Meshlets and Mesh Shaders

Computer Graphics · Geometry and Intersection · meshlets.yaml

Splits a mesh into small vertex-and-triangle clusters that can be culled and dispatched independently, replacing the fixed vertex-fetch pipeline with a programmable one.

• supersedescorrects · extends
• classifiesspecializes · part-of
• substitutes forapproximates · alternative-to
• depends onrequires · validates

Colour is the family; a dashed line is the second member of it.

This node

• extendsadds capability to Rasterizationculls per cluster instead of per triangle or per object
• requiresdoes not work without SIMTa cluster is sized to one workgroup's registers

Referenced by

• requiresVirtualized Geometry does not work without thisthe cut through the hierarchy is expressed as clusters

References

• Background — Shader on Wikipedia