June 5th June 9th

• June5^th - Fixing Issue #1435 with locale changes (GSoC unrelated)

• Building preliminary test scenes

  • several_lights.appleseed - 11 light sources, both NPL and EM
  • point_lights.appleseed - 4 point lights

• LightTree partitioning

  • Going through the existing BVH SAH partitioner
  • Learning about the existing partitioning and sorting code
  • Implementing MiddlePartitioner

• Decided to focus only on the NPLs for first

Next week plan

• Calculate node light energy
• Update LightSampler::sample() to use the tree for NPL light sampling
• Sort unit testing