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Software VRS with Visibility Buffer Rendering
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There is no S in SDF without the Distance Fields!
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Real-time ray traced 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
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[video] Arm Mali GPU Training Series Ep 1.3 : GPU architecture
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[video] Arm Mali GPU Training Series Ep 1.4 : Hardware shader cores
- the video discusses the hardware essentials - presents how CPUs are designed
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GPU architecture types explained
- the article discusses tile-based and immediate-mode rendering GPUs in detail
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Using Debug Printf
- whitepaper that discusses how to use printf in Vulkan shaders
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3D SDF Primitives in WGSL
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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
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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
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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
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What is Vulkan Compute?
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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
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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...
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Deferred shading on mobile: An API overview
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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
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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
- introductory Siggraph class about ray tracing - including an opening interview with Peter Shirley...
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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
- the blog post discusses how to combine raytraced and shadows from shadow maps
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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!
- the video presents an explanation on mipmaps, presenting what effects it has on the visual appeara...
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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!
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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
- the article presents the difference between ddx/y ddx/y_fine
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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
- the articles describes the evolution of a multiple layered tilemap renderer
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[video] The Basics of SmoothStep, a Useful Shader Function in Unity URP
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how do you calculate correct normals when doing vertex displacement shaders?
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[video] rendering numbers single quad
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NeuMIP: Multi-Resolution Neural Materials
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Countering Racial Bias in Computer Graphics Research
- the paper presents racial bias that can be found in the technical language and numerical measures ...
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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
- the paper presents a technique to allow path tracing through sparse volumes
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[video] Compositional Neural Scene Representations for Shading Inference - SIGGRAPH 2...
- video recording of the SIGGRAPH 2020 was released
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NVIDIA Vulkan Ray Tracing Tutorials
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Guided Visibility Sampling++
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[video] Sparkling Grass Lawn in Shader Graph! Unity URP Procedural Material
- 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
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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
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3D Math Primer for Graphics and Game Development - Free Online
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Crash Course in BRDF Implementation
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NAUGHTY DOG AT SIGGRAPH 2020
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Vulkan SDK Offers Developers a Smooth Transition Path to Synchronization2
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New game changing Vulkan extensions for mobile: Timeline Semaphores
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Ray Traversal of OpenVDB Frustum Grids
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[video] Differentiable Material Synthesis Is Amazing!
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[video] Nioh 2 DLSS Analysis: AI Upscaling's Toughest Test Yet?
- video comparison of DLSS 2.0 against a native 4k rendering
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Computing gradients on grids of pixels and voxels – forward, central, and… diagonal d...
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FXAA Fast approXimate Anti-Aliasing
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[video] The CRYENGINE Rendering Pipeline
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Tech Breakdown: Hiding Water in Boat Interiors
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Experimenting with Shader Graph: Doing more with less
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New game changing Vulkan extensions for mobile: Descriptor Indexing
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Moving The Machinery to Bindless
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[video] Shaders For Game Devs
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New game changing Vulkan extensions for mobile: Buffer Device Address
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Per-Texel Deferred Lighting
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[video] Blade Grass! Generate and Bake a Field Mesh Using a Compute Shader
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[video] GODOT 2D Dissolve Effect : Visual Shader
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Bilinear down/upsampling, aligning pixel grids, and that infamous GPU half pixel offs...
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second tech art thread on the stylized rendering of “Dungeons of #Hinterberg”
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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
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Vulkan Memory Types on PC and How to Use Them
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VK_KHR_synchronization2 extension support in our latest developer driver
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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
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RDO texture encoding notes
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Unity SDF Generator – Part 2
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[video] Generate a Mesh Asset Using Compute Shaders in the Unity Editor!
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Linear Interpolation
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Implementing Bitonic Merge Sort in Vulkan Compute
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Ice Refraction in Shader Graph and URP
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Coding a fireworks effect
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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
- Video lectures for the Introduction to Computer Graphics Course at the University of Utah
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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
- updated tools adds support for inline raytracing and capturing applications that are not frame
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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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[video] Beyond Emitters: Shader and Surface Driven GPU Particle FX Techniques
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All the Pipelines - Journey through the GPU
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[video] Neon Noir – Raytracing on Mobile
- talk provides an overview of the Crytek rendering pipeline
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OpenGL to Vulkan
- the article explains the process of porting the NAP creative coding Framework to Vulkan
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Organic Variety Making the Artificial Look Natural
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Rendering dunes terrain in WebGL
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[video] How to calculate Normal Vectors in Shader Graph
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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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Loading OpenGL With Win32
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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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Summer Fun with Creation Graphs
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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
- beginner-focused tutorial that explains how 3D data is structured in computer graphics
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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
- the video tutorial explains the fundamentals of texture mapping in ShaderToy
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[video] Getting Started with Compute Shaders in Unity
- this Unity tutorial aimed at beginners presents a starter guide for compute shaders
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Unorganized Unit Vectors Sets Quantization
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Render Scale - Scaling Up and Down
- tutorial series about creating a custom scriptable render pipeline in Unity
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Basic Tessellation setup in URP
- the Unity tutorial provides a starting point for how to use tessellation shaders
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Graphics Studies Compilation
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Rendering Astronomic Stars
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Best shots from 2020
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Practical Hash-based Owen Scrambling
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Why are video games graphics (still) a challenge? Productionizing rendering algorithm...
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Frustum Culling
- the article presents how to implement frustum culling and the effects on CPU and GPU performance
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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
- the article presents a breakdown of a Cyberpunk 2077 frame
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vk_mini_path_tracer
- Vulkan tutorial that shows how to implement a Path Tracer in 300 lines of C++ using Vulkan compute...
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Grass Geometry Shader with Interactivity (Part 1, the shader)
- the Unity tutorial explains how interactivity between player and grass can be implemented for geom...
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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
- the article presents an overview of what a Z-pre-pass is
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[video] Cyberpunk 2077 PC: What Does Ray Tracing Deliver... And Is It Worth It?
- in-depth Digital Foundry comparison between Raytracing and classical rendering features on PC
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Cameras and Lenses
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[video] Glyphs, shapes, fonts, signed distance fields.
- the video tutorial provides an overview of signed distance fields
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[video] Moving Mobile Graphics - SIGGRAPH 2020 Course
- video recording from all talks in the Siggraph 2020 course in a single video
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Physically Based Rendering - Phong BRDF
- introductory slides for physically based rendering course
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[video] Grass Fields in Unity URP! Procedurally Generate Blades with Compute Shaders ...
- the video tutorial shows how to generate grass blades that swing in the wind
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Shockwave Shader Graph
- the video tutorial explains how to implement a ripple effect
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Debugging refraction in a ray tracer
- short blog post that provides advice on how to debug refraction in a raytracer
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Texture Compression in 2020
- the article presents an overview of different compression formats and libraries
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Generating Ray-Traced Caustic Effects in Unreal Engine 4, Part 1
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Using Mesh Shaders for Professional Graphics
- the article shows examples of how to use mesh shaders (code examples in GLSL)
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AMD RDNA™ 2 Instruction Set Architecture
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Radeon™ Memory Visualizer is now Open Source
- AMD released the source code for the Memory Visualizer
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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
- the talk explains the Voxel-based terrain system used in Roblox
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Black skin in your stylized dimly-lit video game
- The article presents how important reflectivity of Black skin is for believable results
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Open Problems in Real-Time Rendering
- the talk from Digital Dragons looks at open questions in rendering
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Angelo Pesce - Rendering the Metaverse across Space and Time
- the talk provides an overview of Roblox and how the philosophy creates an environment with very di...
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Particles Color and Depth Textures
- part of tutorial series about the Unity scriptable rendering pipeline (SRP)
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Robin Taillandier & Jon Valdes - Every Strand Counts: Physics and Rendering Behind Fr...
