What did I do this week?
I continued to experiment with the ODF glyph implementation. Thanks to one of my mentors I figured out how to get the missing data corresponding to the SH coefficients alm part of the function f(θ, ϕ) described here. I also was told to make sure to implement the correct SH basis since there are different definitions from the literature, I have to focus now in the one proposed by Descoteaux, described in this paper, which is labeled in dipy as descoteaux07. To do this I had to make a small adjustment to the base implementation that I took as a reference, from which I obtained a first result using SH of order 4.
It appears that the results on the shape are about the same, except for the direction, but there is still work to be done.
What is coming up next?
For now there are 3 things I will continue to work on:
- The color and lighting. As these objects present curvatures with quite a bit of detail in some cases, this is something that requires more specific lighting work, in addition to having now not only one color but a color map.
- The scaling. This is something I still don't know how to deal with. I had to adjust it manually for now, but the idea is to find a relationship between the coefficients and the final object size so it can be automatically scaled, or maybe there is a proper way to pre-process this data before passing it to the shaders to get the right result at once.
- How to pass the information of the coefficients efficiently. Right now I'm creating one actor per glyph since I'm using a uniform array to pass the coefficients, but the idea is to pass all the data at once. I found several ideas here of how to pass a list of values to the fragment shader directly, I just need to explore deeper on how this can be done on FURY, and see which option is most suitable.
Did I get stuck anywhere?
All the points mentioned above are things that I tried to fix, however, it is something that I need to look at in much more detail and that I know is going to take me some time to understand and test before I get to the expected result. I hope to get some ideas from my mentors and fellow GSoC contributors on how I can proceed to deal with each of the problems.