"Blake Eggemeyer" <i.l### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
> gpgpu.com
> this site shows how to make a graphics card do all sorts os stuff.
> if povray were recompiled for graphics card, then it could run between 4-16
> times faster depending on the card. i of course am not going to attempt
> anything like this any time soon, im no good at C++ yet.
> this would also free up the cpu for any thing you want while your gpu is
> churning away.
> have fun with this idea

http://www.nvidia.com/page/gelato.html

Here you go. And it is free. Limited to their cards though. And yes it is
raytrace with many primitives simulare to POVRay. An ISOsurface modal could
be built into the shader for an object as well. i have seen it on MentalRay
and Renderman so it may have already been done for Gelato.

I believe it would take way too much changing to make POVRay capable of
using the GPU and still run on so many different OS's.

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