Re: Introducing Canvas - visual programming for Fabric Engine 2.0

2015-03-13 Thread Paul Doyle
Thought you might enjoy this one: https://vimeo.com/122130309 - image processing with Canvas using our GPU compute capability. In this video we take a look at using Fabric Canvas for image processing. Since the KL language that underlies Canvas has full GPU support, we experimented with a

Re: Introducing Canvas - visual programming for Fabric Engine 2.0

2015-03-13 Thread Paul Doyle
We have been buzzing all week as this is the first time we've been able to show a 'real world' use case for the GPU compute stuff with a big delta. Good timing since we are presenting it at GTC next week ;) On 13 March 2015 at 15:14, Steven Caron car...@gmail.com wrote: paul, you guys are

Re: Introducing Canvas - visual programming for Fabric Engine 2.0

2015-03-13 Thread Steven Caron
paul, you guys are making me so giddy! these are exactly the things i want to do with fabric On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 12:04 PM, Paul Doyle technove...@gmail.com wrote: Thought you might enjoy this one: https://vimeo.com/122130309 - image processing with Canvas using our GPU compute capability.

Re: Introducing Canvas - visual programming for Fabric Engine 2.0

2015-03-13 Thread Andres Stephens
Wow, very .. exciting! love what it’s doing with the image processing and how it goes that easily into the GPU. -Draise PH: +57 313 811 6821 From: Paul Doyle Sent: ‎Friday‎, ‎March‎ ‎13‎, ‎2015 ‎14‎:‎04‎:‎43‎ ‎ To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Thought you might enjoy this

Re: Introducing Canvas - visual programming for Fabric Engine 2.0

2015-03-12 Thread Chris Marshall
From a non-character perspective though, are we still able to do particle type stuff or is Fabric / Canvas not geared up in that way? On 12 March 2015 at 13:14, Eric Thivierge ethivie...@hybride.com wrote: One thing you kind of see / feel already is that you can start mixing things you

Re: Introducing Canvas - visual programming for Fabric Engine 2.0

2015-03-12 Thread Eric Thivierge
One thing you kind of see / feel already is that you can start mixing things you normally couldn't in ICE. An example is to read in an alembic and have it as an input into a rig. An example is to load an alembic of your ground and have your leg solvers collide with it. Of note would be that

Re: Introducing Canvas - visual programming for Fabric Engine 2.0

2015-03-12 Thread Juhani Karlsson
I would think so. There is not that much in particles going on. I remember seeing some SPH examples. I would also like to see simple standalone for Fabric so there would not be the application specific splice in the middle. Its nice to hear its planned. : ) - J On 12 March 2015 at 16:41, Chris

Re: Introducing Canvas - visual programming for Fabric Engine 2.0

2015-03-12 Thread Eric Thivierge
There is no standard particle system / nodes currently but eventually there will be. Nothing stopping you from doing one yourself or someone else doing it. I think TD's will have good employment opportunities in the short and long term with this kind of work. It's not a bad thing. :) Eric T.

Re: Introducing Canvas - visual programming for Fabric Engine 2.0

2015-03-12 Thread Chris Marshall
This certainly looks amazing, but the obvious question is how similar is this to ICE? What are the differences, benefits, positives, negatives, etc etc It certainly looks a lot like ICE! Which I like! On 12 March 2015 at 00:00, Paul Doyle technove...@gmail.com wrote: We have a standalone, it

Re: Introducing Canvas - visual programming for Fabric Engine 2.0

2015-03-12 Thread Chris Marshall
Thanks Paul, I'll take a look on si-community. Looks exciting though. On 12 March 2015 at 11:24, Paul Doyle technove...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Chris - there are a few people from this list on our alpha, so they might come and answer that question. Lifted from my response to a similar question

Re: Introducing Canvas - visual programming for Fabric Engine 2.0

2015-03-12 Thread Paul Doyle
Hi Chris - there are a few people from this list on our alpha, so they might come and answer that question. Lifted from my response to a similar question on si-community: That's a really lengthy topic that I would rather someone like EricT covered I also don't want to get into 'but ICE can do

Re: Introducing Canvas - visual programming for Fabric Engine 2.0

2015-03-11 Thread Paul Doyle
Paul is on the alpha, but waiting until we have the viewport for the standalone (or the Softimage integration. We have already implemented a bunch of deformers, including delta mush: http://fabricengine.com/rigging-toolbox/ (although not yet in the DFG). It's all KL... On 11 March 2015 at 16:56,

