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Towards Practical Meshlet Compression
- the paper proposes a codec designed explicitly for meshlet compression within a mesh shader
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Shaders // Vulkan For Beginners #13
- the video explains the shader authoring pipeline for Vulkan applications
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An introduction to workgraphs part 2: Performance
- the article presents a detailed look at D3D12 work graph performance on Nvidia hardware
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Multi-process profiling support in Timing Captures
- the blog post shows how to profile an application with multiple processes using PIX for Windows
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Surface vs Volume Formats in Tools
- the blog post provides a look at different mesh representation formats
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DMMs (displaced micro-meshes)
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Learn GPU Programming in Your Browser
- the blog post introduces WebGPU-powered puzzles that aim to teach graphics programming
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Freya's Guide to XYZ Axes and Handedness
- a diagram that visually explains left-handed vs. right
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Building Real-Time Global Illumination - Radiance Cascades
- the blog post continues the discussion of the Radiance Cascades GI technique
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Summing Blue Noise Octaves Like Perlin Noise
- the blog post presents the effects of combining multiple levels of noise
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Determinism
- the blog post presents what is required to write deterministic algorithms
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[video] Explaining my game engine in 2024 - Part1: Triangle mesh tangent space, norma...
- the video provides a summary of how normal maps can be used to augment surface detail
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[video] Animated Loading Indicator - Procedural Shapes and Patterns - Episode 11
- the video presents how to combine polar coordinates, tiling, and blending to create a procedural l...
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Khronos SIGGRAPH 2024 Rewind
- the blog post provides a collection of Khronos talks that happened during SIGGRAPH 2024
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EDIZ: A Critical Look at a Simplistic Image Upscaling Approach
- the blog post discusses the EDIZ (Error Diffusion Image Zooming) algorithm for image upscaling
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Adventures in Avoiding DAIS Buffers
- the article presents the authors' findings when exploring Visibility buffers and methods to access...
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Screen Space Shadows
- the author presents his idea for a screen-space shadow technique that relies on Hierarchical Depth...
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Bringing Explicit Pipeline Caching Control to Vulkan
- the blog post provides an overview of the new VK_KHR_pipeline_binary that allows direct retrieval...
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The Neural Light Grid: A Scalable Production-Ready Learned Irradiance Volume
- the paper introduces a new method for precomputing indirect lighting into a novel form of Irradian...
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Software rasterizing hair
- the author presents a discussion of how to apply software rasterizing to the problem of hair rende...
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Layers All The Way Down: The Untold Story of Shader Compilation Background
- the blog post describes the reasoning why SDL GPU doesn't require a single portable high
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[video] Animated 80s Sunset Pattern - Procedural Shapes and Patterns - Episode 10
- the video explains how to implement a perspective
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The untimely demise of an image upscaler
- the article presents the effects of applying ML upscaling algorithms repeatedly to the same image
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Characterizing CUDA and OpenMP Synchronization Primitives
- the paper presents an overview of the performance characteristics of synchronization primitives
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VK_KHR_pipeline_binary
- this proposal discusses an alternative approach to Pipeline caching in Vulkan
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Poor Foundations in Geometric Algebra
- the author presents how Geometric Algebra concepts are often defined in the literature and what be...
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Compute With DirectX 12 – Part 2: The Setup
- the D3D12 tutorial presents how to get started with compute shader usage
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Workarounds for issues with mesh shaders + Vulkan + HLSL
- the blog post explains how HLSL shaders compiled for mesh shader usage with Vulkan require special...
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Recreating Nanite: Raytracing
- the article discusses a method to allow virtual geometry to be represented in ray
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Decoding instructions with the machine-readable AMD GPU ISA specifications
- the short blog post presents how to use human-readable ISA documentation to decode one CDNA instru...
