Pier Paolo Ciarravano's personal projects

Houdini R&D: POP VOP CVEX in DOP and CHOP Morphing from Pier Paolo Ciarravano on Vimeo.

• Extracts audio from all media file types: wav, mp3, mp4, mkv, mts, etc.
• Extracts all audio channels: mono, stereo, 5.1, etc.
• Spectrum output in time per each channel
• Audio energy in time per each channel
• Numeric samples output per channel
• Audio playback reproduction: Fabric Canvas play and stop buttons integrated using internal frame “heartbeat” sync
• Fabric Canvas, Maya and KL demo samples provided
• Windows and Linux versions (Mac OS X version available on January 2017)

LarmorSound v.1.0 Beta for Fabric Engine from Pier Paolo Ciarravano on Vimeo.

LarmorSound v.1.0 Beta for Fabric Engine: Windows demo and Maya integration from Pier Paolo Ciarravano on Vimeo.

• Use of OpenVDB and future implementation using Dneg's OpenVDBPoints lib
• NVIDIA CUDA 8 and cuSPARSE API
• Multithread using TBB
• Handling of large grid and large dataset
• Use of NVIDIA GVDB Sparse Volumes
• Export particles with Disney Partio or other formats
• Import from Alembic
• Unit test using CppUnit
• Availability of AWS EC2 AMI image already configured to run the solver easily on a AWS EC2 P2 Istances

• The project implements a Voronoi shatter of non-convex triangle meshes using C++ and CGAL
• The project is used in my LarmorVoronoi Shatter Plugin for Maya 2012/2013/2014 for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux (see below)
• The shatter uses the Voronoi brute force algorithm implemented in multithreading
• The cut faces are rebuilt using the Constrained Delaunay triangulation
• The triangle meshes can contain multiple holes and cavities with nested objects
• The algorithm can separate the disjointed surfaces
• The C++ API can calculate the mesh's volume and the inertia tensor using the volume 3D Triangulation
• The algorithm has been applied to BulletPhysics to shatter the objects on the collision points
• I have created: an API for the dynamic objects and scenes description, an OpenGL scene viewer and a RenderMan RIB scene generator with motion blur
• The RenderMan RIB scenes have been rendered using 3Delight with motion blur
• BulletPhysics btGImpactCollisionAlgorithm class has been modified to handle the collisions for non-convex triangle meshes
• The project uses Boost C++ API (Containers, Threads and Serialization) and Intel Threading Building Blocks (TBB)

• The Plugin implements a Voronoi shatter of non-convex triangle meshes (Maya polygon surfaces) using C++ and CGAL
• The shatter uses the Voronoi brute force algorithm implemented in multithreading
• The cut faces can be rebuilt using the Constrained Delaunay triangulation
• The triangle meshes can contain multiple holes and cavities with nested objects
• MEL GUI window accessible from a new Maya menu in order to use the plug-in easily
• The algorithm can separate the disjointed surfaces
• The Plugin can calculate the mesh's volume and the inertia tensor using the volume 3D Triangulation