Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> OK, so for anybody who knows about such things... Would it be feasible 
> to render an Iterated Function System image using a GPU? And would it be 
> any faster than using the CPU?
> 

As long as you can break down your function so that a single step is 
performed on the entire screen at once, then you can.

Ie, you can do function f() on all pixels, store the output in a buffer, 
and use that buffer as the input in the next step.

If you have to perform varying steps on individual pixels, you get 
problems.  As in, if you go f() then g() then h() on one pixel, then 
only g() and h() on its neighbor, then only f() and h() on a third, this 
won't work.

The same instructions have to be run on the whole screen (well, the 
whole polygon - for what you're asking about, I would just draw a quad 
to the whole screen).

...Chambers

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