Sebastian H. Schmidt | FX - Technical Director | Research & Development
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Centroid SOP

Description:

- a houdini sop-node which generates centroid points for incomming primitives, point- and primitive groups

- supports the multithreaded generation of centroids

 

Download:

gitorious.org/centroid-sop

 

ToDo:

- linux testing

- windows testing

- bugfixes

- maybe inheriting of primitive attributes to the centroids

 

 

 

Performance:

- Linux Fedora

- Houdini 10.0.707

- 100x100 cubes

- 8 x 2.83GHz (Xeon) 8GB RAM

Just Prims
60k Prims

Prim Groups
10k Groups

Point Groups
10k Groups

For-Each

> 9.00 min

> 7.00 min

> 69 min

Centroid-SOP

128.12 ms

25.05 s

33.60 s

Centroid-SOP (MT)

106.75 ms

9.62 s

12.87 s