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Notes on screenspace reflections with FidelityFx SSSR
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[video] Introduction to Raytracing with the Radeon Developer Tools Suite
- the video provides an introduction to the AMD raytracing tool
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Screen Post-processing Effects: Gamma Space and Linear Space
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Screen Post-processing Effects: Color Models and Color Grading
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[video] An In-Depth look at Lerp, Smoothstep, and Shaping Functions
- the video presents visual explanations of lerp (linear interpolation)
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Bindless Rendering in DirectX12 and SM6.6
- the blog post provides an introduction level guide to using the D3D12 bindless model
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An Algorithm for Polygon Intersections
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[video] Nvidia DLSS 3 on RTX 4090 - Exclusive First Look - 4K 120FPS and Beyond
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Vulkanised conference - call for submissions
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Intel(R) Xe Super Sampling (XeSS) SDK
- Intel has released the SDK for the XeSS upscaler
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Ray Tracing of Signed Distance Function Grids
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Color-Perception-Guided Display Power Reduction for Virtual Reality
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Animation Retargeting
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[video] Post Process VHS Filter Part 3 - Shader Graph Basics - Episode 62
- the video tutorial presents how to implement a noise that recreates the interference of unshielded...
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Advances in Real-Time Rendering in Games 2022
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Quaternions: a geometrical interpretation.
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[video] Easily Remaster Classic Games with NVIDIA RTX Remix
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[video] Soft Shadows - PCF & Random Sampling // OpenGL Advanced Rendering Series
- the video tutorial explains how to improve an OpenGL shadow mapping implementation to allow softer...
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Improving raytracing performance with the Radeon Raytracing Analyzer (RRA)
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Vulkan Render-Queues and how they Sync
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[video] SIGGRAPH 2022 Talk - A Fast & Robust Solution for Cubic & Higher-Order Polyno...
- the video presentation provides a walkthrough of methods to find the real roots of polynomials
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Defeat Banding – Part II
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[video] Pixelation Filter - Shader Graph Basics - Episode 61
- the video tutorial presents how to create a fullscreen post
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Fast Post-Processing on the Oculus Quest and Unity
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Screen Post-processing Effects: Depth of Field (DOF) and Its Implementation
- the article provides an overview of depth of field effects
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[video] Practical Skeletal Animation // Intermediate OpenGL Series
- the video tutorial provides a walkthrough of issues in supporting animated models
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Visualizing General Relativity
- the article explains a method to simulate and render different warped space
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Rendering my balls in a fragment shader
- the blog post provides a walkthrough of how to render 2D billiard balls in a pixel shader
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Parallel curves of cubic Béziers
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Improving Vulkan graphics state tracking in Mesa
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Technically Art: Issue 124 (9.09.2022)
- a collection of tweets about tech art, VFX, and related topics
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Gradient-descent optimized recursive filters for deconvolution / deblurring
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[video] Post Process VHS Filter Part 2 - Shader Graph Basics - Episode 60
- the second video of the series VHS filter series adds support for worn
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[video] Ray Marching, and making 3D Worlds with Math
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Lighting participating media with thousands of lights
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Mesh Shading for Vulkan
- mesh shader support has been added to Vulkan through VK_EXT_mesh_shader
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[video] Intel Arc Graphics | Intel Arc A-Series Graphics Ray Tracing Technology Deep ...
- the video starts with a visual overview of rasterization, raytracing, and hybrid rendering techniq...
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Progressive image stippling and greedy blue noise importance sampling
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[video] Post Process VHS Filter - Shader Graph Basics - Episode 59
- the video presents how to implement two VHS effects, interlacing lines and YIQ color grading, in a...
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Compressing global illumination with neural networks
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[archive] Practical Aspects of Spectral Data in Digital Content Production - SIGGRAPH...
- second year of the spectral rendering Siggraph course
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Technically Art: Issue 123 (2.09.2022)
- a collection of tweets about tech art, VFX, and related topics
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Barycentric Quad Rasterization
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Practical Real-Time Hex-Tiling
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Clip control on the Apple GPU
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[video] Creating an Outline Effect as a Post-Process in Unity
- the video tutorial explains how to implement an outline effect in Unity
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HPG 2022 Keynote: The Journey to Nanite - Brian Karis, Epic Games
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CoG 2022: Automatic Testing and Validation of LoD Reductions Through Supervised Learn...
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The GPU Banana Stand
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My personal hell of translating DXIL to SPIR-V – finale
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Exploring Shaders with Compiler Explorer
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[video] Let There Be Light (And Shadow) | Writing Unity URP Code Shaders Tutorial [2/...
- the video tutorial presents how to write universal rendering pipeline shaders in HLSL
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Deconstructing Bézier curves
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Journey to Lumen
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[video] Resampled Importance Sampling: Foundations of ReSTIR
- the video presents the foundation how to general ReSTIR sampling
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[video] Coding a crazy weave pattern
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Lightweight Multidimensional Adaptive Sampling for GPU Ray Tracing
- the paper presents how to adapt multidimensional adaptive sampling for interactive real
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[video] Fog Rendering - Part 2 // 'ShaderX2 In Practice' series
- the OpenGL fog rendering series extends the previous works and implements Layered and animated fog...
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[video] Post Process Cartoon Outlines - Shader Graph Basics - Episode 57
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NVIDIA Announces Full Open Source of Material Definition Language to Streamline Graph...
- Nvidia open-sources MDL distiller and the GLSL backend
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Physically Based: a Database of PBR Values for Real-World Materials
- A database of physically based values for CG artists (materials, Light Sources, Cameras)
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PIX 2208.10: SM 6.7 support, GPU and Timing Capture Improvements
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Using performance budgets in the Timing Capture metrics view
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Screen Post Processing Effects Chapter 1 – Basic Algorithm of Gaussian Blur and Its I...
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Descriptors are hard
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Real-Time Path Tracing and Beyond
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Beyond Linear Perspective: Art, Human Vision, and Computer Graphics
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Explosion Decals
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[video] Bloom & Glow Post Process Effect - Shader Graph Basics - Episode 56
- video tutorial shows how to implement a bloom effect using Unreal and Unity shader graphs
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High-Performance Graphics 2022
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Vertex packing
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Paper Digest: SIGGRAPH 2022 Highlights
- a collection of papers presented at SIGGRAPH 2022 with a one
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Comparison of single image HDR reconstruction methods — the caveats of quality assess...
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[video] Microfacet BRDF: Theory and Implementation of Basic PBR Materials [Shaders Mo...
- the video shows how to implement the Cook-Torrance microfacet BRDF
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HLSL Shader Model 6.7
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Shaders Explained: Gradients
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Porting AnKi to Android… again after ~8 years
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[video] Fog Rendering - Part 1 // ShaderX2 In Practice Series
- the video tutorial presents how to implement 3 different methods of distance fogs from the ShaderX...
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[video] Compute Shaders || Lou Kramer || AMD
- the presentation introduces compute-shaders, explaining the software and hardware concepts
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Introducing our brand new tool: Radeon™ Raytracing Analyzer 1.0
- new tool from AMD to provide more insights into the performance of raytracing applications
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Synchronizing Present Calls Between Applications on Distributed Systems with DirectX ...
- the article presents an Nvidia API extension that allows multiple buffer swaps (between windows an...
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Best Practices for Using NVIDIA RTX Ray Tracing (Updated)
- Nvidia has updated the performance best practices for RTX usage
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GPU Memory Pools in D3D12
- the detailed article explains the different memory pools available and how they differ between dif...
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A Rust shading language EDSL
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A better point light attenuation function
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UVs and You
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GL_EXT_fragment_shader_barycentric: Wireframe
- the article presents an overview of barycentric coordinates
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Adventures in Text Rendering: Kerning and Glyph Atlases
- the article provides an overview of font rendering
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[video] Generation of simplified representations of the city, characters and vehicles...
- the presentation video discusses the LOD generation used in Cyberpunk 2077 (3D models and material...
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Adventures with deferred texturing in horizon forbidden west
- slides for the GDC presentation talking about the deferred texturing solution has been released
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zig-gamedev project
- a growing collection of graphics samples and libraries for the zig programming language
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Efficently rendering glTF models
- the article discusses how to load and process glTF models for efficient execution
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Behind the Pretty Frames: Resident Evil
- a super detailed analysis of the RE Engine used by Resident Evil
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[video] Shadow Mapping Unleashed! // Intermediate OpenGL Series
- the video tutorial explains common shadow problems and why they occur
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High Performance Graphics 2022 papers on the web
- list of papers presented at High-Performance Graphics 2022
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[video] Rain Drips On The Lens Post-Process Effect - Shader Graph Basics - Episode 54
- the video tutorial presents how to implement a fullscreen camera space rain effect
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[video] Spartan Engine Livestream #2: FSR 2.0 Integration
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Swallowing the elephant into Blender
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Some SIGGRAPH 2022 Info
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Performance Boosts and Enhanced Features in New Nsight Graphics, Nsight Aftermath Rel...
