Prior to the advent of the compute shader, we might have chosen to do this using the fragment shader. However, the compute shader gives us a bit more flexibility in defining how the work is allocated on the GPU. We can also gain memory efficiency by avoiding the overhead of a complete FBO for the purposes of a single texture.
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