GPGPU |
General-Purpose Computation Using Graphics Hardware
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IntroductionGPGPU stands for General-Purpose computation on GPUs. With the increasing programmability of commodity graphics processing units (GPUs), these chips are capable of performing more than the specific graphics computations for which they were designed. They are now capable coprocessors, and their high speed makes them useful for a variety of applications. The goal of this page is to catalog the current and historical use of GPUs for general-purpose computation.
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Ray Tracing the Quaternion Julia Set on the GPU The quaternion Julia fractal is a complex and beautiful
object, yet its parameter space is difficult to explore due to
the high cost of visualization. Fortunately, rendering the Julia
set by ray tracing or "sphere tracing" its surface is an
algorithm well suited to the GPU: it has high arithmetic
intensity and uses virtually no bandwidth. A GPU
implementation (with source) of this algorithm has been
made available by Keenan Crane, and allows real-time
interaction with the Julia set.
Posted: 24 Oct 2005 [GPGPU /Advanced Rendering] # |
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