For those interested, here's a sneak peak at a new interactive ray tracing interface I've been playing with: ort_havoc.png
@Daniel Rossberg you might find that interesting ;)
havoc is a considerably more impressive model when you take away the colors.. the attention to detail is fantastic
Finally figured out what was wrong with the IBRT build integration!
Was working well on reviewing and integrating our collab with TAMU last fall, then hit a snag when it was converted over to using BEXT for its dependencies. Visual artifacts galore and long debugging iterations over the past few weeks trying to figure out what was wrong.
Turns out it was an ISPC ABI mismatch... (!)
ISPC is the glue between OSPRay, Embree, and LIBRT. Now that's fixed, we're finally good to go, ready to get CI producing releases, and finally publish it!
For anyone thinking "what is IBRT??" it's the real-time interactive BRL-CAD ray tracing geometry visualization prototype I showed a few months back. Intent is for this to eventually become a modern visualization mode available to most of our graphical apps.
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This is what ISPC ABI incompatibility looks like:
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And now with wireframes working!
Last updated: Jul 25 2026 at 01:46 UTC