Frag to GPU asm dump

[3dickulus]

Would this be useful to anyone? diff patch available for testing against Fragmentarium-master.
edit1:attached diff (rename as dump-frag-asm.diff)
edit2:this works for OpenGL 4.0 and up, not sure what will happen for versions below 4.0
edit3:as pointed out by _revers_ this only works for nVidia so I have enabled the menu option only if there is nVidia card present.

[Syntopia]

Neat - I usually use NVEmulate for this, but this looks handy.

[cKleinhuis]

i consider stuff like that as "too much" but a development tool should feature that, and still there are hand-coded optimizations that could be edited, i believe this shader asm file can be send to compile as well ? perhaps think about an editor feature for a asm shader...

[DarkBeam]

Haha, I love

[3dickulus]

lol, yeah, a bit much for a fractal prog but the amount of code to make that happen is so small it seems silly not to have this functionality available even if it is only used in rare cases or to study the conversion from GLSL to machine code.
The assembler code is contained in the binary object as text and would be very specific to the gfx card that generated it, not practical for redistribution unless it's for exactly matching hardware and drivers, more of a debugging tool bonus for the more hardcore hackers
If I can find the time or get inspired I might parse the variable names and insert them where relevant so that it makes easier reading, as for compiling this asm txt back into binary, I'm not sure that would be beneficial unless you just needed a particular routine or function for another application, cut, paste, hack, hack, hack  

edit: I would be interested to hear what other hardware and versions this works with, mine is...
 - OpenGL Vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
 - OpenGL Version: 4.5.0 NVIDIA 346.46
 - OpenGL Renderer: GeForce GTX 760/PCIe/SSE2
 - OpenGL Shading Language Version: 4.50 NVIDIA

[cKleinhuis]

this just reminds me of the early shader days when i had the radeon 8500 and no high level languages existed, the first mandelbrot rendering i coded in tha gpu assembler, and i did even exploit the limitations by feeding iteration results back into the gpu and it reminds me of one of my entries to the ShaderX book series


http://www.google.de/search?q=shaderx3

 

[cKleinhuis]

ah no, looking in the book, i was using hlsl shading language v1.0 at that time but first steps where in asm only ... i embraced the high level shading languages so much and they are now at such a beautiful useable state, i love it

[3dickulus]

honestly, I haven't got a clue how to recompile the asm but I'm sure it would need some careful hand crafting or a more intelligent extraction before feeding it to the ptx assembler, proper declarations etc. etc. etc. I know nvcc compiler can handle it but 

[Syntopia]

To recompile it, I think you can just send it instead of GLSL. If the first line begins with "!!NVfp5.0" I think it should be recognized as assembly.
At least that is how I read this document: http://developer.download.nvidia.com/opengl/specs/GL_NV_gpu_program5.txt

[3dickulus]

I interpret that the same way, so assembler frags should be basically the same process  as GLSL frags, set vertex/fragment program text and send it to the GPU, that means technically Fragmentarium can already do this and just needs a little gui-ness to make it comfortable. A separate editing mode or language option switch? Hacking this into the existing code will be tricky, maybe a new branch for Qt5 + GLSL + GASM options? as QGLWidget and friends are to be replaced by functions prefixed with "QOpenGL" that don't work in quite the same way or have different prerequisites.

that is an extremely interesting document full of all kinds of goodies

    This extension also provides optional support for 64-bit-per-component variables and 64-bit floating-point arithmetic.

   @Syntopia, I think that one will keep me up late tonight maybe I'll learn enough to make something useable, or learn enough to know that I can't, either way it's still extremely interesting.

[3dickulus]

well, the asm compiles using Qt stuff but no image, probably because Fragmentarium uses more than one shader and buffers and this program, QShaderEditor, is not designed with this in mind but a successful compile is promising

[knighty]

Nice feature!
With Polydraw one can use either assembly or glsl. The source code is also provided.

[3dickulus]

for anyone that applied the diff attached in the first post you also need to add

Code:

#define GL_PROGRAM_BINARY_LENGTH 0x8741

in the Fragmentarium-Source/ThirdPartyCode/glextensions.h file @ line 148 

[3dickulus]

NOTE: the move to Qt5 negates the requirement for ThirdPartyCode/glextensions.h file as all GL functions are available through QOpenGLVersionFunctions and QOpenGLFunctions_4_1_Compatibility includes

edit: wow 500th post w00tw00t.

