EXAMPLES_COMPUTE.md

Compute Examples

Demonstrate the use of compute shaders to achieve effects

(Compute shader) Particle system

Attraction based particle system. A shader storage buffer is used to store particle on which the compute shader does some physics calculations. The buffer is then used by the graphics pipeline for rendering with a gradient texture for. Demonstrates the use of memory barriers for synchronizing vertex buffer access between a compute and graphics pipeline

(Compute shader) Ray tracing

Implements a simple ray tracer using a compute shader. No primitives are rendered by the traditional pipeline except for a fullscreen quad that displays the ray traced results of the scene rendered by the compute shaders. Also implements shadows and basic reflections.

(Compute shader) Image processing

Demonstrates the use of a separate compute queue (and command buffer) to apply different convolution kernels on an input image in realtime.