Hi Steve, hello all,
> A really great program and such inspirational images. Would love the
> ability to navigate in 3d around the object without it having to redraw
> with every changed POV but I suppose that a poor little 3GHz processor
> couldn't keep up with with that.
This will be partly addressed in 0.4. The attractor will be cached in
memory to increase render speed when only the view is changed. In the
longer term I want to use all available resources to make what you see
in the preview as close to a final render as possible. Currently
Chaoscope is far from being optimized, it makes no use of Pentium recent
generation instructions, HyperThreading, Intel SIMD extensions, AMD
3DNow extensions, dual core processors, multiprocessor motherboards or
GPU. I think we can safely estimate the potential gain in rendering
speed to be 80% or five times faster if the software was driving the
hardware at maximum speed. Adding to this other software trickeries I'm
sure we're not too far from a real time Solid Mode.
Regards,
Nicolas Desprez
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