New CUDA developer

[chacharles]

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
I'll try to post in each related forum to answer and ask questions 

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

[jwm-art]

Welcome, and nice renders.

[cKleinhuis]

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

[Don Whitaker]

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. 

[chacharles]

thanks all

That's mandelbox that let me now about this forum
I've tried Mandelbox
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/Vm_0cYrdpeQ&rel=1&fs=1&hd=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/Vm_0cYrdpeQ&rel=1&fs=1&hd=1</a>
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 
but I need time, definitively 

[RogerDahl]

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

[DarkBeam]

thanks all

That's mandelbox that let me now about this forum
I've tried Mandelbox
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/Vm_0cYrdpeQ&rel=1&fs=1&hd=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/Vm_0cYrdpeQ&rel=1&fs=1&hd=1</a>
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 
but I need time, definitively 

Looks very strange, a Mandelball? Cool renders

[ker2x]

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 ?  

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 (), are you a single woman so i can marry you tomorrow ?  

[tomot]

I will have to wait, for a fix.  does not work on a win7, quad core, PhysX gpu enabled NVIDIA video card. 

[chacharles]

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

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

In fact 

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.