- article presents improvements in the new Nsight and Aftermath releases
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[video] Procedural Grass in 'Ghost of Tsushima'
- the GDC presentation covers how the grass is procedurally generated in compute shaders
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Order independent transparency: endgame
- the article presents a couple additional order-independent transparency algorithms
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Advanced API Performance: SetStablePowerState
- Nvidia presents best practices to achieve stable performance results on NVIDIA hardware
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[video] HPG 2022 Monday, Day 1 (enhanced)
- the video recording of the first day of the High
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Agility SDK 1.606.3: Shader Model 6.7 is now publicly available!
- the article focuses on the new capabilities added in shader model 6.7
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Preview Agility SDK 1.706.3-preview: SM 6.7, Enhanced Barriers and more
- a new preview of the Agility SDK improves the enhanced barrier API support, significantly better d...
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AMD support for Shader Model 6.7 and enhanced barriers in the Agility SDK
- a brief summary of the main features of shader model 6.7 and what is supported by the new AMD pre
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[video] How do you use shaders to dissolve a sphere?
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Creating a physically-based path tracer
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Space Rangers with Cornrows
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EGSR 2022 Presentation – Generalized Decoupled Shading
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Spatiotemporal Blue Noise Masks
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[video] Vulkan 1.3 explained
- the 4-hour video stream discusses the evolution of the Vulkan API
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Temporally Stable Real-Time Joint Neural Denoising and Supersampling
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GPU-Driven Real-Time Mesh Contour Vectorization
- the paper presents a new GPU-based method to generate 2D contour strokes from 3D meshes
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Volume Rendering for Developers: Foundations
- the lesson provides the foundations of ray marching through a volume
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Advanced Rendering Research Group at AMD
- the new home for the AMD research team - provides a collection of publications, projects, presenta...
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Getting Started With DirectX Raytracing
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Planetary Shadow-Aware Distance Sampling
- the paper introduces a visibility-aware transmittance sampling technique for rendering atmospheric...
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Order independent transparency, part 2
- the second part of the blog series that talks about order independence transparency
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Seperation of mesh types
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[video] Creating Portals in Unreal for Psychonauts 2
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Single-pass stratified importance resampling
- the paper presents a new method for stratified resampling
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[video] Giving Personality to Procedural Animations using Math
- the video presents how to use second-order systems to allow dynamic motion control in procedural a...
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Fog for Top-Down Games
- the article presents how to combine multiple tricks to create the appearance of volumetric fog
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Advances in Real-Time Rendering in Games - 2022
- overview of the talks that will be presented at the Advances course as part of Siggraph 2022
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Advanced API Performance: Vulkan Clearing and Presenting
- the article presents Nvidia's best practices for clearing textures and depth buffers
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[video] Underwater Post-Process Effect - Shader Graph Basics - Episode 52
- the video tutorial presents how to create a post-processing effect that simulates an underwater lo...
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Icosphere From Octahedron to Icosahedron
- the article presents how to generate a procedural Icosahedron mesh
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Boosting Application Performance with GPU Memory Access Tuning
- the article presents how to improve compute shader performance when workloads are memory limited
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Order independent transparency, Part 1
- the article presents how to use per-pixel linked lists to implement order
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Physical Units for Lights
- the article presents a discussion of the different physical Units used for light description
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Comparing BCn texture decoders
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DirectML Plugin for TensorFlow 2 is here
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It’s time to see the FSR 2 source code!
- AMD released FidelityFX™ Super Resolution 2 (FSR2) to the public
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Khronos cross-vendor mesh shader extension update
- Khronos is sharing the first details about what the cross
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[video] NVIDIA’s Ray Tracer: Wow, They Nailed It Again!
- the paper presents an overview of the NVidia Fast Volume Rendering with Spatiotemporal Reservoir R...
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How to build a BVH – part 9b: Massive
- the last part of the series covers how to extend the ray
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[video] What is 'Filmic' and how to fix broken digital photography. Part 1.
- the video discusses the importance of color transformations to final images
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The Case for Use.GPU - Reinventing rendering one shader at a time
- the article presents work done to make GPU operations reactive, declarative, and composable and re...
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[video] 16 - Simulation on the GPU
- the video explains how to implement a positional-based cloth simulation on the GPU
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[video] Fullscreen Masks - Shader Graph Basics - Episode 50
- the video shows to create 3 types of fullscreen masks (square
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Zero-waste single-pass packing of power-of-two textures
- the article presents a method to pack individual power
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[video] Shadow Mapping Strikes Back // Intermediate OpenGL Series
- the video tutorial explains how to use an orthographic projection to implement directional light s...
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The latest Vulkan SDK now ships with Vulkan Memory Allocator (VMA)
- the Vulkan Memory Allocator is now included as an optional component in the Vulkan SDK
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Real-time rendering - past, present and a probable future.
- the article presents an overview of the problems and solutions of real
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A Gentle Introduction to D3D12 (2022)
- the article introduces D3D12Lite, a library that is meant to streamline the introduction to D3D12
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QMC(Magic square, Glois field, QMC)
- the article presents a method to generate stratified samples of arbitrary dimensionality
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WWDC22 - Metal sessions
- list of all metal sessions at WWDC22 - covering new metal features, HDR/EDR handling, bindless res...
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Writing Unity URP Shaders with Code Part 1: The Graphics Pipeline and You
- the text and video tutorial is the start of a new beginner
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[video] Basic Post-Processing Effects - Shader Graph Basics - Episode 49
- the video tutorial shows the steps required to set up to create post
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[video] God of War PC: AMD FSR 2.0 vs Nvidia DLSS Image/ Motion Quality Face-Off
- the Digitial Foundry video provides an in-depth comparison between FSR 2.0, native TAA as well as ...
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Bridging the synchronization gap on Linux
- the article discusses why the explicit synchronization nature of Vulkan is a significant problem o...
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sRGB, Pre-Multiplied Alpha, and Compression
- the article clarifies the meaning of sRGB encoded textures
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Overview of global illumination in kajiya renderer
- the article provides a high-level description of the techniques used
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[video] SIGGRAPH 2022: Technical Papers Trailer
- video showing an overview of some of the papers to be presented at Siggraph 2022
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How to build a BVH – part 9a: To the GPU
- the article presents the first part on how to convert a C++ raytracing kernel to OpenCL
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[Twitter Thread] D3D12 - specialization constants
- the Twitter thread discusses a restricted version of specialization constants for D3D12 usage
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An Idea for Visualization of Frame Times
- a short article that discusses some ideas to represent frame time in graphs
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[video] Hex Grid Normal Tiling - Shader Graph Basics - Episode 48
- the video tutorial shows the issue when hex-tiling (as discussed in the previous part) is applied ...
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OpenGL Introduction - GPU Computing
- a beginner level focused article that introduces OpenGL compute shaders
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[video] NVIDIA Renders Millions of Light Sources!
- the video paper summary presents the ReSTIR introductory paper
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[video] How to turn your 2d fractal into 3d!
- the video shows how to extend a 2D Koch curve SDF into 3D using shadertoy
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Accelerating raytracing using software vrs
- the article presents how to use compute-shader based Variable Rate shading techniques to reduce th...
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How to build a BVH – part 8: Whitted-Style
- the article extends the BVH constructed over the last couple of posts to implement a more complete...
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Removing blur from images – deconvolution and using optimized simple filters
- the detailed post presents the basis knowledge required for a single image deconvolution (remove b...
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PIX 2205.24: Unlocking Arm and Qualcomm development
- the blog post presents that PIX is now supported on Arm devices
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Basic Shadow Mapping // Intermediate OpenGL Series
- the video tutorial presents how to implement shadow mapping using OpenGL
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Meshlets and How to Shade Them: A Study on Texture-Space Shading
- the paper presents the idea of the usage of a meshlet atlas for texture space shading
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WebGPU Buffer upload best practices
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Behind the Pretty Frames: Elden Ring
- the article presents a frame breakdown of the PC version of Elden Ring
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[video] The Road to Vulkan: Teaching Modern Low-Level APIs in Introductory Graphics C...
- the video provides a summary of the findings of teaching both OpenGL and Vulkan as part of the Int...
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[video] Rust Graphics Meetup 2
- the second edition of the Rust graphics developer meetup
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[video] Texture Tiling Without Repetition - Shader Graph Basics - Episode 47
- the video explains how to use hexagonal texture sampling/blending to create a shader that allows l...
