CUDA Function Animator

Posted on May 2, 2012 by andrea

As a mathematician, I wanted to do this experiment with CUDA. Fascinated by function studies, I made an application that plots mathematical function into 3D. For animation purposes the values for a constant K are varying over time to explore the family of curves in real-time. The CUDA kernel is compiled dynamically with all parameters and function terms.

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DxParticleSound – FFT Particle Sound Spectrum

Posted on May 2, 2012 by andrea

This experiments deals with music visualization. The goal was to create as many concentric circles with radius and different color that represented a specific musical frequency, from the lowest frequency (radius = 0, color = blue) at the highest frequency (radius=k, color = yellow), each pixel is connected to an element of the vector resulting from the FFT. At the end the alpha and the color were assigned in the CUDA kernel depending on the speed and position. With this, you can watch a fountain of particles reacting to music.

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CUDA experiment III – 2 million pixel

Posted on December 5, 2011 by noumentalia

This CUDA experiment maps a FULL-HD (1920×1080 @ 30 frames per second, MPEG2 compression) video source into 3D space. Each frame is processed in real-time on the GPU using CUDA. Each pixel in a frame (2.073.600 pixels per frame) is scaled by its luminance value and given the original color. The camera flight is realized with a 3D space navigator in real-time. This application is written in C# using DirectX 11, CUDA.NET and DirectShow.NET libraries. Benchmarks: GPU load is about 85% (GTX 260), GPU memory controller load 25%, CPU (i7-920) is at 20%.

The soundtrack is made by Ludwig Berger:
http://ludwigberger.com/

As slashcam.de reports, this application might be utilized for a quality check of video footage, like in a waveform monitor:

http://www.slashcam.de/news/single/Echtzeit-3D-Waveform-Monitor-in-CUDA-8715.html

Interview in the NVIDIA CUDA Newsletter, Nov. 10, 2010
http://www.nvidia.com/content/newsletters/web/CUDA-Week-in-Review-Nov-10-10.html

 

 

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CUDA experiment II – cell grid kernel

Posted on December 4, 2011 by noumentalia

Experimental application in C# using CUDA for parallel computation. The grid is quite small sized, but the GPU does it’s work: 512×512 pixels are computed by a cell formula that calculates the difference between the average neighborhood and the current cell’s value. Kernel time is about 3-4 milliseconds, stressing the GPU (GTX 260) only at 2-4% load. The sound is added from an experiment for generating digital noise.

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CUDA experiment I – sinus kernel

Posted on December 4, 2011 by noumentalia

Experimental application in C# using CUDA for parallel computation. The grid is quite small sized, but the GPU does it’s work: 512×512 pixels are calculated by various sinus functions that use their output as input while cycling through time. Kernel time is about 3-4 milliseconds, stressing the GPU (GTX 260) only at 2-4% load. The sound is added from a similar experiment that uses visually generated sinus patterns.

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