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6 Responses to “Generative Art Links & Resources”

1. Valentin Says:
   January 10th, 2010 at 12:29 am

   Big thanks! Got some new material to read.

2. Timothy Farrar Says:
   January 10th, 2010 at 5:15 am

   Mikael, great collection of links! Fantastic blog! One suggested change for “APIs and Frameworks” however: FYI, in contrast to what you are saying, you don’t have to worry about NVIDIA dropping support for CUDA in favor of OpenCL. Both APIs are here to stay. CUDA for lower level access to hardware and non-portable features, and OpenCL for portability.

3. Mikael Christensen Says:
   January 11th, 2010 at 1:02 am

   Hi Timothy,

   What I mean is that OpenCL will replace CUDA as the most important and most widely used GPU API.

   I don’t doubt that NVIDIA will continue to support CUDA (likewise AMD/ATI will probably continue to support their Stream API, and Microsoft their DirectCompute API), but my guess is that most developers will choose OpenCL because of the portability and strong support from many different companies.

   And in a Generative Art context, I definitely think the better choice would be OpenCL, even though some of the low level access might be lost.

   Best regards, Mikael.

4. Al Matthews Says:
   January 22nd, 2010 at 5:20 pm

   Couple of good emerging general-purpose frameworks that you might have missed: (1) http://openendedgroup.com/field/ (2) http://lua-av.mat.ucsb.edu/about.html

   Cheers, and thanks!

5. Mikael Christensen Says:
   January 22nd, 2010 at 11:00 pm

   Thanks, Al – I’ll take a look at them!

6. Ben Porter Says:
   January 26th, 2010 at 3:14 am

   Wow, this is great, thanks! A few things I hadn’t come across.

   Thanks for Structure Synth, and cheers for linking to Nodal (I work with the guy who built it.)

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