POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : GPU rendering : Re: GPU rendering Server Time
7 Sep 2024 11:27:00 EDT (-0400)
  Re: GPU rendering  
From: Kevin Wampler
Date: 18 Jul 2008 14:42:03
Message: <4880e3fb@news.povray.org>
Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> There are 3 processes that need to happen.
> 
> 1. A stream of coordinates needs to be generated.
> 2. A histogram of the coordinates needs to be constructed.
> 3. A non-linear mapping from histogram frequencies to colours is performed.
> 
> Step 2 looks to be the tricky one - but it shouldn't be *vastly* 
> difficult I think. The question is whether the histograms will fit into 
> the limited RAM on the card...

I'd think that memory wouldn't be a problem here, as 256MB is enough to 
store a reasonably large histogram.


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