scott wrote:
>> Sure. I was just wondering, since Blender doesn't do anything a GPU 
>> can't do, whether there's some way to use GPU acceleration, that's all.
> 
> You mean the Blender internal renderer?  Umm, that's a fully-fledged 
> raytracer with multiple reflections/refractions, ray traced shadows, 
> ambient occlusion, all that stuff etc, as you will know from the POV/GPU 
> discussion these things are quite hard to do on a GPU, if possible at all.

It's possible, sure.  This guy ported a small path tracing 
implementation to OpenCL:

http://vimeo.com/8013005

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