-\subsection{Rasterisation on the CPU and GPU}
+%\subsection{Rasterisation on the CPU and GPU}
Traditionally, vector images have been rasterized by the CPU before being sent to a specialised Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) for drawing\cite{computergraphics2}. Rasterisation of simple primitives such as lines and triangles have been supported directly by GPUs for some time through the OpenGL standard\cite{openglspec}. However complex shapes (including those based on B{\'e}zier curves such as font glyphs) must either be rasterised entirely by the CPU or decomposed into simpler primitives that the GPU itself can directly rasterise. There is a significant body of research devoted to improving the performance of rendering such primitives using the latter approach, mostly based around the OpenGL\cite{openglspec} API\cite{robart2009openvg, leymarie1992fast, frisken2000adaptively, green2007improved, loop2005resolution, loop2007rendering}. Recently Mark Kilgard of the NVIDIA Corporation described an extension to OpenGL for NVIDIA GPUs capable of drawing and shading vector paths\cite{kilgard2012gpu,kilgard300programming}. From this development it seems that rasterization of vector graphics may eventually become possible upon the GPU.
-It is not entirely clear how well supported the IEEE-754 standard for floating point computation is amongst GPUs\footnote{Informal technical articles are abundant on the internet --- Eg: Regarding the Dolphin Wii GPU Emulator: \url{https://dolphin-emu.org/blog} (accessed 2014-05-22)}. Although the OpenGL API does use IEEE-754 number representations, research by Hillesland and Lastra in 2004 suggested that many GPUs were not internally compliant with the standard\cite{hillesland2004paranoia}.
+It is not entirely clear how well supported the IEEE-754 standard for floating point computation is amongst GPUs\footnote{Informal technical articles are abundant on the internet --- Eg: Regarding the Dolphin Wii GPU Emulator: \url{https://dolphin-emu.org/blog} (accessed 2014-05-22)}. Although the OpenGL API does use IEEE-754 number representations, research by Hillesland and Lastra in 2004 suggested that many GPUs were not internally compliant with the standard\cite{hillesland2004paranoia}.
-\rephrase{We implemented a GPU and CPU renderer so we could compare them}.
+Figure \ref{gpufloats.pdf} shows the rendering of a circle through evaluation of $x^2 + y^2 < 1$ in an early version of the IPDF software (Chapter \ref{Process}) using an x86-64 CPU and various GPU models respectively. If we assume the x86-64 is IEEE-754 compliant performing the default rounding behaviour (to nearest) the GPUs are using different rounding behaviours which may not be IEEE-754 compliant.
+\begin{figure}[H]
+ \centering
+ \includegraphics[width=0.9\textwidth]{figures/gpufloats.pdf}\label{gpufloats.pdf}
+ \caption{CPU and GPU evaluation of $x^2 + y^2 < 1$ at $\approx 10^6$ magnification}
+\end{figure}
%Arbitrary precision arithmetic, is provided by many software libraries for CPU based calculations
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