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From: Peter Kroon (p.c.kroon_at_rug.nl)
Date: Fri Aug 03 2018 - 04:17:28 CDT

Hi John,

no worries, well deserved holidays (and conferences) get priority :)

The TachyonInternal does handle DoF correctly (other than the inversion
of dof_fnumber). But the problem I have there is that I can't simply
tell it to make an image at a resolution of 3kx4k.

Scene generation for Tachyon external does work (mostly), but the
external Tachyon seems to ignore the FocalLength parameter.

Which VMD test version are you referring to exactly? I'm running 1.9.3
at the moment.

Peter

On 02-08-18 18:58, John Stone wrote:
> Hi,
> Sorry for the slow response, I'm still digging out of a pile of emails
> that accumulated while I was away from the office for a few weeks.
> Did you try using the built-in version of Tachyon I ship with VMD itself?
>
> Tachyon always had DoF, but the parameterization has changed somewhat from
> the old versions to now, and the way VMD talks to Tachyon has changed also.
>
> I haven't made the bleeding edge version of the Tachyon code available yet
> because I've been revising its API to allow it to support interactive ray
> tracing for machines that lack GPUs, and that aren't supported by OSPRay.
>
> If you have a problem that crops up with the test VMD build (and its built-in
> version of Tachyon) on the web site, then let me know and I will address it.
> If TachyonInternal works but the external does not, that may be a scene
> file generation issue (two different code paths). In any case, it should
> be easy to resolve any loose ends that may arise here.
>
> Best,
> John
>
> On Wed, Aug 01, 2018 at 10:48:45AM +0200, Peter Kroon wrote:
>> Hi all!
>>
>> I sent this mail earlier, but I think it got buried in everyone's
>> holidays. Does anyone who's just come back from their well-earned
>> holidays and conferences have any insights?
>>
>>
>> Peter
>>
>>
>> On 09-07-18 16:36, Peter Kroon wrote:
>>> Hello world!
>>>
>>>
>>> I would like to turn a VMD scene into a pretty picture. I want this
>>> picture to be high resolution (~3315x4000px), and using AO and Depth of
>>> Field. I have tried the following, continually running into issues:
>>>
>>> 1) Use Tachyon-OptiX: I can't put the desired resolution. If I do, it
>>> fails immediately with a memory error. See also
>>> http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/mailing_list/vmd-l/27940.html
>>>
>>> 2) Use Tachyon internal: Creates a super fuzzy picture, probably because
>>> the meaning of 'Aperture' changed from 'x' to '1/x'.
>>>
>>> 3) Use external Tachyon renderer: If I fix the 'Aperture'; and changing
>>> FocalDist to FocalLength I *almost* get the picture I want, but it seems
>>> the FocalLength option is simply ignored (see also
>>> http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/mailing_list/vmd-l/15285.html). This
>>> happens with both 0.98.9 and 0.99b6.
>>>
>>> Does anyone have anything else I can try? I build all the software from
>>> source, in case it matters.
>>>
>>>
>>> Peter
>>>
>>
>
>