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This example demonstrates the basic usage of storage textures for the purpose of creating a digital image of the Mandelbrot set (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandelbrot_set).
Storage textures work like normal textures but they operate similar to storage buffers
in that they can be written to. The issue is that as it stands, write-only is the
only valid access mode for storage textures in WGSL and although there is a WGPU feature
to allow for read-write access, this is unfortunately a native-only feature and thus
we won’t be using it here. If we needed a reference texture, we would need to add a
second texture to act as a reference and attach that as well. Luckily, we don’t need
to read anything in our shader except the dimensions of our texture, which we can
easily get via textureDimensions.
A lot of things aren’t explained here via comments. See hello-compute and repeated-compute for code that is more thoroughly commented.
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