Part VI. Beyond Triangles
Graphics processors are no longer used just for processing graphics. The advent of graphics processing units (GPUs) that are fully programmable and support floating-point mathematical operations has enabled them to be used for many types of more general-purpose computation as well. Indeed, today’s researchers are using GPUs in ways never imagined by their original designers.
This part of the book describes a number of nontraditional applications of GPUs, from simulating physics to rendering stereoscopic images. Although some of these applications may not be widely used on today’s hardware, they offer an insight into how ...
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