.. post:: 2020-01-01
   :tags: c, vulkan, graphics
   :author: Alex Carney
   :language: en
   :excerpt: 2

.. description = "Declaring my intention to learn Vulkan once again"
.. series = ["Learning Vulkan"]

Learning Vulkan: Overview
=========================

I have always been interested in graphics and have on numerous occasions tried
to dip my toe into the world of OpenGL and more recently Vulkan. However I have
never been able to get past the "Hello, World" of these technologies - drawing a
triangle on screen, I think mostly becuase I never really had a goal in mind
once I got that far...

But that's (hopefully) about to change! What better excuse than a new decade to
jump back into this world for the 100th time and try to get to all those
interesting ideas I see people playing with all the time!

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I should say that I don't really know what I'm doing and will totally be making
it up as I go along. With Python being my favourite language, programming in C
(C++ is just too intimidating) will take some getting used to let alone all the
concepts specific to graphics programming! However that said I'm not a complete
n00b as I have at least played with C on and off over the years - I'm sure I
already know enough to be able to shoot myself in the foot! 😁

So the only thing left to do is set some goals so I don't get lost after getting
to the "drawing a triangle on screen" stage again. I imagine this will evolve
into some kind of living document that I'll use to keep track of my progress - if I
remember to update it that is!

- [ ] Draw a triangle on screen

  + [x] :doc:`Enumerating available VkPhysicalDevices </blog/2020/learning-vulkan-p1>`

- [ ] OBJ object viewer
- [ ] Ray Marching
- [ ] Ray Tracing
- [ ] Python integrations?