Re: Introducing Canvas - visual programming for Fabric Engine 2.0

2015-03-11 Thread Jason S
I recall already being one working in fabric no? On 03/11/15 16:56, Sebastien Sterling wrote: i suppose an interesting one to try would be delta mush, a few pwoplw came up with that by themselves. What

Re: Introducing Canvas - visual programming for Fabric Engine 2.0

2015-03-11 Thread Sebastien Sterling
i suppose an interesting one to try would be delta mush, a few pwoplw came up with that by themselves. What ever happened to Pooby ? On 11 March 2015 at 02:00, Paul Doyle technove...@gmail.com wrote: Created a new section to track demos people build in the test group:

Re: Introducing Canvas - visual programming for Fabric Engine 2.0

2015-03-11 Thread Sebastien Sterling
I suppose, it would be awfully interesting to have a small standalone environment in which to test deformers and solvers independently of other apps, but that might start to look worryingly like a DCC :P all in good time ;) On 11 March 2015 at 20:58, Paul Doyle technove...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: Introducing Canvas - visual programming for Fabric Engine 2.0

2015-03-11 Thread Paul Doyle
We have a standalone, it just doesn't have the viewport hooked in yet (but you can do all the data processing you like). The next alpha will have it. The standalone is for building specialised applications (viewers, playback tools etc). Canvas graphs move seamlessly between the Fabric standalone

Re: Introducing Canvas - visual programming for Fabric Engine 2.0

2015-03-10 Thread Raffaele Fragapane
* -- *From:* softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [ softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] on behalf of Paul Doyle [ technove...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Friday, March 06, 2015 3:32 PM *To:* softimage@listproc.autodesk.com *Subject:* Introducing Canvas - visual programming

Re: Introducing Canvas - visual programming for Fabric Engine 2.0

2015-03-10 Thread si
] on behalf of Paul Doyle [technove...@gmail.com mailto:technove...@gmail.com ] Sent: Friday, March 06, 2015 3:32 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com mailto:softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Introducing Canvas - visual programming for Fabric Engine 2.0 Hi guys - I know you've been

Re: Introducing Canvas - visual programming for Fabric Engine 2.0

2015-03-10 Thread Leonard Koch
Ah thanks. That's good to know. On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 2:39 PM, Eric Thivierge ethivie...@hybride.com wrote: Hey Leonard, You can set an environment variable that Canvas looks to for custom presets. You then make folders within it and can organize them that way. It's already very easy to

Re: Introducing Canvas - visual programming for Fabric Engine 2.0

2015-03-10 Thread Eric Thivierge
Hey Leonard, You can set an environment variable that Canvas looks to for custom presets. You then make folders within it and can organize them that way. It's already very easy to organize the presets. Eric T. On 3/10/2015 9:36 AM, Leonard Koch wrote: This looks really great.

Re: Introducing Canvas - visual programming for Fabric Engine 2.0

2015-03-10 Thread Leonard Koch
To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com mailto: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Introducing Canvas - visual programming for Fabric Engine 2.0 Hi guys - I know you've been waiting for quite a while for us to start showing you what we've been up to since Siggraph. Finally we're

Re: Introducing Canvas - visual programming for Fabric Engine 2.0

2015-03-10 Thread Paul Doyle
Created a new section to track demos people build in the test group: http://fabricengine.com/canvas-user-demos/ http://fabricengine.com/canvas-user-demos/ Hopefully there'll be a lot more in there soon :) On 10 March 2015 at 09:47, Leonard Koch leonardkoch...@gmail.com wrote: Ah thanks. That's

Re: Introducing Canvas - visual programming for Fabric Engine 2.0

2015-03-09 Thread Paul Doyle
@listproc.autodesk.com *Subject:* Introducing Canvas - visual programming for Fabric Engine 2.0 Hi guys - I know you've been waiting for quite a while for us to start showing you what we've been up to since Siggraph. Finally we're there and can give you a look :) I'm really happy and proud

Re: Introducing Canvas - visual programming for Fabric Engine 2.0

2015-03-09 Thread Jason S
ntroducing Canvas - visual programming for Fabric

Re: Introducing Canvas - visual programming for Fabric Engine 2.0

2015-03-09 Thread Sebastien Sterling
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Re: Introducing Canvas - visual programming for Fabric Engine 2.0

