Vulkanised Fall 2021 Material Available - Autodesk Has Begun Using MoltenVK

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Vulkanised Fall 2021 Material Available - Autodesk Has Begun Using MoltenVK

Last week was the virtual Vulkanised Fall 2021 event hosted by The Khronos Group. The two-day event was focused on all things Vulkan and for those that missed it all of the slide decks and other material are now available...

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Vulkanised-Fall-2021-Materials

[jabl]

Interesting, and good to hear, that Autodesk is embracing Vulkan. Just the other day in another thread on this forum we were discussing how CAD vendors are unwilling to move beyond OpenGL 1.0 display lists.

[zexelon]

Now if only they would release Linux versions of Revit and inventor for the love of everything good and right! Its probably the biggest whole in Linux these days is a solid industry standard CAD package (and dont mention FreeCAD... it is neither industry standard or efficiently usable, even if it is a cool work in progress). Even gaming on Linux has eclipsed this hole!

[lowflyer]

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/vulcanize

vulcanize verb

vul·ca·nize | \ ˈvəl-kə-ˌnīz \
vulcanized; vulcanizing

Definition of vulcanize

transitive verb
: to subject to vulcanization
intransitive verb
: to undergo vulcanization

Did you know?
Vulcanize sounds like something Spock from Star Trek might do, but the explanation behind this word has more to do with ancient mythology than it does with science fiction. Vulcanization involves heating rubber in combination with sulfur. The Roman god Vulcan (whose Greek counterpart is Hephaestus) was the god of fire and of skills that used fire, such as metalworking. So when Charles Goodyear discovered that high heat would result in stronger rubber, he called the process "vulcanization" after the god of fire. Goodyear stumbled upon the idea in 1839 and acquired a patent for it in 1844, but the words "vulcanize" and "vulcanization" didn't appear in print until 1845 and 1846 respectively.