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All about 3D and 2D computer graphics, vector and raster graphics, graphics programming using special APIs (e.g. Vulkan and OpenGL).

Some topics in computer graphics include user interface design, sprite graphics, rendering, ray tracing, geometry processing, computer animation, vector graphics, 3D modeling, shaders, GPU design, implicit surfaces, visualization, scientific computing, image processing, computational photography, scientific visualization, computational geometry and computer vision, among others. The overall methodology depends heavily on the underlying sciences of geometry, optics, physics, and perception.

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How to Vulkan in 2026 (www.howtovulkan.com)

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This repository and the accompanying tutorial demonstrate ways of writing a Vulkan graphics application in 2026. The goal is to leverage modern features to simplify Vulkan usage and, while doing so, create something more than just a basic colored triangle.

Vulkan was released almost 10 years ago, and a lot has changed. Version 1.0 had to make many concessions to support a broad range of GPUs across desktop and mobile. Some of the initial concepts like render passes turned out to be not so optimal, and have been replaced by alternatives. The API matured and new areas like raytracing, video acceleration and machine learning were added. Just as important as the API is the ecosystem, which also changed a lot, giving us new options for writing shaders in languages different than GLSL and tools to help with Vulkan.

And so for this tutorial we will be using Vulkan 1.3 as a baseline. This gives us access to several features that make Vulkan easier to use while still supporting a wide range of GPUs and platforms.

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