Multithreading for visual effects. (2014)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Martin Watt [and six others].
• Authors: Watt, Martin; Coumans, Erwin; ElKoura, George; Henderson, Ronald; Kraemer, Manuel; Lait, Jeff; Reinders, James
• Contents: Introduction and Overview James Reinders ; Introduction; Overview of Case Studies; Motivation; Program in Tasks, Not Threads; Value of Abstraction; Scaling and Vectorization; Advancing Programming Languages for Parallel Programming; Parallel Programming in C and C++; Data Movement and Layout; Summary; Additional Reading Houdini: Multithreading Existing Software Jeff Lait ; What Is Houdini?; Rewrite or Refactor; Patterns; Copy on Write; Dependencies; OpenCL The Presto Execution System: Designing for Multithreading George ElKoura ; Introduction; Presto; Presto's Execution System; User Extensions; Memory Access Patterns; Flexibility to Experiment; Multithreading Strategies; Background Execution; Other Multithreading Strategies; Debugging and Profiling Tools; Summary LibEE: Parallel Evaluation of Character Rigs Martin Watt ; Introduction; Motivation; Specific Requirements for Character Animation Graph; Threadsafety; Scalability: Software Considerations; Scalability: Hardware Considerations; Production Considerations; Threading Visualization Tool; Rig Optimization Case Studies; Overall Performance Results; Limits of Scalability; Summary Fluids: Simulation on the CPU Ronald D. Henderson ; Motivation; Programming Models; Fluid Simulation; Summary Bullet Physics: Simulation with OpenCL Erwin Coumans ; Introduction; Rewriting from Scratch Using OpenCL; GPU Spatial Acceleration Structures; GPU Contact Point Generation; GPU Constraint Solving OpenSubdiv: Interoperating GPU Compute and Drawing Manuel Kraemer ; Representing Shapes; The Control Cage; Uniform Subdivision; Serializing the Mesh Representation; Transition from Multicores to Many-Cores; Reducing Branching Divergence; Optimization Trade-Offs; Evaluating Our Progress; Fundamental Limitations of Uniform Subdivision; Feature Adaptive Subdivision; Implementing the GPU Rendering Engine; Texturing; Conclusion Bibliography Index
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: Boca Raton : CRC Press
• Publication Date: 2014
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 777.7; Computer animation; Simultaneous multithreading processors -- Programming; Cinematography -- Special effecs
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781482243574
• Related ISBNs: 9781482243567
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; item not viewed.
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