Since the source code of our Out Of Core SVO Builder pipeline was posted on Github last month, a lot of people have reported bugs and suggested fixes. It’s being actively integrated and used in several interesting projects, of which I hope to write more later. Thanks to all of you, …
I promised to get my source code for our HPG 2013 paper Out-of-Core Construction of Sparse Voxel Octrees out, so here it is! It’s unimaginatively titled ooc_svo_builder. It’s not always evident and/or easy to release code made in an academic context, but since the paper is pretty clear on algorithm details, we thought …
I’m currently rewriting my Sparse Voxel Octree builder (and the preceding voxelization pipeline) for a paper I’m writing and hoping to submit to the HPG (High Performance Graphics) conference. The goal is to have a total out-of-core pipeline to go from polygon mesh to an annotated SVO. Annotated, as in: …
Update: I published a paper on this at HPG 2013. It contains updated info and a more detailed look into the problem and solution than this blogpost does. During the development of my Sparse Voxel Octree (SVO) raycaster (see last week’s progress report), I had to find a good way to build …
After a few weeks of optimizing and getting a lot of good C++ advice from Ares Lagae, I consider my CPU-based voxel raycaster as done. I now have a good framework to test some more interesting stuff on. It offers real-time performance, even for large voxel grids, and I’ve structured the …
After some days of tweaking my SVO renderer’s performance, it became clear that I needed a more cache-coherent and space-efficient way of storing/accessing the octree data. I decided to start a seperate C++ project that efficiently converts a .binvox Voxel Grid into a Sparse Voxel Octree. Some discussions with my …
After some painstaking debugging (I guess every programmer can start a post like this), I got my Sparse Voxel Octree-based raycaster working. It’s still all CPU-based, to keep things simple for now. As you can see from the following false color images, the efficient skipping of empty space results in …
After a short discussion with my promotor Philip Dutré, I rewrote some parts of the basic grid structure to be more compatible with the uninevetable introduction of an octree-based system. No shotgun surgery for me – first I planned it on paper. REAL ACTUAL PAPER. I finished this week by …
If you’ve looked at some computer graphics literature before, you’ve probably noticed that a lot of models are used over and over again, like the Utah Teapot. Last days, I’ve been working on import functions which allow me to load the Stanford standard benchmark models in and render them, voxelized. …
Since I’m developing my PhD renderer for multiple target systems (Win32, x64, LInux, …) I started using the excellent freeGlut project for simple OpenGL windowed output. So after finding the Windows binaries compiled (and maintained) by Max Martin Payne, I look at the contents of the zip file. I was …