gaussian blur

[Wolfgang Spraul]

Can we abuse some sort of filter to do mass floating-point  
calculations for us in hardware? (in the glamo hardware)
fill the glamo ram with some FP values, do math, read calculation  
results back?
Wolfgang

On Mar 19, 2008, at 7:00 PM, Sean Moss-Pultz wrote:

> Andy Green wrote:
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>> Somebody in the thread at some point said:
>>> Dodji (or anyone else)
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>>> What kinds of filters can we quickly perform with the Glamo? For
>>> example, could I do a Gaussian blur of the entire screen?
>> There is no explicit transform like that, but maybe the 3D unit's
>> filtering stuff could be abused, or the on-chip OpenRISC harnessed  
>> to do
>> it local to the Glamo (but that is not a small project to start  
>> using that).
>
> OK. I was just thinking that since we have an unused camera module  
> in there, maybe we could use it in reverse, on the interface itself.  
> Most cameras on phones have filters. I remember at some point  
> reading that the Glamo had basic stuff like Sepia.
>
>  Sean
>