2015-03-09 Thread Jason S
visual programming for Fabric

Re: Introducing Canvas - visual programming for Fabric Engine 2.0

2015-03-09 Thread Nono
- visual programming for Fabric Engine 2.0 Hi guys - I know you've been waiting for quite a while for us to start showing you what we've been up to since Siggraph. Finally we're there and can give you a look :) I'm really happy and proud to give you the first proper look at Canvas, our

Re: Introducing Canvas - visual programming for Fabric Engine 2.0

2015-03-09 Thread Gerbrand Nel
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Re: Introducing Canvas - visual programming for Fabric Engine 2.0

2015-03-08 Thread Perry Harovas
To Paul and the other Fabric crew, I too want to thank you. The thing I preach whenever possible is that we have to be ready to move software apps at the drop of a hat (a point made crystal clear to me about a year ago). If there is one thing I miss, though, it is ICE. I am happy to use and

Re: Introducing Canvas - visual programming for Fabric Engine 2.0

2015-03-08 Thread Paul Doyle
Thanks Perry - you're appreciation is appreciated :) I shall pass it on to the team. Your perception of what we're doing is spot on. Cheers, Paul On 8 March 2015 at 22:08, Perry Harovas perryharo...@gmail.com wrote: To Paul and the other Fabric crew, I too want to thank you. The thing I

Re: Introducing Canvas - visual programming for Fabric Engine 2.0

2015-03-08 Thread Mirko Jankovic
And I'm sure bunch of guys like me are waiting to see what great minds will make for us to start making :) So far it is tool for making tools, and we are waiting for tools ;) Dumb down version for us artist with just couple buttons and text boxes to tweak ;) On Sun, Mar 8, 2015 at 3:41 AM,

Re: Introducing Canvas - visual programming for Fabric Engine 2.0

2015-03-07 Thread Paul Doyle
*To:* softimage@listproc.autodesk.com *Subject:* Introducing Canvas - visual programming for Fabric Engine 2.0 Hi guys - I know you've been waiting for quite a while for us to start showing you what we've been up to since Siggraph. Finally we're there and can give you a look :) I'm really happy

Re: Introducing Canvas - visual programming for Fabric Engine 2.0

2015-03-07 Thread Paul Doyle
] on behalf of Paul Doyle [ technove...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Friday, March 06, 2015 3:32 PM *To:* softimage@listproc.autodesk.com *Subject:* Introducing Canvas - visual programming for Fabric Engine 2.0 Hi guys - I know you've been waiting for quite a while for us to start showing you what

Re: Introducing Canvas - visual programming for Fabric Engine 2.0

2015-03-07 Thread Sebastien Sterling
...@listproc.autodesk.com [ softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] on behalf of Paul Doyle [ technove...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Friday, March 06, 2015 3:32 PM *To:* softimage@listproc.autodesk.com *Subject:* Introducing Canvas - visual programming for Fabric Engine 2.0 Hi guys - I know you've been

Re: Introducing Canvas - visual programming for Fabric Engine 2.0

2015-03-07 Thread Paul Doyle
] *Sent:* Friday, March 06, 2015 3:32 PM *To:* softimage@listproc.autodesk.com *Subject:* Introducing Canvas - visual programming for Fabric Engine 2.0 Hi guys - I know you've been waiting for quite a while for us to start showing you what we've been up to since Siggraph. Finally we're

Re: Introducing Canvas - visual programming for Fabric Engine 2.0

2015-03-07 Thread Tom Kleinenberg
Canvas - visual programming for Fabric Engine 2.0 Hi guys - I know you've been waiting for quite a while for us to start showing you what we've been up to since Siggraph. Finally we're there and can give you a look :) I'm really happy and proud to give you the first proper look at Canvas

Re: Introducing Canvas - visual programming for Fabric Engine 2.0

2015-03-07 Thread Paul Doyle
...@listproc.autodesk.com] on behalf of Paul Doyle [ technove...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Friday, March 06, 2015 3:32 PM *To:* softimage@listproc.autodesk.com *Subject:* Introducing Canvas - visual programming for Fabric Engine 2.0 Hi guys - I know you've been waiting for quite a while for us

