Cuda-based flame fractal generator

[Rychveldir]

Hello!

I've been reading these forums for a few months and recently I've discovered a new program: Fractron 9000. It uses Cuda/OpenCL to calculate fractals on the GPU instead of the CPU. As you can imagine it's very fast. On my GTX 470 I can basically real-time edit and transform a flame fractal at 1920x1080 full HD! It's about 4x faster than my i7-950!! Even on my notebook with a fairly old GPU it's a LOT faster than Apophysis...

http://fractron9000.sourceforge.net/

This is where you can downlaod it. The functionality is similar to Apophysis, but simpler. You can't do quite as much. But it's still worth a try!

[cKleinhuis]

great program, but it is using OpenCL

[Hypnogems]

Hi Trifox...

What exactly is Open CL and how does it differ from Open GL?
I'm just about to start playing with Fractron 9000 again...

[Rychveldir]

You are correct, it uses OpenCL, but also can run on  Cuda. That's how I found it when googling

[cKleinhuis]

ah, ok

@hypno opengl is a general abstraction layer for aceccsing a graphics card for displaying 3d graphics, opencl or cuda is an abstraction layer
for running programs on modern gpu cores, providing decent api abilities, like classes/functions/variables directly on a gpu!

[reallybigname]

Yeah, I just tried it the other night, using my ATI Radeon HD 5830.  And, yes, its super fast!  But, only 2D afaik...   

I'm messing with boxplorer for realtime 3D!

[3dpete]

I'm about to get a new system specifically for Cuda rendering in 3dsMax, just wondering if Mandelbulb3D can or will be able to take advantage of GPU rendering?

[matty686]

oh dude this is wicked 

i love the handle thingys