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General Category => Everything Else => Topic started by: ChemicalBR0 on May 08, 2011, 12:26:20 PM

Title: 2 million GPU rendered particles
Post by: ChemicalBR0 on May 08, 2011, 12:26:20 PM

Why US needs GPU acceleration :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHhkLyJLLYI

over 2 million particles rendered in realtime on the GPU using CUDA
the video in the top left is fed into the GPU which assigns each pixel a particle  then using the brightness of the pixel assigns a height to the particle, then it colours the particle with the original pixel colour.

(the music was added at a later date to fit the video)

imagine how quickly a GPU could throw the galxies around .... nevermind getting slowed down by a little dust in the asteroid belt :)

Title: Re: 2 million GPU rendered particles
Post by: Darvince on May 08, 2011, 12:28:22 PM

*waits for topic to get moved*

Title: Re: 2 million GPU rendered particles
Post by: matty406 on May 08, 2011, 12:37:47 PM

That's pretty damn smexy.

Title: Re: 2 million GPU rendered particles
Post by: ChemicalBR0 on May 08, 2011, 12:39:14 PM

Quote from: Darvince on May 08, 2011, 12:28:22 PM

*waits for topic to get moved*

where should i have put it?
it's no US related so i thought it would apply to everything else

Title: Re: 2 million GPU rendered particles
Post by: Darvince on May 08, 2011, 03:03:27 PM

Oh.

Title: Re: 2 million GPU rendered particles
Post by: ChemicalBR0 on May 16, 2011, 02:46:37 AM

DirectX Compute N Body Demo Running on NVIDIA CUDA-enabled GPU (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhTuJZiAG64#ws)

something a bit more related to what US does.

Title: Re: 2 million GPU rendered particles
Post by: Darvince on May 22, 2011, 05:15:59 PM

Bumpic.

Title: Re: 2 million GPU rendered particles
Post by: vh on April 29, 2012, 07:20:24 PM

looks nice, i think it nids more particles though (jk)
is gpu a new or old thing now?