AMD and Pixelux to work together on OpenCL acceleration for Digital Molecular Matter engine

Pixelux’s Digital Molecular Matter engine is used to simulate real-world materials in real-time 3D applications. Unlike rigid body physics systems, the DMM engine models the stress within objects, allowing deformation and fracture to occur naturally with all the subtle details the eye expects in physically simulated scenes.  For example, tag something as being made out of wood, and it will bend, splinter and snap like real wood. Tag it as glass and it’ll shatter into tiny bits. Tag it as stone…, etc.  Importantly, because everything is calculated on the fly, you’ll never see exactly the same action twice.

The DMM engine became well known for its use in the Star Wars: The Force Unleashed game, and is considered a serious game changer in 3D simulation and gaming.

In any case, I am not certain of the origins or validity of this story, but bsn is reporting (and now propagated to Khronos.org) that Pixelux will work closely with AMD in order to push OpenCL CPU+GPU acceleration of its Digital Molecular Matter Engine, and the platform of choice is AMD Opteron with ATI Radeon 5800 series and FirePro graphics cards.

Along with the other AMD DCC related announcements and developments (e.g. MachStudio Pro,  Eyefinity), this is a very exciting trend.