- presentation shows the in-progress state of the new Frostbite hair rendering system in the context...
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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
- video recording of the talk covered in [week 154](https://www.jendrikillner.com/post/graphics
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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
- A Unity video tutorial that explains how to generate grass meshes using Compute shaders
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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...
- a collection of resources (books, talks, websites) the author recommends for beginners to get star...
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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
- the article presents an overview of how Vulkan raytracing has been implemented into Wolfenstein
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In the works: HLSL Shader Model 6.6
- the article contains an overview of the new features that will be included in shader model 6.6
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D3D12 APITrace - Capture and Replay
- the blog posts describes how APITrace can intercept D3D12 applications (even complex AAA games suc...
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[video] Realistic Clouds - Sapiens Devlog 54
- the dev vlog explains how the 2D billboard based clouds are implemented
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[video] Devlog 1: How we built the toon shading | Open Projects
- the devlog presents a walkthrough of the implementation of a toon shader
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[video] Introduction to Compute Shaders in Unity URP! Replace Geometry Shaders | Game...
- the video tutorial explains how to take an input mesh and use a compute shader to generate additio...
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Top Fire Shader Graphs
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d3d12 - Vulkan
- unrolled Twitter thread presenting an overview of differences between D3D12 and Vulkan
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Technically Art: Issue 76 (20.11.2020)
- collection of tweets related to VFX, shaders, and game art
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CasCmdLine - Few Technical Details
- brief article that shows how to create a D3D11 device without a window
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Practical Tips for Implementing Subsurface Scattering in a Ray Tracer
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Frostpunk Heatmap
- the Unity explains how to implement a heat map view to visualize the temperatures in Buildings
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Resource uniformity & bindless access in Vulkan
- the article provides a brief overview of different kinds of array indexing types in shaders
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What is shader occupancy and why do we care about it?
- the blog post explains what shader occupancy is and how it connects to vector registers usage
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Retro CRT Shader — A post processing effect study
- the article explains how to implement a CRT rendering effect using GLSL
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Combining 2D and 3D in Blightbound's VFX
- the article explains how the 2D VFX effect has been integrated int the 3D world of Blightbound
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Introducing OWL: A Node Graph Abstraction Layer on top of OptiX 7
- article introduces OWL, an abstraction build on OptiX 7
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The Bright Side of Ray-Traced Global Illumination in Unity
- the article presents the difference between baked, screen
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Generating meshes procedurally in Unity
- the post explains how to generate a procedural mesh
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Vulkan Ecosystem & SDK Survey - 2020
- Vulkan survey to gather information about user experience, platform support, and future developmen...
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[video] Procedural Water Ripples in Unity using Shader Graph Only
- a Unity video tutorial that shows how to implement a water ripple effect
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Linear Algebra Shenanigans: Gizmo Repair
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[video] SIGGRAPH Asia 2020 – Technical Papers Trailer
- overview of technical papers that will be presented at SIGGRAPH Asia 2020
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Normalizing the Phong Specular BRDFs
- the paper presents an energy normalization derivation of the Phong lighting model
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Projective Geometric Algebra
- collection of resources by Eric Lengyel covering geometric algebra (this includes Grassmann algebr...
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Compute Shaders Rendering One Million Cubes
- the article explains how to use a compute shader to render moving cubes
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A summer sprint: bringing near-native performance to Zink
- the blog post presents an overview of the development progress of Zink(OpenGL on Vulkan layer)
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Adding support for two-level acceleration for raytracing
- the second part of the blog post series covering raytracing implementation with compute shaders pr...
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Khronos Vulkan Working Group Releases Shading Rate Extension to Increase Rendering Pe...
- Vulkan extension for Variable Rate Shading (VRS) has been released as [VK_KHR_fragment_shading_rat...
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PIX 2010.26 – Updated Command List Execution View & Descriptor Heap Viewer
- latest PIX update adds support for visualizing the GPU execution of command list from a single Exe...
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Technically Art: Issue 74 (30.10.2020)
- collection of tweets related to VFX, shaders, and game art
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The Elephant on RTX – First Light. (or: Ray Tracing Disney’s Moana Island using RTX, ...
- the author presents an overview of his raytracer setup
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Multiple Cameras Camera Blending and Rendering Layers
- the Unity article explains how to integrate multiple cameras into a scriptable render pipeline
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Shader Graph - Stylized Glass
- the shader tutorial explains how to stylized toon glass shader
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Screen Space Reflections in Blightbound
- the articles explains the pitfalls encountered when implementing Screen Space reflections
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The Dark Side Of Ray-Traced Ambient Occlusion (RTAO)
- the blog post provides an overview of ambient occlusion and what it approximates
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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
- the presentation explains how the raytracing for shadows has been implemented into Call of Duty
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Surface Gradient–Based Bump Mapping Framework
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A Tip for HiZ SSR - Parametric 't' Tracing
- the article presents how the precision HiZ tracing logic (used for screen space reflection) can be...
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The future of RLSL
- the blog post explains the history of RLSL (Rust Like Shading Language)
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Introducing rust-gpu v0.1
- First public release of Rust-gpu, a new SPIR-V backend for the Rust
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A Better Way to Scalarize a Shader
- the article provides a brief overview of scalarization and suggests an alternative approach
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GPU-Motunui
- the post explains the implementation of a path tracer that enables the rendering of the Disney Moa...
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Watercolour Shader Experiments
- the Unity-based effect presents how to create a watercolor rendering style
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Fast Eulerian Fluid Simulation In Games Using Poisson Filters
- the research presents a 2D fluid simulation in a 3D scene used to generate fire effects
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Geometry Shaders in URP
- the Unity tutorial provides a brief overview of the rendering pipeline
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HSV Shader Graph – Hue Saturation Value
- the tutorial explains HSV color space and presents how to implement conversion
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Blowing bubbles with Shader Graph
- the article presents how to implement the rendering of a soap bubble in Unity
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[Video] Vertex animation textures, beanbags and boneless animations
- The video tutorial explains how vertex animations can be stored and played back from textures
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Does subgroup/wave size matter?
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Framebuffers, WGPU and Rust
- the article explains the terms required to understand the initialization of a webGPU application
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Hash Functions for GPU Rendering
- the paper presents an evaluation of deterministic hash functions
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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)
- SIGGRAPH 2020 presentation that provides an overview of Variance
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Grass Shader
- the blog post discusses the development of a GPU based grass rendering system
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[video] Marvel's Spider-Man PS5 Ray Tracing Analysis - The Challenge of RT in First-G...
- the video shows the Ray Tracing implementation and uses it to explain the considerations when desi...
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Yet Another Stylised Water Shader
- breakdown shows how a Stylised Water Shader was implemented in Unity
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Scaling Probe-Based Real-Time Dynamic Global Illumination for Production
- the paper presents extensions to the [probe based irradiance
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sRGB/ACEScg Luminance Comparison
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Color Grading Playing with Colors
- the 13ths part of the scriptable render pipeline tutorial explains how to add color grading to the...
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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 ...
- tutorial explains the new unified AMD interface for the GPU Profiler Memory Visualizer
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Porting detroit: become human from playstation® 4 to pc – part 1
- the post explains the experiences on porting the game from PS4 to PC using Vulkan
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Porting detroit: become human from playstation® 4 to pc – part 2
- part two of the series provides on porting Detroit: become human offers an overview of indexing co...
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Porting detroit: become human from playstation® 4 to pc – part 3
- the last part of the series briefly explains how they used scalarization to optimize shader, split...
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Making a Real Time Stylized Sword Aura Effect with Shaders
- the author explains his approach for the design of an aurora shader challenge
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Borderland between Rendering and Editor — Part 3: Selection Highlighting
- the articles explains how The Machinery implementing for rendering the outline of selected objects...
