Memory Pattern

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Memory patters - Orbit traps
Escape time coloring with shared memory pallete

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Coalesced memory access → Threads in a warp (group of 32 threads in CUDA) read contiguous memory locations.

Strided access → Slower, because memory requests get split into multiple transactions.

Shared memory patterns → How threads in a block reuse and access shared memory without bank conflicts.

Register usage patterns → Keeping frequently used values in registers instead of reloading from global memory.

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Orbit Traps (Fractal Rendering)
Orbit traps are a coloring algorithm in fractal rendering (Mandelbrot, Julia, etc.).
When iterating a complex equation for each pixel, you check how close the orbit (sequence of points) comes to a predefined shape or line.

If the orbit passes near the shape (the trap), you color the pixel based on the distance.

This gives smooth gradients and interesting textures in fractal images.

Common traps: circles, lines, cross shapes.