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DirectStorage speculations & myths
- the article shows what the DirectStorage API enables on PC
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Permutation Coding for Vertex-Blend Attribute Compression
- 15 min video explaining the concept has been added
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How to build a BVH – part 7: Consolidate
- the article expands the the previous BVH implementation with the necessary logic to support UV and...
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[video] I3D 2022 Day 1 — Tuesday, May 3
- video recording of the I3D 2022 conference, all 3 days are available
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[video] AMD's Ray Tracing Research
- the video provides a summary of AMD rayracing research
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Advanced API Performance: Variable Rate Shading
- the article provides a brief overview of VRS modes available
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Advanced API Performance: Clears
- the article presents performance advice from Nvidia for clear operations
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Integrating VRS in The Riftbreaker
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Comparing .obj parse libraries
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Reading list on ReSTIR
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How to build a BVH – part 6: All Together Now
- the article expands the capabilities of the BVH construction to support a more significant number ...
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[video] GPU Texture Compression
- the video shows a summary of block compressed formats and why they are a good fit for GPUs
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[video] Vulkan Synchronization | Understand Fences, Semaphores, Barriers,... | Vulkan...
- the video lecture contains a detailed description of Vulkan Synchronization topics
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Render Graph 101
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[video] Toon Shading & Rim Lighting // OpenGL Beginners Series
- the video tutorial explains the theory of toon shading and rim lighting effects
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Derivatives in compute shader
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Let’s Stop Calling it GGX
- the blog post raises the point that GGX was introduced in a 1975 paper by Trowbridge and Reitz
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How to build a BVH – part 5: TLAS & BLAS
- the article presents how to extend the BVH structure to allow multiple objects in the same structu...
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High Performance Graphics 2022 - Student Competition
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Various analytic expressions for collimated light scattered in fog (participating med...
- the article presents the underlying mathematical modeling commonly used to represent volumetric ef...
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Efficiency-aware multiple importance sampling for bidirectional rendering algorithms
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Sampling the hemisphere
- the blog post explains the derivations of importance sampling schemes for multiple functions
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ReSTIR El-Cheapo
- the article presents the idea of using ReSTIR for a checkerboard style pattern for shadow ray gene...
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Increasing wave coherence with ray binning
- the article presents the implementation of a ray-binning technique
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Generalized Resampled Importance Sampling (GRIS)
- the paper introduces a generalized approach to resampled importance sampling for correlated sample...
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[video] Sprite Batching In OpenGL // Uniform Buffer Objects
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Faster Visibility Buffer/Deferred Material Rendering via Analytical Attribute Interpo...
- the post presents a method for reducing the size of visibility output buffers and the effect on pe...
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How to build a BVH – part 4: Animation
- the article presents how to update a BVH tree for an animated mesh
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Identifying Shader Limiters with the Shader Profiler in NVIDIA Nsight Graphics
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A Dataset and Explorer for 3D Signed Distance Functions
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A driver on the GPU
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[video] Using Ray Casting To Move 3D Objects
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Agility SDK 1.602.0
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Twitter Thread: Games for the original #PS1 had a unique visual look
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Windows Graphics News – 2022 Q1
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Shader compiler tools
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A remake of the famous Sponza scene for open, collaborative and reproducible research
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Dynamic, Noise Free, Screen Space Diffuse Global Illumination
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Compute shaders in graphics: Gaussian blur
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How to build a BVH – part 2: Faster Rays
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Radeon™ GPU Profiler 1.13 and Radeon Developer Panel 2.6
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How to build a BVH – part 3: Quick Builds
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Moving, Rotating, and Scaling UVs - Shader Graph Basics - Episode 43
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Slang Shading Language Advances
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i3D 2022 - Program
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Unreal Engine 5 Matrix City Sample PC Analysis: The Cost of Next-Gen Rendering
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Modern OpenGL Tutorial - Tessellation Shaders
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My personal hell of translating DXIL to SPIR-V – part 5
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Eurographics 2022 papers on the web
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Adventures with Deferred Texturing in 'Horizon Forbidden West'
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Permutation Coding for Vertex-Blend Attribute Compression
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My personal hell of translating DXIL to SPIR-V – part 4
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Exponentially Better Rotations
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[video] Taking the Slang Shading Language from Research to Production
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Introducing HIP RT – a ray tracing library in HIP
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How to build a BVH – Part 1: Basics
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Bringing Linearly Transformed Cosines to Anisotropic GGX
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ReSTIR GI for Specular Bounces
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Realtime Fluid Simulation: Projection
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[video] Interactive Graphics 24 - Refractions, Transparency, Blending, & Alpha Testin...
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Graphics Pipeline, Techniques, & Algorithms in Vortice
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[video] Painting a Landscape using Mathematics
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Raytracing, a 4 year retrospective
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Bindless rendering — Templates
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Entropy decoding in Oodle Data: Huffman decoding on the Jaguar
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[video] Unreal Engine 5 Guided Tour | Feature Highlight | State of Unreal 2022
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[video] 10 Shaders in 10 Minutes - Unity Shader Graph
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[video] Tessellation and Displacement - Shader Graph Basics - Episode 41
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[video] Interactive Graphics 22 - Global Illumination
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[video] Interactive Graphics 23 - Ambient Occlusion & Soft Shadows
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[video] Procedurally Generating A Hexagon Grid in Unity
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Reducing Draw Time Hitching with VK_EXT_graphics_pipeline_library
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Software Rasterization of 2 Billion Points in Real Time
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PIX 2203.30: Export to C++, UI changes and more!
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Authoring Efficient Shaders for Optimal Mobile Performance
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[video] Interactive Graphics 20 - Compute & Mesh Shaders
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[video] Toon Shader Specular Highlights - Shader Graph Basics - Episode 40
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[video] Interactive Graphics 21 - Deferred, Variable-Rate, & Adaptive Shading
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Texture sampling tips
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[video] How to Select 3D Objects With The Mouse Using OpenGL
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Discover 3D content optimization with Simplygon
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Raytraced global illumination denoising
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Rendering realtime caustics
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Skybox tutorial part 1
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Announcing Vulkan Memory Allocator 3.0.0 and Direct3D 12 Memory Allocator 2.0.0
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1.3 Vulkan Loader Improvements
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WebGPU and Graphics on the Web
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Intel at the 2022 Game Developers Conference
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NVIDIA Hopper Architecture In-Depth
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[video] Interactive Graphics 19 - Bump, Normal, Displacement, and Parallax Mapping
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Mach v0.1 - cross-platform Zig graphics in ~60 seconds
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Fast Non-Uniform 3D Frame Representation
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[video] HOW TO DEBUG Your OpenGL Code
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Transforming “noise” and random variables through non-linearities
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[video] Live Coding an Alien Orb - God Rays & Translucency
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PIX-2203.07: Support for DirectStorage
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DirectStorage API Now Available on PC
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How to add thousands of lights to your renderer and not die in the process
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[video] Interactive Graphics 17 - Geometry Shaders
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[video] Toon Shader Paint - Shader Graph Basics - Episode 38
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[video] Interactive Graphics 18 - Tessellation Shaders
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Fast, GPU friendly, antialiasing downsampling filter
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Optimizing Oklab gradients
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Abstracting the graphics api for a toy renderer
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Bindless rendering — Setup
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A Better Approach to SDF Decomposition
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Stochastic Light Culling for Single Scattering in Participating Media
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Multi-Resolution Geometric Representation using Bounding Volume Hierarchy for Ray Tra...
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Mali-G710: a developer overview
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[RFC] Adding HLSL and DirectX support to Clang & LLVM
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WebGPU — All of the cores, none of the canvas
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AMD at GDC 2022
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Exposure Fusion – local tonemapping for real-time rendering
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Variable Rate Compute Shaders on Xbox Series X|S
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Variable Rate Shading, Tales from the Trenches on Series X|S
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How Does Perspective Work in Pictures?
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Picking Fairly From a List of Unknown Size With Reservoir Sampling
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Improved Accuracy for Prism-Based Motion Blur
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Vulkan SC: Overview - and how it is different from the Vulkan you already know
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Beyond Sand & Spice: The VFX of Dune | DNEG Deep Dives
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Sampling in Floating Point (1/3): The Unit Interval
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[video] Interactive Graphics 16 - Shadow Mapping
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Tiling simplex noise and flow noise in two and three dimensions
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Real-time Shading with Free-form Planar Area Lights using Linearly Transformed Cosine...