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Fighting Fragmentation: Vulkan Portability Extension Released and Implementations Shi...
- the blog post provides an overview of the different API layering implementations (Vulkan on Metal,...
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Math in Art
- beginner-focused tutorial explains how to store normals, noise, and positional data in textures
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Vulkan Will Soon Have A Vendor-Neutral Cross-Platform Ray-Tracing API
- video presentation from the X.Org Developer Conference provides an overview of the Vulkan vendor
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Technically Speaking Challenge 1: Retro Shaders
- collection all entries for a tech art challenge with the theme Retro shaders
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Five years of GPU DB
- the author presents a look back at the last 5 years of the [GpuDB](https://db.thegpu.guru)
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Loads, Stores, Passes, and Advanced GPU Pipelines
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The Last of Us Part II, material blending, the SDF of a plane.
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Rules for a Future-Proof 2D Render Order
- the article explains the sorting, rendering layer design for a 2D game
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Write-up: VHS Image Effect
- post discusses a shader approach to implement a VHS effect using Unity
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Building WebGPU with Rust
- the talk provides an overview of WebGPU and provides an overview of the implementation using Rust
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Toon Lighting Basics
- the blog post explains how to implement a simple Toon Lighting shader using the Amplify Shader Edi...
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Graphics.DrawProcedural
- the Unity tutorial shows how to generate mesh data on compute shaders and draw them from the GPU w...
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Guide to Vulkan Synchronization Validation
- this guide explains how to use the Vulkan Synchronization Validation layer
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Heat Haze Shader Graph How-To
- the article explains how to implement a heat haze screenspace effect for a 2D game using Unity
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Radeon™ GPU Profiler 1.8 released
- article shows the new Instruction Timing, Theoretical occupancy, and UI improvements in the latest...
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NVIDIA Announces Nsight Graphics 2020.5
- new release adds support for NVIDIA Ampere microarchitecture
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Error Reporting Improvements for Vulkan Validation Layers
- Vulkan validation layer has been updated to include additional and improved validation messages
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Procedural Physically based BRDF for Real-Time Rendering of Glints
- the paper presents a physically-based model for the realtime rendering of sparkling materials
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Continuous Multiple Importance Sampling (SIGGRAPH 2020 Presentation)
- the video provides a great explanation of Monte Carlo integration importance sampling
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I3D 2020 starts this Monday
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Debugging D3D11 apps using D3D11On12
- overview of debugging D3D11 applications using Pix for Windows
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Topics in Quantization for Games
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Technically Art: Issue 67 (11.09.2020)
- collection of tweets related to VFX, shaders, and game art
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VHS Video Material Tutorial
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Stormscapes: Simulating Cloud Dynamics in the Now
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DOOM Eternal - Graphics Study
- in-depth breakdown of the the frame strutcure in Doom eternal
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Variable Rate Shading: first impressions
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Compressing PBR material texture sets with sparsity and k-SVD dictionary learning
- the article provides an introduction to sparse and dictionary learning methods and applies t...
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Compressed GPU texture formats – a review and compute shader decoders – part 2
- this part of the series presents a discussion of how the BC6 and BC7 format is implemented
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GPU Captures: How we support placed and reserved resources
- the blog post explains how PIX for Windows tracks placed and reserved resources
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Nsight: The Most Important Ampere Tools In Your Utility Belt
- the article provides an overview of the Nvidia tools available and how they can be combined t...
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Porting Falcon Age to the Oculus Quest
- the article provides a post-mortem view about the kind of changes, optimizations, and qualit...
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Shader Studies: Matrix Effect
- the article provides a detailed breakdown of a shader that implements a matrix style effect ...
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Technically Art: Issue 66 (04.09.2020)
- collection of tweets related to VFX, shaders, and game art
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RenderDoc for Oculus
- the blog post describes the custom Occulus fork of RenderDoc that adds support for a profiling mod...
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SIGGRAPH 2020 Course: Physically Based Shading in Theory and Practice
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Samurai Shading in Ghost of Tsushima
- the talk discusses the anisotropic specular techniques
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Godot - OPTIMIZING A 3D SCENE
- a guide aimed at beginners with Godot engine that presents an overview of the available counters
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New in DirectX— Feature Level 12_2
- the post lists the minimum requirements and optional features for D3D feature level 12_2
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Real-time rendering of water caustics
- the article presents a WebGL based technique for caustics rendering
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PIX Release 2008.26 – Our biggest update to GPU captures since 2017
- blog post provides an overview the PIX for Windows changes
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Introducing the new Vulkan Configurator (vkconfig)
- the blog post contains an overview of the Vulkan Configurator
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Seven Things for August 27, 2020
- collection of resources including a link to open Access Siggraph, interactive article on photogram...
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High Quality, High Performance Graphics in Filament
- how to take advantage of tiling GPU architecture and enable the use of fp16 math
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Quantitative Analysis of Z-Buffer Precision
- the blog posts present an analysis of depth buffer precision
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Physics-Based Differentiable Rendering: A Comprehensive Introduction
- SIGGRAPH 2020 course that presents an overview of inverse
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Bringing an Accurate Fresnel to Real-Time Rendering: a Preintegrable Decomposition
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Fresnel model #12
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How I turned my side project into a paper at a top graphics conference
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Vulkan - Robustness
- the guide explains how optional robustness features allow Vulkan applications to treat out
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An early release of pbrt-v4 and some notes about pbrt-gpu
- the first release of pbrt-v4, adds new rendering techniques but also adds support for GPU renderin...
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Introduction to the Vulkan Computer Graphics API
- Siggraph 2020 course that provides an API overview for basic drawing in Vulkan
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Single Pass Stereo: a study
- Single Pass Stereo is a technique that can be used to simultaneously project geometry for the left...
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Advances in Monte Carlo Rendering: The Legacy of Jaroslav Křivánek
- SIGGRAPH 2020 course that reviews and discusses insights of techniques introduced Jaroslav Křiváne...
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Zero-Variance Theory for Efficient Subsurface Scattering
- the Siggraph 2020 course presents guided sampling techniques that reduce variance to allow faster ...
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Path Trace Visualization - Part 1
- the article presents how to implement a path visualization system for a GPU path tracer
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HDR Scattering and Tone Mapping
- The Unity tutorial explains how to add HDR rendering support to a custom scriptable render pipelin...
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A Primer on sokol_gfx.h
- the article provides an overview of the scope of the sokol_gfx 3D API wrapper
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Best Practices: Using NVIDIA RTX Ray Tracing
- the article provides an extensive list of best practices for DXR usage
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Jet Set Vulkan : Reflecting on the move to Vulkan
- the article provides a basic overview of how the OpenGL ES based engine was ported to Vulkan
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Procedural Paintings with Genetic Evolution Algorithm
- the blog post explains how the author implemented a precural painting logic using compute shaders
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Compressed GPU texture formats – a review and compute shader decoders – part 1
- the article presents an overview of the DXT and ETC compression formats
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Writing Shaders in VS Code: GLSL Setup
- short post presenting how to setup VSCode to allow GLSL shader iteration
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Rendering Perfect Reflections and Refractions in Path-Traced Games
- the article explains primary surface replacement (PSR) and checkerboarded split frame rendering (...
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[video] Torus Knots explained!
- A video tutorial that explains how to implement a shader to render a torus knot using ShaderToy
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Render Target Abstraction
- the article discusses the different render target requirements for D3D12 and Vulkan and presents 4...
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LunarG Releases Enhanced Vulkan Configurator in new SDKs
- Vulkan SDK release contains a graphics vkconfig tool to allow users to configure layer settings
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Fire Shader Breakdown
- the Unity tutorials show how to implement a fire effect using a camera facing quad with shader bas...
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Nonsingular Point Light Attenuation
- the Siggraph 2020 talk presents the derivation of a point light attenuation that eliminates the si...
