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A comment on Show HN: I've made a Monte-Carlo raytracer for glTF scenes in WebGPU.

Re:Show HN: I've made a Monte-Carlo raytracer for glTF scene... by artemonster on Thursday December 26, 2024 @03:08PM (#42517403)
> "GPU "software" raytracer"

> WebGPU

> this project is desktop-only

Boss, I am confused, boss.

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Re:Show HN: I've made a Monte-Carlo raytracer for glTF scene... by lisyarus on Thursday December 26, 2024 @03:33PM (#42517570)
I'm using WebGPU as a nice modern graphics API that is at the same time much more user-friendly and easier to use compared to e.g. Vulkan. I'm using a desktop implementation of WebGPU called wgpu, via it's C bindings called wgpu-native.

My browser doesn't support WebGPU properly yet, so I don't really care about running this thing in browser.

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Re:Show HN: I've made a Monte-Carlo raytracer for glTF scene... by firtoz on Thursday December 26, 2024 @07:17PM (#42518923)
That's a fascinating approach.

And it gets me a bit sad about the state of WebGPU, however hopefully that'll be resolved soon... I also on Linux am impatiently waiting for WebGPU to be supported on my browser.

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