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GPU Rendering is awesome ! Could p5 use it ? Jan 30th, 2010, 4:13am   There are this new generation renderers that use the GPU instead of ( or toghether with ) the CPU The rendering times are ridiculous.  what before took many minutes or even hours now takes just seconds   Could Processing use also GPU to render here are some examples : http://www.refractivesoftware.com/videos.html and Luxrender an open source renderer is using OpenCL : http://www.luxrender.net/wiki/index.php?title=Luxrender_and_OpenCL http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33rU1axSKhQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlGVitBaaHE

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antiplastik God Member Offline Posts: 699 France	Re: GPU Rendering is awesome ! Could p5 use it ? Reply #1 - Jan 30th, 2010, 8:26am   Quote: Could Processing use also GPU to render ? Isn't that the case in OPENGL mode already?

PhiLho  YaBB Moderator Offline Posts: 4190 Near Paris (France)	Re: GPU Rendering is awesome ! Could p5 use it ? Reply #2 - Jan 30th, 2010, 9:06am   OpenGL does some rendering on the GPU, of course, but the GPGPU trends (OpenCL) goes beyond that, eg. doing ray-tracing as shown in Luxrender, or computing physics or graphs, like shown in Yaniv Frishman homepage. It is a fact that modern GPUs have more horsepower than most CPUs... at least in a specialized way.

TweakingKnobs Full Member Offline Posts: 158	Re: GPU Rendering is awesome ! Could p5 use it ? Reply #3 - Jan 30th, 2010, 10:24am   so could be used ?
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V Senior Member Offline Posts: 430 portugal	Re: GPU Rendering is awesome ! Could p5 use it ? Reply #4 - Jan 31st, 2010, 8:13am   yes it can, and have been used: http://www.pixelnerve.com/v/2009/10/30/opencl-4-java/ look into OpenCL4Java and JOCL for more information. there are new updates, but i havent tried anything yet. hope it works for you. have fun.
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