Processing meets radiosity
In the last few days I've been doing some more research about getting higher quality 3D images out of Processing and had another closer look at Sunflow, a very fine Java based open source radiosity renderer.
These are some of the first test images I created with my upcoming library (using beginRaw()) to output Sunflow scene description files for later use/rendering. I've also written a little command line tool to batch render exported sequences and am enquiring the use of Sun's grid computing facility as renderfarm ($1 per CPU hour, pay-as-you-go) for these type of jobs...
Being 100% Java, Sunflow could also be integrated as renderer into the Processing tool chain directly by wrapping it inside a PGraphics class. Sunflow's architecture is very clean and easy to use and customize via its API. Scenes and all elements can also be directly created and manipulated procedurally via Java. Adjusting quality settings, one could initially render at very low res to achieve near realtime previews and then switch to fullres (with supersampling/antialiasing) when exporting frames (also available as OpenEXR/HDR)... Watch this space!
These are some of the first test images I created with my upcoming library (using beginRaw()) to output Sunflow scene description files for later use/rendering. I've also written a little command line tool to batch render exported sequences and am enquiring the use of Sun's grid computing facility as renderfarm ($1 per CPU hour, pay-as-you-go) for these type of jobs...
Being 100% Java, Sunflow could also be integrated as renderer into the Processing tool chain directly by wrapping it inside a PGraphics class. Sunflow's architecture is very clean and easy to use and customize via its API. Scenes and all elements can also be directly created and manipulated procedurally via Java. Adjusting quality settings, one could initially render at very low res to achieve near realtime previews and then switch to fullres (with supersampling/antialiasing) when exporting frames (also available as OpenEXR/HDR)... Watch this space!
5 Comments:
very nice indeed!
... a sunflow renderer (as a library perhaps) would be very cool!
This looks fantastic! Let us know if you want any assistance testing or debugging!
Thanks guys! Glad to see there's public interest in this ;) I will continue hacking on the lib later tonight and will post progress...
oh ! sounds interesting !
it's even actually reviving my interest for 3D ;)
Those shots look brilliant, I love the quality and the shadows. If you could make this a library thats pretty easy to use then it would have a massive impact on the Processing and 3D community.
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