Future Work

From K-3D

Design Proposals

• Camera DOF Diagram - How a camera object can schematically represent it's DOF related properties.
• Display Behavior Guidelines - Proposes how painters should be managed by the user interface layer.
• Distributed Computing - Random musing on how K-3D can support distributed computing models.
• Effectors - Modeling idea by Lyndon Nadel.
• Generic Mesh Primitives - A generalization of the mesh data-structure to support new geometric primitive types at runtime.
• Hint Refactoring - We still haven't gotten Visualization Pipeline components working robustly with Pipeline Hints.
• K3D Raytracer Engine - (RapidTrace) A From Scratch, Built-In Raytracer With Renderman Pipeline Integration
• Keyboard Shortcut Design - Beginning discussion on how to fix keyboard shortcut editing.
• Multiple Undo Trees - Preliminary design of a capability for working with more-than-one undo tree per document.
• Network Rendering - Preliminary thoughts on integrating with network render servers / improving the current render system.
• Node Grouping Design - Starting thoughts on flexible mechanisms for organizing nodes within documents.
• Node Visibility - Makes the case for revising how we control node visibility, specifying it on a per-render-engine basis.
• Per Render Engine Painters - Builds on the Node Visibility proposal, to allow specifying mesh painters on a per-render-engine basis.
• Plugin Behavior Guidelines - Developing a set of guidelines for how pipeline modifiers should work.
• Render Model Refactoring - Thoughts on how we might evolve the current set of Render Models.
• Texture Mapping - We are finally getting the texture-mapping ball rolling!
• VAST - Visual Angle Selector Target method - a mechanism for interactive control over angular measurements.
• Visualization Pipeline Display - A longstanding requirement for K-3D is an efficient, complete representation of a document's visualization pipeline.

Research

• Performance - Some interesting experiments for improving performance.
• User Feedback - Feedback from supervised K-3D sessions with new users.
• User Feedback Requests - A compendium of requests that came up during supervised testing with new users.

Free-For-All

• Shader Roadmap - Making shaders into one coherent and fully functional tool-set.
• Animation Design - Design and development of the animation system, including examples and user cases.
• Skeletal Animation - Some thoughts on existing libraries.
• Fun Ideas - Plugin ideas, tools that would showcase Aqsis and K-3D, etc.
• Feature Requests - Like it says.