“UberFlow: A GPU-Based Particle Engine” by Kipfer, Segal and Westermann
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Title:
- UberFlow: A GPU-Based Particle Engine
Session/Category Title: GPU1
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Abstract:
We present a system for real-time animation of large particle sets using GPU computation and memory objects in OpenGL. Our system implements a versatile particle engine, including inter-particle collisions and visibility sorting. By combining memory objects with floating-point fragment programs, we have implemented a particle engine that entirely avoids the transfer of particle data at runtime.
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