Hi,

"Gottfried Zojer" writes:

But is anybody aware if there is somebody working on a project to bring Gimp to run with the AGEIA PhysX chip ( is there any documentation about how to use the NovodeX v2.2 SDK in combination with a Gimp plugin

Would you mind to provide us with a little more information, such as a link that explains what chip you are talking about and how such hardware relates to GIMP?

Sven

On Saturday 06 August 2005 19:34, Sven Neumann wrote:

"Gottfried Zojer" writes:

But is anybody aware if there is somebody working on a project to bring Gimp to run with the AGEIA PhysX chip ( is there any documentation about how to use the NovodeX v2.2 SDK in combination with a Gimp plugin

Would you mind to provide us with a little more information, such as a link that explains what chip you are talking about and how such hardware relates to GIMP?

Google on PhysX says:

http://www.ageia.com/technology.html

I'm guessing that it will do math-intensive processing really, really fast, and that Gottfried is wondering if GIMP is structured to offload such easily.

Cheers; Leon

Leon Brooks wrote:

http://www.ageia.com/technology.html

I'm guessing that it will do math-intensive processing really, really fast, and that Gottfried is wondering if GIMP is structured to offload such easily.

All of the classes of problems that the chip solves, with the probable exception of collision detection, resolve to fast approximation of solutions to systems of linear equations, so I imagine that this is what most of the silicon is dedicated to.

This is of very limited use to GIMP. A significantly better question would be whether GIMP can leverage OpenGL hardware for filtering and rendering, particularly one of the (increasingly excellent and pertinent) schemes for pixel shaders. (The answer, incidentally, is 'no, not yet'. I don't know whether this becomes harder or easier in a GEGL world.)

--Adam

On 8/6/05, Gottfried Zojer wrote:

But is anybody aware if there is somebody working on a project to bring Gimp to run with the AGEIA PhysX chip ( is there any documentation about how to use the NovodeX v2.2 SDK in combination with a Gimp plugin Thanks for any feedback

The GIMP performs 2D image manipulation, not 3D physics manipulation. None of the features in the PhysX chip apply to what GIMP does, so it's highly unlikely that any of the filters or plugins use this chip.

He is probably referring to the 3D effects that can be done via plug-ins.

If you wish to speed up the performance of The GIMP, get a faster CPU, and more, faster memory. A faster hard disk (maybe small, high-speed SCSI disk) [or a partition of such a disk, used when the disk is not being used for other activities] used exculsively for The GIMP may or may not also improve performance.

None of these statements are guaranteed to be true, and are merely speculation. Take with a grain of salt.

-- ~Mike
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