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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Figured there was a catch :-/<br>
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On 02/12/2016 07:08 PM, Matthew Heimlich wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">As far as I know from the last time someone looked
into it, it's not actually OSL on the GPU, it's more like a
conversion at run time from a subset of OSL to GPU friendly
instructions, and is apparently quite slow.</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 6:50 PM, Zauber
Paracelsus <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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browsing, and it appears that someone was able to get<br>
OpenShadingLanguage to run on the GPU (along with dual
CPU/GPU<br>
rendering, to boot). Namely, it was Spectral Studio 13, a<br>
physically-accurate and unbiased renderer, like Cycles.
Unlike Cycles,<br>
however, it is proprietary. It does prove that it can be
done though,<br>
so hopefully such a capability won't be far off for cycles.<br>
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(I am unable to include a link, as the mailing list's spam
filter will<br>
reject the email if I do)<br>
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