Vulkan is a low-level graphical API (similar to OpenGL and DirectX) for communicating/rendering high-performance graphics.
These tutorials and samples are intended to complement and extend the `Vulkan Coffee Book' - a `beginners' introduction to programming Vulkan (a taster).
To be clear - the emphasis of the samples is to present stripped down examples (minimal and basic).
Once you're up and running, there's a massive number of websites and resources online with additional resources and information to enable you to go above and beyond with Vulkan.
The aims of these `minimal working demos' is:
*. have fun learning Vulkan
*. small self-contained examples
*. teach the underpinnings of the Vulkan API
*. help simplify complicated concepts
*. minimal working builds
*. easy to compile and run
*. help make the topic interesting
*. share ideas and tips
`Not' the aim:
*. develop a framework
*. build an entire game-engine
*. compare and develop cross platform libraries
Vulkan API Programming Samples (C/C++/Visual Studio/Win32)
Support material for the textbook Introducing computer graphics and the Vulkan API. The book's aim is to provide you with a grounds-up practical perspective of the topic with interesting examples that are easy to dissect and understand.
Of course, the topic is organised around the Vulkan API, while introducing you to other important graphical aspects, such as, programming shaders and their enormous flexibility and possibilities.
Importantly, this is an `introductory' text - a guide to getting started with computer graphics using the Vulkan API.
To be clear - the emphasis of the examples is to present minimal (basic) implementations from which the you can extend and build upon (i.e., not to build upon a framework or lot of wrapper classes - in essence, a raw taste of the core principles).
Once you're up and running, there's a massive number of websites and resources online with additional material and information to enable you to go above and beyond with Graphics and Vulkan (note the support code is for both the 1st/2nd revisions of the book)
Mix of examples, source code, information/tutorials focusing specifically on ray-tracing and the Vulkan API (Details).
To be clear - the emphasis of the examples is to present minimal (basic) implementations from which the you can extend and build upon (i.e., not to build upon a framework or lot of wrapper classes - in essence, a raw taste of the core principles).
Support material for the textbook Vulkan Compute. The book's aim is to provide you with a grounds-up practical perspective of the topic with interesting examples that are easy to dissect and understand.
Of course, the topic is organised around the Vulkan API, while focusing on 'compute' (NOT graphics). Learning to leverage the enourmous power of compute power using the Vulkan compute pipeline.
The Vulkan compute lets you simplify the complexities of working with Vulkan - using the streamlined compute pipeline you're able to easily access the GPU to perform parallel compute operations - without ever having to deal with the graphics (no graphics pipeline or vertex/pixel/tesselation shaders - purely compute - akin to CUDA and OpenCL).
The text takes you all the way from getting started (setting up your system and the API) and some basic examples (adding arrays of numbers/sending data back and forth from the GPU) - to more complex operations, such as, ray-tracing and fluid simulations.
101 Vulkan Projects - A Hands-On Journey Through 101 Vulkan Programming Examples
A great resource for taking your Vulkan programming skills to the next level - both for beginners and experienced Vulkan developers - projects that let you explore Vulkan's capabilities.
Large range of hands-on examples (with code) from very basic through to more complex/advanced concepts.
Vulkan is great - but it's also a beast! You shouldn't have to cry at your keyboard for hours each day while you try and battle with the various concepts.
Vulkan Essentials takes you through simplied examples - from the graphics pipeline using rasterization and triangles through to the compute shader and hardware accelerated ray-tracing.
Examples include writing a simple game with Vulkan, instancing tens of thousands of animated characters, basic compute programs and getting started with ray-tracing.
Vulkan API Visualization
The Vulkan API can be a bit mind boggling - so I put together a nice poster visualization so you can see how it all fits together - from initialization, different pipelines, extensions and so on.
Vulkan API Cheatsheet (v.1.0.1).
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