and wanted to do a check-out but it didn’t read my card… nothing happened, it didn’t say “Try again” or “Faulty card”, it just didn’t say a thing. I then called someone to get me out because I couldn’t exit the station in any way because you need to go through the gates.
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