[GEM-dev] branches: SIMD & vertex-array going MAIN!

Johannes M Zmoelnig zmoelnig at iem.at
Tue Dec 14 21:30:42 CET 2004


james tittle wrote:
> On Dec 14, 2004, at 10:27 AM, Johannes M Zmoelnig wrote:
>
> ...I think here he meant 3 is valid, but 4 is not...just the same as 
> Index and colors have a certain size

but what for do we have the "stride"-argument then ??


>> while pixes are the bridge to pdp, i guess vertex-arrays might be the 
>> bridge to GridFlow.
> 
> 
> ...wha?  GridFlow doesn't know anything about 3d atm...sure, I can see 
> use of gridflow's matrix manipulations:  it could be really good for 
yes, that is what i meant: GridFlow is about matrix-manipulation of 
arrays (sorry matiu if this is wrong...) and vertex-arrays are too.
but it was just a wild idea.


> ...just to throw something else into the ring, I've been imagining a 
> series of "[vp_*]"'s that would use vertex programs to manipulate data 
> that is already on the card (in the somewhat the same manner as the 
> [vertex_sub/add/whatever] stuff):  then we don't have a choice of what 
> format!

ah, so much things to do...


mfg.asd.r
IOhannes




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