Re: WebGPU Compute Example

Thanks for the clarification, Dean!

Jerran: FYI, for more info on the high-level history of things around
WebGPU, check out the Wikipedia article
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebGPU>.

On Thu, Feb 28, 2019 at 11:31 AM Dean Jackson <dino@apple.com> wrote:

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> On 28 Feb 2019, at 10:12, Jerran Schmidt <jerran.schmidt@autodesk.com>
> wrote:
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> I’ve been following the development of WebGPU mainly from a compute
> perspective and coming from an OpenGL (and now Vulkan) background I’ve
> found the API itself very easy and intuitive to use.
> I couldn’t find any samples on using WebGPU for compute at the time that I
> put my first simple example on github but I’ve since experimented with
> going a little further and implemented marching cubes:
> Pages:
> https://jerrans.github.io/webgpu-marching-cubes/
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> Code:
> https://github.com/jerrans/webgpu-marching-cubes
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> I didn’t have any issues other than whether setting the threads per
> threadgroup is something that would be exposed or not.
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> In any case the standard looks to be progressing well and I’m hoping to be
> able to contribute in the future.
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> To be clear, what you've used there is Apple's initial WebGPU proposal,
> which we've since renamed WebMetal, and will soon be removed from Safari
> completely - once we have a real WebGPU implementation.
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> This will require a fairly significant rewrite of your example, although
> the fundamentals are approximately the same.
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> Dean
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