aer

A cross-platform real-time rendering framework, inspired by WebGPU and vk_minimal_latest.

See BUILD.md for detailed build instructions.

Quick start & run!

# Clone the repository.
git clone https://github.com/tcoppex/aer
cd aer

# Build.
cmake . -B build -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release
cmake --build build --config Release

# Run the first sample.
./bin/00_hello

Samples

00_hello	Display a surface and clear its color.
01_triangle	Draw a simple triangle.
02_push_constant	Update per-frame values via push constants and dynamic states.
03_descriptor_set	Initialize & update a descriptor set on a single uniform buffer.
04_texturing	Render a textured cube with a linear sampler.
05_stencil_op	Stencil operations and instancing through a multi-passes portal effect.
06_blend_op	Fast & simple billboarded GPU particles with additive blending.
07_compute	Waves simulation with sorted alpha-blended particles.
08_hdr_envmap	Compute Image-Based Lighting from a HDR environment map.
09_post_process	Screen-space contour effect via a post-processing pipeline.
10_material	Showcase the internal PBR material system with scene graph ordering.
11_ray_tracing	Simple path tracer on a Cornell box via hardware-accelerated ray tracing.
12_font	Dynamic 2D/3D text generation from a font file.
13_gaussian_splatting	Implements 3D Gaussian Splatting for Real-Time Radiance Field Rendering.

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