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Advanced API Performance: Clears
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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
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[video] GPU Texture Compression
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[video] Vulkan Synchronization | Understand Fences, Semaphores, Barriers,... | Vulkan...
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Render Graph 101
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[video] Toon Shading & Rim Lighting // OpenGL Beginners Series
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Derivatives in compute shader
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Let’s Stop Calling it GGX
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How to build a BVH – part 5: TLAS & BLAS
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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...
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Efficiency-aware multiple importance sampling for bidirectional rendering algorithms
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Sampling the hemisphere
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ReSTIR El-Cheapo
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Increasing wave coherence with ray binning
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Generalized Resampled Importance Sampling (GRIS)
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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...
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How to build a BVH – part 4: Animation
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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
- the blog posts demonstrate how to implement ReSTIR (Spatiotemporal reservoir resampling)
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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
- new Vulkan SDK updates allows application developers to create their own profiles
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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)
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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?
- the article presents components are defining the direct lighting component
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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
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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)
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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]
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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...
- video discussing the best graphical releases of the year
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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!
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Introduction to Tessellation in Metal
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How to Build a Compute Rasterizer with WebGPU
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[video] Swizzle & Channel Manipulation - Shader Graph Basics - Episode 25
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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
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Building a PS1 style retro 3D renderer
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Tiled Reservoir Sampling for Many-Light Rendering
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Gradients in linear space aren't better
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Arm Best Practice warnings in the Vulkan SDK
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Why gamers and developers should care about ray tracing
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Debugging Your Renderer (3/n): Assertions (and on not sweeping things under the rug)
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Understanding Graphs in GPUView and RGP
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Custom Bloom Post-Process in Unreal Engine
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Skeletal Animation In OpenGL using Assimp - Part 1
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Denoising Sprite Fright
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[video] Reflection and Refraction Vectors - Shader Graph Basics - Episode 24
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Lossless Image Compression in O(n) Time
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Floating-point in mobile shaders
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Tessellation-Free Displacement Mapping for Ray Tracing
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A quick breakdown of lighting in the restir-meets-surfel branch
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Shader Assembly and D3D12 Root Signatures
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Debugging Your Renderer (2/n): Unit Tests
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Adventures in Hybrid Rendering
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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
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Getting started with Metal-cpp
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How to Level Up Your Profiling With RenderDoc for Oculus
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Prefix sum on portable compute shaders
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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
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Strange Attractors on the GPU, Part 1: Implementation
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How to draw styled rectangles using the GPU and Metal
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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
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Streamlining Render Passes
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[video] Intro to Graphics 22 - Signal Processing
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[video] Jonathan Ragan Kelley: Organizing Computation for High-Performance Visual Com...
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[video] (Ab)using RTX for Element Point Location
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[video] Rendering Lines in a Game Engine // Game Engine series
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Shaded vertex reuse on modern gpus
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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
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Stencil Portal in Unity — VFX Breakdown
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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
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Working Around Constructors in HLSL (or lack thereof)
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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
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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
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Practical Gaussian filtering: Binomial filter and small sigma Gaussians
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Advanced API Performance: Command Buffers
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Advanced API Performance: Memory and Resources
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Advanced API Performance: Mesh Shaders
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[video] How Link's eyebrows go over his hair - Quick Answer #shorts
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Scalable global illumination for O3DE
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Interactive Exploration of Homogeneous Coordinates and Rational Splines
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Vulkanised 2021 - Fall
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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
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Swapchains and frame pacing
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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
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Advanced API Performance: Async Compute and Overlap
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Recovering Real-World Reflectance Properties and Shading From HDR Imagery
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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?
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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
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Improving GPU Memory Oversubscription Performance
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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
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Ray Tracing versus Animation
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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
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An OpenEXR Layout for Spectral Images
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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
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[video] How to think about 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
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Understanding Metal Enhancements in the A15 Bionic GPU
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[video] NVIDIA’s New Technique: Beautiful Models For Less!
