Nice paintings from daala - intra prediction and complexity

daala was actually the reason why I started with packaging OpenCL for Fedora. daala planned to provide an OpenCL based reference implementation, but there was a lack of platforms supporting OpenCL.

Anyhow, Jean-Marc Valin wrote about an algorithm yesterday which is visually quite impressive, but it’s also complex. On the pro side is, that it is massively parallel - which actually directly redirects us to OpenCL. Sadly I won’t be able to contribute something, but at least that is a niche, where OpenCL can help.

The results of the algorithm are quite nice (see at the bottom of the post), and might be practical if the complexity can be addressed.

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