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AMD GPU machine-readable ISA documentation
- AMD released ISA documentation for RDNA2 and CDNA ISA
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Gigi: Rapid Prototyping Platform for Real-Time Rendering
- the blog post introduces a prototyping programming platform for shader development
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Programmable Vertex Pulling // Intermediate OpenGL Series
- the video tutorial explains how to load vertex information from within a Vertex Shader instead of ...
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Seamless Rendering on Mobile: The Magic of Adaptive LOD Pipeline
- the presentation discusses how to use cluster-based mesh representations to allow transitions betw...
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Exact Polygonal Filtering
- the blog post describes an approach to calculating accurate filtering of polygonal shapes with clo...
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Rust GPU Transitions to Community Ownership
- the blog post announces that Rust GPU (compiling Rust into SPIR
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Closed-Form 3x3 Matrix Decompositions
- the article discusses a closed-form solution for polar and singular value decomposition of 3x3 mat...
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[video] MaterialX Virtual Town Hall 2024
- the presentation covers the current state of OpenPBR and the state of integration into MaterialX
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[video] Work Graphs: Hands-On with the Future of Graphics Programming
- the talk provides an overview of the D3D12 work graph API
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Why Do Reflections Stretch At The Horizon?
- the post provides an explanation of Microfacet Models
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Variable Rate Shading with Visibility Buffer Rendering
- the presentations provide a detailed overview of the challenges when implementing Visibility Buffe...
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Ray Tracing Harmonic Functions
- the paper presents a technique that allows Harmonic Functions to be sphere
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Synthesizing Realistic Clouds for Video Games
- the talk presents an overview of the Decima (Horizon Zero Dawn) cloud rendering system
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Vulkan SC 1.0.15 Released: SPIR-V Validation and New NVIDIA Drivers for Desktop Syste...
- the blog posts documents which extensions have been ratified and included as part of Vulkan Safety...
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Improving GPU Performance by Reducing Instruction Cache Misses
- the paper presents how to detect if a GPU workload is limited by instruction cache misses
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Querying the PIX Timing Capture file format
- the blog post reveals that pix timing captures are internally using SQLite as a storage format
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Highlights from HPG Conference 2024: Four exciting new research papers
- the blog post introduces AMD papers released at HPG (High
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[video] Game Engine Programming 071.1 - Introduction to Physically Based Rendering
- the video presents a brief summary of Physically Based Rendering methods
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[video] Pass me that render, please // Vulkan For Beginners #12
- the video tutorial explains the Vulkan render pass concept
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[video] Keynote by Peter Shirley: 60 fps rendering: past, present, and future
- The keynote covers the history of computer graphics research (in algorithms, materials) with a foc...
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A Visual Guide to Quantization
- the blog post visuall explains floating point quantization techniques
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[video] EGSR2024: Ray Traced Stochastic Depth Map for Ambient Occlusion
- the talk recording discusses a method for calculating ambient occlusion using stochastic depth map...
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[pptx] Flexible and Extensible Shader Authoring in Frostbite with Serac
- the Siggraph presentation presents Frostbites' shader authoring solution
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Activision Releases Call of Duty®: Warzone™ Caldera Data Set for Academic Use
- the blog post announces the release of the geometry for the Call of Duty Warzone map in USD format...
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Reconstructing Surfaces from SDFs via Tangent Points
- the paper presents a method that converts an SDF into a point cloud
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[video] Game Engine Programming 070.3 - Mikk TSpace
- the video episode explains how to integrate Mikk TSpace tangent space calculation into the engine
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GPU-friendly Stroke Expansion
- the paper presents a new method to apply strokes to lines in a GPU
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[video] Karen Ghavam Keynote at HPG 2024
- the presentation recording discusses the development of the Vulkan ecosystem
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MaterialX and OpenPBR Town Hall
- the presentation covers the current state of OpenPBR and the state of integration into MaterialX
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Concurrent Binary Trees for Large-Scale Game Components
- the paper presents a concurrent binary tree (CBT) for adaptive triangulations of arbitrary (half
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H-PLOC: Super-fast, high-quality BVH construction
- the paper presents an approach to BVH construction based on the parallel locally
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DGF: A Dense, Hardware-Friendly Geometry Format for Lossily Compressing Meshlets with...
