In addition, the user may choose to either use or not use the Intel Integrated Performance Primitive library (see section 3). If IPP is used, the real-time performance rate (15-20 frames per second) for ~2500 stars assemblage may be achieved on a computer operating on a 2000 MHz Intel? Pentium?4 processor.
Fig. 2 describes an example of a spiral galaxy formation and evolution simulation. A prolate cluster of 2500 stars (Fig. 2a) was rotated counter-clockwise. Such an assemblage passes several stages of evolution and finally becomes an elliptic galaxy. To estimate the reality of this example, several photos of authentic spiral galaxies are presented in Fig. 3 (all images were taken from the NASA NSSDC web site [3] and are courtesy of the Space Telescope Science Institute).
- "Mathematical Model"
- "Simulation results"
- "Use of Intel Integrated Performance Primitives"
