Just a fun free-time hack. OpenCL makes this possible, without it a naive Elixir implementation renders this same image hundreds of times slower.
Interfaces with OpenCL via the https://github.com/tonyrog/cl Erlang OpenCL binding.
- Install prerequisites for scenic applications as described here: https://github.com/boydm/scenic_new#install-prerequisites
- Install prerequisites for OpenCL. Check https://github.com/tonyrog/cl for more information if you have trouble finding the right packages. On most modern versions of macOS you should be good to go. For ubuntu 18, install the package
ocl-icd-opencl-dev, at least, plus any packages for your OpenCL-capable device! Please open an issue if you think it should work and it doesn't, I'm interested in discovering more about how different OSes handle this. Thanks! - In the mandelixir dir,
MIX_ENV=prod mix do deps.get, scenic.run