TSC Meeting Minutes 2023-12-05

Attendees

  • Gary Oberbrunner (Dark Star Systems), Pierre Jasmin (RE:Vision), Dennis Adams (Sony), Guido Veldkamp (Assimilate), Paul Miller (Boris FX, Silhouette), Alexandre Bizeau (Maxon)

Agenda

  • CI and Conancenter

  • Ticket triage and code review

  • GPU update (gain example)

  • Coordinate System for DrawSuite: JPS or Paul Miller

  • Issue 127: LUT generator idea – interest?

  • Issue 129: Choice params that store a stable value

  • Parameter Interpolation, cont'd

  • Color updates

  • GPU updates

Future Agenda Items:

  • Discuss GPU and color handling with Black Magic folks at an upcoming meeting (January?)

Minutes

Meeting called to order at 11:03am EDT

Organizational Matters

  • We are hoping to hold the January 2nd meeting at an APAC-friendly time. Proposed times are 9am EST (7am AZ, 2pm UK, 10pm Singapore) or 7pm EST (5pm AZ, 12mid UK, 8am Singapore)

Technical Matters

  • Gary has updated the doc on readthedocs.io to use the new icons, use proper readthedocs theme, and applied many fixes. Website is updated to point to latest version.

  • Gary committed all the icons to the github repo.

  • CI and Conancenter

    • Gary is pushing on Conan folks to see about resolution of the conan/cmake compatibility/rebuild issue.

  • GPU: Gary is working on the BMD gain example. Working on Mac, not yet on Windows or Linux.

    • Dennis will review and add code to support OpenCL textures/images.

  • LUT generator: revisit next meeting; waiting for Phil.

  • StrChoice, issue 129: Decided to implement Guido's version. Gary has created a PR. We deferred discussing a method for plugins to remove  options to a later date. Paul and Guido will implement this and report back. Gary will update one of the test plugins.

  • Ticket triage:

    • did not do this this time.

  • Pierre update on spatial issues

    • No update – Pierre will report back when there is news

  • There was some concern about coord system for DrawSuite; Paul will send Gary doc updates 

  • Color updates

    • Still need feedback from Rohit. They'd like to do this in January

  • Param Interpolation: no update from Pierre. TBD.

  • Hosts supporting the new GPU support:

    • Sony: images/textures w/ OpenCL

    • Assimilate: buffers w/ OpenCL

    • Filmlight: Metal on Mac, CUDA on Win & Linux

Misc

Meeting adjourned at 12:00pm EDT

Meeting Recording, with transcript: https://zoom.us/rec/share/xzjKm7bMnrNrbaCtKP2nnYzbUQssdAI0_gRhf4U8vDyc1449uM8dXNIGXB9b9PLf.6BRN1-ozB2x1xekF