VertexNova WebGPU Samples

Interactive WebGPU samples from the vnerhi rendering engine.

Live site: https://vertexnova.github.io/

Open the site, pick a sample from the list, and it runs in the browser. Use ← / → to move through the curriculum, or search to filter.

If something does not start, check browser support.

Platforms & backends

Every sample in vnerhi targets the same curriculum across platforms:

Platform	Metal	Vulkan	WebGPU
macOS	✓	✓ (MoltenVK)	✓
Windows	—	✓	✓
Linux	—	✓	✓
iPhone / IPad	✓	—	—
Android / tablet	—	✓	—
Web	—	—	✓

This site hosts the WebGPU (WASM) builds for the browser.

WebGPU in browsers

Status follows the WebGPU Implementation Status wiki and Chrome WebGPU overview.

Browser	Windows	macOS	Linux	Android	iOS / iPadOS
Chrome / Chromium	113+	113+	144+*	121+†	—‡
Microsoft Edge	113+	113+	144+*	121+†	—‡
Safari	—	26+	—	—	26+
Firefox	141+	145+§	Flag¶	—¶	—

* Linux: Intel Gen12+ from 144+; NVIDIA Wayland often 147+. Other GPUs may need flags — see the implementation status. Edge is available on supported Linux distros (Microsoft Learn).
† Android 12+ with supported GPUs (Qualcomm / ARM / Intel; expanding). Check chrome://gpu if a sample fails.
‡ iPhone / iPad: Safari 26+ only. Chrome and Edge are not supported for these samples.
§ Apple Silicon from 145+; broader macOS from 147+.
¶ Firefox on Linux works when WebGPU is enabled in about:config (dom.webgpu.enabled = true). Android remains experimental / Nightly in many builds.

More detail: browser support.

Samples

Curriculum order (00–48). Source: vnerhi/samples.

Foundations

• 00 Window
• 01 Triangle
• 02 Cube
• 03 Two Cubes
• 04 Fractal Cube
• 05 MSAA
• 06 Instancing

UI

• 07 ImGui Overlay
• 08 ImGui Panel

Textures

• 09 Texturing
• 10 Sampler Parameters
• 11 Texture Mipmap
• 12 Cubemap

Lighting & Camera

• 13 Lighting
• 14 Camera Controller

Mesh & Compute

• 15 Teapot
• 16 Compute
• 17 Compute to Render
• 18 Metaballs

Mesh & Compute Together

• 19 Teapot Normals
• 20 Wireframe
• 21 PBR Material

Surface Detail & Shadows

• 22 Normal Mapping
• 23 Environment Mapping
• 24 Reflection
• 25 HDR & Tone Mapping
• 26 Shadow Mapping

Depth & Render State

• 27 Depth Precision
• 28 Stencil Testing
• 29 Blending
• 30 Deferred Shading

Transparency (OIT)

• 31 OIT — A-Buffer
• 32 OIT — Dual Depth Peeling
• 33 OIT — Weighted Blended

Annotation Primitives

• 34 Line Rendering
• 35 Point Rendering
• 36 Text Rendering
• 37 GPU Picking

Volume

• 38 Volume Rendering
• 39 Volume Windowing
• 40 Slice Rendering

Tooling & Viewers

• 41 GPU Debug
• 42 glTF Viewer

43 USD Viewer is available in vnerhi on desktop (Metal / Vulkan / WebGPU native) but is not shipped for the browser.

Advanced

• 44 Push Constants
• 45 Multithreading
• 46 Multithreaded Picking
• 47 Offscreen Worker
• 48 Render Bundles

Report a bug

1. Open the sample that fails.
2. Click Report in the sample toolbar (or use this form).
3. Include browser, OS, and GPU if you can, plus any console errors (F12 → Console).