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Get to know Metal function pointers
- the Metal shader API now supports function pointers
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Scanline Effect
- the Unity tutorial explains how to implement a moving scanline post
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[video] NVIDIA Nsight Feature Spotlight: GPU Trace
- the video provides an overview of the D3D12 frame
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Constant data in Vulkan
- the article explains several different methods that can be used to manage shader constant data
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SHAD2: shaders, but more difficult
- the article explains a method that stores shader instructions encoded into a texture and uses a ru...
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The 31st Eurographics Symposium on Rendering
- the program for the online conference taking place this week
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Features that are coming to iOS and MacOS
- a twitter thread that lists new features Metal API features and provides links to documentation fo...
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[video] Rendering Roblox: Vulkan Optimisations on Imagination PowerVR GPUs (Presented...
- the GDC talk discusses the voxel-based lighting and shadow system
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Graphics Study: Red Dead Redemption 2
- the article presents a frame breakdown of the PC version of Red Dead Redemption 2
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NVIDIA Posts First DirectX 12 Ultimate Driver Set, Enables GPU Hardware Scheduling
- NVidia driver update adds support for DXR 1.1, VRS Tier 2, mesh shaders and sampler feedback
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Optimize Metal apps and games with GPU counters
- a video from WWDC 20 provides an overview of the GPU pipeline, what hardware counters are availabl...
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Discover ray tracing with Metal
- video from WWDC explains the basic building blocks of the Metal ray tracing API and how to support...
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Creating Optimal Meshes for Ray Tracing
- the article provides an overview of several problematic mesh characteristics that cause an issue f...
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Rendering Layered Materials with Anisotropic Interfaces
- a lightweight and efficient method to render layered materials with anisotropic interfaces
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Technically Art: Issue 57 (19.06.2020)
- collection of tweets related to VFX, shaders, and game art
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Improving GPU Profiling on Oculus Quest
- overview of two new libraries developed by Oculus and Qualcomm to expose low
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Implementing Stochastic Levels of Detail with Microsoft DirectX Raytracing
- the article presents how to use stochastic LOD selection for a DXR based ray
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Oodle Texture slashes game sizes
- the article explains how Oodle Texture can prepare BC textures in such a way that secondary ...
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Announcing CUDA on Windows Subsystem for Linux 2
- the article presents CUDA for WSL 2, how to use it and additionally shows how it cooperates ...
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Detecting Bias in Monte Carlo Renderers using Welch’s t-test
- the paper presents to Welch’s statistical t-test can be used to detect bias even with low sample c...
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Top Nine Questions About the ‘Ray Tracing Essentials’ series from Developers
- the article contains the answers to some common question viewers of the Ray Tracing Essentia...
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GPU Optimization for GameDev
- an extensive collection resource covering various aspects of GPU optimizations
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Creating shader animation in Unity
- the article presents how to create a running rat animation using a vertex shader
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From 0 to glTF with WebGPU: The First Triangle
- the first part of a WebGPU series shows the necessary steps required to render the first tri...
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From 0 to glTF with WebGPU: Bind Groups
- this tutorial explains how to bind resources and uses this to add basic camera movement support
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Can’t Invert the CDF? The Triangle-Cut Parameterization of the Region under the Curve
- the paper presents a technique that allows Cumulative Distribution Functions that cannot be ...
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The Forge - Raytracing Benchmarks
- overview of cross-platform raytracing abstraction in "The Forge" and a summary of performanc...
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A Scalable and Production Ready Sky and Atmosphere Rendering Technique
- the paper presents the sky and atmosphere model developed by Epic Games that support dynamic...
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[video] Flowmaps, gradient maps, gas giants
- the video tutorial explains UV animation, extending this to support varying animations betwe...
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Followup tidbits on RGBE
- the author presents considerations for designing conversations explained with the example of RGBE ...
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The Center of the Pixel is (0.5,0.5)
- the article explains how to deal with pixel coordinates correctly
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Real-Time Ray Tracing Summit
- an online summit with talks about ray tracing topics
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Preliminary HPG 2020 Program
- program for talks that will be presented as part of high
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Fast 2D rendering on GPU
- the article provides an overview of an algorithm for GPU based rendering of 2D vector graphics
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High Fidelity Graphics for games with HDRP
- the talk from Unit presents techniques required for best results with Unity High definition render...
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Parallel CSG Operations on GPU
- the article presents how a CSG Operation implementation based around point clouds has been designe...
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Animated Light Cookie Shader (Cloud & Tree Shadows)
- the Unity tutorial shows how to dynamically generate light blocker textures to simulate clouds and...
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[Video] EG / STARs 5 / Neural Rendering / Wednesday
- the collection of talks for the field of neural rendering methods
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Fake vs True Displacement - Part 1/2
- the two-part article series shows the difference between Bump
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Perceptually Smooth Multi-Color Linear Gradients
- the notebook shows how to interpolate gradients in a perceptually smooth way using Catmull Rom spl...
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[Video] Optimizing Roblox: Vulkan Best Practices for Mobile Developers
- Vulkan talks that cover the Vulkan sample framework, load/store operations, sub
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Quadrant-Sizing for Efficient UI Rendering
- the author presents his implementation of a UI element system that allows arbitrary object scaling...
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Distance Field Ray Tracing Part 1: Volume Textures and Ray Marching Primer
- the UE3 tutorial is a primer on how to build distance field shapes and use raymarching from volume...
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Casual Shadertoy Path Tracing 3: Fresnel, Rough Refraction & Absorption, Orbit Camera
- path 3 of path tracing shows how to extend the materials to support fresnel as well as reflection ...
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Work-Efficiency vs. Step-Efficiency
- the article discusses how to classify GPGPU work into the critical sequential work and the total a...
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Widespread error in Radiance HDR RGBE conversions
- the article presents how RGBE 8888 should be encoded and decoded correctly
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Casual Shadertoy Path Tracing 2: Image Improvement and Glossy Reflections
- part 2 of path tracing implementation series, adding Glossy reflection Anti
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SIGGRAPH Spotlight: Episode 35 – Real-Time, Ray Tracing, and Realism
- Podcast episode with Arisa Scott (Unity), Eric Haines (NVIDIA), Mike Hardison (Blizzard Entertainm...
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How to evenly distribute points on a sphere more effectively than the canonical Fibon...
- the article explains how to use to distribute points onto the surface of a sphere
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LunarG releases GFXReconstruct, a new Vulkan Capture/Replay Tool, with SDK 1.2.141
- new Vulkan SDK now contains the Microsoft Shader Compiler
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SPIR-V Guide
- this guide is designed to explain SPIR-V, what to use it for and present an overview of the intern...
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Writing Shader Code for the Universal RP
- Shader guide that explains how to write Unity shaders that are compatible with the Universal Rend...
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Messed up 3D Meshes: A case study in the limits of integer floating point
- the article shows problems of floating-point precision in the model export pipeline
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Ambient Occlusion
- the presentation explains what Ambient Occlusion is, and provides an overview of different algorit...
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Real-time Cubism Shader
- presents a method to implement a Cubism effect, similar to what can be seen in "Spider
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Sharpening the renderer
- the article presents Contrast Adaptive Sharpening and how it's used in EVE to make details on ship...
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Texture Generation Part 2: Normal Swizzling
- Unity tutorial that shows to mix Normal map correctly
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Casual Shadertoy Path Tracing 1: Basic Camera, Diffuse, Emissive
- A tutorial that shows a practical walkthrough on how to implement a path tracer in shadertoy
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Curving Corner Texture UVs
- the article shows how to generate UVs for curved corners using Unity
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Iterating on Variable Rate Shading in Gears Tactics
- the articles present how the VRS (Variable Rate Shading) implementation was approached
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Civilization VI Fog of War
- This Unity tutorial explains how to implement a Civilization VI style fog of war system
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New geometry pipeline in Magnum
- the articles describe the design of the new geometry (import) pipeline of the Magnum engine
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The design and evolution of the UberBake light baking system
- A global illumination system developed by Activision
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Progressing in Circles
- the articles presents different approaches on how to implement a ring progression effect
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Technically Art: Issue 56 (29.05.2020)
- collection of tweets related to VFX, shaders, and game art
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A survey of temporal antialiasing techniques: presentation notes
- authors notes on the Survey of Temporal Antialiasing Techniques talk from the Eurographics 2020 vi...
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Point and Spot Lights Lights with Limited Influence
- the next part in a Unity tutorial series on the scriptable render pipeline
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Borderland between Rendering and Editor — Part 2: Picking
- the article explains how the GPU based picking system in "Our Machinery" has been implemented
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Reverse engineering the rendering of The Witcher 3, part 19 - portals
- the article shows how the portal rendering effect in The Witcher 3 has been implemented
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Stochastic Substitute Trees for Real-Time Global Illumination
- a GI algorithm based around tracing Virtual point lights (VPLs), converting clusters of VPLs into ...
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Dimensionality reduction for image and texture set compression
- detailed post presents the idea of “decorrelating” color channels to maximize information in textu...
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DirectX is coming to the Windows Subsystem for Linux
- Version 2 of Windows Subsystem for Linux adds full support for D3D12 (not allows rendering to the...
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Video: Gears 5 – High-Gear Visuals On Multiple Platforms
- relaxed cone step mapping for relief mapping to add more details
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From Built-in to URP
- collection of concepts, macros, shader logics, that exists in unity build
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Vulkan Helper Libraries Survey
- Khronos questionary that presents a list of suggestion for possible vulkan helper libraries
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Making a clean (mini)map using Navmesh and a Shader
- Unity tutorial that shows how to use a navmesh as a base for minimap rendering
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Accelerating Ray Tracing with Origin Offsets
- the paper proposed a new method that aims to improve ray tracing by offsetting ray starting point ...
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Texture Generation
- A unity tutorial that shows how to blend multiple textures together and save them to disk using Un...
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Technically Art: Issue 55 (22.05.2020)
- collection of tweets related to VFX, shaders, and game art
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Welcome to the joint conferences, Eurographics & Eurovis 2020
- Eurographics & Eurovis 2020 conference will be virtual and streamed starting May 25
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Quick Introduction to Mesh Shaders (OpenGL and Vulkan)
- brief overview and introduction into Mesh Shaders using OpenGL and Vulkan
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Optimizing for the RDNA architecture: presentation notes
- collection of notes about the content of the AMD talk presenting the AMD RDNA architecture and GPU...
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Rendered #1
- A new newsletter with news and insight on volumetric filmmaking, virtual production, 3D rendering,...
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Spatiotemporal reservoir resampling for real-time ray tracing with dynamic direct lig...
- the paper presents a new technique that allows a massive number of dynamic lights to be rendered i...
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Let's build ... 2020
- AMD virtual event that contains talks about - Ryzen™ Processor Software Optimization
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Technically Art: Issue 54 (15.05.2020)
- collection of tweets related to VFX, shaders, and game art
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I haz a GDC talk - Real-Time CSG
- overview of what Constructive Solid Geometry (CSG) is and workflows
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Getting started with Radeon Memory Visualizer (RMV)
- the post provides an overview of the new AMD memory profiler for Vulkan and D3D12
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Using Blue Noise For Raytraced Soft Shadows
- the article shows how to calculate the shadows from the sun
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Ray Marching Fog With Blue Noise
- the article presents how using blue noise can improve ray marching results
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Frame Analysis - Minecraft RTX Beta
- presents a breakdown of the RTX implementation for Minecraft
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Some brief thoughts on how Nanite in UE5 possibly works....
