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Nice! It's a bit unfortunate that OSX doesn't support OpenGL 4.3 which is needed for this project. It currently only supports OpenGl 4.1. I'm currently toying around with a similiar project where I would have enjoyed to try out compute shaders.
I think, there is a possibility to not use the core-OpenGL but kind of upgrade to the legacy-version. But I don't know much about that...
a video would be cool. nobody is going to bother to get the code and build it, especially in the state its in. i'm not really sure what this proves beyond the power of the hardware. there are no clever tricks here that i can see beyond 'keeping it simple' but even then... its not so simple as it could be either.
Yes, you are right, it is more like a proof of concept for myself. And as it seems, there are people (similar thread on Reddit), for whom it might help. Just wanted to share, as there were not too many working projects out there with compute shaders. And it would have helped me :)
the trick imo is to learn not to require those things... which you seem to have managed. but you are right that its a lot easier not to have to work stuff out from the basics. :)
Nice! It's a bit unfortunate that OSX doesn't support OpenGL 4.3 which is needed for this project. It currently only supports OpenGl 4.1. I'm currently toying around with a similiar project where I would have enjoyed to try out compute shaders.
From what I've read, you can get pretty good performance on an iPad Pro. Here's 8M pixels: http://flexmonkey.blogspot.com/2015/11/a-first-look-at-metal... The author provides the source. Portable to the Mac? https://github.com/FlexMonkey/ParticleLab