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Drawing Mushrooms with Vulkan

June 30, 2021June 30, 2021 by vazgriz

There’s a niche genre of music on the internet called “oscilloscope music”. This is electronic music that is designed to be visualized with an oscilloscope. Music visualizers have existed for a long time, but they often just display an image that represents the audio abstractly. Oscilloscope music allows the musician to draw arbitrary shapes using sound.

Optimizing a Vulkan Program Part 3: Further Optimizations

January 26, 2021May 21, 2019 by vazgriz

This is the third in a series of blog posts about how I wrote and optimized VkColors, a small compute program written using Vulkan.

The previous post added a simple GPU implementation. This post will add several optimizations that improve performance massively.

Optimizing a Vulkan Program Part 2: GPU Implementation

January 26, 2021May 20, 2019 by vazgriz

This is the second in a series of blog posts about how I wrote and optimized VkColors, a small compute program written using Vulkan.

This post will examine the GPU implementations of VkColors. The algorithms are written as Vulkan compute shaders.

Optimizing a Vulkan Program Part 1: Introduction

January 26, 2021May 18, 2019 by vazgriz

This is the first in a series of blog posts about how I wrote and optimized VkColors, a small compute program written using Vulkan. During the summer between university semesters, I found a post on the Code Golf Stack Exchange. The challenge was to generate an image with all possible RGB colors, arranged however the … Read more