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Using Semaphore and Memory Sharing Extensions for Vulkan Interop with NVIDIA OpenCL
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[video] Clipping and viewport mapping in OpenGL
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Untangling Direct3D 12 Memory Heap Types and Pools
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Why you can’t update Android’s GPU drivers like on your PC
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Building a new graphics engine in Rust - Part 2
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[video] Random Noise - Shader Graph Basics - Episode 35
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[video] Live Coding and Alien Orb - Modeling & Shadows
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Ben Cloward - book recommendations
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[video] Interactive Graphics 12 - The Rendering Equation
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Shader translation benchmark
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Cube Sphere Going from Cube to Sphere
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LunarG Releases New Vulkan 1.3.204.0 SDKs with Profiles Toolset and New Extensions
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Exploring the Vulkan 1.3 Software Development Kit (SDK)
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A Review of Shader Languages
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[video] Modern OpenGL - Compute Shaders
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Light transport matrices, SVD, spectral analysis, and matrix completion
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Updates in Graphics and Gaming
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In the works: HLSL Shader Model 6.7
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Super Imposter shader: my journey to make a high quality imposter shader
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[video] Real-Time Ray Tracing | RTX ON in Vulkan | Vulkan Lecture Series Ep. 6, Real-...
- Video lecture series of the real-time rendering course at TU Wien
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A Shader Trick
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Technically Art: Issue 121 (11.02.2022)
- a collection of tweets about tech art, VFX, and related topics
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[video] How Shaders Work (in OpenGL) | How to Code Minecraft Ep. 3
- video introduction tutorial to shader programming with OpenGL
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[video] Interactive Graphics 10 - Textures on the GPU
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Ray-tracing in 10ms: Ambient occlusion
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WebGPU January 2022 meetup — takeaways
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Speeding up Blender .obj export
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SIMD in the GPU world
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The road to 16-bit floats GPU is paved with our blood
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Two Low Discrepancy Grids: Plus Shaped Sampling LDG, and R2 LDG
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Direct Light 2: integrating shadow rays into a path tracer
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Direct Light 3: what goes in the direct light function?
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2021 Vulkan Ecosystem Survey Results are in!
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[video] Star Citizen Live: Graphics Engineering Q&A
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[video] Interactive Graphics 08 - Lights & Shading
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[video] Skeletal Animation In OpenGL using Assimp - Part 5
- the final video of the skeletal animation series using OpenGL and Assimp
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FXAA, SSAA, MSAA, and TXAA comic summary
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Direct3D 12: Long Way to Access Data
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UE5 Lumen Implementation Analysis
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Vulkan 1.3 and Roadmap 2022
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In defense of NIR
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Advanced Kernel Profiling with the Latest Nsight Compute
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What is direct lighting (next event estimation) in a ray tracer?
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WebGPU Best Practices
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[video] Useful functions for game designers - Cosine Interpolation
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Shader tips and tricks
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Removing Banding in Linelight
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[video] The Unreasonable Effectiveness of JPEG: A Signal Processing Approach
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Behind the Pretty Frames: God of War
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Visualizing VGPR Pressure with Radeon™ GPU Analyzer 2.6
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The Perlin Problem: Moving Past Square Noise
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[video] Tech Focus: Nvidia DLDSR - What Does AI Downsampling Actually Do?
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[video] Talk - Practical Pigment Mixing for Digital Painting
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Radeon™ GPU Profiler 1.12 released
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Viewing DirectX® 12 Named Resources with Radeon™ Memory Visualizer 1.3
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Texture Gathers and Coordinate Precision
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Instant Neural Graphics Primitives with a Multiresolution Hash Encoding
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[video] Triplanar Projection Improvements - Shader Graph Basics - Episode 29
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[video] Interactive Graphics 01 - Introduction
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[video] Useful functions for game designers - Lagrange Interpolation
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Technically Art: Issue 119 (14.01.2022)
- an extensive collection of a large variety of tech art tweets collected into a single post
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[video] New Weather Simulator: Almost Perfect!
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VK_KHR_dynamic_rendering tutorial
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[video] Shader Coding for Beginners 2022 [Part 1]
- the first part of a shader coding course (6 hours!) focusing on textual shaders using Unity
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[video] PhD Thesis Fast Forward 2021
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Cache and Bandwidth Aware Real-time Subsurface Scattering
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Sphere Scene in Unity URP
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[video] You Might Be Thinking About Shader Performance Wrong
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[video] Skeletal Animation In OpenGL using Assimp - Part 2
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Insider guide to tech interviews
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Temporal AA and the quest for the Holy Trail
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Reader Question Answered 1 - Learning D3D12
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Finding Your Home in Game Graphics Programming
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Interleaved Gradient Noise: A Different Kind of Low Discrepancy Sequence
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Notes on occlusion and directionality in image based lighting
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What is an uber shader?
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Not All Blue Noise is Created Equal Part 2
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The History of Retro Game Consoles for Programmers
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Branching on a GPU
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Stalling a GPU
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Mixed Precision Algorithms in Numerical Linear Algebra
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[video] The small detail behind Breath of the Wild's Thousands of Trees - Quick Answe...
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Global shaders in Unreal without engine modification
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Digital Dragons 2021: Adam Sawicki - Efficient Use of GPU Memory in Modern Games
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Debugging For Graphics Programmers
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Christmas Decoration for Graphics Engineers
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Debugging Your Renderer (4/n): End-to-end tests (or, why did that image change?)
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Debugging Your Renderer (5/n): Rendering Deterministically
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Homegrown rendering with Rust
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[video] Triplanar Projection - Shader Graph Basics - Episode 28
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Improved Triplanar projections
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[video] Digital Foundry's Best Game Graphics of 2021 - PC, Xbox, PlayStation - Anothe...
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Vulkan: Why some GPUs expose a dozen of identical memory types?
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From GLSL to WGSL: the future of shaders on the Web
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Triangle Grid Triangles and Hexagons
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Rendering in Real Time with Spatiotemporal Blue Noise Textures, Part 1
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Rendering in Real Time with Spatiotemporal Blue Noise Textures, Part 2
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[video] Coding the Game of Life - Part II
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[video] Pipelines and Stages - Inside Graphics, Compute, Ray Tracing Pipes - Vulkan L...
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Frickin' Shaders With Frickin' Laser Beams
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How to Read Research Papers: A Pragmatic Approach for ML Practitioners
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Technically Art: Issue 118 (18.12.2021)
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Modern (Bindless) Sprite Batch for Vulkan (and more!)
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World-space spatiotemporal reservoir reuse for ray-traced global illumination
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AMD GPUOpen - Publications
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Godot Rendering Pipelines
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Enhanced Barriers
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D3D12 Enhanced Barriers Preview
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Experimental Analysis of Multiple Scattering BRDF Models
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Announcing HLSL 2021
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Announcing new DirectX 12 feature – Video Encoding!
- the blog post presents the video encoding API that has been added to d3d12
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Introduction to Tessellation in Metal
- the article presents an overview of tesselation shaders
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How to Build a Compute Rasterizer with WebGPU
- the article presents how to implement 3D mesh rasterization in a WebGPU compute shader
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[video] Swizzle & Channel Manipulation - Shader Graph Basics - Episode 25
- the video tutorial introduces swizzle operations
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fma: A faster, more accurate instruction
- the article presents the shader multiply/add operation (fma/mad)
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The Definitive Weta Digital Guide to IBL
- the tutorial describes the capturing process for image
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Building a PS1 style retro 3D renderer
- the article describes the hardware characteristics of the PS1 renderer
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Tiled Reservoir Sampling for Many-Light Rendering
- the paper introduces a combination of tile-based stochastic light culling and reservoir sampling
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Gradients in linear space aren't better
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Arm Best Practice warnings in the Vulkan SDK
- the article presents the Vulkan SDK layer architectures
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Why gamers and developers should care about ray tracing
- the article provides an overview of use cases for ray tracing
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Debugging Your Renderer (3/n): Assertions (and on not sweeping things under the rug)
- the article discusses the importance of asserts for debugging a renderer
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Understanding Graphs in GPUView and RGP
- the article explains what information GPUView and Radeon GPU Profiler show
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Custom Bloom Post-Process in Unreal Engine
- the article provides an overview of the bloom technique and implementations
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Skeletal Animation In OpenGL using Assimp - Part 1
- the video tutorial provides an overview of the skinning animation technique
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Denoising Sprite Fright
- the article presents the noise issues encountered when rendering out animated camera tracks
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[video] Reflection and Refraction Vectors - Shader Graph Basics - Episode 24
- the video shows a visualization of reflection and refraction vectors
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Lossless Image Compression in O(n) Time
- the article presents the overview of a small and simple lossless image compression
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Floating-point in mobile shaders
- the article presents an overview of fp16 (16-bit floating
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Tessellation-Free Displacement Mapping for Ray Tracing
- the paper presents a new approach that decouples displacement from the tessellation of the base me...
