The SIR system

Short introduction

The SIR system ("Síntesis de Imágenes Realistas") is an open rendering architecture designed by the Graphics Group of Girona (GGG) to solve generic global illumination problems. It consists in a set of object oriented components, which constitutes a kernel, intended to be extended by the programmer(s) for the specific needs of particular problems.

The SIR framework is conceived as a continuous evoluting piece of software that feeds from submissions from the SIR team. In order to guarantee consistency and allow multiple access to the sources, a version management system is used: Concurrent Version System (CVS).

This work is supported by the grants TIC 95-0630-C05-05 and TIC 95-0614-C03-03 from the CICYT, and the grants 1995SGR-00232 and 1997SGR-00241 from the DGR-Generalitat de Catalunya.

General information

• Antecedents.
• Publications.
• Gallery.

Information for SIR developers (probably local access only)

The starting brainstorming

• Toward the specification of a truly generic global illumination system (brainstorming).

On input models

• Some notes on color (somewhat related to the MGF model).
• The MGF html documentation.
• The MGFE html documentation.
• The Maya to MGFE plug-in html documentation.
• The Annotated VRML 97 Reference.
• Gustavo Patow's bookmarks on VRML (look for VRML inside).
• On scene tests (checking the applications by knowing the analytical solution).

Developing software using SIR

• Getting started!
  • Old notes by Frederic can still be found here.
  • New notes for the NEW SIR by Frederic are here.
• The SIR html documentation.
• The doxygen pages.
• The new SIR uses the GNU configure and build systems.
• Performance using SIR.
• dmalloc (Debug Malloc Library) (some old doc) and profiling.
• STL Programmer's Guide.
• Insure++ Manuals Index.
• MIPSpro C++ stuff.
• The Qt multi-platform C++ GUI toolkit (by Troll Tech).
  [Current installations: SGI: irix-n32-shared; Linux: linux-g++-shared (egcs)]
  • QtEZ, a rapid application development environment (currently supporting only C++) that dumps source code native to Qt.
  • Qt Architect, a versatile screen architect for the Qt widget set.
• The autobook (tutorial for Autoconf, Automake and Libtool).

CVS tree of SIR related sources (code, documentation) [Available through viewcvs, for a set of hosts.]
Remember that you can use tkcvs (TkCVS), that is a graphical interface to the CVS.

Sir.misc and Sir.cvs mailing lists

Some applications

• Image comparisons.

PFC Proposals and more work to do

Other systems

• RADIANCE.

Bibliographies

• radbib.bib (ultimate version, already edited to get rid of the disturbing control character "^@" in "comments = {^@}" that makes the browser parser crazy, and Computers & Graphics changed to be Computer \& Graphics for bibtex to generate good LaTeX code, and some other similar changes).
• githesis.bib (ultimate version).

    Last modified: Wednesday, 04-Jul-2001 19:14:22 MEST