Hallo! > it is true that the gpu is unused most of the time and could be used to > do fast calculations, but the main output for graphicscards is the > screen and reading back into ram can be slow. (of course "slow" is a > relative term). I also see a problem in the different formats for audio > and images. most graphics cards are optimized for vec4 processings (4 > parallel color channels). and audio...
Well, there are already quite some papers/software for audio processing on the gpu (see e.g. http://www.gpgpu.org/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/Audio%20and%20Signal%20Processing/index.html). But AFAIK nobody did this with pd up to now ... LG Georg _______________________________________________ PD-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list