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by NickK
Mon Feb 23, 2009 11:29 am
Forum: Suggestion Box
Topic: Utilisation of OpenGL GPGPU techniques?
Replies: 4
Views: 1990

No. This would take a lot of work, provide little benefit (not much of Oolite is maths-intensive), and would be of no use for our low-end users. True- however a decoupling and then increased support for intensity could allow a busier universe.. but it's true the game has a low horsepower requiremen...
by NickK
Thu Feb 19, 2009 2:40 pm
Forum: Suggestion Box
Topic: Utilisation of OpenGL GPGPU techniques?
Replies: 4
Views: 1990

Utilisation of OpenGL GPGPU techniques?

There's a technique used in GPGPU to perform the maths on GPUs rather than use the CPU - this called GPGPU. Rather than process each object seperately, parallel techniques are used to process all at maths for a set of object in parallel. It's possible to use OpenGL todo this using a texture and a fr...