- the author presents his ideas about how the Nanite technology in the UE5 tech demo might be implem...
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Some thoughts on Unreal 5's Nanite - in way too many words
- the article that discusses possible ideas on how the UE5 nanite technology might be implemented
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NVIDIA Ampere Architecture In-Depth
- an overview of the new Nvidia Ampere Architecture aimed at compute workloads
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CUDA 11 Features Revealed
- overview of new features in CUDA 11 and how the NVIDIA Ampere GPU hardware features are exposed
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Ray Tracing Essentials Part 7: Denoising for Ray Tracing
- the final part of raytracing series - presents what denoising techniques are and why they are requ...
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a history of nvidia stream multiprocessor
- the article presents an overview of the Nvidia GPU architecture and how they developed over time
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Rendering volumetric clouds using signed distance fields
- presents a technique that combines singed distance fields and ray marching to render static volume...
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Monte Carlo Geometry Processing: A Grid-Free Approach to PDE-Based Methods on Volumet...
- the paper presents how to apply the monte-carle methods to geometry processing
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On Ray Reordering Techniques for Faster GPU Ray Tracing
- the paper presents an overview of ray sorting techniques and introduces a new method for ray sorti...
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A perceptual model of motion quality for rendering with adaptive refresh-rate and res...
- this paper presents the results of testing done into human perception, comparing test
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[video] Animal Crossing, wobbly leaves, pivot caching.
- the Video presents an overview of a shader technique implementing the behavior of leaves in Animal...
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Point of WebGPU on native
- the author presents his view on WebGPU for use in native applications
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GPU architecture resources
- collection of resource links to presentations, papers and articles focusing on the details of GPU ...
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CUDA Refresher: Getting started with CUDA
- a brief overview on how to get started with CUDA
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Meshlete - Chop 3D objects to meshlets
- a tool to generate meshlets for use with compute based culling algorithms or mesh shaders
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Real-time Shadows
- the presentation provides an in-depth overview of shadow techniques for real
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Physically-Based Materials – Energy Conservation and Reciprocity
- the article presents the definition of a physically
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Prefix sum on Vulkan
- the article presents how to implement a prefix sum using Vulkan compute shaders
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Depth-Based Post Effects
- the Unity tutorial explains how to use the depth texture to apply a localized toon shading effect
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Profiling DXR Shaders with Timer Instrumentation
- new Nvidia extension for D3D12 that provides shaders the possibility to query timestamps from with...
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Complex Maps Masks, Details, and Normals
- next part in the Unity Tutorial series about implementing a custom scriptable rendering pipeline
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[video] Tech Focus: What Is VRS And Is It A Next-Gen Game-Changer? Variable Rate Shad...
- the video provides an overview of Variable Rate Shading (VRS)
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Frame Analysis - Mortal Kombat 11
- breakdown of the rendering techniques used in Mortal Kombat 11
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It’s time we talk about TDR
- the article presents an alternative execution model that would be able to improve upon Timeout Det...
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Fast Subsurface Scattering for the Unity URP
- the article presents the Wrapped lighting technique to emulate subsurface scattering
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Volumetric Rendering Part 1
- this part of the article on volumetric rendering shows how to model a volume using an SDF inside o...
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Volumetric Rendering Part 2
- the second part of the article presents how to render the volumetrics
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UE4 - Physical light unit - Twitter Thread
- Twitter thread about the complexities of different light measuring units
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flowchart for descriptor set setup in Vulkan
- a flowchart that provides an overview of the descriptor set binding logic of the Vulkan API
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CUSTOM GAME ENGINES: A Small Study
- list of games studios and which custom engines they are using
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Twitter thread - using quaternions
- the thread provides an overview of what are use cases for quaternions
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Improving the quality of the alpha test (cutout) materials
- the article explains problems with alpha testing materials and why they tend to shrink in the dist...
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Debugging refraction in a sphere
- presents a test setup that explains how to validate ray refraction within a sphere
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From WebGL to WebGPU in Construct
- the article presents how WebGPU compares with WebGL
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Ray Tracing Essentials Part 6: The Rendering Equation
- part of the ray tracing series covering the rendering equation
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Vulkan - Debug Printf
- the Vulkan validation layer now can send printf style information from a shader to the debug callb...
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[video] Ratchet & Clank Pixelizer FX in Unity
- the Unity video tutorial explains how to implement an effect that converts a 3D mesh into a voxeli...
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Blurred rounded rectangles
- the article presents how to calculate a blurred version of a rounded rectangle using a distance fi...
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UE4 Texture/Material/Cascade optimization tips
- a long document containing many tips and tricks to optimize UE4 performance
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Floating World Shader Part 5 – Ocean Material
- the last part of a series of UE4 based posts that recreate an environment artists scene
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The Technical Interview [LEAKED]
- the guide presents an overview of the structure and content of technical interviews
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Bilinear texture filtering – artifacts, alternatives, and frequency domain analysis
- provides an introducing into linear blending - explaining that pixels are no signal but rather sam...
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validating physical light units
- the article presents how to use the Mitsuba renderer to validate the results from a PBR renderer
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godot 4.0 gets global and per-instance shader uniforms
- the article presents that Godot has now 3 update frequencies for shader parameters global, per
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Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games 2020 papers on the web
- collection of papers from the I3D 2020 conference
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Ray Tracing Essentials Part 5: Ray Tracing Effects
- part 5 of Nvidia ray tracing series - focuses on the presentation of different visual effects that...
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nvidia webinar - ray tracing essentials
- Eric Haines will be giving a webinar on May 12 - explains concepts related to ray tracing, compari...
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Intro to gfx-hal • Part 3: Vertex buffers
- part 3 of Rust gfx-hal intro series - shows all the steps required including binary serialization ...
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Implementing a Physically Based Shading without locking yourself in
- presentation from revision - focuses on the physics of light interaction with matters
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Introducing Low-Level GPU Virtual Memory Management
- Cuda introduces new memory management functionality
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Secrets of Direct3D 12: Resource Alignment
- the article shows that the D3D12 alignment requirement rules have an exception for small textures ...
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3 Techniques for Dynamically Colored UI Graphics
- the article presents 3 different techniques for Unity that allow the color of UI elements to be dy...
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[video] A Taste of GPU Compute
- talks aimed at computer science students starting to get started with GPU technology
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Frame Analysis - Overwatch
- the article and video and present a high-level overview of the rendering passes of Overwatch
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Life stories: the Glimpse Renderer – part 1
- Part 1, [2](https://maxliani.wordpress.com/2020/04/16/life
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Evolving Path of Exile's Renderer
- the talk presents an overview of rendering features developed for Path of Exile
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Virtual machine for executing SPIR-V
- A virtual machine that is written in C enables executing of a subset of SPIR
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Speeding Up Lighthouse 2
- presents operations that reduced the shading time required from 21.58ms to 13.52ms
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Artists’ best practices for mobile game development
- A guide aimed at technical artists to preset best practices for geometry, texture, material and sh...
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Optimizing Trilinear Interpolation
- the article presents implementations optimizations to speedup trilinear filtering
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Updated Article Database Design
- The database of articles included in this series has been updated with a new look
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NVIDIA Vulkan Ray Tracing Tutorials
- collection of Vulkan tutorials for the VK_KHR_ray_tracing extension
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Using Nsight Systems for Fixing Stutters in Games
- the article shows how Nsight was used for debugging a frame stutter bug in the Vulkan raytracing i...
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Optimizing VK/VKR and DX12/DXR Applications Using Nsight Graphics: GPU Trace Advanced...
- the post presents how to use Nsight to apply the Peak
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Paper Burn Shader in Unity
- this Unity tutorial explains how to implement a burning effect for paper
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Intro to gfx-hal • Part 1: Drawing a triangle
- part 1 of rust graphics programming series using the rust gfx hal
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Intro to gfx-hal • Part 2: Push constants
- the second part of the tutorial series extends the example so that Vulkan push constants can be us...
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physical lighting quantities: tying both ends
- the article presents a method that allows validation of a physical camera model against ground tru...
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Seven Things for March 31, 2020
- collection of links and graphics community news such as ACM Digitial library being free, I3D pospo...
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Biquadratic interpolation with independent sample weights
- the article shows how to use quadratic interpolation for depth aware upsampling
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GTC 2020: DLSS - Image Reconstruction for Real-time Rendering with Deep Learning
- the GTC talks provide an overview of Deep Learning Super Sampling
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Terrain and Mesh Blending in Unity
- his Unity tutorial shows one way of blending meshes that are close to the terrain with the terrain...
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Unmasking the Arkham Knight
- the article presents a breakdown of the rendering stages found in the PC version of Batman: Arkham...
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GTC 2020: RTXGI: Scalable Ray Traced Global Illumination in Real Time
- the GTC presentation explains how the technique aims to replace existing indirect lighting techniq...
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ACM TechTalk - Ed Catmull & Richard Chuang
- ACM tech talk with Ed Catmull & Richard Chuang happening on Tuesday, April 14
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An Efficient Transport Estimator for Complex Layered Materials
- the paper presents a new technique to speed up the rendering of complex, layered materials
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A new method to construct isotropic blue-noise point sets with uniform projections
- the article presents a method for direct construction of tileable isotropic blue noise
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a little thread on a neat way to interpolate across a triangle!
- A twitter thread that explains what barycentric coordinates are and how they are commonly used in ...
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Hierarchical Depth Buffers
- the article presents what Hierarchical depth buffers are, what they are used for and how to genera...
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[Video] Commandos Cone of Sight FX in Unity | GPUMAN
- the Unity tutorial explains how to implement a cone of sight that is occluded by objects
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Links to GDC 2020 Talks and More
- collection of link resources from GDC, GTC - additional resources from Google, Intel, Ubisoft and ...
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PIX 2003.26 – DirectX 12 Ultimate and DXIL debugging
- new Pix for Windows release with support for DXR 1.1, Mesh shaders and sampler feedback
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NVIDIA Announces Nsight Graphics 2020.2
- GPU Trace and Nsight Aftermath now supports Vulkan
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Augmenting shader languages for modern rendering APIs
- the author presents his domain-specific language and how it's used to extend shaders
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Vulkan Mobile Best Practices - Management of Command Buffers and Multi-Threaded Recor...
- the article presents best practices for multithreaded command recording with Vulkan
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WebGL best practices
- the article contains many best practices for WebGL applications
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Introducing OpenCL™ and OpenGL® on DirectX
- Microsoft and Collabora are working together to implement an OpenCL and OpenGL layer for Mesa that...
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Multi-Adapter with Integrated and Discrete GPUs
- presentation from Intel that presents how to use multiple adapters with D3D12
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Variable Rate Shading Tier 1 with Microsoft DirectX* 12 from Theory to Practice
- the presentation provides an overview of Variable Rate Shading (VRS), explaining what shading and ...
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RTX Global Illumination SDK Now Available
- Nvidia released the RTX Global Illumination (RTXGI) SDK v1.0
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Announcing the NVIDIA Texture Tools Exporter 2020.1
- Nvidia released a new version of the DDS exporter
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Announcing DirectX 12 Ultimate
- post containing an overview of the new D3D12 Feature level 12_2 now called DirectX 12 Ultimate
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Shaders For People Who Don't Know How To Shader: Smooth blending with Sine
- the Unity tutorial shows how to use color masks to apply runtime coloring with smooth blending to ...
