And now I've implemented it. But instead of porting it to the slowest most decrepit retromachine I can find, I'm going the other direction: What kind of visual effects can I achieve if I throw a decent GPU at it?
The video above in 🧵 1 is a screen capture from my Javascript + WebGPU implementation. It's running at 20 FPS, using about 5% of the CPU and 3% of the GPU. More to come...
🧵 6/N
#BubbleUniverse #Javascript #WebGPU
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