[PD] Re: [PD-announce] Dynamics patch on pure-data

[cgc]

Ben's patch spends al least 1/3 of it's time doing audio computation in 
the [pd smooth] abstraction!  I know of a much better object to do this 
with which doesn't require audio rate computation.  I replaced the 
audio smooth with the control rate one and CPU load was halved and the 
frame-rate more than doubled.  There's not a public version of it for 
pd but I can see about making it available soon.

The rest of the patch spends it's time in curve3d, which I've known to 
be fairly inefficient for some time due to the fact that the GL drivers 
actually create the geometry using the CPU and not GPU.  I don't know 
of an easier way to get the same results other than glEvaluators but it 
might be possible to re-implement things as vertex arrays and use some 
Alitvec or possibly even do some sort of shader.  I think the RedBook 
has the underlying math in the NURBS chapter.

cgc


On Mar 16, 2004, at 4:01 PM, cyrille henry wrote:

> hello ben,
>
> great patch!
>
> On my computer, I nead to slow down to 20 fps :-(
> (radeon 9000)
>
> cyrille
>
>
> ben at ekran.org wrote:
>> Hey all,
>> Here is a little(big) patch I made with pmpd.
>> http://pure-data.iem.at/Members/bbogart/dynamics/view
>> Requires pmpd (beta 5), gem888 and a fast machine.
>> (uses 90% of my 1.25Ghz g4 w/ radeon 9600)
>> 1. Create the window
>> 2. start the pmpd metro
>> 3. move mouse around inside gemwin.
>> Hope you have fun.
>> Ben
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