Show HN: Rendering 29,000 videos in real-time with Rust and WGPU

Category: devtools

Tags: rust, wgpu, virtual-texturing, video-mosaic, gpu

Score: 6.3/10 (Innovation: 7, Technical: 8, Documentation: 6, Utility: 4)

mosaic-rs is a Rust and WGPU demo that implements hardware-accelerated 2D virtual texturing to render image and video mosaics in real-time, handling up to 29,000 videos. It leverages GPU virtual memory techniques and a k-d tree for efficient color matching, achieving high performance and memory efficiency. It is an impressive technical showcase and a port of a previous Python software renderer.

Target audience: graphics programmers

Repository: https://madebymohammed.com/mosaic-rs · Rust · 1 stars

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