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A quick breakdown of lighting in the restir-meets-surfel branch
- provides a rundown of the different stages of a WIP experiment combing surfels and ReSTIR for rend...
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Shader Assembly and D3D12 Root Signatures
- the article presents a look at the RDNA2 assembly generated from a simple pixel shader that output...
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Debugging Your Renderer (2/n): Unit Tests
- the article presents a starting point for developing unit tests for rendering algorithms
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Adventures in Hybrid Rendering
- the article presents an overview of the implementation for various techniques found to mix raytrac...
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Vulkan Pills 1: Bindless Textures
- the article presents the quickest way to implement fully bindless shaders using Vulkan
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Advanced Shading Techniques with Pixel Local Storage
- the article shows how Pixel Local Storage can be used on ARM GPUs to implement Translucency and Or...
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Getting started with Metal-cpp
- the article presents the official C++ interface for Metal
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How to Level Up Your Profiling With RenderDoc for Oculus
- the article describes the RenderDoc fork for use with Oculus devices
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Prefix sum on portable compute shaders
- the author presents his experience trying to run a prefix sum sorting algorithms portably using We...
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From NVIDIA DLSS 2.3 To NVIDIA Image Scaling: NVIDIA’s Full Stack Of Scaling Solution...
- update on Nvidia scaling solutions - the NVIDIA Image Scaling SDK now provides an open
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Jump flooding with bgfx
- the article shows an example of implementing a flood filling algorithm using the BGFX abstraction ...
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Strange Attractors on the GPU, Part 1: Implementation
- the article presents how to implement GPU particles with movement tails without CPU interaction
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How to draw styled rectangles using the GPU and Metal
- the article presents how to render rectangles with rounded edges
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The Repackaged Windows Vulkan SDK
- the Vulkan SDK has been repackaged and now separates between core and optional components
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NVIDIA GTC: A Complete Overview of Nsight Developer Tools
- provides an overview of the available Nvidia developer tools
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Streamlining Render Passes
- the post summarizes the new VK_KHR_dynamic_rendering extension
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[video] Intro to Graphics 22 - Signal Processing
- the video tutorial provides a beginner introduction to signal processing
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[video] Jonathan Ragan Kelley: Organizing Computation for High-Performance Visual Com...
- the talk presents a discussion of performance tradeoffs
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[video] (Ab)using RTX for Element Point Location
- provides an explanation of point queries and why point queries on unstructured data is a lot more ...
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[video] Rendering Lines in a Game Engine // Game Engine series
- the video tutorial explains how to render lines using OpenGL
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Shaded vertex reuse on modern gpus
- the article presents results comparing the vertex post
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New Quest Rendering Tech Promises Massive Gains in App Performance
- summary of Occlulus Quest 2 Application SpaceWarp technology
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Shadow outlines tutorial
- the Unity tutorial shows how to sample shadow maps and implement an edge detection filter
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Stencil Portal in Unity — VFX Breakdown
- the article explains how to implement a portal look into a separate world using stencil buffers fo...
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Technically Art: Issue 115 (05.11.2021)
- weekly round-up of tweets from a large variety of technical art and VFX topics
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My personal hell of translating DXIL to SPIR-V – part 3
- the article presents the details of the D3D12 binding model and discusses the differences to Vulka...
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Working Around Constructors in HLSL (or lack thereof)
- the article presents how constructor like functionality can be implemented in DXC HLSL
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[video] Intro to Graphics 20 - Shadows & Reflections
- class in introduction to computer graphic series focusing on shadows
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[video] How Computers Draw Weird Shapes
- the video tutorial explains how to implement metaball rendering
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[video] A Deep Dive into Nanite Virtualized Geometry
- the video for the SIGGRAPH 2021 presentation about UE5 Nanite has been released
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VK_KHR_dynamic_rendering
- Vulkan extension that allows the use of render passes in Vulkan using a D3D12 style objectless mod...
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[video] Spot lights in OpenGL
- video tutorial explains the concepts of spotlights and develops a mathematical model to describe t...
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[video] SIGGRAPH 2021 Rendering Engine Architecture course
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The curious case of slow raytracing on a high end gpu
- the article shows that out of bounds access reduced rendering performance by 25x
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Practical Gaussian filtering: Binomial filter and small sigma Gaussians
- the article discusses the Binomial and Gaussians filter
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Advanced API Performance: Command Buffers
- the article covers a few high-level points on how command buffers allow parallelization of CPU ren...
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Advanced API Performance: Memory and Resources
- the blog post provides recommendations for memory management using D3D12 on
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Advanced API Performance: Mesh Shaders
- the article provides information about what practices are recommended for getting good mesh shader...
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[video] How Link's eyebrows go over his hair - Quick Answer #shorts
- short 1-minute video that explains how masking with disabled depth testing allows the eyebrows to ...
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Scalable global illumination for O3DE
- the presentation presents an overview of different Global illumination techniques
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Interactive Exploration of Homogeneous Coordinates and Rational Splines
- the article provides an explanation of Homogeneous Coordinates
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Vulkanised 2021 - Fall
- the slides and video recordings from the Vulkanised 2021 conference have been released
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[video] HLSL shaders compilation pipeline in BG3
- discussing how the mapping from D3D to Vulkan binding semantics was implemented using SPIR
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Interactive Volumetric Fog With Fluid Dynamics and Arbitrary Boundaries
- the article presents a method to generate and simulate real
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Swapchains and frame pacing
- the article presents an in-depth overview of the pipeline required to display a image on screen
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Advanced API Performance: Barriers
- collection of best practices for NVidia hardware regarding buffer management
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Advanced API Performance: Async Copy
- the article discusses considerations when to use async copy queue, async compute, or serial copy e...
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Advanced API Performance: Async Compute and Overlap
- the article presents a collection of Nvidia advice for getting good performance from async compute...
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Recovering Real-World Reflectance Properties and Shading From HDR Imagery
- the paper presents how using HDR and 3D scan data, it's possible to reconstruct the material BRDF ...
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Creating a Foliage Shader in Unity URP Shader Graph
- the tutorial covers a walkthrough of a foliage shader in Unity
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[video] How To Render CIRCLES (OpenGL/Vulkan/DirectX/Metal)
- the in-depth video tutorial explains how to render a circle using shadertoy
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The Shader Permutation Problem - Part 1: How Did We Get Here?
- the blog introduces the topic of shader permutations and why they end up being common issues
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The Shader Permutation Problem - Part 2: How Do We Fix It?
- the article dives deeper into the issues related to shader permutations
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NeRF at ICCV 2021
- collection of Neural Radiance Field papers that will be presented at Intl. Conf. on Computer Visio...
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Frame Analysis - Control
- frame breakdown of a single frame from the game control (as video and text)
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Graphics Twitter - send me links for stuff explaining modern GPU architecture (PS5,RT...
- Twitter thread asking for GPU architecture information
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Linking DXIL Binaries Using DXC
- the article shows how recent versions of DXC can link DXIL shaders for all shader stages
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AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution: the Digital Foundry interview
- interview with Nick Thibieroz, Director of Game Engineering at AMD
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Gentle Introduction to Realtime Fluid Simulation for Programmers and Technical Artist...
- the articles provides a beginner friendly introduction into fluid simulation
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GPU BCn decoding
- the article explains how BC format encodind differs between hardware vendors
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Improving GPU Memory Oversubscription Performance
- the post presents an overview of the performance characteristics for nvida applications related to...
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[video] Specular Lighting in OpenGL
- the video tutorial extends the Phong lighting model with the addition of specular lighting
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Instanced Line Rendering Part II: Alpha blending
- the article demonstrates how to implement line segment rendering so that the segments are not over...
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Ray Tracing versus Animation
- the blog presents performance number for Bottom-level acceleration structure when using D3D12 rayt...
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New Graphics Books, Fall 2021
- collection of 5 new graphics programming books - fundamentals, Vulkan, OpenGL and a history of com...
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Fast temporal reprojection without motion vectors
- the paper proposes a new technique to enable the temporal reuse of samples in scenarios where moti...
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An OpenEXR Layout for Spectral Images
- the paper provides an overview of Spectral Image Representation and Bi
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[video] Blub - Interactive GPU fluid solver
- the video provides an overview of a GPU based fluid solver
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Dynamic flowing foam in Unity
- the Unity tutorial shows how to implement a basic flow system in Unity
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Shader Tutorial: Self-Drawing Lines
- the Unity tutorial explains how to implement a 2D effect where a mask controls the visibility of a...
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[video] How to think about 3D rotations
- the video explains how to develop a mental model of 3D rotations
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Khronos KTX 2.0 Textures Enable Compact, Visually Rich, glTF 3D Assets
- Khronos released the texture format 2.0, which now supports Basis Universal compression
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My personal hell of translating DXIL to SPIR-V – part 2
- the blog post describes the details about parsing DXIL (the output from the Microsoft Shader Compi...