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Ray Tracing In Vulkan
- the post provides an overview of the new Vulkan raytracing extensions
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[video] Reinventing the Geometry Pipeline: Mesh Shaders in DirectX 12 | Shawn Hargrea...
- the presentation provides an overview of mesh shaders
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[video] Advanced Mesh Shaders | Martin Fuller
- build upon the @Reinventing the Geometry Pipeline: Mesh Shaders in DirectX 12" talks summarized ab...
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DirectX 12 Sampler Feedback | Claire Andrews
- the video provides an overview of the new Sampler Feedback feature added to D3D12
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Nvidia - DirectX
- overview articles by Nvidia for D3D12 Ray Tracing, Mesh shading, Variable Rate Shading, and Sample...
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New: Vulkan Device Generated Commands
- the article describes the VK_NV_device_generated_commands extension for Vulkan
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Enable Ray Tracing: Two-Level Acceleration Structure
- the article presents an overview of a BVH structure for GPU raytracing
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Fresnel Equations, Schlick Approximation, Metals, and Dielectrics
- the post presents the fresnel equations that are used for smooth metals and surfaces such as water...
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Reverse engineering the rendering of The Witcher 3, part 18 - color grading
- Reverse engineering the color grading solution used in "The Witcher 3"
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Getting started with shaders: signed distance functions!
- the article aimed at beginners presents how to use ShaderToy to get started with shader developmen...
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Aliasing in computer graphics
- the article presents an overview of aliasing in digital signal processing
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Sprite Glow/Outline Shader Breakdown
- the Unity tutorial shows how to create an outline effect for 2D sprites
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Vulkan Best Practices: Frequently Asked Questions - Part 2
- discusses buffer allocation, update and mapping strategies
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A Simple GPU Hash Table
- the post discusses how to write a simple GPU Hash table implementation using CUDA
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Interior SDFs
- the article presents that combining signed distance fields of primitives using min and max operati...
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Ray Tracing Essentials Part 4: The Ray Tracing Pipeline
- part 4 of ray tracing series by Nvidia - this episode focuses on the RayTracing APIs in D3D and Vu...
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The Division ECHO Fx In Unity | GPUMAN
- Video tutorial for Unity that shows how to present the Echo effect (a point
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Why DXR 1.1 vs 1.0?
- overview of what is new with DXR 1.1 - presents how to extend a depth pre
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ASTC Format Overview
- the document provides an overview of the ASTC texture compression format
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Automated Performance Advice for Android Games
- the article presents how to use new ARM tools to gather performance information (later versions wi...
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How Epic Games is handling auto exposure in 4.25
- the article explains how exposure used to work in Unreal Engine 4.24
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Reverse engineering the rendering of The Witcher 3, part 17 - the Milky Way
- the article shows how the milky way rendering from the Witcher 3
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Paper Shader in Unity
- A Unity tutorial that focuses on the deformation of a plane to create a crumbled paper look
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How to do boolean operations on meshes for procedural cutting of geometry!
- the post provides an overview of an algorithm for boolean operations on geometry
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Ray Tracing Essentials Part 3: Ray Tracing Hardware
- part 3 of Nvidia ray tracing series - this part focuses on the history of ray tracing hardware and...
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An idiot's guide to animation compression
- the article discusses techniques to compress data for skeletal animation data used for game runtim...
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GL_NV_mesh_shader Simple Mesh Shader Example
- a very brief high-level overview of mesh shaders and necessary OpenGL extension
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Secrets of Direct3D 12: Copies to the Same Buffer
- the article presents multiple scenarios in D3D12 where manual barrier synchronization is required
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Borderland between Rendering and Editor - Part 1
- the post focuses on efficient and high-quality grid rendering for "The Machinery" editor
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Writing an efficient Vulkan renderer
- copy of an article that was published in GPU Zen 2, updated for changes introduced with Vulkan 1.1...
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Ray Tracing Essentials Part 2: Rasterization versus Ray Tracing
- video comparing rasterization and ray-tracing algorithm
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A Survey of Temporal Antialiasing Techniques
- the paper presents an overview of Temporal Antialiasing (TAA) techniques, the history, different i...
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Compact PBR texture packing and blending experiment with Shader Graph
- presents findings from compressing PBR material information into a single texture
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Vulkan Mobile Best Practices: Frequently Asked Questions - Part 1
- A FAQ for Vulkan best practices guide by ARM - swap chain acquisition, image transitions, device l...
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[video] Two Minute Papers - The Story of Light
- the 7-min video provides a walk through the history of light transport research
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fast trisect in GLSL
- the article presents an approximation to the GLSL trisect function
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Basic Skeletal Animation with Geometric Algebra
- the tutorial shows how to implement a skeletal animation system using Geometric Algebra (GA)
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Packing UVs for deferred materials
- the article presents how to pack UV and gradients (ddx, ddy) into 32
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Sprite Stencil Overlay Breakdown (Forward Renderer)
- the Unity tutorial shows how to implement a checkerboard pattern if a 2D player is behind another ...
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sokol_gfx.h Backend Tour
- a 3 part series that provides an overview of the backend implementations of sokol_gfx for the Open...
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Bringing HLSL Ray Tracing to Vulkan
- Nvidia added support to the DirectX Shader Compiler (DXR) to generate SPIR
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Ways to speedup pixel shader execution
- the article presents an overview of techniques to optimize pixel shaders
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Reverse engineering the rendering of The Witcher 3, part 16 - shooting stars
- the author presents how shooting stars in the Witcher 3 are implemented
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Sampling Analytic Participating Media
- the in-depth article presents the physical models and approximations of participating media (such ...
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Data Driven Rendering: Pipelines
- the newest part in article series about defining a data
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Shader Graph Conversion : Eyeball Shader
- the Unity tutorial explains how to implement a stylized Eyeball Shader using Unity Shader Graph
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Rendering Particles with Compute Shaders
- presents an approach to render particle effects using compute shaders
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LunarG Vulkan Ecosystem & SDK Survey Results
- the results from the Vulkan survey have been released
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Unity Toy Path Tracer
- the article presents how to implement a Path Tracer using the Unity Data
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Handling Device Orientation Efficiently in Vulkan With Pre-Rotation
- the article describes how to deal with device orientation changes in a Vulkan application efficien...
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Coherency gathering in ray tracing: the benefits of hardware ray tracking
- the article presents the problems with ray tracing in terms of divergence workflows
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Create nice and feasible volumetric cloud in Unreal Engine 4
- the blog posts presents how to use high quality volumetric fog in UE4 to simulate ground level rol...
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Minions Art Tutorials
- collections of art, unity tutorials and shader introduction articles
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How to Correctly Interpolate Vertex Attributes on a Parallelogram Using Modern GPUs?
- article presents how to use barycentric coordinates in a pixel shader to manually interpoliate val...
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Shaders For People Who Don't Know How To Shader: Deferred
- the article presents a brief overview of what deferred shading is
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GPU resources
- collection of gpu resources - links to details about hardware, shader languages, and WebGPU
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Reaching for the stars
- the Unity article describes how to generate a stylized procedualr skybox
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Instancing and Material Property Blocks
- the Unity tutorials shows how to use Material Property Blocks
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Four Color Gradient
- beginner Unity shader tutorial that shows how to implement a gradient made from 4 colors forming a...
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Journey Sand Shader: Ripples
- last part of Unity shader torial that shows how to add ripples into the sand dunes
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How to Calculate Shader Graph Normals
- Unity tutorial that shows how to calculate new normals from a vertex shader
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Generating Perfect Normal Maps for Unity (and Other Programs)
- the article shows what needs to be considered when baking normal maps for use with separate applic...
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A Fun 2d Rotation Matrix Derivation
- the article shows a connection between "2D cross product", Complex Numbers and 2D rotation matrice...
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Normal matrices are overrated
- the tweet shows an alternative formulation for a normal transformation matrix (required when non
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Dissolve Shader Breakdown
- the Unity shader breakdown explains how to dissolve a mesh using a combination of noise and height...
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A Scalable Real-Time Many-Shadowed-Light Rendering System
- Siggraph presentation showcasing a shadow system that enables thousands of shadowed
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Wave Function Collapse tips and trick
- the article presents an overview of the Wave Function Collapse algorithm
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Shadow Terminator in Takua
- the article presents a comparison between techniques to solve the harsh shadow terminator problem
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Approximating Subsurface Scattering With Spherical Gaussians
- the article shows a breakdown on how to approximate subsurface scattering from a point light using...
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Separate your filters! Separability, SVD and low-rank approximation of 2D image proce...
- the article presents the basics of Singular Value Decomposition
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Volumetric Clouds Resources List
- a collection of articles, presentations and other resources covering volumetric cloud render...
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Building WebGPU with Rust
- the presentation provides an overview of the development of WebGPU
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2D Sprite Overlay Effects
- short Unity tutorial that shows how to use sprites to simulate screenspace effects such as d...
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Baked Light Light Maps and Probes
- the tutorial shows how light baking is implemented in Unity
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Optimizing Game Development with GPU Performance Events
- the article presents Do’s and Don’ts for the use of GPU performance events
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World space UVs & Triplanar Mapping
- the Unity tutorial shows how WorldSpace positions can be used to texture planar object
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Vulkan: Bad Practices
- the article presents several Vulkan patterns that cause reduced performance and should be av...
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Progressive Least-Squares Encoding for Linear Bases
- the paper presents a GPU compatible algorithm for processive approximation least
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Learning from data
- the article presents how ordering mesh data can influence rendering performance
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Using AMD FreeSync™ Premium Pro HDR: Code Samples
- the article shows how to enable AMD FreeSync using D3D12 and Vulkan
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Khronos Group Releases Vulkan 1.2
- Vulkan 1.2 has been released - this release promotes [23 extensions](https://www.khronos.org/regis...
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D3D12 Translation Layer and D3D11On12 are now open source
- Microsoft open-sourced two layers to help to port to D3D12
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Performance Evaluation of Acceleration Structures for Cone Tracing Traversal
- the paper examines k-d trees and bounding volume hierarchies
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Vulkan Timeline Semaphores
- the article discusses the new timeline semaphore synchronization API included in Vulkan 1.2
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Calculates view space 3D sphere extents on the screen
- the code snippet shows how to screenspace extends of a sphere from view space
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Projective Geometric Algebra Done Right
- the article presents how Grassmann (Geometric) Algebra extends four
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Stylized Lava Shader
- the Unity tutorial explains how to achieve a stylized lava effect
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Shader Graph Stylized Lava
- the Unity tutorial shows to implement the stylized lava effect discussed in the previous article u...
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An Opinionated Post on Modern Rendering Abstraction Layers
- the author presents his opinions about how a rendering abstraction layer should be designed
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Accurate Normal Reconstruction from Depth Buffer
- presents an improved precision method for normal reconstruction from depth buffers
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HLSL Viewport Clamping trick
- the article presents a few approaches to skybox rendering
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Ray Guiding for Production Lightmap Baking
- the paper introduces a technique for improving the computation time required for lightmap baking
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Real-Time Ray-Tracing in WebGPU
- the article shows how to use Node bindings to enable RTX support when using WebGPU
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UV-Based Nodes
- the article presents the shader nodes from Unity ShaderGraph system
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Correct sRGB Dithering
- the article presents code and explains the logic behind correct dithering patterns that preserve t...
