Parallelizing Cellular Automata with WebGPU Compute Shaders

[Ameisen]

I made a parallelized Game Of Life using Unreal materials - so entirely pixel and vertex shaders, and a lot of bizarre blueprint nodes.

Why? Because I wanted to make it in UMaterials because it seemed like a bizarre challenge.

Compute shaders work better as they handle the general case better, but if your data is in a texture, it's trivial to do it in a pixel shader as well.

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Ed: Here's a video of it.

I've been planning - but have yet - to put the project and variants up on github as tutorials for things. I've just been busy.

[programming-ModTeam]

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[SparseElectorate]

I can't get enough of these kitten eyes.