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Title: New CUDA developer
Post by: chacharles on October 22, 2010, 10:32:08 AM
Hi every one

To introduce myself I'm a French developer
I've started with mandelbrot about 20 years ago in Turbo Pascal
At this time, a 320x200 2D image take me hours to compute.

Mandelbrot as always been my "hello world" program in each language I've learned.

With CUDA, I found a great new tool to build a raytracing engine of Quaternion Julia
And surprise ! It work in real time ( with not so ugly parameters )

All link, videos, code, downloadable, explanation etc ... are HERE (http://goo.gl/Zynl)
I'll try to post in each related forum to answer and ask questions  ;D

I'm glad to see that a such site exist 

Below, screenshots I've juste made:
It's not a professionnal raytracer, but it's my own.
I had, and continue to have great fun building this 4D engine :D


(http://s2.noelshack.com/uploads/images/3556747369692_kanuliaf1.jpg) (http://s2.noelshack.com/upload/3556747369692_kanuliaf1.jpg)

(http://s2.noelshack.com/uploads/images/3649021411365_kanulia_20101021_23192979.jpg) (http://s2.noelshack.com/upload/3649021411365_kanulia_20101021_23192979.jpg)

(http://s2.noelshack.com/uploads/images/6651175065975_kanulia_20101022_00494280.jpg) (http://s2.noelshack.com/upload/6651175065975_kanulia_20101022_00494280.jpg)

(http://s2.noelshack.com/uploads/images/7665244438896_kanulia_20101022_01550142.jpg) (http://s2.noelshack.com/upload/7665244438896_kanulia_20101022_01550142.jpg)

(http://s2.noelshack.com/uploads/images/13692484404621_kanulia_20101021_23313521.jpg) (http://s2.noelshack.com/upload/13692484404621_kanulia_20101021_23313521.jpg)


Title: Re: New CUDA developer
Post by: jwm-art on October 22, 2010, 01:32:45 PM
Welcome, and nice renders.


Title: Re: New CUDA developer
Post by: cKleinhuis on October 22, 2010, 03:05:14 PM
hello and welcome to the forums, now that you have a nice quaternion renderer, it is just a few lines of code to make it a mandelbox and mandelbulb renderer,
i love to see more realtime applications, please keep us updated for new versions with new formulas :D


Title: Re: New CUDA developer
Post by: Don Whitaker on October 22, 2010, 06:38:13 PM
Welcome. Love the pics and the app!  If that is your 'Hello World' then I can't wait to see what you come up once you get warmed up.  :fiery:


Title: Re: New CUDA developer
Post by: chacharles on October 23, 2010, 04:49:58 PM
thanks all

That's mandelbox that let me now about this forum
I've tried Mandelbox
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vm_0cYrdpeQ
but I don't even know if what I see is correct
And I still have many work to do on the raytracer

I wish to severly warm up  :evil1:
but I need time, definitively  :sad1:


Title: Re: New CUDA developer
Post by: RogerDahl on April 25, 2011, 06:59:10 AM
Hi there,

Just wanted to let you know that Kanulia 1.4.2 worked great on my machine. Windows 7 64 bit with GTX 570.

Awesome program!

This quote from you could have been my own :)

Mandelbrot as always been my "hello world" program in each language I've learned.

Roger


Title: Re: New CUDA developer
Post by: DarkBeam on May 06, 2011, 11:10:59 AM
thanks all

That's mandelbox that let me now about this forum
I've tried Mandelbox
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vm_0cYrdpeQ
but I don't even know if what I see is correct
And I still have many work to do on the raytracer

I wish to severly warm up  :evil1:
but I need time, definitively  :sad1:

Looks very strange, a Mandelball? :dink: Cool renders ;D


Title: Re: New CUDA developer
Post by: ker2x on May 06, 2011, 11:46:59 AM
To introduce myself I'm a French developer
Mandelbrot as always been my "hello world" program in each language I've learned.
With CUDA, I found a great new tool to build a raytracing engine of Quaternion Julia

Err... Are you, ME ?  :o

I'm french
mandelbrot is my "hello world" program in each langage i learn (and i learn a lot of them)
i'm doing openCL and trying cuda from time to time.

If you're not me (:angry:), are you a single woman so i can marry you tomorrow ?  :embarrass:


Title: Re: New CUDA developer
Post by: tomot on May 06, 2011, 10:35:01 PM
I will have to wait, for a fix.  :sad1: does not work on a win7, quad core, PhysX gpu enabled NVIDIA video card.  :beer:


Title: Re: New CUDA developer
Post by: chacharles on May 19, 2011, 01:06:00 PM
If you're not me (:angry:), are you a single woman so i can marry you tomorrow ?  :embarrass:

Yes of course I'm a woman, and my real/imaginary name is Julia.

In fact  :no:

RogerDahl you are one of the chosen which can get this application to work properly
I start to think this is a GPU compatibility issue.
The error message almost every one get is just a non-sense for me. I don't get it.

I ran into many many CUDA bug with this ray tracer. Some are solved by Drivers and/or CUDA toolkit upgrade
But this one still resist, and i quit 6 month ago. I should try again to see if ther is a solution.