> Phu... I guess I have to learn some OpenGL. And I wanted to look at > OpenCL for tool path generation, single precision floating points would > will most probably be sufficient for tool path generation, I guess. > > Did you think about using the GPU to do the calculations for the simulation?
There are one or two papers by Tukora about this: http://www.youtube.com/user/BalazsTukora and http://dx.doi.org/10.1201/9780203859476.ch93 I don't know much about GPU-based algorithms, but I think it's based on doing boolean operations between two tri-dexel models (one for the stock, one for the tool) quickly in parallel. The isosurface algorithm can probably also be parallellized on a GPU. If the opencamlib cutting simulation can be made to run fast enough with straight c++ on a CPU then I'm not so keen on learning OpenCL and introducing special hardware requirements. Right now the stock-update takes milliseconds and triangle extraction tens of milliseconds. > For now I'll try to set up a build environment for your libraries. I'm > on Windows 7 (64 bit) most of the time. Would you suggest to switch to > Ubuntu? I would probably be easier to set-up reverting to compile your > libraries, right? Dan Heeks and others have built opencamlib on windows using the visual studio project file in SVN. The free visual studio express does not have OpenMP support (for multi-threading). Using cmake and gcc on linux is probably easier. I have upgraded my machines to Ubuntu 11.04 now. It might be possible to use the same tools on Windows using cygwin, but I haven't tried. Anders ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ WhatsUp Gold - Download Free Network Management Software The most intuitive, comprehensive, and cost-effective network management toolset available today. Delivers lowest initial acquisition cost and overall TCO of any competing solution. http://p.sf.net/sfu/whatsupgold-sd _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
