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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 22, 2022
Filed:
Jul. 19, 2021
Weta Digital Limited, Wllington, NZ;
Niall J. Lenihan, Wellington, NZ;
Richard Chi Lei, Wellington, NZ;
Sander van der Steen, Wellington, NZ;
WETA DIGITAL LIMITED, Wellington, NZ;
Abstract
An example method facilitates adjusting or enhancing performance of a process of as graphics program or animation software package, and includes providing a first User Interface (UI) control for allowing user assignment of or selection of one or more processor types, e.g., Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) or Central Processing Unit (CPU), and/or associated memory types, e.g., GPU memory and/or CPU memory, to one or more computing resources, such as variables and/or associated functions or evaluators. A drop-down menu or other control may be provided in a first UI to allow for user specification of or assignment of one or more computing resources, e.g., CPU or GPU processors and/or memory to one or more variables, data structures, associated functions or other executable code. In a specific implementation, one UI control facilitates user specification of one or more evaluators of a plugin, wherein the one or more evaluators are usable by a host application of the plugin. A second UI control enables user specification of whether or not the one or more evaluators should use data on a CPU or GPU.