The goal is to make Experimental kernel closer in performance to the
official kernel, avoiding spills and such.
There should not be big impact on official kernel, own tests showed
few percent performance drop on laptop's GPU. CPU was always the
same speed on AVX, AVX2 and SSE4.1 CPUs i've been testing here.
This seems to be the last essential step before we can get rid of
Experimental kernel and enable SSS officially on GPU without causing
some major performance issues.
Surely some more tweaks are possibly required, but that we can do
for until cows go home anyway.
This more a workaround for CUDA optimizer which can't optimize clamp(x, 0, 1)
into a single instruction and uses 4 instructions instead.
Original patch by @lockal with own modification:
Don't make changes outside of the kernel. They don't make any difference
anyway and term saturate() has a bit different meaning outside of kernel.
This gives around 2% of speedup in Barcelona file, but in more complex shader
setups with lots of math nodes with clamping speedup could be much nicer.
Subscribers: dingto
Projects: #cycles
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D1224
The formula was not consistent across Blender and behaved strangely, now it is
a simple linear blend between color1 and min(color1, color2).
Reviewed By: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D489
This to avoids build conflicts with libc++ on FreeBSD, these __ prefixed values
are reserved for compilers. I apologize to anyone who has patches or branches
and has to go through the pain of merging this change, it may be easiest to do
these same replacements in your code and then apply/merge the patch.
Ref T37477.
* Added a node to convert wavelength (in nanometers, from 380nm to 780nm) to RGB values. This can be useful to match real world colors easier.
* Code cleanup:
** Moved color functions (xyz and hsv) into dedicated utility files.
** Remove svm_lerp(), use interp() instead.
Documentation:
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:2.6/Manual/Render/Cycles/Nodes/More#Wavelength
Example render:
http://www.pasteall.org/pic/show.php?id=53202
This is part of my GSoC 2013. (revisions 57322, 57326, 57335 and 57367 from soc-2013-dingto).
the implementation was following my early commit for Math node
I haven't had a chance to run those through Brecht, but would like to do eventually. (they work fine though)
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note, the OSL code has a problem.
In the original node the input and output nodes have the same name (Color).
So this will be fixed here once Brecht come up with a nice autorenaming (or we do a doversion patch) for that.
