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[Acerola] tried making a particle system (www.youtube.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Cool particle systems have been popping up in games across the last decade. Why are these novel particle systems a new thing? What tech enables them? How many particles can a midrange gpu draw?

Topics covered: particle definition, gpu instancing, iterated function systems, the chaos game, matrix transformations, linear interpolation, fragment shader bottlenecks, point list meshes, extensions and applications of iterated function systems

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I really love his videos! It usually starts with me thinking "I understand some of this, maybe I could do some graphics programming" and always devolves into "I am completely unable to do any graphics programming."

[–] shadowedcross 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

As far as I'm concerned, graphics programmers are wizards.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

It's why John Carmack (created Wolfenstein, Doom, Rage, and made the engine that drives Half Life, Call of Duty and many more) is so revered. He's straight up a tech wizard.