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Case Study: Vector Displacement Mapping in Real-Time
- the article shows an overview of what vertex displacement mapping techniques are and how to genera...
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A little clarification on modern shader compile times
- the article an overview of the complexities with Pipeline management in D3D12 and Vulkan applicati...
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Perspective! 1: theory side
- the article shows the theory of perspective projects and discuses perspective distortion
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Full Screen Shaders in HDRP, URP, and Built In Renderer
- the Unity tutorial shows how to write a simple fullscreen heat haze shader an apply in the differe...
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Eight years at Roblox
- the article provides at the authors work of the last 8 years
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Technically Art: Issue 63 (07.08.2020)
- collection of tweets related to VFX, shaders, and game art
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[UNITY VFX TUTORIAL] Creating a Stylized Magical Barrier in Unity
- this video tutorial shows how to implement an Overwatch magical shield effect
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Reverse engineering the rendering of The Witcher 3, part 20 - light shafts
- the in-depth article presents how the light shafts in The Witcher 3 have been implemented
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SIGGRAPH 2020 Course: Physically Based Shading in Theory and Practice
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Systematic Evaluation of the Quality Benefits of Spatiotemporal Sample Reprojection i...
- the paper presents an evaluation of what kind of gains can be achieved with temporal reprojection ...
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Technically Art: Issue 62 (31.07.2020)
- collection of tweets related to VFX, shaders, and game art
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Efficiency Tips on Switching Spaces and Transformation Matrices in Unity
- part 2 of an article series discussing the mathematical foundation of matrix/vector operations
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Custom SRP - Post Processing Bloom
- next part in a Unity SRP (scriptable render pipeline) tutorial series covering the implementation ...
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Oceans with Unity Shader Graph
- A video tutorial that shows how to implement a stylized ocean shader using Shader Graph in Unity
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Seven things for July 30, 2020
- collection of 7 compelling links to compute graphics/programming related topics
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Retro Renderman: shading on Finding Nemo’
- the article presents how the corals in finding Nemo have been shaded
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Engine Work: DDGI Light Probe Depth Data Compression
- the article presents a few techniques to compress Dynamic Diffuse Global Illumination probe inform...
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Vulkan synchronisation and graphics-compute-graphics hazards: Part I
- the article presents an overview of Vulkan barriers and shows how different barriers influence a P...
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Vulkan synchronisation and graphics-compute-graphics hazards: Part 2
- the second part of the series presents how to overlap work from two consecutive frames by submitti...
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using embree generated BVH trees for GPU raytracing
- the blog post presents how to use the Intel Embree library to generate a BVH tree for use with a G...
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Retro Renderman: shading food for ‘ratatouille’
- the article present how the food in ‘Ratatouille’ was shaded based on the skin model
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Sprite Outlines
- the Unity tutorial explains how to add an outline to a 2D sprite
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Technically Art: Issue 61 (24.07.2020)
- collection of tweets related to VFX, shaders, and game art
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Passing Particle System Data into Shadergraph (Custom Vertex Streams)
- This Unity tutorial shows how to pass data from the Shuriken Particle System to the particle shade...
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Fundamentals of the Vulkan Graphics API: Why Rendering a Triangle is Complicated
- the article provides a high-level explanation of the Vulkan API concepts required to render a sing...
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Unreal Engine Sky Atmosphere Rendering Technique
- open source D3D11 implementation of the paper presented at EGSR 2020 ["A Scalable and Production R...
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Why Not Use Heterogeneous Multi-GPU?
- the blog posts list a few possible drawbacks that need to be considered if a mix of dedicated GPU ...
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Quick Game Art Tip - Sprite/UI Color Mask
- a small shader example that shows that texture channels can be reserved to allow objects to change...
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Optimizing Compute Shaders for L2 Locality using Thread-Group ID Swizzling
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Art Tips from a Graphics Programmer 1, FRESNEL!
- a twitter thread that visually explains what the Fresnel effect is and how it affects the appearan...
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Shadow Move Rendering in Killer Instinct: Season 3
- the blog post presents how the shadow move technique was implemented in Killer Instinct: Season 3
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Three key techniques for improving mobile game graphics using PVRTexTool
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Indexed Material Mapping Tecnique
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Technically Art: Issue 60 (17.07.2020)
- collection of tweets related to VFX, shaders, and game art
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GPU Memory Aliasing
- the article discusses what memory aliasing exposed from Vulkan and D3D12 is and how it can be used...
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[video] HPG 2020 - High-Performance Graphics (Day 1)
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[video] HPG 2020 - High-Performance Graphics (Day 2)
- Neural Denoising for Path Tracing of Medical Volumetric Data
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[video] HPG 2020 - High-Performance Graphics (Day 3)
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NVIDIA Research: Warp Drive Gaming – Eliminate More than 80% of the Latency Performan...
- the paper presents a technique that uses late input latching and wrapping wrap render results to m...
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Now You Can Choose High-Performing Unity Shaders
- the article provides an overview of the performance that can be expected from several Unity Engine...
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An Exploration of GPU Silhouette Rendering
- the article presents many techniques for rendering broad outlines for 3D objects
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[video] Unity: Make It Rain with Amplify Shader Editor
- this Unity tutorial explains how to implement a rain effect on the surface of objects using a tech...
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WWDC20 - What's new in Metal and the Apple GPU
- the article summaries the changes announced at WWDC
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Retro RenderMan: reflections in ‘ratatouille’
- a look back at how RenderMan handled blurry glossy surface reflection in 2007 for Ratatouille
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A trip through ZOOBA’s bush rendering
- the blog post explains a CSG algorithm implementation based on using the depth and stencil buffer
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Drinking from the Firehose: Learning Computer Graphics Techniques and Programming
- the author provides an overview of the mindset, technique, and requirements for learning graphics ...
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Graphical glitch detection in video games using convolutional neural networks
- the master thesis looks at Machine Learning techniques to discover visual issues, such as stretche...
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PIX 2006.26 – Fence Signal/Wait Arrows in GPU Captures
- this PIX upgrade adds support for signal wait visualizations and improved buffer visualization
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Shader Graph : Stylized Skybox
- the Unity tutorial explains how to implement a stylized skybox with sun, moon, and clouds using th...
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Using Radeon™ GPU Analyzer with Direct3D®12 Compute
- the article presents how to use the AMD GPU Analyzer for compute shaders
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Using Radeon™ GPU analyzer with DirectX®12 Graphics
- the article explains got to use the AMD GPU ANALYZER to get low
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Resolving Metal GPU timers
- the article explains how to collect GPU timestamps and synchronize the CPU and GPU timestamps
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Barebones WebGL in 75 lines of code
- the article explains the basics required to render a triangle with WebGL
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Deep dive into OpenGL over DirectX layering
- explanation of the architecture of executing OpenGL on D3D12 using a Mesa
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Spectral Path Tracer
- the article explains how spectral rendering can be implemented in a DXR based path trace
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Technically Art: Issue 59 (10.07.2020)
- collection of tech art and VFX twitter posts, including a look at facial animation tech of the Las...
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[video] two minute papers - This is Geometry Processing Made Easy
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Practical Product Sampling by Fitting and Composing Warps
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Warping samples paper at rendering symposium
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Graphics on the web and beyond with WebGPU
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Lights and Shadows
- the great in-depth article explains the concepts of light with many interactive examples
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Specular Manifold Sampling for Rendering High-Frequency Caustics and Glints
- the paper presents a new technique that combines techniques caustics and glint into a single frame...
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Introducing neural supersampling for real-time rendering
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Cancel your SIGGRAPH hotel; attend EGSR, HPG, and I3D 2020 virtually, free
- list of computer graphics conferences, dates and links to the stream as they are all virtual this ...