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CodeGen Performant Convolution Kernels for Mobile GPUs
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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
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Creating Portable Vulkan Applications Using DevSim
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Digital combat simulator: frame analysis
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Developing Ray tracing content for mobile games
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[video] Smoothstep - Shader Graph Basics - Episode 15
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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
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Fast Volume Rendering with Spatiotemporal Reservoir Resampling
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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
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ray_tracing_motionblur
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Okhsv and Okhsl
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SDF Decomposition
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Say hello to shadergarden
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Vulkanised 2021
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The Fog of Random
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Perceptual Model for Adaptive Local Shading and Refresh Rate
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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
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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
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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
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5 ways to draw an outline
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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!
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[pptx] Geometry Rendering Pipeline Architecture at Activision
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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
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2D Lighting with Soft Shadows
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Introducing a New API for Checking Feature Support in Direct3D 12
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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
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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
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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
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2D Lighting Techniques
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Vulkan Hardware Database updates
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Software VRS with Visibility Buffer Rendering
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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
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Reducing Acceleration Structure Memory with NVIDIA RTXMU
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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
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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 ...
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My toy renderer, part 4: Ray tracing
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Decoupled Visibility Multisampling
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Slope Space in BRDF Theory
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Dynamic destruction in Radio Viscera
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FBM detail in SDFs
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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
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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
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HPG 2021 Keynote: Alex Evans (NVIDIA), Optimising for Artist Happiness
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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
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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
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Basic Shader Math - Shader Graph Basics - Episode 4
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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
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My toy renderer, part 2: Scene management
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ReSTIR GI: Path Resampling for Real-Time Path Tracing
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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
- in-depth analysis of the sources of variance in state
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NVIDIA Research: An Analytic BRDF for Materials with Spherical Lambertian Scatterers
- the paper presents a new BRDF for porous/dusty materials
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Implementing Gamut Mapping
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i3D 2021 Keynote: Trace All The Rays!
- describes the state of raytracing in games - presents a high
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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
- the article discusses local tile memory and mobile GPUs
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VK_EXT_multi_draw released for Vulkan
- a new Vulkan extension that adds vkCmdDrawMultiEXT vkCmdDrawMultiIndexedEXT
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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)
- article describes how AMD Smart Access Memory allows applications full access to GPU local memory
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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!
- the video tutorial explains how to draw a line segment in pixel shaders
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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
- the video tutorial shows how to implement refraction into a shadertoy
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Data-Driven Analysis and Design of Vulkan Ray-Tracing Applications using Automatic In...
- the master thesis presents a SPIR-V based instrumentation framework
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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...
- the article presents a proof of concept stage technique to render grass using a screen
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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
- suggests using a PCG hash function as default for GPU based hash/random functionality
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[video] Basics of Partial Derivative Shader Funcs in Unity! DDX, DDY, FWidth
- the video explains how partial derivatives are calculated in pixel shaders
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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
- the paper investigates how shading reuse is perceived when visibility and shading rate is decouple...
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Scaling Probe-Based Real-Time Dynamic Global Illumination for Production
- the paper presents extensions and improvements to the probe
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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!
- Two Minute Paper provides an overview of the Interactive Wood Combustion for Botanical Tree Models...
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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)
- collection of tech art tweets - covering UE4 weather systems, GPU instancing with Unity shader gra...
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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
- the tutorial explains how to generate consistent hashes based on integer positions
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Announcing HLSL Shader Model 6.6
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Supermassive black hole tutorial
- the tutorial provides a walkthrough of a raymarching supermassive black hole shader
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[video] RTXDI: Details on Achieving Real Time Performance
- Talk discusses how the performance of the ray-traced direct illumination was greatly improved
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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
- visual representation that shows why inverted depth buffer range with floating
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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
- the Graphics Codex online textbox is now a free - covering an extensive range of topics, model of ...
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Rendering Decals and Many Lights with Ray Tracing Acceleration Structures
- the paper presents a method that uses the AABS from hardware raytracing shaders to apply decals an...
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A Survey on Bounding Volume Hierarchies for Ray Tracing
- the paper presents comprehensive coverage of BVH hierarchies, especially focused on ray tracing
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[video] Newton's Cradle: Modeling & Animation
- the video tutorial presents how to render and animate a newton's cradle with SDFs
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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
- the video explains the smoothstep curve visually
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how do you calculate correct normals when doing vertex displacement shaders?
