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2011-07-26added a camera class which is able to render using the simple ray tracer or ↵Anthony LaTorre
the hybrid monte carlo ray tracer in a separate thread. the camera object is initialized by passing a pycuda.driver.Context object and a threading.Lock object; you can then run kernels and copy arrays to and from the device in the same context as that used by the camera by acquiring the lock, calling context.push(), executing the kernel and/or copying arrays, calling context.pop(), and then releasing the lock. fixed mistakes in both build_rgb_lookup() and render() where I had accidently switched the green and blue photons. updated the lbne geometry with the latest specifications. added profiles for the sno pmt and concentrator.
2011-07-25moved triangle colors to a separate global device array so that the ray ↵Anthony LaTorre
tracer and photon simulation can be run in the same context. added the ability to add alpha channel to triangle color so that triangles can be made transparent. added __noinline__ modifier to certain device functions to speed up kernel compilation.
2011-07-21hybrid monte carlo render now distinguishes between the two different sides ↵Anthony LaTorre
of each triangle. reduced the number of runs to average when propagating photons from each pixel in render.py from 5 to 1; the speed improvement outweighs any small improvement in the quality of the rendered image.
2011-07-20pulled a lot of the photon propagation code out of src/kernel.cu into ↵Anthony LaTorre
src/photon.h so that photon propagation by propagate() in kernel.cu and the hybrid monte carlo ray tracing use the same code. instead of a single state, photons now carry the history of the processes they've undergone. this history is stored as a bitmask; see src/photon.h. start_node and first_node of the mesh are now stored as global variables in mesh.h instead of being passed to kernel functions.
2011-07-19removed STL pmt models; pmt models are now built by calling rotate_extrude() ↵Anthony LaTorre
on a profile of the PMT model (see build_pmt() in solids/pmts.py). triangle intersection now allows one of the two coefficients multiplying the vectors which span the triangle to float slightly negative (up to -EPSILON; EPSILON is defined in src/intersect.h) in order to eliminate rays passing through the line between two triangles. cleaned up a lot of unused code. pulled duplicate code in view() and render() into functions in view.py. in order to allow view.py and render.py to search pre-defined geometries, solids, meshes, etc. without requiring them to be pre-built, pre-defined geometries, solids, meshes, etc. should be returned by a function tagged by the decorator @buildable(identifier) defined in view.py, where identifier is a string used to identify the object as an argument to either view.py or render.py. optical materials and surfaces are now defined in optics.py. added an image directory to save cool screenshots.
2011-07-10added a hybrid monte carlo ray tracing rendering algorithmAnthony LaTorre