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Point and Spot Shadows Perspective Shadows
- Unity tutorial that shows how to implement realtime shadows for point and spotlights using a custo...
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A Taxonomy of Bidirectional Scattering Distribution Function Lobes for Rendering Engi...
- the paper presents a taxonomy of the lobes that are composed to create a BSDF
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Fast Render Target Rendering in Unreal Engine 4
- the article presents how to efficiently implement render
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Screen space shadows
- the articles show what screenspace shadows can add to the scene, provide an example of implementat...
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Intersection of a ray and a plane
- the article shows how to derive the intersection between a ray and a plane
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Get to know Metal function pointers
- the Metal shader API now supports function pointers
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Scanline Effect
- the Unity tutorial explains how to implement a moving scanline post
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[video] NVIDIA Nsight Feature Spotlight: GPU Trace
- the video provides an overview of the D3D12 frame
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Constant data in Vulkan
- the article explains several different methods that can be used to manage shader constant data
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SHAD2: shaders, but more difficult
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The 31st Eurographics Symposium on Rendering
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Features that are coming to iOS and MacOS
- a twitter thread that lists new features Metal API features and provides links to documentation fo...
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[video] Rendering Roblox: Vulkan Optimisations on Imagination PowerVR GPUs (Presented...
- the GDC talk discusses the voxel-based lighting and shadow system
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Graphics Study: Red Dead Redemption 2
- the article presents a frame breakdown of the PC version of Red Dead Redemption 2
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NVIDIA Posts First DirectX 12 Ultimate Driver Set, Enables GPU Hardware Scheduling
- NVidia driver update adds support for DXR 1.1, VRS Tier 2, mesh shaders and sampler feedback
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Optimize Metal apps and games with GPU counters
- a video from WWDC 20 provides an overview of the GPU pipeline, what hardware counters are availabl...
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Discover ray tracing with Metal
- video from WWDC explains the basic building blocks of the Metal ray tracing API and how to support...
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Creating Optimal Meshes for Ray Tracing
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Rendering Layered Materials with Anisotropic Interfaces
- a lightweight and efficient method to render layered materials with anisotropic interfaces
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Technically Art: Issue 57 (19.06.2020)
- collection of tweets related to VFX, shaders, and game art
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Improving GPU Profiling on Oculus Quest
- overview of two new libraries developed by Oculus and Qualcomm to expose low
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Implementing Stochastic Levels of Detail with Microsoft DirectX Raytracing
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Oodle Texture slashes game sizes
- the article explains how Oodle Texture can prepare BC textures in such a way that secondary ...
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Announcing CUDA on Windows Subsystem for Linux 2
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Detecting Bias in Monte Carlo Renderers using Welch’s t-test
- the paper presents to Welch’s statistical t-test can be used to detect bias even with low sample c...
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Top Nine Questions About the ‘Ray Tracing Essentials’ series from Developers
- the article contains the answers to some common question viewers of the Ray Tracing Essentia...
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GPU Optimization for GameDev
- an extensive collection resource covering various aspects of GPU optimizations
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Creating shader animation in Unity
- the article presents how to create a running rat animation using a vertex shader
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From 0 to glTF with WebGPU: The First Triangle
- the first part of a WebGPU series shows the necessary steps required to render the first tri...
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From 0 to glTF with WebGPU: Bind Groups
- this tutorial explains how to bind resources and uses this to add basic camera movement support
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Can’t Invert the CDF? The Triangle-Cut Parameterization of the Region under the Curve
- the paper presents a technique that allows Cumulative Distribution Functions that cannot be ...
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The Forge - Raytracing Benchmarks
- overview of cross-platform raytracing abstraction in "The Forge" and a summary of performanc...
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A Scalable and Production Ready Sky and Atmosphere Rendering Technique
- the paper presents the sky and atmosphere model developed by Epic Games that support dynamic...
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[video] Flowmaps, gradient maps, gas giants
- the video tutorial explains UV animation, extending this to support varying animations betwe...
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Followup tidbits on RGBE
- the author presents considerations for designing conversations explained with the example of RGBE ...
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The Center of the Pixel is (0.5,0.5)
- the article explains how to deal with pixel coordinates correctly
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Real-Time Ray Tracing Summit
- an online summit with talks about ray tracing topics
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Preliminary HPG 2020 Program
- program for talks that will be presented as part of high
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Fast 2D rendering on GPU
- the article provides an overview of an algorithm for GPU based rendering of 2D vector graphics
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High Fidelity Graphics for games with HDRP
- the talk from Unit presents techniques required for best results with Unity High definition render...
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Parallel CSG Operations on GPU
- the article presents how a CSG Operation implementation based around point clouds has been designe...
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Animated Light Cookie Shader (Cloud & Tree Shadows)
- the Unity tutorial shows how to dynamically generate light blocker textures to simulate clouds and...
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[Video] EG / STARs 5 / Neural Rendering / Wednesday
- the collection of talks for the field of neural rendering methods
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Fake vs True Displacement - Part 1/2
- the two-part article series shows the difference between Bump
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Perceptually Smooth Multi-Color Linear Gradients
- the notebook shows how to interpolate gradients in a perceptually smooth way using Catmull Rom spl...
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[Video] Optimizing Roblox: Vulkan Best Practices for Mobile Developers
- Vulkan talks that cover the Vulkan sample framework, load/store operations, sub
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Quadrant-Sizing for Efficient UI Rendering
- the author presents his implementation of a UI element system that allows arbitrary object scaling...
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Distance Field Ray Tracing Part 1: Volume Textures and Ray Marching Primer
- the UE4 tutorial is a primer on how to build distance field shapes and use raymarching from volume...
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Casual Shadertoy Path Tracing 3: Fresnel, Rough Refraction & Absorption, Orbit Camera
- path 3 of path tracing shows how to extend the materials to support fresnel as well as reflection ...
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Work-Efficiency vs. Step-Efficiency
- the article discusses how to classify GPGPU work into the critical sequential work and the total a...
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Widespread error in Radiance HDR RGBE conversions
- the article presents how RGBE 8888 should be encoded and decoded correctly
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Casual Shadertoy Path Tracing 2: Image Improvement and Glossy Reflections
- part 2 of path tracing implementation series, adding Glossy reflection Anti
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SIGGRAPH Spotlight: Episode 35 – Real-Time, Ray Tracing, and Realism
- Podcast episode with Arisa Scott (Unity), Eric Haines (NVIDIA), Mike Hardison (Blizzard Entertainm...
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How to evenly distribute points on a sphere more effectively than the canonical Fibon...
- the article explains how to use to distribute points onto the surface of a sphere
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LunarG releases GFXReconstruct, a new Vulkan Capture/Replay Tool, with SDK 1.2.141
- new Vulkan SDK now contains the Microsoft Shader Compiler
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SPIR-V Guide
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Writing Shader Code for the Universal RP
- Shader guide that explains how to write Unity shaders that are compatible with the Universal Rend...
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Messed up 3D Meshes: A case study in the limits of integer floating point
- the article shows problems of floating-point precision in the model export pipeline
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Ambient Occlusion
- the presentation explains what Ambient Occlusion is, and provides an overview of different algorit...
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Real-time Cubism Shader
- presents a method to implement a Cubism effect, similar to what can be seen in "Spider
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Sharpening the renderer
- the article presents Contrast Adaptive Sharpening and how it's used in EVE to make details on ship...