Re: Introducing Canvas - visual programming for Fabric Engine 2.0

2015-03-07 Thread Nicolas Esposito
:* Friday, March 06, 2015 3:32 PM *To:* softimage@listproc.autodesk.com *Subject:* Introducing Canvas - visual programming for Fabric Engine 2.0 Hi guys - I know you've been waiting for quite a while for us to start showing you what we've been up to since Siggraph. Finally we're there and can

Re: Introducing Canvas - visual programming for Fabric Engine 2.0

2015-03-07 Thread Paul Doyle
Certainly for stuff like fluids they've got the pedigree :) I have only seen the public demos though, I'm keen to see what's coming. /diplomacy On 7 March 2015 at 19:36, Raffaele Fragapane raffsxsil...@googlemail.com wrote: Surely Bifrost is what you aspire for your product to be when it grows

Re: Introducing Canvas - visual programming for Fabric Engine 2.0

2015-03-07 Thread Raffaele Fragapane
Surely Bifrost is what you aspire for your product to be when it grows up, right? ;) On Sun, Mar 8, 2015 at 5:41 AM, Paul Doyle technove...@gmail.com wrote: That's what the alpha is for :) We aren't wedded to a particular design, and we're drawing inspiration from modern systems like

Re: Introducing Canvas - visual programming for Fabric Engine 2.0

2015-03-07 Thread Sebastien Sterling
Isn't the theory, that third parties could develop modules for fabric, like Lagoa multiphisics ?, or the mootzoid suites ? i'm assuming it would if not now eventually become theoretically possible for someone to create a flip solver for fabric? (I'm sure that: - One does not simply A Flip Solver)

Re: Introducing Canvas - visual programming for Fabric Engine 2.0

2015-03-07 Thread Paul Doyle
Yes - writing extensions for Fabric is simple, as is wrapping an existing C/C++ library as a Fabric extension. There are no dependencies on Fabric Software to build anything, it's all there for developers to build upon. More cool stuff next week, it should get you guys thinking :) On 7 March

Re: Introducing Canvas - visual programming for Fabric Engine 2.0

2015-03-07 Thread Sebastien Sterling
I'm just waiting for dat community to start forming, Rray.de's gona need a new category soon, fingers crossed :P On 8 March 2015 at 02:33, Paul Doyle technove...@gmail.com wrote: Yes - writing extensions for Fabric is simple, as is wrapping an existing C/C++ library as a Fabric extension.

Re: Introducing Canvas - visual programming for Fabric Engine 2.0

2015-03-06 Thread Paul Doyle
, March 06, 2015 3:32 PM *To:* softimage@listproc.autodesk.com *Subject:* Introducing Canvas - visual programming for Fabric Engine 2.0 Hi guys - I know you've been waiting for quite a while for us to start showing you what we've been up to since Siggraph. Finally we're there and can give you

Re: Introducing Canvas - visual programming for Fabric Engine 2.0

2015-03-06 Thread Steven Caron
! *From:* softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] *On Behalf Of *Paul Doyle *Sent:* Friday, March 06, 2015 3:32 PM *To:* softimage@listproc.autodesk.com *Subject:* Introducing Canvas - visual programming for Fabric Engine 2.0 Hi guys - I

Re: Introducing Canvas - visual programming for Fabric Engine 2.0

2015-03-06 Thread Eric Turman
Paul, much respect for supporting such a wide range of DCCs including the (not so) dead one. I'm sure like you say, Canvas will be here sooner than we know it. But in the mean time the suspense is killing me =) On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 4:49 PM, Paul Doyle technove...@gmail.com wrote: It's coming

Re: Introducing Canvas - visual programming for Fabric Engine 2.0

2015-03-06 Thread Paul Doyle
Well you can sign up for the alpha here: http://fabricengine.com/canvas-testing-program/ We're not opening it up yet, but get on the list and when we do the SI drop I'll post a reminder here :) We're DCC-agnostic - Maya was inevitably a first-class citizen for us, but our portability story is

Re: Introducing Canvas - visual programming for Fabric Engine 2.0

2015-03-06 Thread Mathieu Leclaire
-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] *On Behalf Of *Paul Doyle *Sent:* Friday, March 06, 2015 3:32 PM *To:* softimage@listproc.autodesk.com mailto:softimage@listproc.autodesk.com *Subject:* Introducing Canvas - visual programming for Fabric Engine 2.0

