I've been going through the shader bit by bit and I can get the reflections to work, but I had to comment out the last section dealing with folding with large offsets. I can't seem to get that part to work properly. Here's the modded version:

kaleidoscope

Here's the current state of the kaleido shader that I've got working on my system. It seems that if I uncomment any more code, nothing works. I find this quite strange as the code doesn't do anything malicious or unusual. Could it be I'm running out of memory to hold the shader in? OS 10.4.4 pb 1.67 radeon mob 9700.

wes

kaleidoscope

Hi Wes,

This is most likely due to a limitation of the GLSL compiler's ability to handle multiple if statements. I think that this was covered in a thread on one of the lists a while back. Note that any if statement can be changed from a logical clause to an arithmetic operation that always calculates all branches (which is required for older gen cards which don't support HW branching). This can sometimes be faster than branching anyway, even on cards which support it, since there is no pipeline flush. Depends on the complexity of the branches of course.

So the statement:

if (foldtheta>=phi) foldtheta = phi - (foldtheta - phi);

Can be rewritten as:

foldtheta = mix (foldtheta, phi - (foldtheta - phi), float (foldtheta>=phi));

This converts the boolean to a floating point number zero or one, used as the mixing coefficient in the arithmetic mix operator. If zero, the first term is returned. If one, the second term is returned. Make sense? This might seem wasteful, but as mentioned before, it is supported on more hardware and often not even as wasteful as a pipeline flush. It is also worth noting that oftentimes with pixel processing shaders, the operation is more memory bound than compute bound, as I would imagine this particular shader to be.

So replacing all the if statements below with the corresponding arithmetic operation should make this shader work on your card. This is what we did with most of the compositing shaders like co.hardlight.jxs. A useful exercise would be to compare this version with the version in the OpenGL Orange Book.

Let us know if you encounter further problems.

-Joshua