Steve: What is the status of the Manta persistence/serialization branch?
I had written some code back before the triangle mesh class was introduced to write a DynBVH out to disk. It might port forward with all the new changes, but if the serialization branch is right around the corner it might be a better idea to use that instead.
I doubt that the faster builder will eliminate the need to store prebuilt trees. The fastest BVH builder at RT07 takes about 10 minutes to preprocess the 777. Ten minutes is a long time to wait, especially if a prebuilt tree can be memory mapped from /dev/shm and used immediately.
Abe
On Sep 20, 2007, at 5:35 PM, <thiago@cs.utah.edu> <thiago@cs.utah.edu> wrote:
There currently is no support for that, but it should be rather easy to add. I personally have no plans on adding that since I'd rather spend my time porting over a fast bvh builder (Ingo Wald's RT07 paper) which negates that need.
Thiago.
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From: Dirk Reiners <dirk@infiscape.com>
Subj: [Manta] Saving BVH information?
Date: Thu Sep 20, 2007 4:07 pm
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To: manta@sci.utah.edu
Hi Everybody,
we're using some medium-sized models (Stanford Repository) using triangleviewer
for testing our system right now, and building the BVH takes quite a bot of time
every time it's run.
Is there a way to export the model with BVH information from Manta to speed up
loading for repeated runs?
Thanks
Dirk
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