This camera location was very carefully selected for it's absence of graphical errors. An error that is believed to be both a ray error and an allocation error is visible if the camera moves a couple of centimetres to the right, and moving any further away moves into a higher LOD level — mip mapping isn't implemented yet, so it disappears. On the bright side, it disappears! No more garbage where there should be an empty mip-level.
Here in Australia it's summer time, which is a *bad* time for GPU computing if one does not possess air-conditioning. As the result of an incident, the program now uses the very nice NVLM on Nvidia cards, and the not quite as nice ADL on AMD cards to query the GPU temperature. The windows version of the NVLM code has not been tested - it has however been proven correct. If your drivers are new-ish, it should just work, or not, and the "or not" has been tested and does behave nicely. The AMD ADL stuff *should* work... at least I've tested it not working, and it not works as intended.
The OpenCL renderer has been removed pending me getting my hands on something with more modern OpenCL support. It lives on in the repo history. The Stargate model comes from here.
That look awesome Dan... great work! I guess no GPU using for the next couple of days.
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