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Creative Use of GPU Fixed-Function Hardware
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Gentle introduction to GPUs inner workings
- the article provides an introduction to more hardware level information about GPU execution
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Understanding Metal Enhancements in the A15 Bionic GPU
- the article provides a summary of the new hardware features in Apple GPUs
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[video] NVIDIA’s New Technique: Beautiful Models For Less!
- the video provides a paper summary from NVidia that uses differentiable rendering to simplify geom...
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CodeGen Performant Convolution Kernels for Mobile GPUs
- the article presents how to use MLIR (Multi-Level IR Compiler Framework) for efficient SPIR
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GPU Dashboards in Jupyter Lab
- NVidia provides an open-source dashboard for Jupyter and a standalone Boker server
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[video] Diffuse Lighting in OpenGL
- video tutorial that explains lambert diffuse lighting function
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Discover advances in Metal for A15 Bionic
- the video presents what is new with the A15 GPU - added support for lossy compression
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Compute versus Hardware
- the article presents a comparison of triangle throughput for indexed buffer rendering, mesh shader...
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Creating Portable Vulkan Applications Using DevSim
- the whitepaper explains how to use DevSim to simulate lower spec devices on higher
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Digital combat simulator: frame analysis
- the frame breakdown covers the flight simulator scenes
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Developing Ray tracing content for mobile games
- the article discusses lessons learned by ARM's approach for developing raytracing support for Mali...
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[video] Smoothstep - Shader Graph Basics - Episode 15
- the video shows the smoothstep node in UE5 and Unity3D
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[video] The FUTURE Of Graphics | Mesh Shaders, Ray Tracing & Vulkan with Neil Trevett...
- video in-depth interview with VP of developer ecosystems at Nvidia
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Custom Lens-Flare Post-Process in Unreal Engine
- the in-depth article shows how to implement a custom physically based lens flare effect as post
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Fast Volume Rendering with Spatiotemporal Reservoir Resampling
- the paper presents how to extend spatiotemporal reservoir resampling to multi
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A Token Based Approach To Ordering Transitions
- the author suggests a method D3D12 state transition system for multithreaded command recording
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Physical Light-Matter Interaction in Hermite-Gauss Space
- the paper proposes a formal model to describe how surfaces/media respond to incident radiation
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ray_tracing_motionblur
- the Vulkan tutorial shows how to use the Vulkan VK_NV_ray_tracing_motion_blur extension (exposed b...
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Okhsv and Okhsl
- the article presents a derivation of new color spaces designed for more uniform color picker behav...
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SDF Decomposition
- the article presents a method for the rendering of static Constructive solid geometry SDFs
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Say hello to shadergarden
- article introduces a prototyping system aimed at making multi
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Vulkanised 2021
- signup and schedule for the Vulkanised conference has been published
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The Fog of Random
- the article presents a look at the making of the fog lost in random
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Perceptual Model for Adaptive Local Shading and Refresh Rate
- the paper introduces a new metric, CaMoJAB - this considers how the judder, aliasing, and blur art...
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My personal hell of translating DXIL to SPIR-V – part 1
- start of an article series discussing DXIL with the intended usage of conversion to SPIR
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Vulkan’s Best Practice layer now has AMD-specific checks
- AMD published a Vulkan layer that analyzes the API usage
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Vulkan Layer Symbiosis within the Vulkan Ecosystem
- the whitepaper provides an overview of the Vulkan layer validation tool
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Access modern GPU features with WebGPU
- WebGPU is slowly rolled out into mainstream Chrome versions
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Technically Art: Issue 108 (03.09.2021)
- collection of Tech Art tweets - covering procedural animation, waterfall simulations, particles, a...
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The Rendering of Mafia: Definitive Edition
- in-depth frame analysis of a nighttime scene in Mafia, a d3d11 based deferred rendering engine
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Optimizing AMD FSR for Mobiles
- the article presents optimizations to the FidelityFX Super
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Compressed GPU texture formats – a review and compute shader decoders – part 3/3
- the article presents how to implement a shader-based ASTC decoder
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My Takeaways from WebGPU July 2021 Meetup
- the article contains a brief summary of the content presented at the WebGPU meetup
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Stylised Grass with Shaders in URP
- the shader tutorial presents how to implement a grass shader using the Universal Render Pipeline i...
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Technically Art: Issue 107 (27.08.2021)
- collection of tweets covering an extensive range of technical art topics
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Linux in a Pixel Shader - A RISC-V Emulator for VRChat
- article presents a project that emulates a Linux in a pixel shader running in VRChat
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Temporal Antialiasing Starter Pack
- the article presents a collection of TAA resources
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[video] The Beauty of Bézier Curves
- the video shows how bezier curves are defined, how they are used
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Writing Portable Rendering Code with NVRHI
- Nvidia open-sourced their internal abstraction layer on top of D3D11, D3D12, and Vulkan
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SIGGRAPH 2021 Links
- collection of links to Siggraph 2021 content - Courses, papers, posters, ...
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Better GPU Hash Tables
- the paper presents three different variations of static hash tables for GPU usage
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5 ways to draw an outline
- the articles shows Rim Effects, Vertex Extrusion, Blurred Buffer, Jump Flood Algorithm, and Edge D...
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PIX 2108.18: New programmatic capture APIs and much more
- new PIX for windows APIs that allow applications to take a capture programmatically without having...
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Read My Chapter in Ray Tracing Gems II!
- the article provides a summary of the Using Bindless Resources With DirectX Raytracing chapter fro...
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[pptx] Geometry Rendering Pipeline Architecture at Activision
- the talk presents how Activision had to rethink the geometry pipeline when moving from tightly con...
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[video] Anti-Racist Graphics Research (SIGGRAPH 2021)
- the video discusses biases and assumptions that are baked into the graphics research
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Optimizing DX12 Resource Uploads to the GPU Using CPU-Visible VRAM
- the article presents a new D3D12 Nvidia extension that enables a developer to allocate CPU
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SIGGRAPH 2021 Talk- Unbiased Emission and Scattering Importance Sampling for Heteroge...
- the paper presents a new distance sampling method
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2D Lighting with Hard Shadows
- the article presents a polygon extension-based method for the generation of 2D shadows
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2D Lighting with Soft Shadows
- the blog post extends the previously discussed hard shadow method to support penumbra based soft s...
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Introducing a New API for Checking Feature Support in Direct3D 12
- the blog post presents a new helper class (CD3DX12FeatureSupport) that unifies the D3D12 feature c...
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Introduction to Caching Shading Information in World Space using Implicit Progressive...
- the article presents an overview of a master thesis about caching shading information in world spa...
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Advances in Real-Time Rendering in 3D Graphics and Games - Siggraph 2021
- course page for the content of Siggraph 2021 - covering Spatial Upscaling through FidelityFX, Conc...
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Rendering Engine Architecture Course - Siggraph 2021
- a new course happening for the first time in 2021
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Graphics Showcase: Using Vulkan Subpasses in UE4 for Performant Tone Mapping on Quest
- article presents how tone mapping can be implemented into UE 4 using Vulkan sub passes
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Ray Tracing Gems II Available Today as Free Digital Download
- free 800+ pages on raytracing - a large number of topics is covered, including the following
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Paper Digest: SIGGRAPH 2021 Highlights
- list of 149 accepted SIGGRAPH-2021 papers - containing a machine
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EXR: Lossless Compression
- short blog post that tests EXR compression/decompression speed for the different available options...
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A call to brute force
- author shows that path tracers are fundamentally simple if relying on pure brute force approaches
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Swallowing the Elephant (Part 12): A Postscript On Disk Bandwidth
- discussion of loading performance in pbrt-v4 - showing how IO and CPU performance bottleneck chang...
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A Little Bit About PRNG Stuff
- article presents an in-depth discussion of Pseudorandom Number Generators
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Unity at SIGGRAPH 2021
- overview of Unity at Siggraph - Unity is providing access to a basic level SIGGRAPH pass
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Some Books
- author suggested 3 books for computer graphics - covering raytracing, introduction to computer gra...
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Free Ray Tracing Gems II Chapter Covers Ray Tracing in Remedy’s Control
- presents how all ray-tracing based effects were implemented in the game Control
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Visibility TAA and Upsampling with Subsample History
- extension of the previously presented Decoupled Visibility Multisampling technique
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Swallowing the Elephant (Part 10): Rendering on the GPU—Finally
- part of the series that discusses how GPU support for the Moana Island scene was added to pbrt
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GPGPU, ML Inference, and Vulkan Compute
- the blog discusses Vulkan usage for GPGPU workloads, in particular for machine learning
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Real-Time Shading with Polyhedral Lights using Silhouette Detection
- a Bachelor thesis that presents a method for GPU based silhouette generation from Polyhedral light...
