Title: Mandelbulber 1.21 When to use OpenCL Post by: mclarekin on December 10, 2014, 02:44:35 AM Mandelbulber 1.21 When to use OpenCL Seen i’ve been promoting the use of Mandelbulber 1.21 OpenCL I thought I’d should produce a quick overview for non-programmers on when to use the OpenCL feature . Good Things OpenCL renders faster, so is ideal for animations, experimenting and the impatient. OpenCL enables the writing of modified formulas OpenCL is a great way to learn about how the formulas and coding work, without having to hack the original code. Not so good things OpenCL does not use double precision so will not give the same deep zooms and quality of detail that the standard Mandelbulber software will provide. OpenCL has less standard formulas (however custom formulas can address this). |