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Every so often you get an app that shows you just how fast modern hardware is when unencumbered by the usual endless layers of bloat and inefficiency.
by martinpw 7y ago
Every so often you get an app that shows you just how fast modern hardware is when unencumbered by the usual endless layers of bloat and inefficiency.
- jahewson 7y agoTo be fair this shader was published in GPU Gems 15 years ago (2004). Back in the days of the GeForce 6 and Windows XP. Though the fact that it now fits in your pocket is cool.
- antoineMoPa 7y agoTo be fair, 2D fluid simulation represents a small quantity of very parallelisable math statements.
- VMG 7y agoIronically OpenGL programming is also often slammed here for being overly verbose and complicated
- afiori 7y agoAs far as I understand it is criticized as having too much hidden state, for a simple (but impressive) application like this it would not be an issue.