VKCV – The Vulkan Framework

In the context of the project practical course SoSe’21 of the computer graphics of the CV-Institute a Vulkan based framework with the focus on rendering was developed.
In the following the corresponding architecture is presented and described.

The stepwise structure of the architecture offers a high degree of flexibility, whereby extensions can be implemented without serious restrictions. Basically, the structure is divided into three levels, the application itself, modules for extension and the so-called core, the main component of the VkCV framework.

 

diagram of VkCV architecture

VkCV Architecture

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