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[video] rendering numbers single quad
- the video provides an in-depth walkthrough of a debugging vertex ID shader
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NeuMIP: Multi-Resolution Neural Materials
- the paper presents a neural-network-based approach that is aimed at encoding detailed patterns int...
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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
- the paper presents a novel sparse Neural Radiance Grid representation
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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
- the blog posts provides an easy to understand summary of the 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
- Vulkan Ray tracing tutorials have been updated
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Guided Visibility Sampling++
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[video] Sparkling Grass Lawn in Shader Graph! Unity URP Procedural Material
- the video tutorial explains how to generate a procedural stylized lawn shader
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Twitter Thread - Valheim rendering performance
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Technically Art: Issue 91 (26.03.2021)
- collection of tech art tweets - covering art style demonstration, material creation, destruc...
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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
- the paper presents a Geometric glint anti-aliasing method that is compatible with LEAN mapping
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Screen-Space Reflections Explained
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How to reconstruct an image if you see only a few pixels
- the article provides an introduction to Compressive Sensing
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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
- the tutorial aimed at Unity beginners explained how shaders are set up and structured
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Which color scale to use when visualizing data
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i3D 2021 - Papers Program
- list of all papers that will be presented as part of I3D 2021 in April
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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
- the video for the GDC 2019 talk has been released
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Fitting cubic Bézier curves
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[video] Unity Basics: Triangle Winding, Culling Modes & Double Sided Materials
- the Unity video tutorial explains triangle winding order, how it connects to culling
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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
- the blog post shows a number of tricks for shadertoy development
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3D Math Primer for Graphics and Game Development - Free Online
- introductory math book released for free in updated form from the original release
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Crash Course in BRDF Implementation
- the extensive article provides an overview explaining BRDFs
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NAUGHTY DOG AT SIGGRAPH 2020
- videos and slides from SIGGRAPH 2020 presentations by Naughty Dog
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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!
- the video provides a high-level overview of differential rendering papers
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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
- the tutorial shows how to implement FXAA into a Unity custom scriptable render pipeline
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[video] The CRYENGINE Rendering Pipeline
- the Video provides a 90-minute in-depth look at the rendering architecture used in CryEngine
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Tech Breakdown: Hiding Water in Boat Interiors
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Experimenting with Shader Graph: Doing more with less
- the article presents an alternative way to pack PBR textures into a single 4 channel texture
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New game changing Vulkan extensions for mobile: Descriptor Indexing
- the article shows how the Vulkan extensions enable bindless indexing on Android
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Moving The Machinery to Bindless
- the article presents how the bindless binding model has been integrated into The Machinery
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[video] Shaders For Game Devs
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New game changing Vulkan extensions for mobile: Buffer Device Address
- the article presents the buffer_device_address (BDA) extension for Vulkan
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Per-Texel Deferred Lighting
- provides an idea on how to maintain a pixel art style with dynamic lighting in a 3D environment
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[video] Blade Grass! Generate and Bake a Field Mesh Using a Compute Shader
- the video tutorial shows how to generate a grass 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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Using Radeon™ GPU Analyzer v2.4.1 with DirectX® Raytracing
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Visual Exploration Of Light Transport In Path Tracing
- master thesis that covers a tool for interactive exploration of all contributing paths from a path...
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RDO texture encoding notes
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Unity SDF Generator – Part 2
- second particle in articles series about SDF (signed distance field) generation with Unity
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[video] Generate a Mesh Asset Using Compute Shaders in the Unity Editor!
- the Unity tutorial explains how to generate meshes from a compute shader
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Linear Interpolation
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Implementing Bitonic Merge Sort in Vulkan Compute
- Shows how to sort data on the GPU using Bitonic Merge Sort networks using GLSL/Vulkan compute
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Ice Refraction in Shader Graph and URP
- the article presents how to implement ice shading
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Coding a fireworks effect
- the video shows how to implement fireworks using fullscreen shader using Shadertoy
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Fast Radius Search Exploiting Ray Tracing Frameworks
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Crystal Shader Breakdown
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A Voxel Renderer for Learning C/C++
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Exploring DLSS 2.0 in Unreal Engine 4.26
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Stylized rendering for Dungeons of Hinterberg
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Godot 4.0 optimization progress report
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A simple path tracer on the GPU
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Improved Shader and Texture Level of Detail Using Ray Cones
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sRGB gamut clipping
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Analysis-Driven Optimization: Preparing for Analysis with NVIDIA Nsight Compute, Part...
