CS1950v : Advanced GPU Programming

Life implements Conway's Game of Life (or a variant of it) on the GPU. Life state is stored on a texture, which is bound to a framebuffer. The next Life state is computed by reading from one framebuffer and rendering to the next, using a GLSL shader.

After each state has been computed, the Life simulation can be visualized in 3D.

Tess experiments with the new OpenGL 4 Tessellation shader stages, the tessllation control and tessellation evaluation shaders. The tessellation shader stages allow for efficient dynamic subdivision of primitives on the fly - which means easy dynamic level of detail.

For the tess project, noise functions were used to displace vertices in a mesh. To preserve mesh detail, the mesh is subdivided as the camera moves closer to the mesh.