The 2D->2D, 3D->3D, 4D->4D hash functions used in Voronoi node were
using quite an expensive hash function. Switch these to dedicated
2D/3D/4D hash functions (pcg2d, pcg3d, pcg4d) -- these are still very
good quality, but the hash function itself is 3x-4x faster.
Which makes Voronoi node calculation overall be around 2x faster. In
some cases when using OSL, the speedup is even larger.
This visibly changes output of the Voronoi noise however. The actual
noise "behaves" the same, just if someone was depending on the noise
pattern being exactly like it was before, this will change the pattern.
Images, more performance results and details wrt OSL are in the PR.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/139520
Current NURBS evaluation handles corners or sharp angles poorly. Sharp
edges appear when a knot vector value is repeated `order - 1` times.
Users can make sharp corners by creating NURBS curve with `Bezier` knot
mode or by setting `order` to 2 for legacy curves. The problem occurs
because current algorithm takes all the curve's definition interval,
divides it into equal parts and evaluates at those points, but corners
are exactly on repeated knot's. To hit those, the resolution has to be
increased higher than required for the rest of the curve.
The new algorithm divides non zero length intervals between two adjacent
knots into equal parts. This way corners are hit with a resolution of 1.
This does change the evaluated points of NURBS curves, which is why some
test results have to be updated in this commit.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/138565
This changes the way random integers are computed so that there is no
intermediate conversion to float which looses accuracy.
This change breaks compatibility because it changes the generated random
numbers. Therefore this is done in Blender 5.0.
Performance seems to be about ~6% better than before.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/118795
When not all the meshes referenced by the instances recursively
are realized because of the limit of the depth input, and those
meshes have vertex groups, a crash is possible because of an
un-checked VectorSet lookup. `all_meshes_info.order` includes
all meshes regardless of the depth and mask arguments.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/138519
This change moves the tests data files and publish folder of assets
repository to the main blender.git repository as LFS files.
The goal of this change is to eliminate toil of modifying tests,
cherry-picking changes to LFS branches, adding tests as part of a
PR which brings new features or fixes.
More detailed explanation and conversation can be found in the
design task.
Ref #137215
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/137219