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Clustered shading evolution in Granite
- the article shows an overview of deferred shading techniques
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Radeon™ GPU Profiler 1.7
- new release of AMD profiler that introduces a new pipeline overview view and adds new overlays for...
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How to Optimize your Oculus Quest App w/ RenderDoc: Walkthroughs of Key Usage Scenari...
- the article shows how to use RenderDoc to identify issues and how to alleviate them
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Inverse Lerp and Remap
- a short Unity tutorial that explains inverse lerp function
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NVIDIA VRSS, a Zero-Effort Way to Improve Your VR Image Quality
- the latest Nvidia driver update introduce Variable Rate Supersampling for D3D11 + MSAA application...
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[video] Shader Coding: Over the Moon - Part 2
- the second part of a shadertoy video tutorial - the tutorial extends the scene to render multiple ...
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[video] Deriving the SDF of a Line Segment
- this video tutorial shows how to derive the signed distance field for a line segment
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Journey Sand Shader: Glitter Reflection
- next part in Unity tutorial series about the rendering of sand
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Mip Map Folding
- a brief summary of mipmapping - shows how mipmapping causes details in glitter effect of sand to b...
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Alpha to Coverage or Anti-Aliased Cutout - TUTORIAL
- the Unity tutorial shows how alpha to coverage allows improved edges on vegetation
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Vulkan hardware database feature update
- update to Vulkan database shows the first driver version an extension/feature has been introduced
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Raw WebGPU
- the article shows how to use the WebGPU API to implement everything required to render a colored t...
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How to learn graphics programming (but not in a hurry): self-study edition!
- Twitter thread about the authors' recommendations about learning graphics programming
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Physically based shading references, at the end of 2019
- collection of resources covering physically based shading
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Toon Glass Shader Breakdown
- the Unity tutorial shows to create a toon style glass shader using shader graph
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The polygons of Another World
- the article shows how the 1991 game Another World is being rendered
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How to Optimize your Oculus Quest App w/ RenderDoc: Walkthroughs of Key Usage Scenari...
- the article shows a collection of usage scenarios and explains what should be done for best ...
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Draw Anti-aliased Lines with Geometry Shader
- the article shows how to render anti-aliased lines
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Journey Sand Shader: Specular Reflection
- part 4 of sand rendering tutorial - adds support for Rim Lighting, Fresnel Reflectance, and ...
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Simulated Exposure Fusion
- the paper extends the Exposure Fusion technique to operate on a single image
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Tile-based optimization for post processing
- the article presents a tile-based classification system for post
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Technically Art: Issue 50 (03.01.2020)
- collection of tweets related to VFX, shaders, and game art
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Applying For Technical Art Jobs
- the article provides an overview of the technical artist role
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Two Shader Compilers of Direct3D 12
- the article shows the two different shader compilers for D3D12: the FXC and DXC compiler
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Height Maps & Parallaxing
- the article explains the parallax effect and how it's different from normal mapping
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A new tessellator
- the article describes the algorithm rewire of a vector to triangle mesh tesselator written i...
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Thermal/ Stealth Vision Effect
- the Unity tutorial shows how to implement a thermal view effect
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Technically Art: Issue 49 (27.12.2019)
- collection of tweets related to VFX, shaders, and game art
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Procedural Generation - Unity3d Procedurally Generation For Beginners With Random Ins...
- A unity video tutorial that shows how to generate a circle procedurally
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Roblox graphics APIs 2019 - What does the future hold?
- an updated article that presents the latest numbers and what APIs Roblox is currently suppor...
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Sampling Burley's Normalized Diffusion Profiles
- the article presents how to inverse the CDF of the Disney SSS
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Open-Source Ray Tracers and Path Tracers
- a list of open-source ray and path tracers
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Developers Show Off Amazing Real-Time Ray-Traced Projects in New DXR Spotlight Contes...
- collection of games that have been selected by Nvidia as excellent showcases for the use of ...
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Ray Tracing Essentials, Part 1: Basics of Ray Tracing
- the first part of the video series that will explain the basics of ray
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Mitsuba 2: A Retargetable Forward and Inverse Renderer
- the recording of a talk presents an overview of the architecture of the Mitsuba 2 renderer
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Part 23: Intro to Unity's Specular Workflow
- the unity tutorial provides a brief overview of the specular workflow compared with the meta...
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The Simple, Flexible, Octasphere
- the article shows a UV sphere, icosphere and proposes the octasphere
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Matrices for Tech Artists, non Affine Transformations
- the article presents transformations around an arbitrary axis and points
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Digital Foundry's Best Game Graphics Of 2019: The Year's Best Tech In Review!
- video review by Digital Foundry of the games released in 2019s
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Writing a ray marcher in Unity
- the video tutorial shows how to write a ray marcher in a unity pixel shader
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Integrating FidelityFX into the Ego Engine
- the article presents how to integrate FidelityFX Contrast Adaptive Sharpening (CAS) compute ...
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Light Saber Breakdown
- the article shows how to use a vertex shader to animate the vertices for a lightsaber effect
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AMD “Vega” 7nm Instruction Set Architecture documentation
- Instruction Set Architecture provides an overview of how Vega architecture is designed
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PowerVR SDK and Tools 2019 Release 2 now available
- the article provides an overview of new features of the PowerVR SDK
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Three years of Metal
- the article provides an overview of the experience using metal over the last 3 years
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Technically Art: Issue 47 (13.12.2019)
- collection of tweets related to VFX, shaders, and game art
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Part 22: Skyboxes
- the Unity tutorial shows how to create a skybox shader that uses a gradient defined by two colors
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Ray tracing on the WEB
- a web-based ray tracing framework that exposes programmable stages based on GLSL for rapid prototy...
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Probability Theory for Physically Based Rendering
- the blog details the mathematical approach of Monte
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Probability Theory for Physically Based Rendering Part 2
- the article extends the knowledge from part 1 to the domain of solving the rendering equation
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Writing a Shader Effect Language Part 3: Materials
- the article presents an exploration of a material system designed for Vulkan requirements
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Collection of light transport papers
- an extensive collection of light transport papers
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Bezier Triangles
- the article shows the possibility of using Bezier Triangles to store arbitrary and use this as a l...
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PIX 1911.27 – New Buffer Formatter and Capture from Launch
- new PIX version allows the creation of custom buffer formats and saves/restore those
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collection of tweets showcasing a large number of effects, games and technical art re...
- collection of tweets showcasing a large number of effects, games and technical art resources...
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IMG A-Series: the GPU for generation 2020
- new GPU architecture by Imagination Technologies (PowerVR)
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A New Language for Sparse Data
- the article presents an overview of the Taichi programming language
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Proof of the Sampling Method for Visible GGX
- the article describes the Visible GGX distribution (vGGX) sampling method
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How to Optimize your Oculus Quest App w/ RenderDoc: Getting Started + Frame Capture
- begins with an overview of RenderDoc functionality
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My take on shaders: Grass Shader (Part II)
- part 2 of the grass shader, part 1 was discussed in issues [105](https://www.jendrikillner.c...
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Matrices for Tech Artists, a Cheat Sheet
- the article provides an overview of matrices
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Rust Game Series - Part 5 - D3D11 Device and Swap Chain creation
- part of Rust game programming series - the article shows how to call D3D11 from Rust
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PowerVR PerfDoc – Performance Validation for PowerVR
- fork of the PerfDoc performance layer to detect performance issues on PowerVR hardware
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Exploring SculptrVR’s efficient lighting solution for the Oculus Quest
- the article provides an overview of the lighting model used by SculptrVR
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NVIDIA Variable Rate Shading Demonstrated in Autodesk VRED
- the article provides an easy to understand overview of Variable Rate Shading
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Partial Derivatives (fwidth)
- the tutorial explains the ddx and ddy shader functions
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Making a Glass Shader, Part 1: GrabPass & Refraction
- the Unity tutorial shows how to use transparency to create a look through the object
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Making a Glass Shader, Part 2: Highlights & Reflections
- part 2 of the shader glass material shader tutorial with Unity
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Directional Lights Direct Illumination
- this Unity tutorial shows how to use the scriptable rendering pipeline to implement up to 4 direct...
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YUV sampling in Vulkan – a niche and complicated feature – VK_KHR_ycbcr_sampler_conve...
- the article provides a brief overview of the YUV/YCbCr colorspace and a few complications with it ...
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Positional Effects (Scattered Objects Moving Back / Growing Flowers)
- brief unity tutorial that shows how to implement effects that are based on the player position
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RGB/XYZ Conversion Matrix Accuracy
- the article shows the matrices between XYZ colors and sRGB colors
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PC Rendering Techniques to Avoid when Developing for Mobile VR
- the article presents an overview of techniques that are not a good fit for mobile VR applications
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Technically Art: Issue 44 (22.11.2019)
- collection of tweets showcasing a large number of effects, games and technical art resources
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Part 20: Post Processing Effects & Chromatic Aberration
- a unity tutorial that explains how to create a post
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Normal map compositing using the surface gradient framework in Shader Graph
- the article shows how the surface gradient framework (discussed in issue [102](/post/graphics
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Vulkan Releases Extension to Expose Cross-Vendor Performance Metrics
- a new Vulkan extension that allows developers to query performance metrics from the GPU
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Applying for Entry Level Graphics Jobs in Games
- overview of advice by the author on what candidates should be focusing on if they are interested i...
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Open-Source Real-Time Rendering Engines and Libs
- list of open-source rendering engines and helper libraries
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[#78] Podcast time! & PBR Theory for Artists - Part one
- podcast episode for artists - contains a collection of links to other articles related to PBR rend...
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The RTX Shader Binding Table Three Ways
- provides an overview of the raytracing execution model
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2019 Reboot Develop Red
- links to Vulkan presentations and videos from Reboot Develop Red
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Latency of 30 ms Matters More Than Refresh Rate Above 60 Hz for First Person Targetin...
- research by Nvidia that investigates the influence of latency reduction and higher frame rates in ...
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Instanced Line Rendering
- the article explains how to render lines - extends the method to support different styles of line ...
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DeepFovea: Neural Reconstruction for Foveated Rendering and Video Compression using L...
- the paper presents a new technique that uses a neural network to reconstruct foveated rendering fr...
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Coming to DirectX 12: D3D9On12 and D3D11On12 Resource Interop APIs
- the article provides an overview of the new API that allows users to request the underlying D3D12 ...
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Journey Sand Shader: Sand Normal
- the article proposes a technique that uses a random texture to perturb the normals of dunes to sim...
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Vulkan Mobile Best Practices - Descriptor and Buffer Management
- the article provides an overview of how Vulkan descriptor set management influences CPU performanc...
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Coming to DirectX 12: More control over memory allocation
- D3D12 is adding two new flags for memory heap creation
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Improving Particle Systems on PowerVR
- brief article explains how to detect particle overdraw using the PowerVR profiler
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Technically Art: Issue 43 (15.11.2019)
- collection of tweets showcasing a large number of effects, games and technical art resources
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On Histogram-Preserving Blending for Randomized Texture Tiling
- the paper presents a modification of histogram-preserving tiling algorithm discussed in [issue 45]...
