Bringing Together Dynamic Geometry Software and the Graphics Processing Unit
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Symbolic computation and algebraic computation (68W30) Computer graphics; computational geometry (digital and algorithmic aspects) (68U05) Theory of compilers and interpreters (68N20) Parallel algorithms in computer science (68W10) Computational aspects of algebraic curves (14Q05) Computational aspects of algebraic surfaces (14Q10)
Abstract: We equip dynamic geometry software (DGS) with a user-friendly method that enables massively parallel calculations on the graphics processing unit (GPU). This interplay of DGS and GPU opens up various applications in education and mathematical research. The GPU-aided discovery of mathematical properties, interactive visualizations of algebraic surfaces (raycasting), the mathematical deformation of images and footage in real-time, and computationally demanding numerical simulations of PDEs are examples from the long and versatile list of new domains that our approach makes accessible within a DGS. We ease the development of complex (mathematical) visualizations and provide a rapid-prototyping scheme for general-purpose computations (GPGPU). The possibility to program both CPU and GPU with the use of only one high-level (scripting) programming language is a crucial aspect of our concept. We embed shader programming seamlessly within a high-level (scripting) programming environment. The aforementioned requires the symbolic process of the transcompilation of a high-level programming language into shader programming language for GPU and, in this article, we address the challenge of the automatic translation of a high-level programming language to a shader language of the GPU. To maintain platform independence and the possibility to use our technology on modern devices, we focus on a realization through WebGL.
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