On 13-1-2010 22:17, Sabrina Kilian wrote:
> scott wrote:
>>>> If you converted POV to run on the GPU then it would take a huge
>>>> amount of work and would no longer be as portable as it is today.
>>> But would be much faster!  Take a look here:
>> Sure, but there simply aren't the people willing to do the work for
>> free. Look how long it's taken from 3.6 to 3.7 beta, what hope is there
>> of a complete rewrite for the GPU before 2020?
>>
> 
> I finally got some free time.

Sounds good.

> CUDA and OpenCL are both on my 'to learn' list. 

They are on my list of things to do when I get a less demanding job.

> POV-Ray seems like a good code base to start from, once I get my
> brain back around parallel processing. So, that is at least one more
> person available to work for free.

Not really for free. You get nice pictures as reward. ;)

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