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Managing Memory for Acceleration Structures in DirectX Raytracing
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Rim Light Shader Graph in Unity URP! Moody and Atmospheric Lighting!
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Introduction to Computer Graphics
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Neural Geometric Level of Detail Real-time Rendering with Implicit 3D Surfaces
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Wrapping around the uv map in 80 frames
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NVIDIA Announces Nsight Graphics 2021.1
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A Failed Adventure in Avoiding Temporal Anti-Aliasing
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Dissecting the Apple M1 GPU, part II
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All the Pipelines - Journey through the GPU
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[video] Neon Noir – Raytracing on Mobile
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OpenGL to Vulkan
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Organic Variety Making the Artificial Look Natural
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RenderDoc ‘Ref All Resources’ + Vulkan + Memory Aliasing = Beware
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John Carmack - Essays
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[video] Unity: Frosty Icicle Shader with Amplify [URP]
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How stunning visual effects bring Ghost of Tsushima to life
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Step by step recipe for Temporal Anti-Aliasing
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Moving Gears to Tier 2 Variable Rate Shading
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Gamedev Pronunciation Guide
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Transition guide from VK_NV_raytracing to (final) VK_KHR_raytracing!
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[video] Stylized grass Tutorial || Houdini and Unreal Engine
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Rendering a Sphere on a Quad
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Intro to Shaders
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[video] Christmas special, making it snow.
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A Diligent Approach to Ray Tracing
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Radeon™ GPU Profiler 1.9 introduces support for Radeon™ RX 6000 Series
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[video] CUDA Memory Model
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ShaderQuest Part 0: Series Introduction
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Ditherpunk — The article I wish I had about monochrome image dithering
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CVTT Texture Compressor Technical Breakdown
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[video] How to texture a procedural object
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[video] Getting Started with Compute Shaders in Unity
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Unorganized Unit Vectors Sets Quantization
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Render Scale - Scaling Up and Down
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Basic Tessellation setup in URP
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Graphics Studies Compilation
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Rendering Astronomic Stars
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Practical Hash-based Owen Scrambling
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Frustum Culling
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Why Raytracing won't simplify AAA real-time rendering.
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RDNA 2 hardware raytracing
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A perceptual color space for image processing
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States and Barriers of Aliasing Render Targets
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Hallucinations re: the rendering of Cyberpunk 2077
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vk_mini_path_tracer
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Grass Geometry Shader with Interactivity (Part 1, the shader)
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How To Create A Coiled Cable Shader In UE4
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to z-prepass or not to z-prepass
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[video] Cyberpunk 2077 PC: What Does Ray Tracing Deliver... And Is It Worth It?
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[video] Moving Mobile Graphics - SIGGRAPH 2020 Course
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Physically Based Rendering - Phong BRDF
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[video] Grass Fields in Unity URP! Procedurally Generate Blades with Compute Shaders ...
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Shockwave Shader Graph
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Debugging refraction in a ray tracer
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Texture Compression in 2020
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Using Mesh Shaders for Professional Graphics
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AMD RDNA™ 2 Instruction Set Architecture
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Radeon™ Memory Visualizer is now Open Source
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Softening polygon intersections in Blightbound
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Accelerating Unstructured Mesh Point Location with RT Cores
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[video] SIGGRAPH 2020 — High Quality, High Performance Rendering in Filament
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[video] SIGGRAPH 2020 - Large Voxel Landscapes On Mobile
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Black skin in your stylized dimly-lit video game
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Open Problems in Real-Time Rendering
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Angelo Pesce - Rendering the Metaverse across Space and Time
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Particles Color and Depth Textures
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The Spraycan
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Linearly Transformed Spherical Harmonics
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Memory types of discrete GPUs
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Intel View in Mafia III
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Michał Olejnik - Raytraced Shadows in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare
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[video] Painting a Selfie Girl, with Maths
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Reverse engineering the rendering of The Witcher 3, part 21 - the painted world
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biplanar mapping - 2020
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[video] Endless Fields of Grass in URP with a Compute Shader! | Unity 2020.1
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Multiple Importance Sampling in 1D
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Baking a Realistic Renderer from Scratch and other resources for Beginners in Compute...
