WebGPU-React-Bitmap-Viewport - a React component that uses WebGPU to render bitmap data within a set of viewports synchronously

• A React component displaying bitmap data as a set of viewport contents with use of WebGPU API, without dependencies other than React.
• Dynamic synchronization of GPUBuffers from JavaScript image data (e.g., Uint32Array of RGBA color values).
• Dynamic extraction and rendering a set of (one or more) viewport contents from GPUBuffers.
• Interactive viewport navigation via mouse drag and scrollbar handling, as well as zoom in and out via the mouse wheel.
• Customizable for bitmap image size, viewport display size, canvas size, header area size, and scrollbar size through React component props.
• Highlights the column and row under the current mouse pointer.
• Allows toggling the selected state of each column and row, and highlight the selected ones
• Supports many-to-many relationships between viewports and bitmap data sources.

Download and Installation

Download the latest version of webgpu-react-bitmap-viewport from the npm repository:

pnpm install webgpu-react-bitmap-viewport

API

doc

Live Demo

cd examples
pnpm install && pnpm dev

Live demo

• Synchronized Viewports of Static Image: "The Grate Wave off Kanagawa" from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji by Hokusai
• Synchronized Viewports of Dynamic Image: Randomly generated data
• Viewport of Multi Agent Simulation: Schelling's model of segregation

Code Example

import { Grid, GridHandles } from "webgpu-react-bitmap-viewport";
import { useRef } from "react";

const gridSize = { numColumns: 128, numRows: 128 };
const gridSizeMax = Math.max(gridSize.numColumns, gridSize.numRows);

const data =  new Float32Array(gridSize.numRows * gridSize.numColumns);
for (let i = 0; i < data.length; i++) {
  if (Math.random() < 0.99) {
    data[i] = i / data.length;
  } else {
    data[i] = Infinity;
  }
}

const focusedStates = new Uint32Array(gridSizeMax);
const selectedStates = new Uint32Array(gridSizeMax);

const viewportStates = new Float32Array([
  0.0, 0.0, 16.0, 16.0, // viewport index 0: left, top, right, bottom
  8.0, 8.0, 24.0, 24.0, // viewport index 1: left, top, right, bottom
]);

export const Index = () => {
  const gridRefs =
    [
      useRef<GridHandles>(null),
      useRef<GridHandles>(null)
    ];

  return (
    <>
      <Grid
        index={0}
        ref={gridRefs[0]}
        numViewports={2}
        headerOffset={{ left: 10, top: 10 }}
        canvasSize={{ width: 138, height: 138 }}
        numColumns={gridSize.numColumns}
        numRows={gridSize.numRows}
        scrollBar={{
          radius: 5.0,
          margin: 2.0,
        }}
        data={data}
        focusedStates={focusedStates}
        selectedStates={selectedStates}
        viewportStates={viewportStates}
        onFocusedStateChange={(sourceIndex: number, columnIndex: number, rowIndex: number) => {
          gridRefs[1].current?.refreshFocusedState(sourceIndex, columnIndex, rowIndex);
        }}
        onSelectedStateChange={(sourceIndex:number, columnIndex: number, rowIndex: number) => {
          gridRefs[1].current?.refreshSelectedState(sourceIndex, columnIndex, rowIndex);
        }}
        onViewportStateChange={(sourceIndex: number) => {
          gridRefs[1].current?.refreshViewportState(sourceIndex);
        }}
      />
      <Grid
        index={1}
        ref={gridRefs[1]}
        numViewports={2}
        headerOffset={{ left: 10, top: 10 }}
        canvasSize={{ width: 138, height: 138 }}
        numColumns={gridSize.numColumns}
        numRows={gridSize.numRows}
        scrollBar={{
          radius: 5.0,
          margin: 2.0,
        }}
        data={data}
        focusedStates={focusedStates}
        selectedStates={selectedStates}
        viewportStates={viewportStates}
        onFocusedStateChange={(sourceIndex: number, columnIndex: number, rowIndex: number) => {
          gridRefs[0].current?.refreshFocusedState(sourceIndex, columnIndex, rowIndex);
        }}
        onSelectedStateChange={(sourceIndex: number, columnIndex: number, rowIndex: number) => {
          gridRefs[0].current?.refreshSelectedState(sourceIndex, columnIndex, rowIndex);
        }}
        onViewportStateChange={(sourceIndex: number) => {
          gridRefs[0].current?.refreshViewportState(sourceIndex);
        }}
      />
    </>
  );
}

