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Life & fun · January 13, 2016

Particle Simulation with OpenGL compute shader – 8M particles

Particle accelleration with OpenGL 4.3, using the compute shader to calculate particle movement on graphics hardware. - MauriceGit/Partikel_accelleration_on_GPU

Particle Simulation with OpenGL compute shader – 8M particles launched on January 13, 2016 with 29 votes, #1,963 of 4,523 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 10 years on.

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In plain words

This project demonstrates particle simulation using OpenGL 4.3 compute shaders to calculate the movement of up to 8 million particles directly on graphics hardware. Designed for developers interested in GPU acceleration and real-time graphics, it leverages compute shaders to offload particle physics calculations from the CPU. The implementation shows how modern graphics APIs can efficiently handle large-scale particle systems by performing computations on the GPU rather than traditional CPU methods.

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