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Texture Generation Part 2: Normal Swizzling
- Unity tutorial that shows to mix Normal map correctly
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Casual Shadertoy Path Tracing 1: Basic Camera, Diffuse, Emissive
- A tutorial that shows a practical walkthrough on how to implement a path tracer in shadertoy
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Curving Corner Texture UVs
- the article shows how to generate UVs for curved corners using Unity
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Iterating on Variable Rate Shading in Gears Tactics
- the articles present how the VRS (Variable Rate Shading) implementation was approached
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Civilization VI Fog of War
- This Unity tutorial explains how to implement a Civilization VI style fog of war system
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New geometry pipeline in Magnum
- the articles describe the design of the new geometry (import) pipeline of the Magnum engine
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The design and evolution of the UberBake light baking system
- A global illumination system developed by Activision
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Progressing in Circles
- the articles presents different approaches on how to implement a ring progression effect
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Technically Art: Issue 56 (29.05.2020)
- collection of tweets related to VFX, shaders, and game art
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A survey of temporal antialiasing techniques: presentation notes
- authors notes on the Survey of Temporal Antialiasing Techniques talk from the Eurographics 2020 vi...
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Point and Spot Lights Lights with Limited Influence
- the next part in a Unity tutorial series on the scriptable render pipeline
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Borderland between Rendering and Editor — Part 2: Picking
- the article explains how the GPU based picking system in "Our Machinery" has been implemented
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Reverse engineering the rendering of The Witcher 3, part 19 - portals
- the article shows how the portal rendering effect in The Witcher 3 has been implemented
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Stochastic Substitute Trees for Real-Time Global Illumination
- a GI algorithm based around tracing Virtual point lights (VPLs), converting clusters of VPLs into ...
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Dimensionality reduction for image and texture set compression
- detailed post presents the idea of “decorrelating” color channels to maximize information in textu...
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DirectX is coming to the Windows Subsystem for Linux
- Version 2 of Windows Subsystem for Linux adds full support for D3D12 (not allows rendering to the...
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Video: Gears 5 – High-Gear Visuals On Multiple Platforms
- relaxed cone step mapping for relief mapping to add more details
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From Built-in to URP
- collection of concepts, macros, shader logics, that exists in unity build
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Vulkan Helper Libraries Survey
- Khronos questionary that presents a list of suggestion for possible vulkan helper libraries
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Making a clean (mini)map using Navmesh and a Shader
- Unity tutorial that shows how to use a navmesh as a base for minimap rendering
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Accelerating Ray Tracing with Origin Offsets
- the paper proposed a new method that aims to improve ray tracing by offsetting ray starting point ...
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Texture Generation
- A unity tutorial that shows how to blend multiple textures together and save them to disk using Un...
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Technically Art: Issue 55 (22.05.2020)
- collection of tweets related to VFX, shaders, and game art
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Welcome to the joint conferences, Eurographics & Eurovis 2020
- Eurographics & Eurovis 2020 conference will be virtual and streamed starting May 25
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Quick Introduction to Mesh Shaders (OpenGL and Vulkan)
- brief overview and introduction into Mesh Shaders using OpenGL and Vulkan
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Optimizing for the RDNA architecture: presentation notes
- collection of notes about the content of the AMD talk presenting the AMD RDNA architecture and GPU...
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Rendered #1
- A new newsletter with news and insight on volumetric filmmaking, virtual production, 3D rendering,...
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Spatiotemporal reservoir resampling for real-time ray tracing with dynamic direct lig...
- the paper presents a new technique that allows a massive number of dynamic lights to be rendered i...
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Let's build ... 2020
- AMD virtual event that contains talks about - Ryzen™ Processor Software Optimization
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Technically Art: Issue 54 (15.05.2020)
- collection of tweets related to VFX, shaders, and game art
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I haz a GDC talk - Real-Time CSG
- overview of what Constructive Solid Geometry (CSG) is and workflows
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Getting started with Radeon Memory Visualizer (RMV)
- the post provides an overview of the new AMD memory profiler for Vulkan and D3D12
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Using Blue Noise For Raytraced Soft Shadows
- the article shows how to calculate the shadows from the sun
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Ray Marching Fog With Blue Noise
- the article presents how using blue noise can improve ray marching results
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Frame Analysis - Minecraft RTX Beta
- presents a breakdown of the RTX implementation for Minecraft
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Some brief thoughts on how Nanite in UE5 possibly works....
- the author presents his ideas about how the Nanite technology in the UE5 tech demo might be implem...
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Some thoughts on Unreal 5's Nanite - in way too many words
- the article that discusses possible ideas on how the UE5 nanite technology might be implemented
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NVIDIA Ampere Architecture In-Depth
- an overview of the new Nvidia Ampere Architecture aimed at compute workloads
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CUDA 11 Features Revealed
- overview of new features in CUDA 11 and how the NVIDIA Ampere GPU hardware features are exposed
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Ray Tracing Essentials Part 7: Denoising for Ray Tracing
- the final part of raytracing series - presents what denoising techniques are and why they are requ...
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a history of nvidia stream multiprocessor
- the article presents an overview of the Nvidia GPU architecture and how they developed over time
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Rendering volumetric clouds using signed distance fields
- presents a technique that combines singed distance fields and ray marching to render static volume...
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Monte Carlo Geometry Processing: A Grid-Free Approach to PDE-Based Methods on Volumet...
- the paper presents how to apply the monte-carle methods to geometry processing
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On Ray Reordering Techniques for Faster GPU Ray Tracing
- the paper presents an overview of ray sorting techniques and introduces a new method for ray sorti...
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A perceptual model of motion quality for rendering with adaptive refresh-rate and res...
- this paper presents the results of testing done into human perception, comparing test
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[video] Animal Crossing, wobbly leaves, pivot caching.
- the Video presents an overview of a shader technique implementing the behavior of leaves in Animal...
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Point of WebGPU on native
- the author presents his view on WebGPU for use in native applications
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GPU architecture resources
- collection of resource links to presentations, papers and articles focusing on the details of GPU ...
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CUDA Refresher: Getting started with CUDA
- a brief overview on how to get started with CUDA
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Meshlete - Chop 3D objects to meshlets
- a tool to generate meshlets for use with compute based culling algorithms or mesh shaders
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Real-time Shadows
- the presentation provides an in-depth overview of shadow techniques for real
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Physically-Based Materials – Energy Conservation and Reciprocity
- the article presents the definition of a physically
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Prefix sum on Vulkan
- the article presents how to implement a prefix sum using Vulkan compute shaders
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Depth-Based Post Effects
- the Unity tutorial explains how to use the depth texture to apply a localized toon shading effect
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Profiling DXR Shaders with Timer Instrumentation
- new Nvidia extension for D3D12 that provides shaders the possibility to query timestamps from with...
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Complex Maps Masks, Details, and Normals
- next part in the Unity Tutorial series about implementing a custom scriptable rendering pipeline
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[video] Tech Focus: What Is VRS And Is It A Next-Gen Game-Changer? Variable Rate Shad...
- the video provides an overview of Variable Rate Shading (VRS)
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Frame Analysis - Mortal Kombat 11
- breakdown of the rendering techniques used in Mortal Kombat 11
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It’s time we talk about TDR
- the article presents an alternative execution model that would be able to improve upon Timeout Det...
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Fast Subsurface Scattering for the Unity URP
- the article presents the Wrapped lighting technique to emulate subsurface scattering
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Volumetric Rendering Part 1
- this part of the article on volumetric rendering shows how to model a volume using an SDF inside o...
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Volumetric Rendering Part 2
- the second part of the article presents how to render the volumetrics
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UE4 - Physical light unit - Twitter Thread
- Twitter thread about the complexities of different light measuring units
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flowchart for descriptor set setup in Vulkan
- a flowchart that provides an overview of the descriptor set binding logic of the Vulkan API
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CUSTOM GAME ENGINES: A Small Study
- list of games studios and which custom engines they are using
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Twitter thread - using quaternions
- the thread provides an overview of what are use cases for quaternions
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Improving the quality of the alpha test (cutout) materials
- the article explains problems with alpha testing materials and why they tend to shrink in the dist...
