On this page

For changes to HOM, see what’s new in scripting.

OpenCL

  • OpenCL kernel compiling can be interrupted.

  • Fast, GPU-accelerated image processing framework written in OpenCL.

  • Convenient creation and editing of OpenCL snippets at COP-level.

  • OpenCL-based SOP for realtime quasi-static wrinkles.

  • GPU-accelerated Volume Blur SOP thanks to OpenCL option.

VEX

  • cospi, sinpi, and tanpi return the cosine/sine/tangent of the argument scaled by π.

  • findlowerbound finds the largest item in an array that is smaller than a target value.

The following functions are faster versions of array functions for when you know the array is already in sorted order:

What’s new in Houdini 20.5