GPGPU Programming for Games and Science

Chapter 5

Practical Matters

5.1 Engine Design and Architecture

I mentioned previously that the low-level D3D11 code for a simple appli-

cation can be enormous. You definitely want to wrap much of the execution

code that is common to applications. In this section, I discuss a simple appli-

cation that uses the Windows API for window creation, event handling, and

window destruction. The application also uses the DirectX API for D3D11 ob-

ject creation, handling, and destruction. The idea is to show how everything

fits together without hiding the internal mechanics. Although the argument

is for the encapsulation of the components in a graphics engine, this ...