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Debugging refraction in a sphere
- presents a test setup that explains how to validate ray refraction within a sphere
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From WebGL to WebGPU in Construct
- the article presents how WebGPU compares with WebGL
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Ray Tracing Essentials Part 6: The Rendering Equation
- part of the ray tracing series covering the rendering equation
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Vulkan - Debug Printf
- the Vulkan validation layer now can send printf style information from a shader to the debug callb...
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[video] Ratchet & Clank Pixelizer FX in Unity
- the Unity video tutorial explains how to implement an effect that converts a 3D mesh into a voxeli...
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Blurred rounded rectangles
- the article presents how to calculate a blurred version of a rounded rectangle using a distance fi...
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UE4 Texture/Material/Cascade optimization tips
- a long document containing many tips and tricks to optimize UE4 performance
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Floating World Shader Part 5 – Ocean Material
- the last part of a series of UE4 based posts that recreate an environment artists scene
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The Technical Interview [LEAKED]
- the guide presents an overview of the structure and content of technical interviews
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Bilinear texture filtering – artifacts, alternatives, and frequency domain analysis
- provides an introducing into linear blending - explaining that pixels are no signal but rather sam...
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validating physical light units
- the article presents how to use the Mitsuba renderer to validate the results from a PBR renderer
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godot 4.0 gets global and per-instance shader uniforms
- the article presents that Godot has now 3 update frequencies for shader parameters global, per
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Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games 2020 papers on the web
- collection of papers from the I3D 2020 conference
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Ray Tracing Essentials Part 5: Ray Tracing Effects
- part 5 of Nvidia ray tracing series - focuses on the presentation of different visual effects that...
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nvidia webinar - ray tracing essentials
- Eric Haines will be giving a webinar on May 12 - explains concepts related to ray tracing, compari...
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Intro to gfx-hal • Part 3: Vertex buffers
- part 3 of Rust gfx-hal intro series - shows all the steps required including binary serialization ...
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Implementing a Physically Based Shading without locking yourself in
- presentation from revision - focuses on the physics of light interaction with matters
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Introducing Low-Level GPU Virtual Memory Management
- Cuda introduces new memory management functionality
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Secrets of Direct3D 12: Resource Alignment
- the article shows that the D3D12 alignment requirement rules have an exception for small textures ...
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3 Techniques for Dynamically Colored UI Graphics
- the article presents 3 different techniques for Unity that allow the color of UI elements to be dy...
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[video] A Taste of GPU Compute
- talks aimed at computer science students starting to get started with GPU technology
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Frame Analysis - Overwatch
- the article and video and present a high-level overview of the rendering passes of Overwatch
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Life stories: the Glimpse Renderer – part 1
- Part 1, [2](https://maxliani.wordpress.com/2020/04/16/life
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Evolving Path of Exile's Renderer
- the talk presents an overview of rendering features developed for Path of Exile
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Virtual machine for executing SPIR-V
- A virtual machine that is written in C enables executing of a subset of SPIR
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Speeding Up Lighthouse 2
- presents operations that reduced the shading time required from 21.58ms to 13.52ms
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Artists’ best practices for mobile game development
- A guide aimed at technical artists to preset best practices for geometry, texture, material and sh...
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Optimizing Trilinear Interpolation
- the article presents implementations optimizations to speedup trilinear filtering
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Updated Article Database Design
- The database of articles included in this series has been updated with a new look
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NVIDIA Vulkan Ray Tracing Tutorials
- collection of Vulkan tutorials for the VK_KHR_ray_tracing extension
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Using Nsight Systems for Fixing Stutters in Games
- the article shows how Nsight was used for debugging a frame stutter bug in the Vulkan raytracing i...
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Optimizing VK/VKR and DX12/DXR Applications Using Nsight Graphics: GPU Trace Advanced...
- the post presents how to use Nsight to apply the Peak
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Paper Burn Shader in Unity
- this Unity tutorial explains how to implement a burning effect for paper
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Intro to gfx-hal • Part 1: Drawing a triangle
- part 1 of rust graphics programming series using the rust gfx hal
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Intro to gfx-hal • Part 2: Push constants
- the second part of the tutorial series extends the example so that Vulkan push constants can be us...
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physical lighting quantities: tying both ends
- the article presents a method that allows validation of a physical camera model against ground tru...
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Seven Things for March 31, 2020
- collection of links and graphics community news such as ACM Digitial library being free, I3D pospo...
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Biquadratic interpolation with independent sample weights
- the article shows how to use quadratic interpolation for depth aware upsampling
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GTC 2020: DLSS - Image Reconstruction for Real-time Rendering with Deep Learning
- the GTC talks provide an overview of Deep Learning Super Sampling
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Terrain and Mesh Blending in Unity
- his Unity tutorial shows one way of blending meshes that are close to the terrain with the terrain...
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Unmasking the Arkham Knight
- the article presents a breakdown of the rendering stages found in the PC version of Batman: Arkham...
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GTC 2020: RTXGI: Scalable Ray Traced Global Illumination in Real Time
- the GTC presentation explains how the technique aims to replace existing indirect lighting techniq...
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ACM TechTalk - Ed Catmull & Richard Chuang
- ACM tech talk with Ed Catmull & Richard Chuang happening on Tuesday, April 14
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An Efficient Transport Estimator for Complex Layered Materials
- the paper presents a new technique to speed up the rendering of complex, layered materials
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A new method to construct isotropic blue-noise point sets with uniform projections
- the article presents a method for direct construction of tileable isotropic blue noise
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a little thread on a neat way to interpolate across a triangle!
- A twitter thread that explains what barycentric coordinates are and how they are commonly used in ...
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Hierarchical Depth Buffers
- the article presents what Hierarchical depth buffers are, what they are used for and how to genera...
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[Video] Commandos Cone of Sight FX in Unity | GPUMAN
- the Unity tutorial explains how to implement a cone of sight that is occluded by objects
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Links to GDC 2020 Talks and More
- collection of link resources from GDC, GTC - additional resources from Google, Intel, Ubisoft and ...
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PIX 2003.26 – DirectX 12 Ultimate and DXIL debugging
- new Pix for Windows release with support for DXR 1.1, Mesh shaders and sampler feedback
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NVIDIA Announces Nsight Graphics 2020.2
- GPU Trace and Nsight Aftermath now supports Vulkan
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Augmenting shader languages for modern rendering APIs
- the author presents his domain-specific language and how it's used to extend shaders
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Vulkan Mobile Best Practices - Management of Command Buffers and Multi-Threaded Recor...
- the article presents best practices for multithreaded command recording with Vulkan
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WebGL best practices
- the article contains many best practices for WebGL applications
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Introducing OpenCL™ and OpenGL® on DirectX
- Microsoft and Collabora are working together to implement an OpenCL and OpenGL layer for Mesa that...
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Multi-Adapter with Integrated and Discrete GPUs
- presentation from Intel that presents how to use multiple adapters with D3D12
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Variable Rate Shading Tier 1 with Microsoft DirectX* 12 from Theory to Practice
- the presentation provides an overview of Variable Rate Shading (VRS), explaining what shading and ...
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RTX Global Illumination SDK Now Available
- Nvidia released the RTX Global Illumination (RTXGI) SDK v1.0
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Announcing the NVIDIA Texture Tools Exporter 2020.1
- Nvidia released a new version of the DDS exporter
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Announcing DirectX 12 Ultimate
- post containing an overview of the new D3D12 Feature level 12_2 now called DirectX 12 Ultimate
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Shaders For People Who Don't Know How To Shader: Smooth blending with Sine
- the Unity tutorial shows how to use color masks to apply runtime coloring with smooth blending to ...
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Ray Tracing In Vulkan
- the post provides an overview of the new Vulkan raytracing extensions
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[video] Reinventing the Geometry Pipeline: Mesh Shaders in DirectX 12 | Shawn Hargrea...