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Coming to DirectX 12— Mesh Shaders and Amplification Shaders: Reinventing the Geometr...
- the article explains the problem with the classic GPU geometry pipeline
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DirectX Raytracing (DXR) Tier 1.1
- the article explains what has been added with DXR tier 1.1
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Vulkan-Guide
- new Vulkan guide by Khronos - a crucial starting point for getting started with Vulkan
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Coming to DirectX 12— Sampler Feedback: some useful once-hidden data, unlocked
- the article presents the use-case of the streaming system and texture space shading
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What are use-cases of Texture-Space Shading in DX12, based on current research?
- Twitter thread about possibilities of texture-space shading
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Ray Guiding for Production Lightmap Baking
- the paper introduces a technique for improving the computation time required for lightmap baking
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Image-based Remapping of Spatially-varying Material Appearance
- the paper introduces a technique for translation of materials between different renderers
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[video] Rounding Corners in SDFs
- the video shows how to modify the SDF of any geometrical shape to make its edges more rounded
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Dev Preview of New DirectX 12 Features
- the post introduces new D3D12 features available with latest win10 preview version
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Arm donates Vulkan Best Practice for Mobile Developers to The Khronos Group
- the ARM developed sets of samples to showcase best practices for Vulkan on mobile is now open
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Vulkan Releases Unified Samples Repository
- Khronos published a unified Vulkan Samples Repository
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My take on shaders: Grass Shader (Part I)
- the article shows the Unity shader implementation for stylized and unlit grass
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ray tracing a tiny procedural planet
- starts by showing how to create a small 2D world procedurally
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[video] Deriving the SDF of a Box
- the video presents how to derive the SDF for a box
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SIGGRAPH 2019 Highlight: Finding a Practical Hybrid Anti-Aliasing Algorithm
- summary of SIGGRAPH 2019 for a hybrid solution between temporal anti
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srgb eotf: pure gamma 2.2 function or piece-wise function?
- the article presents the different meaning of the term gamma in different color contexts
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Flow Control on PowerVR – Optimising Shaders
- presents an overview of the difference between static and dynamic branching
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Another Metaballs2 update
- introduction of marching cube pre-pass stage reduces the mesh shader example GPU time by 33% to 50...
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Technically Art: Issue 40 (25.10.2019)
- collection of tweets related to VFX, shaders, and game art
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Mesh Texture painting in Unity Using Shaders
- the author presents his solution on how to implement painting onto textures using unity
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A Look Inside D3D12 Resource State Barriers
- the article presents the D3D12 resource state promotion and decay rules related to the common reso...
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GPU Ray Tracing in an Afternoon
- the article presents how the author took the CPU implementation of Ray Tracing in a Weekend and co...
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RLSL - A rust to SPIR-V compiler
- a brief presentation by Embark Studios showing RLSL, a subset of rust compiled to SPIR
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Vulkan Mobile Best Practice: Picking the Most Efficient Load/Store Operations
- the article describes how the architecture of mobile GPUs is different from PC
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Raw DirectX 12
- the tutorial shows the steps necessary to render a single triangle using the D3D12 API
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Massively Parallel Path Space Filtering in Game Development
- excerpt of Siggraph 2019 talk that proposes averaging of neighboring rays into cells
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Radeon™ GPU Analyzer 2.3 for Direct3D® 12 Graphics
- the article shows how to use the Radeon GPU Analyzer to generate hardware native ISA disassembly, ...
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GOON – VOXEL OBJECT
- the article describes a demo scene effect that uses a 2D height map on a flat 2D shaded object to ...
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Handling Depth for Spheretracing
- next part of tutorial series shows how to extend a sphere tracing implementation in Unity to use t...
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A Journey Into Journey’s Sand Shader
- part 1 of a Unity tutorial series about the sand rendering in Journey
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Surface Gradient Based Bump Mapping Framework
- a mathematical framework for more consistent layering of bump/normal maps using linear surface gra...
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Emulating a fake retro GPU in Vulkan compute
- high-level system discussion of a retro GPU emulation implemented in Vulak compute shaders
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RenderDoc - Version v1.5
- new RenderDoc version allows explicit GPU playback selection
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Real-time Rendering of Layered Materials with Anisotropic Normal Distributions
- proposal of approach for rendering layered materials
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Living with Vulkan and DirectX 12
- the post describes the perspective from Stardock on D3D12/Vulkan vs. D3D11
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Progressive Real-Time Rendering of One Billion Points Without Hierarchical Accelerati...
- proposes a real-time solution to rendering unstructured point clouds
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Denoising as a Building Block
- provides an overview of the foundations of denoising techniques
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An Introduction To Real-Time Subsurface Scattering
- in-depth article that provides an overview of subsurface scattering techniques used for games
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Text Rendering Hates You
- the author provides an overview of problems that are encountered and make text rendering system ve...
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Desertscape Simulation
- presents a model to simulate erosion and transport simulation for sand due to wind
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Flexible Ray Traversal with an Extended Programming Model
- the paper proposes the addition of a Traversal Shader stage to the DXR model
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Half The Precision, Twice The Fun: Working With FP16 In HLSL
- the article shows how to use 16-bit floating-point types on PC hardware
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Technically Art: Issue 37 (04.10.2019)
- collection of tweets related to VFX, shaders, and game art
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Fractional Brownian Motion
- the article describes the characteristics of Fractional Brownian Motion
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Physically-Based Rendering with PowerVR – Part 2
- the article shows the precalculations steps that enable PBR rendering on mobile devices
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Strand-based Hair Rendering in Frostbite
- the presentation shows the new WIP hair rendering system
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Local linear models and guided filtering – an alternative to bilateral filter
- the article presents guided filtering as an alternative to a bilateral filter
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PIX 1909.23 – New timing capture features, performance improvements and bug fixes
- the new PIX CPU timeline view shows when a thread context switch happened and to where
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Ray Tracing Denoising
- overview of denoising techniques in raytracing applications
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How powerful can WebGL be in comparison with native OpenGL?
- performance comparison of a ray tracer application using native OpenGL against WebGL (Chrome, Fire...
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Custom Render Pipeline Taking Control of Rendering
- Unity tutorial showing how to set up a custom render pipeline
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Technically Art: Issue 36 (27.09.2019)
- collection of tweets related to VFX, shaders, and game art
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Multi-resolution Ocean Rendering in Crest Ocean System [280 MB pptx]
- provides an overview of the ocean rendering system
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Improved normal reconstruction from depth
- the article presents what kind of artifacts happen when reconstructing normals from world space po...
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Non-linear sphere tracing for rendering deformed signed distance fields
- the paper presents a method that allows SDFs to be combined with techniques such as linear skinnin...
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Metal Enhancements for A13 Bionic
- overview of what has been improved in the latest apple GPU architecture and metal
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Selectively Metropolised Monte Carlo light transport simulation
- the paper presents a new scheme that allows selectively combining different Monte Carlo rendering ...
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Vertex Assembly and Skinning
- the article explains how vertex shaders in "Our Machinery" engine is handled
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Geometry Reinvented with Mesh Shading
- excerpt from the [Siggraph talk](https://developer.nvidia.com/siggraph/2019/video/sig918
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DRED v1.2 supports PIX marker and event strings in Auto-Breadcrumbs
- DRED can now include PIX markers - additional string events can be attached to markers
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Real-time lightmap baking
- the presentation explains how lightmap baking has been implemented in [Wicked Engine](https://gith...
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Updated Metaballs2 demo
- Metaballs2 demo has been updated - the demo shows how to use mesh shaders and now provides a compu...
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The making of Gears 5: how the Coalition hit 60fps - and improved visual quality
- interview discussing the details of the Gear 5 implementation
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Believable Caustics Reflections
- tutorial explaining how to implement a Caustics effect in unity
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Diagnosing performance issues in Unity
- the article presents an overview of performance methodology to detect performance issues earlier
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WebGPU and WSL in Safari
- overview of the state of WebGPU in safari - Web Shading Language is a new text
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Mip-mapping is hard – importance of keeping your quads full
- looks at the behavior of texture sampling in divergent code flows on different hardware
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Overview of new additions to Vulkan SDK 1.1.121
- GPU assisted validation for VK_EXT_buffer_device_address
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Mitsuba 2: A Retargetable Forward and Inverse Renderer
- the paper discusses the design of the Mitsuba 2 renderer
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Technically Art: Issue 34 (13.09.2019)
- collection of tech art tweets, many gifs, and videos showing a large variety of effects and art st...
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Variance-aware multiple importance sampling
- the paper proposes a new weighting heuristic for multiple importance sampling
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Integral formulations of volumetric transmittance
- the paper presents novel integral formulations for volumetric transmittance
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Engineering Career Guide [LEAKED]
- guide by Roblox for the career development of rendering engineers
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Watch the Unity Graphics Sessions from SIGGRAPH 2019
- summary and links to the video recordings from Unity talks at SIGGRAPH 2019
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D3D12 Memory Allocator 1.0.0
- the first release of a new open-source D3D12 memory allocator project by AMD
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My take on shaders: Water Shader
- a walkthrough that explains a Unity water shader implementation
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The Sharpening Curse
- the article discusses the image quality difference between film and realtime rendering
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hybrid screen-space reflections
- the article presents a hybrid technique between Screen space reflections and ray
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Raw OpenGL
- OpenGL tutorial that teaches the concepts required to render a textured mesh
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DirectXShaderCompiler - prebuild releases
- Microsoft is now offering pre-built binaries of the shader compiler on GitHub
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Faster Shadow Rays on RTX
- the article presents different techniques to generate ray traced shadows
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Path Tracing Review
- intro to computer graphics from University of Waterloo summarized in one slide deck
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Mesh Shading: Towards Greater Efficiency Of Geometry Processing (pptx)
- a brief historical look at the rendering pipeline
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Interactive Wind and Vegetation in 'God of War' (2GB pptx!)
- overview of the interactive wind system in God of War
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Creating the Atmospheric World of Red Dead Redemption 2: A Complete and Integrated So...
- a presentation covering the volumetric effects of Red Dead Redemption 2
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AMD RDNA 1.0 Instruction Set Architecture
- instruction set documentation for the new AMD RDNA GPU architecture
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Resident Evil 2 Frame Breakdown
- frame breakdown of a Resident Evil 2 - presents the different stages found in the frame
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Split-free occlusion sorting
- the article discusses how to build a correct CPU occlusion sorting structure
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Are we done with Ray Tracing?
- slides for Siggraph 2019 course - talking about the state of ray
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Chasing Triangles in a Tile-based Rasterizer
- the detailed article explains how to tile-based rasterization works
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siggraph course: path tracing in production 2019
- course notes for the Siggraph 2019 course - part 1 focuses on the necessary background knowledge ...
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Technically Art: Issue 27 (26.07.2019)
- collection of VFX tweets of the week - tutorials, demos, and showcases of great looking effects
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Differences in memory management between Direct3D 12 and Vulkan
- the article discusses memory management in Vulkan and D3D12
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Fresnel Equations Considered Harmful
- presents problems with the Fresnel equations when applied to sRGB data
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Shadertoy media files
- the article contains the links to the build-in Shadertoy media files
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Axis-Aligned Bounding Tetrahedra and Octahedra for Ray Tracing Bounding Volume Hierar...
