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Minutes from 137-th OpenVDB TSC meeting, June 21st, 2022.
Attendees: Jeff L., Nick A, Dan B., Ken M., Rich J., Andre P.
Additional Attendees: Sebastian Gaida, Peter Cheng (DW), Greg Hurst (United Therapeutics), Peyton Murray, Sergio Rojas, Karl Marret, Jamie
Regrets: None
Agenda:
- Confirm quorum
- Secretary
- Forum
- TAC Update
- Half
- OpenVDB Mathematica Link
- VFX Reference Platform
- Value Accessor on LeafNode
- Next meeting
- Confirm quorum
Quorum is present.
- Secretary
Secretary is Andre Pradhana.
- Forum
Nothing to discuss from the Forum. 4) TAC Update
a) Emily Ollin wants to setup a process for releasing major versions for all projects. Regarding the 9.1 release, Ken will send an email to the larger OpenVDB ASWF mailing list. Dan will make an announcement on twitter.
b) PyPi We should create our own account. This is what OpenTimeIO has done. We will follow their example.
c) CI Amazon has hardwares that we should be able to use. It is being used by OpenColorIO. The process still works through Github Actions, but the host machines are different. It has to be approved by the ASWF governance board. Once this is approved, we can follow up to change the CI machines.
There is a slack channel hosting this ASWF CI topic.
- Half
Greg met with an Autodesk representative. Greg's plan is to use half as a first-class citizen in OpenVDB and to do computations in floats, but to store the results in halfs. He plans half for the OpenVDB 10 release in October.
Autodesk cannot use NanoVDB because they need to perform dilation before performing motion blur.
- OpenVDB Mathematica Link
Greg is optimistic that we can find a working solution to have a Wolfram Engine for the purpose of contributing to OpenVDB.
- VFX Reference Platform
Jeff Lait said that VFX Reference Platform now lists OpenVDB 10, unless we fail to release version 10 by October 2022, under the CY2023 draft.
- Value Accessor on LeafNode
Nick improved the VolumeToMesh tool in OpenVDB by making it up-to-date with C++11 and C++14. He also improved the use of Leaf Node Value Accessor by creating a new wrapper that pulls the buffer data in order to avoid atomic access with delayed-loading. The whole effort makes the tool 10-15% faster.
Nick will do a PR on changing the Leaf Value Iterator of the Leaf Node.
- Next meeting
Next meeting is on June 28th, 2022. 1pm-2pm EDT (GMT-4).