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Using a compute shader for an adaptive particle system

MMC.
2024;
Volume 11, Number 1
: pp. 1–18
https://doi.org/10.23939/mmc2024.01.001
Received: March 18, 2023
Revised: September 02, 2023
Accepted: September 09, 2023

Onufriienko D. M. Using a compute shader for an adaptive particle system. Mathematical Modeling and Computing. Vol. 11, No. 1, pp. 1–18 (2024)

Authors:
  1. D. M. Onufriienko
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Lead Technical Artist, Pingle Studio, Dnipro, Ukraine

The article proved the hypothesis of high efficiency of using a compute shader for a particle system being capable of tracking and adapting to other objects in a space of the game environment.  A comparative description of the performance of the adaptive particle system based on CPU and GPU computing with additional optimization methods was given.

compute shader
GPU
particle system
rendering
Unity
VFX
video game
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