- the presentation provides an overview of mesh shaders
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[video] Advanced Mesh Shaders | Martin Fuller
- build upon the @Reinventing the Geometry Pipeline: Mesh Shaders in DirectX 12" talks summarized ab...
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DirectX 12 Sampler Feedback | Claire Andrews
- the video provides an overview of the new Sampler Feedback feature added to D3D12
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Nvidia - DirectX
- overview articles by Nvidia for D3D12 Ray Tracing, Mesh shading, Variable Rate Shading, and Sample...
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New: Vulkan Device Generated Commands
- the article describes the VK_NV_device_generated_commands extension for Vulkan
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Enable Ray Tracing: Two-Level Acceleration Structure
- the article presents an overview of a BVH structure for GPU raytracing
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Fresnel Equations, Schlick Approximation, Metals, and Dielectrics
- the post presents the fresnel equations that are used for smooth metals and surfaces such as water...
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Reverse engineering the rendering of The Witcher 3, part 18 - color grading
- Reverse engineering the color grading solution used in "The Witcher 3"
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Getting started with shaders: signed distance functions!
- the article aimed at beginners presents how to use ShaderToy to get started with shader developmen...
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Aliasing in computer graphics
- the article presents an overview of aliasing in digital signal processing
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Sprite Glow/Outline Shader Breakdown
- the Unity tutorial shows how to create an outline effect for 2D sprites
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Vulkan Best Practices: Frequently Asked Questions - Part 2
- discusses buffer allocation, update and mapping strategies
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A Simple GPU Hash Table
- the post discusses how to write a simple GPU Hash table implementation using CUDA
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Interior SDFs
- the article presents that combining signed distance fields of primitives using min and max operati...
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Ray Tracing Essentials Part 4: The Ray Tracing Pipeline
- part 4 of ray tracing series by Nvidia - this episode focuses on the RayTracing APIs in D3D and Vu...
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The Division ECHO Fx In Unity | GPUMAN
- Video tutorial for Unity that shows how to present the Echo effect (a point
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Why DXR 1.1 vs 1.0?
- overview of what is new with DXR 1.1 - presents how to extend a depth pre
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ASTC Format Overview
- the document provides an overview of the ASTC texture compression format
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Automated Performance Advice for Android Games
- the article presents how to use new ARM tools to gather performance information (later versions wi...
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How Epic Games is handling auto exposure in 4.25
- the article explains how exposure used to work in Unreal Engine 4.24
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Reverse engineering the rendering of The Witcher 3, part 17 - the Milky Way
- the article shows how the milky way rendering from the Witcher 3
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Paper Shader in Unity
- A Unity tutorial that focuses on the deformation of a plane to create a crumbled paper look
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How to do boolean operations on meshes for procedural cutting of geometry!
- the post provides an overview of an algorithm for boolean operations on geometry
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Ray Tracing Essentials Part 3: Ray Tracing Hardware
- part 3 of Nvidia ray tracing series - this part focuses on the history of ray tracing hardware and...
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An idiot's guide to animation compression
- the article discusses techniques to compress data for skeletal animation data used for game runtim...
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GL_NV_mesh_shader Simple Mesh Shader Example
- a very brief high-level overview of mesh shaders and necessary OpenGL extension
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Secrets of Direct3D 12: Copies to the Same Buffer
- the article presents multiple scenarios in D3D12 where manual barrier synchronization is required
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Borderland between Rendering and Editor - Part 1
- the post focuses on efficient and high-quality grid rendering for "The Machinery" editor
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Writing an efficient Vulkan renderer
- copy of an article that was published in GPU Zen 2, updated for changes introduced with Vulkan 1.1...
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Ray Tracing Essentials Part 2: Rasterization versus Ray Tracing
- video comparing rasterization and ray-tracing algorithm
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A Survey of Temporal Antialiasing Techniques
- the paper presents an overview of Temporal Antialiasing (TAA) techniques, the history, different i...
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Compact PBR texture packing and blending experiment with Shader Graph
- presents findings from compressing PBR material information into a single texture
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Vulkan Mobile Best Practices: Frequently Asked Questions - Part 1
- A FAQ for Vulkan best practices guide by ARM - swap chain acquisition, image transitions, device l...
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[video] Two Minute Papers - The Story of Light
- the 7-min video provides a walk through the history of light transport research
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fast trisect in GLSL
- the article presents an approximation to the GLSL trisect function
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Basic Skeletal Animation with Geometric Algebra
- the tutorial shows how to implement a skeletal animation system using Geometric Algebra (GA)
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Packing UVs for deferred materials
- the article presents how to pack UV and gradients (ddx, ddy) into 32
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Sprite Stencil Overlay Breakdown (Forward Renderer)
- the Unity tutorial shows how to implement a checkerboard pattern if a 2D player is behind another ...
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sokol_gfx.h Backend Tour
- a 3 part series that provides an overview of the backend implementations of sokol_gfx for the Open...
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Bringing HLSL Ray Tracing to Vulkan
- Nvidia added support to the DirectX Shader Compiler (DXR) to generate SPIR
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Ways to speedup pixel shader execution
- the article presents an overview of techniques to optimize pixel shaders
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Reverse engineering the rendering of The Witcher 3, part 16 - shooting stars
- the author presents how shooting stars in the Witcher 3 are implemented
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Sampling Analytic Participating Media
- the in-depth article presents the physical models and approximations of participating media (such ...
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Data Driven Rendering: Pipelines
- the newest part in article series about defining a data
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Shader Graph Conversion : Eyeball Shader
- the Unity tutorial explains how to implement a stylized Eyeball Shader using Unity Shader Graph
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Rendering Particles with Compute Shaders
- presents an approach to render particle effects using compute shaders
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LunarG Vulkan Ecosystem & SDK Survey Results
- the results from the Vulkan survey have been released
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Unity Toy Path Tracer
- the article presents how to implement a Path Tracer using the Unity Data
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Handling Device Orientation Efficiently in Vulkan With Pre-Rotation
- the article describes how to deal with device orientation changes in a Vulkan application efficien...
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Coherency gathering in ray tracing: the benefits of hardware ray tracking
- the article presents the problems with ray tracing in terms of divergence workflows
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Create nice and feasible volumetric cloud in Unreal Engine 4
- the blog posts presents how to use high quality volumetric fog in UE4 to simulate ground level rol...
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Minions Art Tutorials
- collections of art, unity tutorials and shader introduction articles
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How to Correctly Interpolate Vertex Attributes on a Parallelogram Using Modern GPUs?
- article presents how to use barycentric coordinates in a pixel shader to manually interpoliate val...
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Shaders For People Who Don't Know How To Shader: Deferred
- the article presents a brief overview of what deferred shading is
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GPU resources
- collection of gpu resources - links to details about hardware, shader languages, and WebGPU
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Reaching for the stars
- the Unity article describes how to generate a stylized procedualr skybox
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Instancing and Material Property Blocks
- the Unity tutorials shows how to use Material Property Blocks
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Four Color Gradient
- beginner Unity shader tutorial that shows how to implement a gradient made from 4 colors forming a...
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Journey Sand Shader: Ripples
- last part of Unity shader torial that shows how to add ripples into the sand dunes
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How to Calculate Shader Graph Normals
- Unity tutorial that shows how to calculate new normals from a vertex shader
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Generating Perfect Normal Maps for Unity (and Other Programs)
- the article shows what needs to be considered when baking normal maps for use with separate applic...
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A Fun 2d Rotation Matrix Derivation
- the article shows a connection between "2D cross product", Complex Numbers and 2D rotation matrice...
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Normal matrices are overrated
- the tweet shows an alternative formulation for a normal transformation matrix (required when non
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Dissolve Shader Breakdown
- the Unity shader breakdown explains how to dissolve a mesh using a combination of noise and height...