RE: Introducing Canvas - visual programming for Fabric Engine 2.0

2015-03-06 Thread Vince Baertsoen
-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] on behalf of Paul Doyle [technove...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, March 06, 2015 3:32 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Introducing Canvas - visual programming for Fabric Engine 2.0 Hi guys - I know you've been waiting for quite a while for us to start

Re: Introducing Canvas - visual programming for Fabric Engine 2.0

2015-03-06 Thread Juhani Karlsson
Great work! Glad to hear about the Houdini supportplans too. That's where a lot of ex-softies are going now. : ) -J On 7 Mar 2015 01:05, Eric Turman i.anima...@gmail.com wrote: Paul, much respect for supporting such a wide range of DCCs including the (not so) dead one. I'm sure like you say,

Re: Introducing Canvas - visual programming for Fabric Engine 2.0

2015-03-06 Thread Greg Punchatz
@listproc.autodesk.com *Subject:* Introducing Canvas - visual programming for Fabric Engine 2.0 Hi guys - I know you've been waiting for quite a while for us to start showing you what we've been up to since Siggraph. Finally we're there and can give you a look :) I'm really happy and proud to give you

Re: Introducing Canvas - visual programming for Fabric Engine 2.0

2015-03-06 Thread Eric Thivierge
-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] *On Behalf Of *Paul Doyle *Sent:* Friday, March 06, 2015 3:32 PM *To:* softimage@listproc.autodesk.com *Subject:* Introducing Canvas - visual programming for Fabric Engine 2.0 Hi guys - I know you've been waiting for quite a while for us to start showing you what

Re: Introducing Canvas - visual programming for Fabric Engine 2.0

2015-03-06 Thread Tenshi S.
] *On Behalf Of *Paul Doyle *Sent:* Friday, March 06, 2015 3:32 PM *To:* softimage@listproc.autodesk.com *Subject:* Introducing Canvas - visual programming for Fabric Engine 2.0 Hi guys - I know you've been waiting for quite a while for us to start showing you what we've been up to since

Re: Introducing Canvas - visual programming for Fabric Engine 2.0

2015-03-06 Thread Mathieu Leclaire
@listproc.autodesk.com *Subject:* Introducing Canvas - visual programming for Fabric Engine 2.0 Hi guys - I know you've been waiting for quite a while for us to start showing you what we've been up to since Siggraph. Finally we're there and can give you a look

Re: Introducing Canvas - visual programming for Fabric Engine 2.0

2015-03-06 Thread Paul Doyle
programming for Fabric Engine 2.0 Hi guys - I know you've been waiting for quite a while for us to start showing you what we've been up to since Siggraph. Finally we're there and can give you a look :) I'm really happy and proud to give you the first proper look at Canvas, our visual programming

RE: Introducing Canvas - visual programming for Fabric Engine 2.0

2015-03-06 Thread Jeff McFall
Canvas - visual programming for Fabric Engine 2.0 Hi guys - I know you've been waiting for quite a while for us to start showing you what we've been up to since Siggraph. Finally we're there and can give you a look :) I'm really happy and proud to give you the first proper look at Canvas, our

Introducing Canvas - visual programming for Fabric Engine 2.0

2015-03-06 Thread Paul Doyle
Hi guys - I know you've been waiting for quite a while for us to start showing you what we've been up to since Siggraph. Finally we're there and can give you a look :) I'm really happy and proud to give you the first proper look at Canvas, our visual programming system for Fabric 2.0. Quick

Re: Introducing Canvas - visual programming for Fabric Engine 2.0

2015-03-06 Thread Paul Doyle
It's really not that far off :) On 6 March 2015 at 16:19, Eric Turman i.anima...@gmail.com wrote: Fantastic! =) can't wait for it to get out of Alpha...and then Beta...looks like it is going to be a bit of a wait for that. :( But a platform independent ICE on Steroids =) sooo nice. Hope

Re: Introducing Canvas - visual programming for Fabric Engine 2.0

2015-03-06 Thread Eric Turman
Fantastic! =) can't wait for it to get out of Alpha...and then Beta...looks like it is going to be a bit of a wait for that. :( But a platform independent ICE on Steroids =) sooo nice. Hope we won't have to wait too long. I find my emotions swinging back and forth like Fry's face about death