Julian Knodt

@compiler-errors Started on it, been caught up with some other deadlines so have not had a chance to progress, will get to it eventualllyyyy but I'm unsure when I'll be...

@HKalbasi It's been a minute since I started this, and it's a good reminder for me to go back and actually implement this (I'm starting to finally get more time...

@compiler-errors Do you know who I can ask about Chalk? I'm starting to run into things I am unsure about, and am unsure where to look. Specifically, is there any...

the subtleness between "underlying type" and "type alias" is too much for me

Not sure if the environment I'm running is just super noisy cause it's my personal computer, or if the byte slice version was better

Er, what do you mean that it should still be differentiable? Even if it's not indicated with an `*` in the list of parameters in python, I can still compute...

Hm, ok, how would I go about doing that? I've been looking [here](https://github.com/mitsuba-renderer/mitsuba2/blob/74253f4edd8a3cbc8711ad31abd65fc6d7dcb81d/include/mitsuba/render/mesh.h#L94), but is there some other location to use as reference? I've also been looking at the docs,...

I'm fine with anything differentiable, so I can just use a flat array of floats as well. What I also don't understand is that the call to `gather` actually succeeds...

I mean I guess it's fine, my issue isn't really resolved but I guess I'm trying to use it in a way it wasn't intended for.

Hm, well I'm also using other sized vectors. I realize that it's only the case when I'm using Vectors with length greater than 3 that it fails