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Re: 3D-Viewer Raytraced render

 

Hi.

I know this is probably planned and it's too early to consider, but...

Is GPU rendering possible instead only CPU? What about OpenCL and such?

Kind regards.

On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 2:30 PM, Mário Luzeiro <mrluzeiro@xxxxx> wrote:

> OK. Since I am using also some others "cherry picking" pieces from other
> sources. I have noted the source and licences (or some dont have any) and I
> will make a list of this contributions, I will send then to you if you want
> have a look and evaluate it.
> I like the idea to email the authors of this pieces telling them that I am
> using it and check if there are any concerns about the licenses.
>
> Mario
> ________________________________________
> From: Wayne Stambaugh [stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 28 October 2015 13:26
> To: Mário Luzeiro; kicad-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [Kicad-developers] 3D-Viewer Raytraced render
>
> As long as you keep the original license and we are not violating the
> terms of that license, I think we are OK.
>
> On 10/28/2015 9:23 AM, Mário Luzeiro wrote:
> > Hi Wayne,
> > I found that their license is similar to some others that are already
> been used in kicad: poly2tri, trackball.h
> > So I thought I could use a file from the project, keep the licence and
> give the credits as request, or did I miss something?
> >
> > Mario
> > ________________________________________
> > From: Kicad-developers [kicad-developers-bounces+mrluzeiro=
> ua.pt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] on behalf of Mário Luzeiro [mrluzeiro@xxxxx]
> > Sent: 28 October 2015 13:14
> > To: Wayne Stambaugh; kicad-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: Re: [Kicad-developers] 3D-Viewer Raytraced render
> >
> > Hi Wayne,
> >
> > I am not using the PBRT project, I am just using one cpp file that I
> made my modifications and some other few lines of code. So it is not an
> external dependency.
> >
> > Their licence is here:
> > https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mmp/pbrt-v3/master/LICENSE.txt
> >
> > Do you think that it compatible?
> >
> > Mario
> > ________________________________________
> > From: Kicad-developers [kicad-developers-bounces+mrluzeiro=
> ua.pt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] on behalf of Wayne Stambaugh [
> stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx]
> > Sent: 28 October 2015 12:59
> > To: kicad-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: Re: [Kicad-developers] 3D-Viewer Raytraced render
> >
> > You may want to take a careful look at the pbrt-v3 license before you
> > get too involved.  I'm not sure it's GPL2+ compatible.  It may be but
> > you should get clarification.  Also, pbrt-v3 is not packaged in Debian
> > and likely not packaged for any other platform either so that needs to
> > be considered as well.  I am not allowing any more CMake dependency
> > library build code in KiCad so that is not an option.
> >
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