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[video] The Making of “Alpha Point”—UE5 Technical Demo | GDC 2021
- GDC talk presents a walkthrough of the technical creation aspects of the demo
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Color Matching Function Comparison
- the post compares different Color Matching Function (CMF) for use with spectral rendering techniqu...
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2D Lighting Techniques
- the article presents an overview of numerous techniques that can be used to implement lighting for...
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Vulkan Hardware Database updates
- the Vulkan hardware database has been updated - texture format view now has a breakdown of what ti...
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Software VRS with Visibility Buffer Rendering
- the article discusses how Visibility Buffer can be combined with Variable Rate Shading (VRS) Techn...
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There is no S in SDF without the Distance Fields!
- the article explains how to express SDFs in Unity and Unreal
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Real-time ray traced caustics
- the preprint from Ray Tracing Gems 2 covers two techniques for caustics
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Processing aware image filtering: compensating for the upsampling
- the article presents the idea of compensating for shortcomings of an upsample technique in the dow...
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Reducing Acceleration Structure Memory with NVIDIA RTXMU
- the NVIDIA RTX Memory Utility is an open-source (MIT License) SDK designed for reducing the comple...
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[video] Arm Mali GPU Training Series Ep 1.2 : The rendering pipeline
- the video discusses the rendering pipeline - presents the geometry and pixel processing pipeline
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[video] Arm Mali GPU Training Series Ep 1.3 : GPU architecture
- explains how the rendering pipeline translates into GPU hardware
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[video] Arm Mali GPU Training Series Ep 1.4 : Hardware shader cores
- the video discusses the hardware essentials - presents how CPUs are designed
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GPU architecture types explained
- the article discusses tile-based and immediate-mode rendering GPUs in detail
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Using Debug Printf
- whitepaper that discusses how to use printf in Vulkan shaders
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3D SDF Primitives in WGSL
- a collection of Signed-distance field primitives (Cylinder, cubes, ...) expressed in WebGPU Shadin...
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[video] Tech Focus: Global Illumination - What It Is, How Does It Work And Why Do We ...
- the video provides an overview explanation of Global Illumination
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My toy renderer, part 4: Ray tracing
- the article goes into detail on how to implement physically correct and affordable ray traced soft...
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Decoupled Visibility Multisampling
- presents a method that decouples geometry samples from shading samples
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Slope Space in BRDF Theory
- the article presents a refresher on the concept of slope
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Dynamic destruction in Radio Viscera
- the article explains how the destruction system was implemented
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FBM detail in SDFs
- the article presents a natural SDF based detail mapping / Fractal Noise displacement mapping
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Technically Art: Issue 106 (16.07.2021)
- collection of tweets about technical art - covering particles, stylized shading, portfolios, and g...
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Signed Distance field (SDF)
- a collection of resources, links, papers, discussions about SDFs
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My toy renderer, part 3: Rendering basics
- the article explains how a visibility buffer approach is used
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[video] Arm Mali GPU Training Series Ep 1.1 : Introduction to mobile systems
- the first part of the series discusses where mobile GPUs are used
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Weighted reservoir sampling: randomly sampling streams
- pre-release chapter from ray tracing gems 2 - presents weighted reservoir sampling, a technique fo...
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AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR) source code is now available here on GPUOpen
- the source code for the technique has been published on Github
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Visibility Buffer Rendering with Material Graphs
- the article presents an overview of The Visibility Buffer approach
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HPG 2021 Keynote: Alex Evans (NVIDIA), Optimising for Artist Happiness
- Alex covers many ideas and algorithms - classical tools require the artist to deal with technical ...
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Raytracing tidbits
- collection of ray tracing experiments and presentation of results
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The reference path tracer
- first free chapter from ray tracing gems 2 has been released
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Automated Testing of a Ray Tracer
- author presents an introduction to automated visual testing
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Comparing images in frequency domain. “Spectral loss” – does it make sense?
- the blog post discusses if it makes sense to compare images in the frequency domain
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HPG 2021 Papers Preview
- preview video if a view of the papers presented at HPG 2021
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WebGPU for Metal Developers, Part Two
- second part of the series explaining the WebGPU basics by presenting the equivalent concepts from ...
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Relighting and Material Editing with Implicit Representations
- the article presents a brief overview of NeRF (neural radiance fields)
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NVIDIA Research: NeRF-Tex: Neural Reflectance Field Textures
- the presents the use of neural fields to model materials such as fur, fabric, and grass
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What is Vulkan Compute?
- author presents the subset of Vulkan API related to compute workloads
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An Initial Inspection of FidelityFX Super Resolution
- blog post presents a comparison of AMDs FSR, CAS against other upscale techniques
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MMPX Style-Preserving Pixel Art Magnification
- the paper presents a filter for magnifying pixel art (such as 8
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Basic Shader Math - Shader Graph Basics - Episode 4
- the video tutorial explains how to use the add, subtract, multiply, and divide nodes in UE5 and Un...
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MatMorpher: A Morphing Operator for SVBRDFs
- the paper presents a new operator for blending BRDF texture maps
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[video] EGSR 2021 Day 1
- stream of the first day of Eurographics Symposium on Rendering 2021
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Moving Basis Decomposition for Precomputed Light Transport
- paper presents the Moving Basis Decomposition framework
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My toy renderer, part 2: Scene management
- the article discusses the scene structure of the authors' renderer
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ReSTIR GI: Path Resampling for Real-Time Path Tracing
- paper presents a new path sampling algorithm for indirect lighting
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The Missing Guide to Modern Graphics APIs – 2. PSOs
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[video] Live Coding: Making the American flag with math!
- the video tutorial shows a walkthrough to render the USA flag using shader toy
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An Unbiased Ray-Marching Transmittance Estimator
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NVIDIA Research: An Analytic BRDF for Materials with Spherical Lambertian Scatterers
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Implementing Gamut Mapping
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i3D 2021 Keynote: Trace All The Rays!
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Real-time Neural Radiance Caching for Path Tracing
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[video] Drawing Boxes and Rectangles in URP Shader Graph with 2D SDFs!
- the video tutorial explains how to draw Squares, boxes, and rounded rectangles as SDFs
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[video] Advanced Graphics Tutorial: Wakes, Explosions and Lighting: Interactive Water...
- discusses how to generate ocean displacement, buoyancy,
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Deferred shading on mobile: An API overview
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VK_EXT_multi_draw released for Vulkan
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BRDF Importance Sampling for Linear Lights
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How to get the most out of Smart Access Memory (SAM)
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Supporting Native HDR Monitors
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A Polarizing Filter Function for Real-Time Rendering
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What’s new in Metal at WWDC21
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Using asynchronous compute on Arm Mali GPUs: A practical sample
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Perceptual Lightness for Game Graphics
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[video] All Blend Modes! Looking at the Shader Graph Blend Mode Filters
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Stable Geometric Specular Antialiasing with Projected-Space NDF Filtering
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[video] Lumen | Inside Unreal
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Future geometry pipeline
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VFX Notes: Ep 1 – Actor replacement, UE5 and what exactly is gamma?
- new podcast about VFX in film, TV, and games - discussing Resident Evil Village and UE5
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[video] Drawing a Line Segment in the URP Shader Graph with 2D SDFs!
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Brief Analysis of Nanite GPU Culling
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BRDF Importance Sampling for Polygonal Lights
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[video] Explore bindless rendering in Metal
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[video] Nanite | Inside Unreal
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WebGPU for Metal Developers, Part One
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Bringing Vulkan Raytracing to older AMD hardware (Vega and below)
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Fewer Samples per Pixel per Frame
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How to use debugPrintf in Vulkan
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Compute shader glossary
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Neural material (de)compression – data-driven nonlinear dimensionality reduction
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[video] Live Coding:Bending Light
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Data-Driven Analysis and Design of Vulkan Ray-Tracing Applications using Automatic In...
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Brief Analysis of Nanite
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A Macro View of Nanite
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Unbiased VNDF Sampling for Backfacing Shading Normals
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[video] Basics of Mipmaps in Unity Part 2! Shaders, Bias, and Texture2DLOD!
- the video tutorial shows how to implement the MIP selection algorithm using shader code
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Reliable Feature-Line Driven Quad-Remeshing
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Infinite Grassland: Ray Traced Rare Semi-Uniform Entity Manifolds for Rendering Count...
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[video] Introduction to Ray Tracing - Class 1
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Triangle Grids
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Writing Shader Code in Universal RP (v2)
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Tech Art Chronicles: What Are SDFs Anwyay?
