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Twinklebear

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About Twinklebear

Working on 3D rendering on the web and native. www.willusher.io

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    Pretty general question, but what has your approach been for coupling ThreeJS + React w/ a Rust/Wasm kernel for mesh generation? E.g. do you have Wasm own the memory and you give T…

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    Comment #40874375

    I’ve been able to profile using PIX following this guide: https://toji.dev/webgpu-profiling/pix . The WebGPU inspector extension is fantastic as well

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    Comment #40109539

    Sure I'd be happy to check it out, my email's in my profile (or Github/website). There are some tradeoffs w/ WebAssembly as well (not sharing the same memory as JS/TS is the bigges…

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    Comment #40109141

    Author of the WebGL volume rendering tutorial [0] you mentioned in the readme here, great work! Working in WebGL/JS is nice since you can deploy it everywhere, but it can be really…

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    Comment #23534248

    Yeah! I've started to look some WebGPU compute applications with other students in my group and I think there could be some cool use cases, like the ones you mention. It sounds a b…

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    Comment #22834770

    ISPC is really awesome, but you're right it is much less known than CUDA/OpenCL. Part of that might just be lack of marketing effort and focus (you don't hear much about it compare…

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    Comment #22833807

    SIMD is used a ton in rendering applications and starting to see more use in games too (through ISPC for example). I'd add to the list: - Embree: https://www.embree.org/ Open sourc…

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    Comment #22773887

    Yeah, the Nvidia specific extension was NV_ray_tracing, the cross vendor one (KHR_ray_tracing) is what's shown here. The KHR one will support AMD and Intel: https://www.khronos.org…

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    Comment #14670402

    A cool feature I recently learned about of matplotlib is that it supports LaTeX for text rendering [1]. You can go as far as rendering LaTeX math formatting for titles/labels, or j…