NVIDIA technical demo

"Crank" is a realtime graphics demo developed for NVIDIA. The demo showcases several NVIDIA technologies such as:

3D-VISION
CUDA
PhysX.

Crank was commissioned by NVIDIA to promote Fermi - NVIDIA's latest brand of GPU architecture, and used during the opening keynote at the 2010 GPU Technology Conference in San Jose, California.

This application was devloped in C++, using DirectX10 for rendering. The demo contains simulations of rigid bodies and a rendering of a 3D-version of the Koch Snowflake fractal.

Unleashing the massive parallel computing power in NVIDIA's new GeForce 400-series, the demo showcases an unprecedented display of realtime graphics and physics simulation.

Developed by Virtex http://www.virtex.no
Music by Transistorbass http://www.subsquare.com

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• realtime
• NVIDIA
• fermi
• tech
• demo
• gpu
• physX
• fractal

[VirtexRealtime]

@moneyman10k -- The fractal zoomer uses a custom written raycaster for the GPU and is 100% free of detail popping.

Rendered on top of the raw fractal, there are a few layers of extra details added as pure eye candy. These layers pulsate (in different ways) in sync with the music. Due to the quality of the video, it is possible that the pulsing of these layers can give the incorrect impression of detail popping.

[frankwer]

Executable or it didn`t happen.....

[gloom303]

@stefanbanev The binaries exist. I have them (because I worked on this), Virtex has them (obviously) and NVIDIA has them (obviously v2). They exist, this is realtime. It runs (it ran realtime at GTC as well). That they aren't publicly released isn't up to me, since this was a custom software development job I don't own the end-result.

[mononoke102]

Too cool to believe!!!

[changestyleman]

no exe? no download? no hope? source code? LOL

[Oikonny]

i feel sick when i try to imagine the "real" size of that world ...

[stefanbanev]

Well, there is a very competitive domain to make the point - high fidelity volume rendering for medical application and it is order magnitude more challenging for GPU to do a better job then multi-core CPU; not by chance NVIDIA has nothing to show in this domain; I would love to be proved wrong; please provide binaries to make the point...

[DETACHED76]

wow

[pallenda]

I sure hope this will be available at some point. Want to see it without the video compression. The fractal zoomer is amazing.

[TheLittleBitchard]

Transistorbass!

[lug00ber]

Ad astra, ad infinitum!