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2017-12-10ray: split scene data from render stateVito Caputo
This introduces ray_render_t, and ray_render.[ch]. The _prepared member of ray_scene_t has been moved to ray_render_t, and the other _prepared members (e.g. objects) will follow. Up until now I've just been sticking the precomputed state under _prepared members of their associated structures, and simply using convention to enforce anything resembling an api boundary. It's been convenient without being inefficient, but I'd like to move the ray code into more of a reusable library and this wart needs to be addressed. The render state is also where any spatial indexes will be built and maintained, another thing I've been experimenting with. Note most of the churn here is just renaming ray_scene.c to ray_render.c. A nearly global s/ray_scene/ray_render/ has occurred, now that ray_scene_t really only serves as glue to bind objects, lights, and scene-global properties into a cohesive unit.
2017-09-17ray: stop recurring below a relevance thresholdVito Caputo
There's no point computing more reflections if they're not going to contribute substantially to the resulting sample. Previously the max depth threshold solely controlled how many times a given ray could reflect, this commit introduces a minimum relevance as well. Value may require tuning, may actually make sense to move into the scene description as a parameter. Brings a minor frame rate improvement.
2017-09-15modules/*: cease dividing stride by 4Vito Caputo
Just cast buf to (void *) for the pointer arithmetic, stride is in units of bytes and no assumptions should be made about its value such as divisability by 4.
2017-09-14ray: simplify object iterators using sentinel typeVito Caputo
Trivial optimization eliminates some instructions from the hot path, no need to maintain a separate index from the current object pointer.
2017-09-13ray: cleanup ray_camera_frame_t fragmentsVito Caputo
Previously every fb_fragment_t (and thus thread) was constructing its own ray_camera_frame_t view into the scene, duplicating some work. Instead introduce ray_camera_fragment_t to encapsulate the truly per-fragment state and make ray_scene_render_fragment() operate on just this stuff with a reference to a shared ray_camera_frame_t prepared once per-frame. Some minor ray_camera.c cleanups sneak in as well (prefer multiply instead of divide, whitespace cleanups...)
2017-08-15ray: misc computational fixupsVito Caputo
ray:object intersection coordinates were incorrectly being computed relative to the ray origin using a subtraction instead of addition, a silly mistake with surprisingly acceptable results. Those results were a result of other minor complementary mistakes compensating to produce reasonable looking results. In the course of experimenting with an acceleration data structure it became very apparent that 3d space traversal vectors were not behaving as intended, leading to review and correction of this code.
2017-06-03ray: convert from recursive to iterative tracingVito Caputo
Small speedup, I personally find the code cleaner this way too. Everything in the hot path should now be inlined, no function calls.
2017-06-02ray: skip intersection tests on reflector objectsVito Caputo
We can just assume the object which reflected the ray being tracing isn't going to be intersected. Maybe later this assumption no longer holds true, but it is true for now.
2017-06-02ray: plumb depth and camera to objectsVito Caputo
To enable prepare to precompute aspects of primary rays which all have a common origin at the camera, bring the camera to ray_object*_prepare() and bring the depth to ray_object*_intersects_ray() for primary ray detection. This is only scaffolding, functionally unchanged.
2017-06-02ray: separate lights from objectsVito Caputo
This may need to be undone in the future when more sophisticated lights, like area lights, are implemented. For now I can avoid polluting the objects list with the lights by strictly separating them.
2017-06-02ray: simplify trace_ray inner loop slightlyVito Caputo
Remove unnecessary nearest_object check, the distance comparison alone is sufficient when initialized to INFINITY.
2017-06-01ray: move shadow check to a functionVito Caputo
Just tidying up shade_ray() before more optimizations.
2017-06-01ray: perform ambient light color scale in prepareVito Caputo
Trivially removes a ray_3f_mult_scalar() from the hot path.
2017-06-01ray: move max depth check out of trace_ray()Vito Caputo
We can avoid some unnecessary work at the max depth by checking it in shade_ray() instead.
2017-05-27ray: use approximate power in specular reflectionVito Caputo
powf() is slow but precise, this isn't the fastest method but it's at least portable and a bit faster.
2017-05-12ray: add ray_scene_prepare() object precomputingVito Caputo
Just embed a _prepared struct in the object where precomputed stuff can be cached. Gets called once before rendering, which ends up calling the object-specific ray_object_$type_prepare() methods per object.
2017-04-22ray: remove vestigial ray_threads codeVito Caputo
Now that rototiller is generally threaded when a prepare_frame() method is supplied, and modules/ray has been updated accordingly, discard the now redundant ray-specific threading code and related stuff.
2017-02-14ray: add highlight exponent to ray_surface_tVito Caputo
Was a constant at 20, this allows it to be specified per-object.
2017-02-09ray: remove redundant recursion depth incrementVito Caputo
trace_ray() bumps the depth, the reflection ray trace_ray() call just needs to propagate the depth variable not advance it as well. This was probably vestigial from early development and never got taken out. This does mean more reflections now, and correspondingly slower rendering, but it at least makes MAX_RECURSION_DEPTH accurate. The define can be changed if the performance is too bad.
2017-01-18*: move source into src/ subdirVito Caputo
Restoring some organizational sanity since adopting autotools.
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