Design

graph TD;
        Application((Application))
        Application --> |width,height|canvasSize
        Application --> |numColumns,numRows|GridSize --> GridProps
        Application ==> |numColumns*numRows|data
        Application ==> |left,top,right,bottom|viewportStates
        Application ==> focusedStates
        Application ==> selectedStates
    data -->|Float32Array| GridProps[GridProps]
    focusedStates --> |Uint32Array| GridProps
    selectedStates --> |Uint32Array| GridProps
    viewportStates --> |Float32Array| GridProps
    canvasSize --> GridProps
    GridProps --> |React Component Property| Grid
    Application --> |React Component|Grid

graph TD;
        Application((Application)) --> |refreshFocusedState|Grid
        Application --> |refreshSelectedState|Grid
        Application --> |refreshViewportState|Grid
        Grid -.-> |onFocusedStateChange|Application
        Grid -.-> |onSelectedStateChange|Application
        Grid -.-> |onViewportStateChange|Application

graph TD;
    subgraph Inside React Component: part 1
    GridProps ---> |React Component Property| Grid
        refreshFocusedState[/refreshFocusedState\] -.-> |React Component Method| Grid
        refreshSelectedState[/refreshSelectedState\] -.-> |React Component Method| Grid
        refreshViewportState[/refreshViewportState\] -.-> |React Component Method| Grid
    Grid --> |canvasSize|CanvasElementContext --> GridUI
    CanvasElementContext --> |width,height|canvas
    Grid --> |refreshFocusedState,refreshSelectedState,refreshViewportState|GridUI
    Grid --> |gridSize|GridContext --> GridUI
    Grid --> |viewportStates|ViewportContext --> GridUI     
    Grid --> WebGPUContext --> |device,canvasContext,format,texture| GridUI
    GridContext --> GridUI
    CanvasElementContext --> WebGPUContext
    GridContext --> WebGPUContext
    onMouseEnter[/onMouseEnter\] -.-> canvas
    onMouseOut[/onMouseLeave\] -.-> canvas
    onMouseDown[/onMouseDown\] -.-> canvas
    onMouseMove[/onMouseMove\] -.-> canvas
    end

graph TD;
    subgraph Inside React Component: part 2    
    GridUI --> F32UniformBufferSource --> GPUBuffer
    GridUI --> U32UniformBufferSource --> GPUBuffer
    GridUI --> data --> GPUBuffer
    GridUI --> focusedStates --> GPUBuffer
    GridUI --> selectedStates --> GPUBuffer
    GPUBindGroupLayout --> GPUPipelineLayout
    GPUPipelineLayout --> GPURenderPipeline
    WGSL[[WGSL\nGridShader]] --> GPUShaderModule
    GPUShaderModule --> GPURenderPipeline
    Vertices --> GPUBuffer
    GPUBuffer --> GPUBindGroup
    GPUBindGroupLayout --> GPUBindGroup
    GPURenderPipeline --> GPURenderBundle
    GPUBindGroup --> GPURenderBundle
    GridUI --> GPUBindGroupLayout
    GridUI --> Vertices
    GridUI --> GPURenderPassEncoder
    GPURenderBundle --> GPURenderPassEncoder
    GPURenderPassEncoder --> |submit|GPUDevice
    end

Prerequisites:

• WebGPU compatible browser (e.g. Chrome with WebGPU enabled)
• react: ^18.2.0
• react-dom: ^18.2.0

Licensing

webgpu-react-bitmap-viewport is published under the MIT License (MIT).

(c) 2024 Hiroya Kubo

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

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Author

Hiroya Kubo