- presents Axis-Aligned-Bounding-Tetrahedron (AABT) and Axis
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Robust pipeline cache serialization
- provides an overview of Vulkan pipeline caching - list of possible problems that can be encountere...
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High-Performance Graphics 2019
- slides for the High-Performance Graphics 2019 conference are now available
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Physically Based Shading
- A Shadertoy that shows the different components the define physically based rendering
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GPU-Assisted Validation
- GPU based validation in Vulkan has been updated - now supports more cases, the article explains wh...
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Radeon GPU Analyzer 2.2 for Direct3D®12 Compute
- Radeon GPU Analyzer can now compile compute shaders to the target ISA without having to have the G...
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Dot products and planes
- an article explains the dot product and how it relates to the plane equation
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Dot product and its relationship to matrices
- shows how the dot product and axis define matrices
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How to ray-intersect a transformed geometry, without actually transforming it: a geom...
- the article shows that with the inverse-transformation applied to a ray origin and direction
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Command buffers for multi-threaded rendering
- explains a renderer architecture that separates command generation from execution
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Real-Time Hybrid Hair Rendering using Vulkan
- a paper about a new hair rendering technique - the technique is a hybrid between strand
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Rendering Line Lights
- explains how to implement line lights - using a Most Representative Point (MRP) approximation
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New in D3D12 – Motion Estimation
- D3D12 motion estimation support exposes access to the motion estimation hardware found in supporte...
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Using Basis Universal Texture Compression with Metal
- shows how to compile the Basis command line tool
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GPU timing data in New Timing Captures
- the timing capture view now supports GPU workload visualization
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SIGGRAPH 2019 Ray Tracing Roundup
- updated page with all raytracing related sessions, talks and papers from Siggraph 2019
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[Twitter] Low-Level Rendering API discussion
- Twitter thread about modern APIs - strengths, weaknesses, opinions, and suggestions for an alterna...
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Spectral Primary Decomposition for Rendering with sRGB Reflectance
- the paper presents a new technique that allows the generation of spectral data from sRGB source da...
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A Simple Spectral Renderer
- open source and well-commented implementation of a spectral path tracer
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[video] Turn your Frame Rate up to 60 with Vulkan on the Nintendo Switch: – Reboot De...
- Vulkan techniques used to achieve better performance on the Nintendo Switch
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[video] Halcyon: Rapid innovation using modern graphics – Reboot Develop 2019
- video recording of talk about the SEED halyon engine, was discussed in [issue
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geometry processing in the wild
- slides that present common problems with mesh data
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HLSLexplorer 1.01 - UI improvements and D3D12 rendering backend
- HLSLexplorer, a tool which helps in understanding how HLSL code gets translated to hardware assemb...
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Interactive Map Shader: Vertex Displacement
- part 1 of a Unity tutorial that shows how to create 3D geometry offset from a texture and corresp...
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Technically Art: Issue 25 (05.07.2019)
- collection of VFX tweets of the week - tutorials, demos, and showcases of great looking effects
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Nested Dielectrics
- presents a technique that improves the handling of nested dielectrics in ray
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ShaderGraph Conversion - Custom Functions(Toon Lighting Example), Vertex Colors(Specu...
- the tutorial shows to create custom nodes in Unity Shader Graph
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Render Graph Optimization Scribbles
- presents an algorithm for scheduling work in a render graph architecture
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Debugger Extension for DRED
- extension for WinDbg that enables debugging of Device Removed Extended Data
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Ambient Dice Specular Approximation
- presents how to use the Ambient Dice to store the GGX specular component
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Optimal Multiple Importance Sampling
- derives weighting functions for Multiple Importance Sampling (MIS) that minimize the varia...
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Orthogonal array sampling for Monte Carlo rendering
- a new strategy for the generation of stratified samples
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Generating Blue Noise Textures With Void And Cluster
- the article explains how to generate high-quality blue noise
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Level of Detail Cross-Fading Geometry
- next part in the article series about the implementation of a scriptable render pipeline in Unity
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Using AMD FreeSync 2 HDR: Gamut Mapping
- explains gamut mapping techniques - difference perceptual and clipping techniques
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Reverse engineering the rendering of The Witcher 3, part 15 - fog
- shows how the fog in The Witcher 3 has been implemented
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SIGGRAPH 2019 Ray Tracing Roundup
- list of sessions from SIGGRAPH 2019 that are related to ray tracing techniques
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New Vulkan® Extensions in Driver 19.6.2
- new extensions in AMD driver - VK_EXT_full_screen_exclusive, allows application to enter fullscree...
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PIX 1906.14 – GPU Timing in New Timing Captures
- support for GPU timing data in the new timing capture view
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Glint Rendering based on a Multiple-Scattering Patch BRDF
- new glint integrator for specular surfaces using multiple
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Announcing HighOmega v3.0 with RTX and Voxel-based Hybrid Path-tracing Support!
- shows a new version of voxel-based path-tracing based graphics engine
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A Low-Discrepancy Sampler that Distributes Monte Carlo Errors as a Blue Noise in Scre...
- new path tracing sampler techniques - distributed per
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Distributing Monte Carlo Errors as a Blue Noise in Screen Space by Permuting Pixel Se...
- the paper builds on the techniques described in the previous article
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Vulkan Textures Unbound
- describes how to support unbounded arrays of textures in Vulkan
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Spheretracing Basics
- shows how to implement raytracing against a Signed Distance Field (SDF)
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Interactive Generation of Path-Traced Lightmaps
- a master thesis that describes a progressively path
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Spherical Radial Basis Functions for Lighting
- explains how to extend the Ambient Dice basis function to store and evaluate both diffuse and spec...
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What's up with my branch on GPU?
- explains how branching on GPUs is commonly implemented
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Normal Mapping Using the Surface Gradient
- describes the surface gradient framework - a framework for robust processing of height maps, heigh...
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Sampling projected spherical caps with multiple importance sampling
- explains how to combine sampling of projected spherical caps and multiple importance sampling
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Technically Art: Issue 22 (14.06.2019)
- collection of VFX tweets of the week - tutorials, demos, and showcases of great looking effe...
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Alpha compositing, OpenGL blending and premultiplied alpha
- an updated article explaining color blending with OpenGL
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RDNA - new AMD GPU architecture
- hardware overview of the new architecture for AMD GPUs
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Introducing Metal 3
- the article shows what changes have been introduced with Metal 3
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What’s New in Metal (2019)
- the article shows what changes have been introduced with Metal 3
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RTX Beyond Ray Tracing: Exploring the Use of Hardware Ray Tracing Cores for Tet-Mesh ...
- the paper investigates using the raytracing hardware support added in Turing GPUs to acceler...
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Dissecting A Plague Tale: Innocence
- breakdown of two frames in the game - very little instancing
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Triangles Are Precious - Let's Treat Them With Care
- the presentation explains the stages a triangle is passing through while being processed for rende...
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OS Variable Refresh Rate
- Windows Version 1903 adds a new variable refresh rate option
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3D Game Rendering 101
- beginner level explanation of the rendering pipeline for games
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Pipeline Management
- explains what a Vulkan pipeline cache is, why developers want to use it
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Advances in Rendering, Graphics Research and Video Game Production
- keynote from I3D presenting the challenges modern open world games such as FarCry need to solve
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Dynamic Diffuse Global Illumination Part I
- part 1 of article series about Global Illumination
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Dynamic Diffuse Global Illumination with Ray-Traced Irradiance Fields
- a paper about Dynamic Diffuse Global Illumination solution
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Tips and Tricks: Vulkan Dos and Don’ts
- collection of best practices and pitfalls when using Vulkan on Nvidia hardware
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Visualizing Warping Strategies for Sampling Environment Map Lights
- the article presents a comparison between two different sampling strategies for environment maps
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optimising a aaa vulkan title on desktop
- presents an overview of what requirements need to be met on AMD to enable color compression on ren...
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Make Your Game Friendly for Graphics Debugging and Optimization
- presentation with a collection of options and debug modes that help with debugging
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Leveraging Ray Tracing Hardware Acceleration In Unity
- presents how ray tracing is integrated into the High Definition Render Pipeline (HDRP)
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Vulkan NV Ray Tracing with HLSL
- shows how to use HLSL to write a raytracing implementation using the Nvidia Vulkan extension
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The Heretic - Making of a real-time short film: digital humans and vfx characters
- presents how the Unity demo was made - overview of skin/hair/eye/teeth shading
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Bindless Deferred Decals in The Surge 2
- overview of the deferred decal solution - uses bindless resource binding model
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NVIDIA Announces Nsight Graphics 2019.3!
- a new release, range profiler provides detailed metric graph about the performance of the applicat...
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Video Series: Path Tracing for Quake II in Two Months
- summary of the Quake II path tracing implementation
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Easy VRS Integration with Eye Tracking
- Nvidia helper library to simplify the integration of Variable Rate Shading
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What Makes a (Graphics) Systems Paper Beautiful
- the author presents what makes a graphics system paper
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View-Warped Multi-View Soft Shadows for Local Area Lights
- new point based shadowing algorithm for local area lights
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Baked Shadows Mixed Lighting
- tutorial series covering Unity's scriptable render pipeline
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Using Moments to Represent Bounded Signals for Spectral Rendering
- new representation approach for spectra - shows use in offline raytracing and real
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Graphics Programming Weekly - Database
- database with articles that were previously covered in Graphics Programming Weekly
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Google and Binomial Partner to Open-Source Basis Universal Texture Format
- open source release of the Basis Universal texture codec
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Technically Art: Issue 19 (24.05.2019)
- collection of VFX tweets of the week - tutorials, demos, and showcases of great looking effects
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GPU Lightmapper: A Technical Deep Dive
- presents the GPU based light mapper implemented in Unity, based on Radeon Rays
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frostbite hair rendering and simulation - part 1
- overview videos of the hair rendering in Frostbite
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Approximating Global Illumination with Real-Time Ambient Occlusion
- master thesis trying to answer if raytraced real-time ambient occlusion is a viable option for gam...
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Understanding the Need for Adaptive Temporal Antialiasing (ATAA)
- proposed antialiasing technique combines rasterization with ray tracing
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Boost rendering performance with Variable Rate Shading | Game Developers Conference 2...
- Microsoft GDC 2019 presentation about variable rate shading (VRS)
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direct delta mush skinning and variants
- a new skinning algorithm that removes the need for iterative calculations from delta mush skinning...
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Multi-GPU Rendering with Vulkan API
- a master thesis that demonstrates how to use multiple GPUs with Vulkan
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3D Game Shaders For Beginners
- shader tutorial aimed at beginners that teaches shader fundamentals using Panda3D and GLSL
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Using AMD Freesync 2 HDR: Tone Mapping
- explains tone mapping terms and how the human vision perceives changes in luminance
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blockwise multi-order feature regression for real-time path tracing reconstruction
- paper on path trace denoising - aimed at interactive scenarios with 1 sample per pixel
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Vertex Data and Vertex Descriptors
- Vertex Descriptors in Metal allow the programmer to describe the memory layout of vertices
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Portals with Asymmetric Projection
- shows how to implement Asymmetric Projection - adjust the projection on a render
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Radeon GPU Profiler 1.5.1
- the new version adds support for hardware-level tracing on an instruction level
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[video] Real Time Continuous Lever of Detail Rendering of Point Clouds
- video for article discussed in [issue 76](https://www.jendrikillner.com/post/graphics
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Using the bgfx library with C++ on Ubuntu
- the tutorial shows how to use BGFX running on Linux
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Unity 2019 Shader Development
- example project for a course teaching the basics of shader development using Unity
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Technically Art: Issue 18 (17.05.2019)
- collection of VFX tweets of the week - tutorials, demos, and showcases of great looking effects
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Seeing the whole Physically-Based picture
- presents what kind of approximations are still required to be done in Physically Based Rendering
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Proposal for WebGPU as a new Standard Cross-Platform Graphics API (OpenGL replacement...
