stiefels.net » CUDA http://www.stiefels.net Just another WordPress weblog Sun, 20 Sep 2009 10:39:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 CUDA port of OpenSteer now public http://www.stiefels.net/2009/08/23/cuda-port-of-opensteer-now-public/ http://www.stiefels.net/2009/08/23/cuda-port-of-opensteer-now-public/#comments Sun, 23 Aug 2009 19:31:56 +0000 admin http://www.stiefels.net/?p=359 During the last months I was busy writing my bachelor's thesis about parallelizing the [OpenSteer](http://opensteer.sf.net) toolkit using [NVIDIA's CUDA](http://www.nvidia.com/object/cuda_home.html) technology to make use of the power of today's GPUs.

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OpenSteer is an open-source toolkit to test and simulate [steering behaviors of autonomous characters](http://www.red3d.com/cwr/steer/) in animations or video games. Steering behaviors are responsible
to navigate a character around its world in a natural way while reacting on influences of its environment, for example to avoid collisions with obstacles.

The source code of this port is now available on [github](http://github.com/simonboots/OpenSteerCUDA/).
My bachelor's thesis about this project is also available and can be found [here](http://www.stiefels.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/Parallelizing-the-OpenSteer-toolkit-using-GPUs.pdf).

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