This is a port of a CIS565 final project by Jiatong He and myself:
Fall 2014
Jiatong He, Kai Ninomiya
This project is wholly unsupported. It is a hackathon port of a school project, so please set your expectations appropriately low.
Works in Chrome 113 on Mac/Windows (in beta; stable release May 2023).
Also works in Chrome Canary on Android, and Chrome Dev on some linux systems, with chrome://flags#enable-unsafe-webgpu.
Unfortunately, Babylon.js does not yet work in Firefox Nightly at the time of this writing, but I expect it to work pretty soon!
This project ports:
- From WebCL to WebGPU
- From OpenCL C to WGSL
- From JavaScript/ES5 to TypeScript
- From CubicVR to Babylon.js
Aside from these things, the code is largely the same as the original project. Please read the write-up there for details of the algorithm.
- It ports one section of a CPU algorithm to the GPU, but in a significantly less efficient way
- Definitely not faster than just running the original algorithm on the CPU even in JavaScript
- Tons of interop overhead due to bringing things back and forth between CPU and GPU
- No GPU-GPU interop between fracture and rendering (despite now using the same
GPUDevice) - Actually pretty fast except for the fact that we send horrifyingly overcomplex meshes to the physics engine and it takes a long time to process them (this is what makes the demo slow)