Interactive image processing with Firtree

This is a simple demo application that shows the power of the next generation version of Firtree (http://firtree.org/). Although Firtree is written to take advantage of programmable GPUs, the demo here is running entirely on CPU making use of the LLVM compiler infrastructure to compile the image processing pipeline to machine code on the fly. Multiple cores are also used transparently to make rendering as efficient as possible.

The GUI is written entirely in the Python programming language.

The demo shows the dynamic nature of Firtree: the pipeline may be re-ordered on the fly. It also shows a key feature, 'kernels'. Kernels are small pieces of code written in the Firtree kernel language which may be plugged into the pipeline. The kernels are compiled to GPU or machine code at render time.

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Science & Technology

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• Firtree
• image
• processing
• GPU
• CPU
• multi-threaded
• python
• real
• time
• interactive
• pipeline
• special
• effects
• compositing
• linux
• ubuntu