POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : GPU rendering : Re: Physically Correct rendering Server Time
4 Sep 2024 21:18:43 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Physically Correct rendering  
From: Nicolas Alvarez
Date: 20 Jan 2010 15:02:58
Message: <4b576172@news.povray.org>
Warp wrote:
> scott <sco### [at] scottcom> wrote:
>> > Thank you.  I appreciate your open-mindedness.  I can perfectly accept
>> > lack of human resources as a fine excuse, the others are just BS.
> 
>> I haven't really seen any valid *technical* reason why something like POV
>> couldn't be ported to CUDA or OpenCL and run fine on the latest 3D cards.
>> Most of the technical arguments against it are only valid for older cards
>> (eg lack of double support, limits of number of instructions and
>> branching etc).
> 
>   I repeat: If it's seemingly so easy, please go ahead and just do it.
> All the material is there, ready to be put together. What are you waiting
> for?

He didn't say it was easy, he said there is no reason why it would be 
currently *impossible*.


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