--- title: Fascinating Particle Simulation Created with WebGPU description: Artist Yi-Wen Lin created a particle visualization using WebGPU that fakes a realistic glow effect by storing particle velocity data in a 3D texture grid. The... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/fascinating-particle-simulation-created-with-webgpu-q0z5bb1e6 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Fascinating Particle Simulation Created with WebGPU | daily.dev og:description: Artist Yi-Wen Lin created a particle visualization using WebGPU that fakes a realistic glow effect by storing particle velocity data in a 3D texture grid. The... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/fascinating-particle-simulation-created-with-webgpu-q0z5bb1e6 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/Q0Z5bb1E6.png og:image:alt: Fascinating Particle Simulation Created with WebGPU og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Fascinating Particle Simulation Created with WebGPU **[80 LEVEL](https://daily.dev/sources/80lv)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Artist Yi-Wen Lin created a particle visualization using WebGPU that fakes a realistic glow effect by storing particle velocity data in a 3D texture grid. The particles are driven by a fluid simulation, and the volume data is used to calculate cheap real-time illumination — an effect difficult or impossible to achieve in standard WebGL. The project was an experiment exploring WebGPU's capabilities for global illumination and dynamic lighting in the browser. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### How can I fake a particle glow effect using WebGPU in the browser? A real-time particle glow effect can be faked in WebGPU by storing particle velocity data in a 3D texture keyed to spatial position, then using that volume data to calculate a cheap illumination value per particle. This approach enables dynamic lighting effects that are difficult or impossible to achieve in standard WebGL, and works well when particles are driven by an underlying fluid simulation. _Developers pushing real-time graphics in the browser track WebGPU techniques like this on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Simulating Life in the Browser: Creating a Living Particle System for the UntilLabs Website](https://daily.dev/posts/simulating-life-in-the-browser-creating-a-living-particle-system-for-the-untillabs-website-nmsokbiv8) · Codrops · 2 upvotes · 0 comments - [Building an Infinite Liquid Glass Grid with Three.js, WebGPU, and TSL](https://daily.dev/posts/building-an-infinite-liquid-glass-grid-with-three-js-webgpu-and-tsl-cwvx0gsr8) · Codrops · 9 upvotes · 1 comments - [Particle Simulator Controlled by Hand Gestures](https://daily.dev/posts/particle-simulator-controlled-by-hand-gestures-0acrwiisd) · 80 LEVEL · 20 upvotes · 4 comments --- Tags: [#3d](https://daily.dev/tags/3d), [#webgpu](https://daily.dev/tags/webgpu) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/fascinating-particle-simulation-created-with-webgpu-q0z5bb1e6) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Fascinating Particle Simulation Created with WebGPU","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/fascinating-particle-simulation-created-with-webgpu-q0z5bb1e6","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/fascinating-particle-simulation-created-with-webgpu-q0z5bb1e6"},"datePublished":"2026-08-10T07:59:10.343Z","dateModified":"2026-08-10T07:59:32.861Z","description":"Artist Yi-Wen Lin created a particle visualization using WebGPU that fakes a realistic glow effect by storing particle velocity data in a 3D texture grid. 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