Pixar Research Papers

Published by Eugene (etr9j) on June 12th, 2006 in Toolbox

Pixar has been posting some nice papers on techniques they have used to overcome several issues in film production.

Some of the papers have been published or can be found in Siggraph proceedings, but some of them are still only found on the pixar site. It's a nice collection though, and I can only hope that some of these techniques inspire Blender developers. There are also some classic papers by Robert L. Cook (et al) from all the way back in the 80's. Great to look at from a historical perspective, to remind you of a simpler time, and show you how far the graphics field has come.

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1 Calvin Jun 12th, 2006 at 9:14 am

Hey, Thanks for the link… looks interesting!
2 Hoehrer Jun 12th, 2006 at 11:11 am

Thanks for this link :)

I especially like the DeepShadowMap entry:
http://graphics.pixar.com/DeepShadows/paper.pdf

Werner
3 Toon Scheur Jun 12th, 2006 at 2:28 pm

There ar tons and tons of exceptional research papers out there. Free knowledge for grabs. It's a pity there are not enough Blender programmers around, or Blender programmers that could grasp the math behind the papers. I would really really want to help out. I'm very rusty on my math and my programming skills. I should make a time table to pick up C again (like all those "learn C in 21 days" pdf's), pick up the essential mathematics and the tackle the Blender code.
Blender is rapidly catching up though. After this year, how many 3d apps has: cloth, fluid, Z-brush style sculpting, Compositor, softbodies, physics engine, hair, radiosity, AO, Node system, pass rendering, state of the art UV unwrapping, sky simulator. game engine, all in the same package?
4 epat Jun 12th, 2006 at 3:22 pm

yeah - my problem is slightly different though, I can (just about) understand the papers, but my C programming knowledge is to limited to actually implement any!! I can do python but this isn't really that useful since blender dosen't export enough of its functionality to the python API, so even simple tasks have to be coded from scratch! - epat

BTW: wikipedia comes in quite handy when there's some maths in a paper that you don't understand ;)
5 epat Jun 12th, 2006 at 3:36 pm

Saying that - wavelet noise might not be so hard to implement! - epat
6 NateB2 Jun 12th, 2006 at 4:35 pm

"After this year, how many 3d apps has: cloth, fluid, Z-brush style sculpting, Compositor, softbodies, physics engine, hair, radiosity, AO, Node system, pass rendering, state of the art UV unwrapping, sky simulator. game engine, all in the same package?"

And all under 15 mb!
7 myselfhimself Jun 12th, 2006 at 4:46 pm

I can teach basics of C. That's something i've been learning at school. I don't know whether I know all of C. But if it's for a start… shesmyone _ at _ hotmail | com
8 Toon Scheur Jun 12th, 2006 at 4:47 pm

@epat

Well, C isn't that hard. I used to do some C years ago, and then as a job as a web programmer (ASP, VB and javascript) I used to programm in Javascript a lot. So for me it would be relatively easy to pick it up again. You realy should try C too. It is less intimidating than it looks. I consider myself to be a dumb and lazy person, but even I mastered C after a month of self study.
9 applegrew Jun 12th, 2006 at 6:53 pm

I know C too, but I can't understand Blender's code properly. What more should I know to program Blender? Can someone point me to some ebook where it will help?
10 Toon Scheur Jun 12th, 2006 at 8:12 pm

I'm strugling with the Blender code too. It is very complicated yet modular. The problem I have is that the architecture at the code level is obscure for me. At a conceptual level it has been explained already in Blender wiki. In Blender wiki there is also some tutorials regarding coding pieces of Blender. On the up side, Blender seems to be modular so I guess that the radiosity routs and extrude routs etc are fairly localized and not structured like a cluttered ball yarn.
11 konrad8ha Jun 12th, 2006 at 10:09 pm

This is some really impressive stuff, I only wish this had show up on the radar some time before the summer of code entries were made.
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