VRW - AMD Intel APUs Open Source GPGPU Apps and Performance

[BSim500]

I'm still wondering what happened to Musemage. It appeared to be abandoned sometime in 2012-2013, and now the "download" page on their homepage takes you to an Apple iphone app of the same name but different version number 1.1.1 (down from 1.9.5), all trace of the desktop version has been removed from their site and the mobile version is yet another one of those "one click beautifying" over-simplified apps... So if the best example of "built from the ground up to be totally GPU accelerated" desktop photo editing has been abandoned due to lack of interest / sales, then it looks like 'the average person' is still more interested in using free stuff like Paint.NET / Photofiltre / GIMP / Fastpictureviewer / Irfanview / xnview, etc, on their existing CPU's for the bulk of simple crop / resize / rotate / color adjustment / red-eye reduction stuff.

 

[monstercameron]

I'm still wondering what happened to Musemage. It appeared to be abandoned sometime in 2012-2013, and now the "download" page on their homepage takes you to an Apple iphone app of the same name but different version number 1.1.1 (down from 1.9.5), all trace of the desktop version has been removed from their site and the mobile version is yet another one of those "one click beautifying" over-simplified apps... So if the best example of "built from the ground up to be totally GPU accelerated" desktop photo editing has been abandoned due to lack of interest / sales, then it looks like 'the average person' is still more interested in using free stuff like Paint.NET / Photofiltre / GIMP / Fastpictureviewer / Irfanview / xnview, etc, on their existing CPU's for the bulk of simple crop / resize / rotate / color adjustment / red-eye reduction stuff.

I hope I'm not misunderstanding you. are you claiming that they stop developing musemage because people aren't interested in gpu acceleration and not because ppl aren't interested in the product itself. What an interestingly twisted way to put it.

 

[BSim500]

I hope I'm not misunderstanding you. are you claiming that they stop developing musemage because people aren't interested in gpu acceleration and not because ppl aren't interested in the product itself. What an interestingly twisted way to put it.

I'm just wondering where it went in general given how often it gets mentioned on APU reviews, yet even the developer has taken it off their website. As for the rest, in my experience people are mostly generally interested in GPU acceleration in the high end (Photoshop) where regular usage of Gaussian / radial blurs / +30 layered files, etc, actually make a detectable speed difference. For the low-end, the average person generally asks someone "what free software can I use" - and then simply uses the first recommendation they find easy to use (like Paint.NET) not really caring about hunting down software based on GPU speed due to most simple tasks (crop, resize, rotate, clone, color adjust, red-eye, etc) being nearly instant anyway on most average sized single-layer JPG's.