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Rewrite !physics computation code as an OpenGL compute shader? #29

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jonathanhogg opened this issue Jan 22, 2024 · 0 comments
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Rewrite !physics computation code as an OpenGL compute shader? #29

jonathanhogg opened this issue Jan 22, 2024 · 0 comments
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🚀 enhancement New feature or request 💡 idea A hair-brained concept 🎨 render Anything to do with rendering (windows, physics, etc.)

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This would require OpenGL 4.3, but would obviously allow for significant performance gains. One could, perhaps, retain the CPU implementation and only attempt use of a compute shader if ARB_compute_shader is present.

More on compute shaders here:

https://www.khronos.org/opengl/wiki/Compute_Shader

and a moderngl example here:

https://github.com/moderngl/moderngl/blob/main/examples/compute_shader_ssbo.py
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