[PD] The Party at the Center of the Universe
Mathieu Bouchard
matju at artengine.ca
Sat Dec 10 11:29:19 CET 2005
On Sun, 4 Dec 2005, megalegoland at yahoo.fr wrote:
> Well I am working on PMPD and particulary on the morphing exemple for a
> live show in two weeks, my computer (athlon 2600+, 333Mhz bus freq, 512
> RAM, and Nvidia 64Mo) can handle the 125 spheres with no problems, it's
> slowing down if I use text with 'round' fonts and more than two
> letters, So I could make an emulation of the largest planets (from
> mercury to pluto-charon) with our sun without problems, but the solar
> system has more than four hundred thousands planets
Well, please make a distinction between the computation time and the
rendering time. Also please take into account that it's pointless to try
to display all of them at once, and maybe even 1% of them.
> So, a cluster of several computers (maybe with pure-dyne) would be
> needed to make an accurate model, indeed...
I would reach that conclusion but rather based on the fact that computing
gravity is an O(n^2) process, due to the N*(N-1)/2 gravitational
interactions that I was talking about. So I wouldn't even take rendering
into account here.
Anyway, any rendering I'd do would only involve some objects, because
humans can't really track 400000 objects on screen, even with the
biggest-ass monitors possible (normal screens don't have nearly enough
pixels).
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