either they are pretty poor at it compared to the rest (dubious) or their program is a whole heck of a lot bigger and more ambitious than the other players in the game
...or its an intentional act of provocation.
“Given a choice between doing it with CUDA or not doing it for a while [while waiting for] OpenCL, we chose the former.”
Hopefully as OpenCL matures, Adobe will see the advantages.
Sidereal Motion (2010) is a four-movement film+music work about the night sky as photographed from five astronomical observatories around the world. It features awe-inspiring time-lapse sequences and still images shot by Salgado and original music by Bailey. The close correlation between music and visuals results in a work where the combination of these is much greater than the sum of its parts.
BYTE editors are people who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then carefully print the chaff.