- the paper presents a block-compressed geometry format
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Procedural generation
- the blog post provides an overview of generating a procedural world
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Cache Points for Production-Scale Occlusion-Aware Many-Lights Sampling and Volumetric...
- This paper provides a deep dive into Disney's Hyperion Renderer's many
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GigaVoxels DP : Starvation-Less Render and Production for Large and Detailed Volumetr...
- the paper presents a voxel scene processing model that allows on
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Introducing Frame Latency Meter (FLM) v1.0
- AMD released a tool to help measure input to screen latency on Windows
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Screen Space Indirect Lighting with Visibility Bitmask: Improvement to GTAO/SSAO Real...
- the blog post provides an overview of the author's implementation of Screen Space Indirect Lightin...
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[video] Normal Mapping Adventures // OpenGL Intermediate Series
- the video tutorial provides an overview of the normal mapping technique
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Foliage in AMD FidelityFX™ Brixelizer GI
- the 2-part article series explains how Brixelizer GI (a sparse distance field backed GI solution) ...
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[video] Rectangle Signed Distance Field - Procedural Shapes and Patterns - Episode 4
- the video presents how to create an SDF for a rectangle using Unity and Unreal
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Digital images
- the article explains how images are represented - covers the build
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Real-Time Procedural Generation with GPU Work Graphs
- the paper presents a detailed look at how to use D3D12 work graphs to generate a procedural world
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GPU Work Graphs mesh nodes in Microsoft DirectX® 12
- the series of articles discusses how work graphs are now allowed to execute mesh rendering work
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PIX 2407.17-preview: Mesh Nodes in Work Graphs
- A brief blog post discusses what aspects of the new mesh nodes preview for d3d12 can be debugged u...
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SCALE by Spectral Compute
- SCALE is a GPGPU toolchain allowing CUDA programs to be natively run on AMD GPUs
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Instanced Skeletal Meshes with GPU Driven Animations using Vulkan
- the article discusses a solution to allow GPU instanced and animated models using Vulkan
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Real-Time Hair Rendering with Hair Meshes
- the paper to be presented at SIGGRAPH 2024 presents a technique for rasterizing hair from hair str...
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Behind the scenes: the Vulkan SC Ecosystem
- the blog post provides insights into the Vulkan variant for safety
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LucidRaster: GPU Software Rasterizer for Exact Order-Independent Transparency
- the paper discusses the implementation of a compute
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Introducing the AMD FidelityFX™ Breadcrumbs library
- the blog post introduces the new AMD library that aims to improve GPU hang debugging
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Introducing AMD FidelityFX™ Brixelizer
- the blog post presents an overview of using Brixelizer for Ambient Occlusion and soft shadows
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Introducing Arm Accuracy Super Resolution
- the blog post introduces Arm Accuracy Super Resolution
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[video] Upscaling Face-Off: FSR 3.1 vs DLSS 3.7/ XeSS 1.3 - Has AMD Improved?
- the video provides a comparison to present the improvements done with FSR 3.1
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[video] Combining Signed Distance Fields - Procedural Shapes and Patterns - Episode 3
- the video tutorial presents how to combine multiple SDFs in shaders
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[video] Image Memory Barriers // Vulkan For Beginners #11
- the video provides an overview of the concept of image barriers
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[video] 3D Toon Rendering in 'Hi-Fi RUSH'
- the GDC presentation explains how the toon rendering effect was achieved
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Open Sourcing DXIL Validator Hash
- the blog post announces the intent to open source DXIL shader validation as well as to support a m...
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State of Text Rendering 2024
- The survey paper presents a very detailed look at the state of font rendering
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Graphics Programming Conference
- a new graphics programming-focused conference in Breda, Netherlands
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[video] Exploring a New Approach to Realistic Lighting: Radiance Cascades
- the video explains visually step-by-step how the Radiance Cascades technique aims to solve Global ...