[_revers_]

edit: I would be interested to hear what other hardware and versions this works with, mine is...

On my NVidia GeForce GTX 750 everything works as expected but on my AMD Radeon HD 5850 Fragmentarium crashes.
Graphics card details:

Code:

GL Vendor     : ATI Technologies Inc.
GL Renderer   : AMD Radeon HD 5800 Series
GL Version    : 4.4.13292 Compatibility Profile/Debug Context 14.502.1014.1001
GL Version    : 4.4
GLSL Version  : 4.40

I've implemented your method on my own and this is what I get on Radeon HD 5850 (only printable characters):

BufferShader.frag:

Code:

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#ifdef SYNTHCLIPSE
// #include <synthclipse>
#endif
layout(location = 0) in vec4 VertexPosition;

out vec2 coord;

void main(void)
{
gl_Position = VertexPosition;
coord = (VertexPosition).xy;
}


 #version 440
layout(location = 0) out vec4 glFragColor;
#ifdef SYNTHCLIPSE
// #include <synthclipse>
#endif
// This is a simple shader for rendering images
// from an accumulated buffer.

//! <vs shader="BufferShader.vert" />

//! <group name="Post"/>
uniform float Gamma; //! slider[0.0,2.0,5.0];
uniform float Exposure; //! slider[0.0,1.0,3.0];
uniform float Brightness; //! slider[0.0,1.0,5.0];
uniform float Contrast; //! slider[0.0,1.0,5.0];
uniform float Saturation; //! slider[0.0,1.0,5.0];
uniform int ToneMapping; //! slider[1,4,5];

/*
** Based on: http://mouaif.wordpress.com/2009/01/22/photoshop-gamma-correction-shader/
**
** Contrast, saturation, brightness
** Code of this function is from TGM's shader pack
** http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=21057
*/
// For all settings: 1.0 = 100% 0.5=50% 1.5 = 150%
vec3 ContrastSaturationBrightness(vec3 color, float brt, float sat, float con)
{
const vec3 LumCoeff = vec3(0.2125, 0.7154, 0.0721);
vec3 AvgLumin = vec3(0.5);
vec3 brtColor = color * brt;
float intensityf = dot(brtColor, LumCoeff);
vec3 intensity = vec3(intensityf, intensityf, intensityf);
vec3 satColor = mix(intensity, brtColor, sat);
vec3 conColor = mix(AvgLumin, satColor, con);
return conColor;
}

float sigmoid(float t) {
float K = 1.0-1./(1.0+exp(-0.5*Contrast*5.));
t -= 0.5;
float x = 1./(1.0+exp(-t*Contrast*5.))-K;
return x/((1.0-2.0*K));
}

vec3 sigmoid3(vec3 t) {
return vec3(sigmoid(t.x),sigmoid(t.y),sigmoid(t.z));
}

in vec2 coord;
uniform sampler2D frontbuffer;

void main() {
vec2 pos = (coord+1.0) * 0.5;
vec4 tex = texture(frontbuffer, pos);
vec3 c = tex.xyz/tex.a;

if (ToneMapping==1) {
// Linear
c = c*Exposure;
c = ContrastSaturationBrightness(c, Brightness, Saturation, Contrast);

} else if (ToneMapping==2) {
// ExponentialExposure
c = vec3(1.0)-exp(-c*Exposure);
c = ContrastSaturationBrightness(c, Brightness, Saturation, Contrast);

} else if (ToneMapping==3) {
// Filmic: http://filmicgames.com/archives/75
c*=Exposure;
vec3 x = max(vec3(0.),c-vec3(0.004));
c = (x*(6.2*x+.5))/(x*(6.2*x+1.7)+0.06);
c = pow(c, vec3(2.2)); // It already takes the Gamma into acount
c = ContrastSaturationBrightness(c, Brightness, Saturation, Contrast);

} else if (ToneMapping==4) {
// Reinhart
c*=Exposure;
c = c/(1.+c);
c = ContrastSaturationBrightness(c, Brightness, Saturation, Contrast);
} else if (ToneMapping==5) {
c = sigmoid3(c*Exposure+vec3(Brightness-1.0));

}
c = pow(c, vec3(1.0/Gamma));

glFragColor = vec4(c,1.0);
}


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Unfortunately on AMD platforms you won't get shader assembly so easly.

I've also tested your method on some Intel video card at work and it also failed due to fact that glGetIntegerv(GL_NUM_PROGRAM_BINARY_FORMATS) returned "0".