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The technical art of sea of thieves
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A VR Frame’s Life
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Distributing Monte Carlo errors as Blue Noise in Screen Space, Part 2 - Retargeting P...
- the article presents how to distribute Monte Carlo errors as blue noise in screen space
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Graphics Pipelines for Young Bloods
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Hash Functions for GPU Rendering
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[video] Basics of Partial Derivative Shader Funcs in Unity! DDX, DDY, FWidth
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Inherited Viewport Scissor Sample
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[video] Beautiful Glitter Simulation…Faster Than Real Time
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Fast Divergence-Free Noise Generation in Shaders
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Tips: Acceleration Structure Compaction
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In-depth technical dive into metro exodus pc enhanced edition
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Experiments in hybrid raytraced shadows
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Shader translation benchmark on Dota2/Metal
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Radeon Rays v4.1 is now available – with open source!
- Radeon Rays v4.1 (ray intersection library for D3D12 and Vulkan) is now open source
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The stack monoid revisited
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[video] Basics of Mipmaps in Unity Part 1! Import Settings and Custom Mipmaps!
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[video] Raymarched Reflections
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[video] SIGGRAPH 2021: Technical Papers Preview Trailer
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Temporally Adaptive Shading Reuse for Real-Time Rendering and Virtual Reality
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Scaling Probe-Based Real-Time Dynamic Global Illumination for Production
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[video] Basics of White Noise! Random Numbers for Shaders and ProcGen in Unity
- the video explains how to generate 2D Perlin noise and how to use it in Unity
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[video] It Just Works: Ray-Traced Reflections in Battlefield V
- presents how D3D12 Raytracing support was implemented in Battlefield V
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Graphics API abstraction
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Generating Primitive Shapes in C++
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Direct Delta Mush Skinning Compression with Continuous Examples
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Antithetic Sampling for Monte Carlo Differentiable Rendering
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[video] Burning Down Virtual Trees... In Real Time!
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[video] Newton's Cradle: Setting up Materials
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The case of the curiously slow shader
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Projective Geometric Algebra - Wiki
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How to Obtain Stable GPU Measurements on Quest
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Technically Art: Issue 96 (30.04.2021)
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Creating a Card Shader with 3D content
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[video] NEW – Video: Radeon GPU Profiler v1.10
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Graphics technique names
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Hashing Space Hashing in an Arbitrary Grid
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Announcing HLSL Shader Model 6.6
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Supermassive black hole tutorial
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[video] RTXDI: Details on Achieving Real Time Performance
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[video] Denoising Raytraced Soft Shadows on Xbox Series X|S and Windows with Fidelity...
- explains shadow denoising process - broken down into 5 blocks that are explained individually
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[video] Tier 2 Variable Rate Shading in Gears
- overview of Variable Rate Shading (VRS), what is supported with Tier 1 and 2
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Inverse Z-Buffer
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i3D 2021 - Posters
- list of posters presented at I3D - covering Linearly Transformed Spherical Harmonics, Style
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ShaderQuest Part 5: Shader code syntax & Colors
- part 5 of beginner-focused shader tutorial series
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The Graphics Codex
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Rendering Decals and Many Lights with Ray Tracing Acceleration Structures
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A Survey on Bounding Volume Hierarchies for Ray Tracing
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[video] Newton's Cradle: Modeling & Animation
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Distinctive Derivative Differences
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An Introduction to Vulkan Video
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Pixel Art Filtering
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Appearance-Driven Automatic 3D Model Simplification
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How to read shader assembly
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Optimizing Triangles for a Full-screen Pass
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Bindless Descriptors
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Rendering large 3D tilemaps with a single draw call at 3000 FPS
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[video] The Basics of SmoothStep, a Useful Shader Function in Unity URP
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how do you calculate correct normals when doing vertex displacement shaders?
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[video] rendering numbers single quad
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NeuMIP: Multi-Resolution Neural Materials
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Countering Racial Bias in Computer Graphics Research
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[video] Create a Sand Dune Shader Graph in Unity URP! No Textures Needed!
- the Tutorial presents how to generate sand dunes in pixel shaders using Unity
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Radeon™ GPU Profiler v1.10 introduces GPU cache counters, Vulkan® ray tracing, and mo...
- updated version supports reporting of memory, instruction, and scalar cache usage on RDNA hardware...
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Managing Shader Code Complexity in NVIDIA Omniverse
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Mean Squared Error is Variance
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Baking Neural Radiance Fields for Real-Time View Synthesis
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Generating Meshes of a Sphere
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Ray Tracing Lossy Compressed Grid Primitives
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Understanding Vulkan Synchronization
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Importance sampling visible wavelength
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Interactive Path Tracing and Reconstruction of Sparse Volumes
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[video] Compositional Neural Scene Representations for Shading Inference - SIGGRAPH 2...
- video recording of the SIGGRAPH 2020 was released
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NVIDIA Vulkan Ray Tracing Tutorials
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Guided Visibility Sampling++
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[video] Sparkling Grass Lawn in Shader Graph! Unity URP Procedural Material
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Twitter Thread - Valheim rendering performance
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Technically Art: Issue 91 (26.03.2021)
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Wall Cutout in Shader Graph and URP
- the tutorial explains an approach how to implement cutting walls into 3D walls
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Real-Time Geometric Glint Anti-Aliasing with Normal Map Filtering
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Screen-Space Reflections Explained
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How to reconstruct an image if you see only a few pixels
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Auto HDR Preview for PC Available Today
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[video] Adding Shadow Casting to Grass Baked with Compute Shaders
- the video tutorial shows how to change grass to cast shadows using Unity
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Distributing Monte Carlo errors as Blue Noise in Screen Space, Part 1 - Theory and So...
- the blog post describes how blue noise can help to improve converge of ray tracing results
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ShaderQuest Part 4: Shader Environment Architecture
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Which color scale to use when visualizing data
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i3D 2021 - Papers Program
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Soft Foliage Shader Breakdown
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Stochastic-Depth Ambient Occlusion
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[video] Shading the World of Anthem
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Fitting cubic Bézier curves
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[video] Unity Basics: Triangle Winding, Culling Modes & Double Sided Materials
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The Rendering of Jurassic World: Evolution
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Visual debugging and profiling
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OpenGL on DirectX: Conformance & upstreaming of the D3D12 driver
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Making a Shading Language for my Offline Renderer
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shadertoy - Advanced tricks
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3D Math Primer for Graphics and Game Development - Free Online
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Crash Course in BRDF Implementation
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NAUGHTY DOG AT SIGGRAPH 2020
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Vulkan SDK Offers Developers a Smooth Transition Path to Synchronization2
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New game changing Vulkan extensions for mobile: Timeline Semaphores
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Ray Traversal of OpenVDB Frustum Grids
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[video] Differentiable Material Synthesis Is Amazing!
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[video] Nioh 2 DLSS Analysis: AI Upscaling's Toughest Test Yet?
- video comparison of DLSS 2.0 against a native 4k rendering
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Computing gradients on grids of pixels and voxels – forward, central, and… diagonal d...
- the post presents an overview of what gradients are, what they are used for
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FXAA Fast approXimate Anti-Aliasing
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[video] The CRYENGINE Rendering Pipeline
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Tech Breakdown: Hiding Water in Boat Interiors
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Experimenting with Shader Graph: Doing more with less
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New game changing Vulkan extensions for mobile: Descriptor Indexing
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Moving The Machinery to Bindless
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[video] Shaders For Game Devs
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New game changing Vulkan extensions for mobile: Buffer Device Address
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Per-Texel Deferred Lighting
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[video] Blade Grass! Generate and Bake a Field Mesh Using a Compute Shader
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[video] GODOT 2D Dissolve Effect : Visual Shader
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Bilinear down/upsampling, aligning pixel grids, and that infamous GPU half pixel offs...
- the article shows a few ways of doing bilinear upsampling and downsampling
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second tech art thread on the stylized rendering of “Dungeons of #Hinterberg”
- the Twitter thread presents details about how the outline rendering has been implemented
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Temporally Reliable Motion Vectors for Real-time Ray Tracing
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More (Robust) Frustum Culling
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New Vulkan extensions for mobile: Maintenance Extensions
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OpenCL: Hide data transfer behind GPU Kernels runtime
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Minnaert For People Who Don't Know How To Minnaert
- article presents how to integrate a custom shading model into the Unity rendering pipeline
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Vulkan Memory Types on PC and How to Use Them
- the blog post discusses the different memory types and how applications should use them
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VK_KHR_synchronization2 extension support in our latest developer driver
- the AMD driver now supports the new Vulkan synchronization extension
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Real-Time Physically Based Rendering and BRDFs
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