Multithreading for Visual Effects

In this book, developers from DreamWorks Animation, Pixar, Side Effects, Intel, and AMD share their successes and failures in the messy real-world application area of production software. They provide practical advice on multithreading techniques and visual effects used in popular visual effects libraries, one of the industry's leading visual effects packages, and proprietary animation systems. This information is valuable not just to those in the visual effects arena, but also to developers of high performance software looking to increase performance of their code.

Martin Watt, Erwin Coumans, George ElKoura, Ronald Henderson, Manuel Kraemer, Jeff Lait, James Reinders

Introduction and Overview. Houdini: Multithreading Existing Software. The Presto Execution System: Designing for Multithreading. LibEE: Parallel Evaluation of Character Rigs. Fluids: Simulation on the CPU. Bullet Physics: Simulation with OpenCL. OpenSubdiv: Interoperating GPU Compute and Drawing. Bibliography. Index.