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  Re: Small update on the state of GPGPU  
From: clipka
Date: 26 Jan 2017 15:08:24
Message: <588a5738$1@news.povray.org>
Am 26.01.2017 um 19:51 schrieb William F Pokorny:

> One of the places I've wondered if we might sneak a look at GPUs near
> term would be as one or more, new internal functions for use with
> isosurfaces. Specifically isosurfaces needing to evaluate a great many
> functions for each evaluation - something not practical today.

If the "sub-functions", as I would like to call them, are different in
structure (or even if their common structure can't be easily identified
as such), I suspect that's not a scenario where a GPGPU can help much.


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