ParticleLab - Particle Rendering Next Generation

(c) 2022-2022. VG-Lab / URJC

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Introduction

ParticleLab is a GPU-centric framework that allows the developer to create particle clusters that can be modified over time using compute shaders, sending only the required information to the GPU.

Dependencies

Strong dependences:

• OpenGL
• GLEW
• GLM
• ReTo (*)

(*) Note: These dependencies will be automatically downloaded and compiled with the project.

Weak dependences

• OpenMP: multi-core functioning.
• GLUT: OpenGL example.
• Eigen3: full ReTo compatibility

Building

ParticleLab has been successfully built with GCC 9.4.0 and used on Ubuntu 20.04 and Windows 10/11 (Visual Studio 2022 Win64). The following steps should be enough to build it:

git clone https://github.com/vg-lab/particlelab.git particlelab
mkdir particlelab/build && cd particlelab/build
cmake .. -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DPLAB_WITH_EXAMPLES=ON
make