- proposal of requirements that would allow WebGPU to be used as a common cross
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Axis-Aligned Bounding Octahedra and The 7-Sided AABB
- describes an alternative bounding structure that is based around axis aligned triangles
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[video] Technical Papers Preview: SIGGRAPH 2019
- overview video of papers that will be presented at SIGGRAPH 2019
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Cross-Platform Shader Handling
- describes the cross-platform shader pipeline - mix of json description files for state / constants...
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What’s New in Android: Q Beta 3 & More
- Vulkan 1.1 will be a requirement on 64-bit devices starting with Android Q
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Introducing TensorFlow Graphics: Computer Graphics Meets Deep Learning
- tour of TensorFlow Graphics - allows to define 3D scenes and run training on them
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Why are 2D vector graphics so much harder than 3D?
- presents the history of 2D printing and font formats
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How we made Neon Noir - Ray Traced Reflections in CRYENGINE and more!
- interview describing the reflections that have been implemented in the [Neon Noir Demo](https://ww...
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Hierarchical Russian Roulette for Vertex Connections
- a method based on stochastic light culling - hierarchical Russian Roulette using an approximate sc...
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Fur Shader Tutorial
- brief Unity example that shows how to render a basic fur look
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Shader games with Vulkan
- overview about how to design a game to run all logic in Vulkan shaders
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Part 3: DDGI Overview
- Dynamic Diffuse Global Illumination - overview of the evolution of several indirect illumination t...
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Reverse engineering the rendering of The Witcher 3, part 14 - cirrus clouds
- reverse-engineering the cloud rendering of The Witcher
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A tour of Granite’s Vulkan backend – Part 6
- presents how Granite deals with vkPipeline management
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Pro Tip: Improved GLSL syntax for Vulkan DescriptorSet Indexing
- explains a code generation method to generate helper functions to make indexing into unbounded res...
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Bounding Half-Space Hierarchy
- explains the BHH (Bounding Half-Space Hierarchy) data
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rendering-bib
- bibliography file containing 2000+ entries, in computer graphics, rendering, transport theory, and...
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Integrating GVDB & Future Plans
- part 3 of the volumetric cloud rendering series - the code has been released on [github](https://g...
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A brief history of 3D texturing in video games
- a twitter thread that provides an overview about how games, especially in regards to texturing, ha...
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Making of Newton Protocol
- presents the rendering architecture used for the raytracing demo
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A Guide To Rust Graphics Libraries 2019
- overview of the state of graphics API wrappers and libraries for rust
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3D Projection
- explains 3D camera projections - shows the influence of the camera FoV and how it changes the perc...
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Birthday Post! ShaderGraph conversions (WorldPosition Textureswap/Appear/Disappear)
- shows how to convert effects from unity shader code to use the ShaderGraph system
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A tour of Granite’s Vulkan backend – Part 4
- shows the window system abstraction - can be used to render to a window or into an offscreen rende...
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A Tale of a Bug
- the article describes the process to locate a bug in Babylon.js PBR pipeline
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Automatic Exposure Using a Luminance Histogram
- presents the process of tone mapping and how curves are used
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PIX 1904.23 – New Timing Capture preview and improved DXIL shader debugging
- new PIX version contains a preview of a new timing view
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A tour of Granite’s Vulkan backend – Part 5
- presents how render passes are expressed in the user
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i3D 2019 – Sampling Projected Spherical Caps in Real Time
- presents a new technique for a stochastic sampling of spherical area lights that is suitable for G...
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Lighting And Transmittance
- the second part of the volumetric cloud rendering series
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Dynamic Bounding Volume Hierarchies - Extended version
- an extended version of the GDC 2019 talk - overview of AABB and BVH
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Write-up: Magical Marbles
- explains how to create a layering parallax effect to simulate the inside of a marble using ray mar...
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A tour of Granite’s Vulkan backend – Part 2
- presents how memory, object lifetime and command buffers are managed
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GDC 2019 Presentation Links
- PDFs for all AMD presentations from GDC 2019 have been posted
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Machine Learning Acceleration in Vulkan with Cooperative Matrices
- shows the Cooperative Matrix extension for Vulkan
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Under the hood of Shadow of the Tomb Raider
- using a Forward+ rendering pipeline and raytracing for shadows
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Model View Projection
- shows the different spaces that are typically involved in 3D rendering
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Sampling A Procedural Sky
- series on rendering of volumetric clouds - shows how to sample the sky lighting contribution
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Flax Facts #25 – Vulkan
- Flax engine now fully supports a Vulkan backend - better performance than the D3D12 implementation...
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New in D3D12 – background shader optimizations
- D3D12 is starting to allow GPU drivers to implement shader optimization in a background thread
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Intel® Graphics Performance Analyzers Assist Snow Simulation in Frostpunk*
- presents how the snow simulation has been implemented and how it was optimized for Intel GPUs
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A tour of Granite’s Vulkan backend – Part 3
- presents the shader binding model used by granite
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Debugging VK_ERROR_DEVICE_LOST with Nvidia Device Diagnostics
- vulkan extension that allows progress markers to be inserted into the Vulkan command stream
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GPU Architectures
- a brief overview of the rasterization process - look at the logical rendering pipeline model
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RTG free on Kindle; consider Google Play for books
- Ray Tracing Gems is now also available as a free Kindle version
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Observations about the rendering of Metro: Exodus
- presents an overview of the general flow of a frame of the game
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More observations in Metro: Exodus
- looks at the composition of transparent objects, lens flares and at terrain tessellation
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DirectX-Specs
- Microsoft released the engineering specification for Direct3D 11 and 12 including DXR
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GDC19 show guide from NVIDIA
- all GDC content from Nvidia is now available for download (free login required)
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AMD GCN ISA: a first dive
- shows which tools are available to look at the shader disassembly for AMD GPUs
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high-quality object-space dynamic ambient occlusion for characters
- preprint of I3D paper that will be presented in May
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[pdf] - nvidia vulkan update - GTC 2019
- overview of the latest extensions added to Vulkan on Nvidia GPUs
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A tour of Granite’s Vulkan backend – Part 1
- discusses the authors' thoughts about abstraction levels in graphics APIs
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THE STORY OF THE 3DFX VOODOO1
- provides a look at the 3DFX VOODOO1 GPU from the mid
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2d Raymarched Smoke
- walkthrough of a simple cloud shading setup using the Unity shader graph system
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Bringing GPU acceleration to Windows containers
- with Windows Server 2019 or Windows 10, version 1809 GPU acceleration for Direct3D based workloads...
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Alternative Take on the Split Sum Approximation for Cubemap Pre-filtering
- describes how cubemap pre-filtering for image-based lighting is done in Unity’s HD Render Pipeline...
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New in D3D12 – GPU-Based Validation (GBV) is now available for Shader Model 6.x
- windows update 19H1 supports GPI based validation with shader model 6, generated by the [DXC](http...
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Creation Graphs
- presents the Creation Graph - a graph-based system that allows the definition of functionality, wh...
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Technically Art: Issue 12 (05.04.2019)
- collection of tweets related to a variety of tech art articles
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Anti-Ghosting with Temporal Anti-Aliasing
- presents techniques used to alleviate ghosting in the TAA solution of "The Grand Tour Game"
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Keeping the Blue Side Up: Coordinate Conventions for OpenGL, Metal and Vulkan
- presents the coordinate conventions for Metal, OpenGL and Vulkan
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Reverse engineering the rendering of The Witcher 3, part 13a - witcher senses (object...
- series part 1 of the reverse engineering of The Witcher senses
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Reverse engineering the rendering of The Witcher 3, part 13b - witcher senses (outlin...
- reverse engineering of The Witcher sense effect - show how the outline for objects is generated
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Reverse engineering the rendering of The Witcher 3, part 13c - witcher senses (fishey...
- explains how the inputs from part 1 and 2 of the series are combined using a fullscreen effect
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GPU Path Tracing in Unity – Part 3
- part 3 of tutorial series in building a path tracer in Unity
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NVIDIA Announces Nsight Graphics 2019.2!
- new Nsight graphics release adds improved DXR support, D3D12 fence visualization and Vulkan suppor...
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Autodesk - A Surface Standard
- whitepaper presenting the Autodesk uber surface shader based on the Arnold shading model
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Advanced Map Shading
- presents how to render maps using WebGL - shows how to convert color maps to elevation
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game developers conference 2019 links
- collection of links to presentations from GDC 2019
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Resources for Learning Graphics Programming
- collection of resources aimed at helping beginners get started with graphics programming
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Variable Rate Shading: a scalpel in a world of sledgehammers
- overview of Variable Rate Shading which is starting to become part of the D3D12 API
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New in D3D12 – DirectX Raytracing (DXR) now supports library subobjects
- next Windows update will add support for library subobjects
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[video] Khronos - 2019 GDC
- youtube playlist with all Khronos talks from GDC 2019
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A hybrid rendering pipeline for realtime rendering: (When) is raytracing worth it?
- the author presents his thoughts on the current state of raytracing in games
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stable filtering — part 2
- explores a stable filter further - presents a new test that can be used to validate the filter qua...
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Arm Releases Vulkan Best Practices for Mobile Developers
- ARM released a best practice guide for Vulkan - consists of runnable samples that show best
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Reverse engineering the rendering of The Witcher 3, part 12 - stupid sky tricks
- look at the disassembly for parts of the skydome, sun, and stars shader from The Witcher
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Using AMD FreeSync 2 HDR: Color Spaces
- covers overview of color theory, color spaces, and encoding
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Tips and Tricks: Ray Tracing Best Practices
- list of best practices for ray tracing - how to manage the acceleration structure construction and...
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PIX 1903.26 – Occupancy for Turing GPUs and Variable Rate Shading
- occupancy graph is now supported on Turing GPUs too
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Flipping the Vulkan viewport
- a small article explaining the difference in the viewport coordinate system when using Vulkan comp...
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A Multi-Faceted Exploration (Part 4)
- presents how to precalculate an energy preserving microfacet BRDF with a diffuse
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An unbiased look at real-time raytracing
- presents the authors' views on "do"'s "do not"'s for the future use of raytracing in games
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Unreal Engine GDC 2019 tech talks now available online
- unreal tech talks from GDC 2019 are available
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World of Warcraft uses DirectX 12 running on Windows 7
- the latest update adds support to run the D3D12 game on windows 7
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Adventures in Sampling Points on Triangles (Part 1.5): Reader Mail and Followups
- follow up to the post discussed in [issue 75](/post/graphics
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PIX 1903.12 – High Frequency Counters
- pix for windows now supports High-Frequency Counters
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Wolfenstein: Ray Tracing On using WebGL1
- a ray tracing system for Wolfenstein 3D using only WebGL 1
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Learning DirectX 12 – Lesson 4 – Textures
- explains the concepts of textures, mip-mapping, sampling
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A Low-Distortion Map Between Triangle and Square
- a new low distortion mapping between squares and triangles that is also cheap to compute
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i3D 2019 - Program
- program for the I3D conference in Montreal has been published
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Making your BVH faster
- presents 3 optimizations that can be applied to BVH to increase performance
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Real-Time Continuous Level of Detail Rendering of Point Clouds
- a new technique for continuous level of detail generation of point clouds, designed for VF applica...
