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Show HN: Real-time Solar System with 526k asteroids and all tracked satellites

407 points · 112 comments · wanick

GnosiWorks · 1790761284 · focus · HN ↗
526k objects and it still feels smooth. are you culling by distance or doing something smarter on the gpu side?
1. wanick · 1790762037 · focus · HN ↗
  No culling. The vertex shader solves Kepler's equation for every asteroid each frame, the CPU barely touches them.

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