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DirectX 12 Ultimate - Variable Rate Shading
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AMD FidelityFX Denoiser
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Vulkan Ray Tracing Final Specification Release
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Exploring ray tracing techniques in Wolfenstein: Youngblood
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In the works: HLSL Shader Model 6.6
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D3D12 APITrace - Capture and Replay
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[video] Realistic Clouds - Sapiens Devlog 54
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[video] Devlog 1: How we built the toon shading | Open Projects
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[video] Introduction to Compute Shaders in Unity URP! Replace Geometry Shaders | Game...
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Top Fire Shader Graphs
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d3d12 - Vulkan
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Technically Art: Issue 76 (20.11.2020)
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CasCmdLine - Few Technical Details
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Practical Tips for Implementing Subsurface Scattering in a Ray Tracer
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Frostpunk Heatmap
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Resource uniformity & bindless access in Vulkan
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What is shader occupancy and why do we care about it?
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Retro CRT Shader — A post processing effect study
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Combining 2D and 3D in Blightbound's VFX
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Introducing OWL: A Node Graph Abstraction Layer on top of OptiX 7
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The Bright Side of Ray-Traced Global Illumination in Unity
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Generating meshes procedurally in Unity
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Vulkan Ecosystem & SDK Survey - 2020
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[video] Procedural Water Ripples in Unity using Shader Graph Only
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Linear Algebra Shenanigans: Gizmo Repair
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[video] SIGGRAPH Asia 2020 – Technical Papers Trailer
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Normalizing the Phong Specular BRDFs
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Projective Geometric Algebra
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Compute Shaders Rendering One Million Cubes
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A summer sprint: bringing near-native performance to Zink
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Adding support for two-level acceleration for raytracing
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Khronos Vulkan Working Group Releases Shading Rate Extension to Increase Rendering Pe...
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PIX 2010.26 – Updated Command List Execution View & Descriptor Heap Viewer
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Technically Art: Issue 74 (30.10.2020)
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The Elephant on RTX – First Light. (or: Ray Tracing Disney’s Moana Island using RTX, ...
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Multiple Cameras Camera Blending and Rendering Layers
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Shader Graph - Stylized Glass
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Screen Space Reflections in Blightbound
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The Dark Side Of Ray-Traced Ambient Occlusion (RTAO)
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Technically Art: Issue 73 (23.10.2020)
- collection of tweets related to VFX, shaders, and game art
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Raytraced Shadows in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare
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Surface Gradient–Based Bump Mapping Framework
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A Tip for HiZ SSR - Parametric 't' Tracing
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The future of RLSL
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Introducing rust-gpu v0.1
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A Better Way to Scalarize a Shader
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GPU-Motunui
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Watercolour Shader Experiments
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Fast Eulerian Fluid Simulation In Games Using Poisson Filters
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Geometry Shaders in URP
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HSV Shader Graph – Hue Saturation Value
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Blowing bubbles with Shader Graph
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[Video] Vertex animation textures, beanbags and boneless animations
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Does subgroup/wave size matter?
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Framebuffers, WGPU and Rust
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Hash Functions for GPU Rendering
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[video] Beautiful Results From 30 Years Of Light Transport Simulation!
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[video] Variance-Aware Path Guiding (SIGGRAPH 2020 presentation)
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Grass Shader
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[video] Marvel's Spider-Man PS5 Ray Tracing Analysis - The Challenge of RT in First-G...
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Yet Another Stylised Water Shader
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Scaling Probe-Based Real-Time Dynamic Global Illumination for Production
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Color Grading Playing with Colors
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System Value Semantics in Compute Shaders - Cheat Sheet
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New Tutorial – Unified Radeon™ GPU Profiler and Radeon™ Memory Visualizer usage with ...
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Porting detroit: become human from playstation® 4 to pc – part 1
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Porting detroit: become human from playstation® 4 to pc – part 2
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Porting detroit: become human from playstation® 4 to pc – part 3
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Making a Real Time Stylized Sword Aura Effect with Shaders
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Borderland between Rendering and Editor — Part 3: Selection Highlighting
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