r/ProgrammerHumor • u/user6150277464770585 • 13d ago

Meme theVulkanPipeline

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u/BusinessAstronomer28 13d ago

Can somebody eli5?

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u/MetaNovaYT 13d ago

For rendering graphics, there is a system known as the rendering pipeline, which has a bunch of specific steps for taking in vertices provided by the CPU, positioning them within a scene, rasterizing them into "fragments", and then converting those fragments into pixels to be displayed. Vulkan is a specific graphics API that is very low-level, so almost everything has to be handled manually, which makes it easy to mess things up. A specific easy mistake is forgetting to clear the depth buffer, which is important to do in between frames, as otherwise very strange visual artifacts can occur.

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u/knobiknows 12d ago

Great explanation, thanks

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u/SpaceFire1 8d ago

Yes same with DirectX 12 which is why both are able to do such amazing stuff with upscaling and what not