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Reverse engineering the rendering of The Witcher 3, part 11 - lightnings
- explains how the lightning effect in The Witcher 3 has been implemented
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stable filtering — part 1
- explanation of half-pel filters - shows properties of different filters common in video compressio...
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Visual Effect Graph Samples
- overview of particle system samples that have been created with the Visual Effect Graph in Unity
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Ray Tracing Gems
- an unofficial updated version of Ray Tracing Gems with fixes for the errors found in the original ...
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Getting a Vulkan application up and running on a low-spec device with buggy drivers
- presents how to find a GPU crash on a low-end Vulkan device
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GDC 2019 Presentations
- overview of all sessions AMD is involved with during GDC 2019
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Ray Tracing Gems - hybrid rendering for real-time ray tracing
- the chapter describes the hybrid rendering pipeline used in the PICA PICA demo
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Adventures in Sampling Points on Triangles (Part 1)
- presents a method to distribute sampling points within a triangle taking advantage of sub
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SampleZoo - Simple implementations of sampling patterns, with objective tests to comp...
- collection of different sampling patterns - explains the patterns and the characteristic of ...
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Efficient Generation of Points that Satisfy Two-Dimensional Elementary Intervals
- presents a new algorithm that allows to efficiently and incrementally generate stratified sample p...
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Shader Convertion Part 2 (Liquid, Triplanar, Waterfall)
- shows how to implement a fluid like movement inside an object, tri
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Programming HDR monitor support in Direct3D
- documents the experiments with HDR support using all 3 different hardware vendors
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Programming FreeSync 2 support in Direct3D
- presents how FreeSync2 supports HDR and variable refresh rate
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How Magnum does GFX API enum mapping
- shows the method used to abstract pixel formats between OpenGL and Vulkan using an external ...
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SRP Batcher: Speed up your rendering!
- explains the design of the new Unity batching system
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Color Spaces
- in-depth discussion of color spaces - shows how the color response curve influences which color ab...
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Vulkan GPU - Assisted Validation
- whitepaper explains how to enable GPU assisted validation
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Thoughts on light culling: stream compaction vs flat bit arrays
- walkthrough of two algorithms for forward culling techniques
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texture level of detail strategies for real-time ray tracing
- presents multiple approaches to calculate MIP mapping textures when using raytracing
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Enemy health bars in 1 draw call in Unity
- explains how to use GPU instancing - to render health bars for individual objects
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Scalable Ambient Obscurance for the Mathematically Uninclined
- implementation walkthrough of the OpenGL Scalable Ambient Obscurance (SAO) algorithm
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My take on shaders: Parallax effect (Part I)
- shows how to implement a parallax effect in the pixel shader
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Turing - Tensor Core Extension - VK_NV_cooperative_matrix
- Vulkan extension that exposes NVIDIA Tensor Cores on Turing GPUs
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Introduction to Convolution Integrals
- great visual explanation of Convolution Integrals
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Interactive light map and irradiance volume preview in Frostbite
- chapter from the [Ray Tracing Gems](http://www.realtimerendering.com/raytracinggems/) book
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Rendering process in Shadow Fight 3
- shows the frame breakdown of Shadow Fight 3 - rendering approach designed to reduce the number of ...
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Friday Facts #281 - For a Few Frames More
- presents performance optimizations done for the 2D rendering system
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Camera Rays
- shows how to set up full-screen quad geometry data so that attribute interpolation can be used to ...
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Pixel Spirit cards
- card deck that introduces visual shapes and GLSL code required to create them
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Emulating Command Buffers in OpenGL - Part 2
- presents a brief look at the performance of emulating a custom command buffer format on top of Ope...
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Creating an Interactive Vertex Effect using Shader Graph
- explains how to create a pulsating vertex effect using Unity Shader Graph and the lightweight rend...
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Shader Debugging for BGFX Rendering Engine
- shows how debug compute shaders when using BGFX - a brief introduction into what is necessary to c...
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RadeonSI Picks Up Primitive Culling With Async Compute For Performance Wins
- open-source AMD Linux driver adds support to use async compute to cull primitives before the verte...
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Unreal Engine 4.22 Preview
- added support for ray and path tracing for the D3D12 backend
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Procedural Stochastic Texturing in Unity
- Unity provides a plugin that implements the tiling stochastic texturing approach presented in issu...
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Experience everything Unreal and more at GDC 2019
- list of Unreal events/talks/presentations that will take place at GDC
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WebGL 2.0—Why It’s the Path to Stable Open Standards-based 3D Web Graphics
- presents a brief history of the development of WebGL and it's adoption
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Adding point and directional lights to a physically based renderer
- presents the equations necessary to express point
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Lazy person's tone mapping
- presents a simplistic approach to tone mapping results from a renderer
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Basic Color Science for Graphics Engineers
- presents how the RGB color representation is based on human vision
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Unity GPU culling experiments Part2 – optimizations
- presents how to optimize the compaction pass in a GPU culling pipeline
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Fast, Constant Time Sphere Indexing, Part 2
- shows how to simplify the math for constant time sphere indexing (the technique was described in i...
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NVIDIA Announces Nsight Graphics 2019.1
- enables debugging of GPU hangs with D3D12 using Nvidia aftermath
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the rendering techniques of deus ex and tomb raider
- presentations from Siggraph 2015 have been published
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Direct3D 11 on 12 Updates
- overview of improvements to the system that allows D3D11 applications to be run using D3D12
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Thoughts on graphics APIs and libraries
- discusses author's view on the state of low-level graphics APIs (Vulkan, D3D12, Metal)
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“Ray Tracing Gems” preprints available part by part this month
- every few days a new preprint article from the "Ray Tracing Gems" book will be released
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Learning D3D12 from D3D11 - Part 2: GPU Resources, Heaps, and Descriptors
- part 2 of getting started with D3D12 for programmers with D3D11 experience, part 1 discussed in we...
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My take on shaders: UI SDF Icon shader
- shows how to sample a signed distance field in a Unity UI shader
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Approximating water effects using terrain height maps part 1: Reflections
- discusses screen space reflection and planar reflections techniques
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Decoding a projection matrix
- show how a projection matrix is formed - explains GPU clipping and how it relates to the projectio...
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[twitter] texture minification using mip-mapping
- twitter thread discussing mip-map selection algorithms
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An Intro to Physically Based Rendering for Artists and Programmers - Part 1
- introduction into physically based shading
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Evenly Distributing Points in a Triangle
- presents a technique to distribute an infinite sequence of points on the surface of an arbitrary t...
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De-gamma your texture kid!
- the article points out that albedo textures are commonly stored in sRGB color space and need...
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'Infinite' sky shader for Unity
- a short post that shows how to make an object appear infinitely large without clipping artif...
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Directional Shadows Cascaded Maps
- extends the custom scriptable rendering pipeline, the previous part was covered in [issue 66...
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Technically Art: Issue 3 (01.02.2019)
- weekly series with twitter posts about tech art techniques and ideas
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Getting Started Learning Tech Art & Unity Shader Writing
- summary of resource about getting started with tech art
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PIX 1901.28 – Timing Data Improvements and support for new GPUs
- new PIX for windows version - performance counters are now supported on AMD Radeon 7 GPUs and NVID...
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New in D3D12 – DRED helps developers diagnose GPU faults
- D3D12 adds support for DRED (device removed extended data) in the latest windows insider preview b...
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A Multiple-Scattering Microfacet Model for Real-Time Image Based Lighting
- extension to real-time image based lighting models
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Enterprise PBR Shading Model
- explains the PBR shading model - a combination of 3 BSDFs that allow expressing a large number of ...
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Raymarching Workshop Course
- shader workshop that uses Shadertoy to teach raymarching techniques
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Vulkan - GPU-Assisted Validation
- latest Vulkan SDK version (1.1.97.0) adds GPU assisted validation
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Re-reading An Introduction to Ray Tracing
- the article discusses his favorite chapters and insights when looking back at the original "An Int...
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Classical corner cases
- list of common problems encountered when using Shadertoy and how to solve them
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Khronos GDC 2019 - Activity Overview
- list of sessions by Khronos and related talks that will be taking place during GDC this year
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Technically Art: Issue 2 (25.01.2019)
- issue 2 of weekly tech art series, contains a collection of twitter post showing interesting art a...
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My take on shaders: Color grading with Look-up Textures (LUT)
- describes lookup table based (LUT) color grading in LDR color space
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Moving from OpenGL to Metal
- explains how to port an existing iOS OpenGL application to use Metal
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Volume Rendering with WebGL
- implementation of ray marching - renders the back faces of the bounding volume to determine on whi...
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Implementation of Fast and Adaptive Procedural Cellular Noise
- cellular noise created from a quadtree grid structure
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Reverse engineering the rendering of The Witcher 3, part 10 - distant rain shafts
- explains how the distant rain shafts in The Witcher 3 are implemented
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“An Introduction to Ray Tracing” is now free for download
- the first book on raytracing "An Introduction to Ray Tracing" from 1989 is now freely available as...
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Technically Art: Issue 1 (18.01.2019)
- start of weekly curation of tweets about 3D (technical) art, shaders, and VFX
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Learning D3D12 from D3D11 - Part 1: Getting Started, Command Queues, and Fencing
- start of series for programmers with D3D11 experience starting to learn D3D12
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WebGL + Rust: Basic Water Tutorial
- explains how to render water using WebGL, Rust, and WebAssembly
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Ice Shader – Hard Edges in Vertex Shader
- shows how to use screen space derivatives to create hard edges on a mesh in the pixel shader
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Programming tricks in Shadertoy / GLSL
- list of common patterns for shadertoy programming
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Procedural Stochastic Textures by Tiling and Blending
- preprint of the article to appear in GPU Zen 2 talking about the implementation details (C++ and G...
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How to Start Learning Computer Graphics Programming
- walkthrough of steps to learn graphics programming
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16x AA font rendering using coverage masks, part III
- explains how to rasterize the glyphs from a font into a texture. Providing the coverage informatio...
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Rasterization in One Weekend, Part III
- presents what vertex attributes are and how they are interpolated to deal with perspective distor...
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A Primer On Efficient Rendering Algorithms & Clustered Shading
Part 1 of the article: - explains how classical forward/deferred pipelines work and how tiled and c...
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The Rendering of Rise of the Tomb Raider
- frame breakdown of the Rise of the Tomb Raider with D3D12 on PC
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Color Spread Post-Processing Effect Tutorial in Unity
- explains how to apply an expanding color effect that converts the world from greyscale back to col...
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Containerized Shader Compilers
- shows how to set up a Docker container image that is able to run shader compilers
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Unified Resource State Management for Vulkan and Direct3D12
- explains the state management system implemented for the Diligent Engine
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Art and Technology at Pixar (SIGGRAPH Asia 2018 Course)
- course notes for the Siggraph Asia 2019 course - pres