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Spatial Indexing Algorithms
- X thread with a collection of Spatial Indexing Algorithms
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[video] Lossless Scaling: Frame Generation For Every Game - But How Good Is it?
- the video presents how the "Lossless Scaling" mod generates in
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[video] Circle Signed Distance Field - Procedural Shapes and Patterns - Episode 2
- the video tutorial presents how to create a signed distance field for a circle
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[video] KEYNOTE: Use.GPU - Declarative/Reactive 3D Graphics by Steven Wittens
- the keynote presentation discusses the Use.GPU technology
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GPU-friendly Stroke Expansion
- the paper presents a new method to apply strokes to lines in a GPU
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VMF Diffuse: A unified rough diffuse BRDF
- the paper introduces a unified BRDF that allows a consistent expression of smooth to highly rough ...
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Compute shader wave intrinsics tricks
- the blog post describes a couple of available shader intrinsics that allow the different threads o...
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A Practical Real-Time Model for Diffraction on Rough Surfaces
- the paper introduces a real-time BRDF model addressing diffraction on rough surfaces
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GPU profiling for WebGPU workloads on Windows with Chrome
- the blog post presents how to profile WebGPU applications with Nsight, PIX, and Radeon GPU Profile...
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Residual path integrals for re-rendering
- the paper presents an approach for incremental re
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High Performance Graphics - Conference Program
- the conference program for the High-Performance Graphics has been released
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[video] SIGGRAPH 2024 Technical Papers Trailer
- the video shows an overview of Technical Papers to be presented at SIGGRAPH 2024
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Patch Decomposition for Efficient Mesh Contours Extraction
- the paper presents a method for the efficient extraction of mesh contours
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[video] Submitting Command Buffers // Vulkan For Beginners #10
- the next episode of the Vulkan tutorial series presents how to execute work to the GPU
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[video] Intro To Procedural Shapes and Patterns - Episode 1
- new video tutorial series that will cover how to generate procedural shapes and patterns from shad...
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[video] I Tried Turning Games Into Text
- the video presents an approach to develop an ASCII art shader approach (converts 3D rendering to t...
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A quick introduction to workgraphs
- the blog post presents a walkthrough on how to implement a raytracing classification shadow optimi...
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[video] GDC 2024 - GPU Work Graphs: Welcome to the Future of GPU Programming
- the GDC video presents a discussion of the new work graph features for D3D (also a Vulkan AMD
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CPU performance optimization guide – part 1
- the first blog in a series about CPU optimizations
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[video] I3D 2024 Papers Session 6 - Efficient Forward and Differentiable Rendering
- the video recording of I3D 2024 sessions covers the following papers
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[video] Triangle Visibility Buffer 2.0
- the talk provides an overview of the experimental Triangle Visibility Buffer 2.0 implementation
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From microfacets to participating media: A unified theory of light transport with sto...
- the paper presents a method that aims to unify microfacets and volumes for light transport purpose...
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5 Reasons Why Box Plots are the Better Default Choice for Visualizing Performance
- the blog post presents why the author suggests using box plots over bar charts as the default way ...
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[video] REAC 2024 DAY 1 Testing Rendering Code at Frostbite
- the talk presents the system used by EA's Frostbite team to test the rendering engine
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[video] Coding Adventure: Optimizing a Ray Tracer (by building a BVH)
- the video explains the concept of a BVH (bounding volume hierarchy) and presents how it increases ...
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Raymarching explained interactively
- the article provides an interactive walkthrough into the implementation of the Raymarching algorit...
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[video] Quaternions to Homogeneous Points, Lines, and Planes
- the second path of the math tutorial series from GDC 2024 extends the dual quaternion knowledge (s...
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[video] REAC 2024 DAY 2 Modernizing geometry rendering in Alan Wake 2
- the presentation presents updates done to the rendering pipeline of the internal engine used for A...
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[video] I3D 2024 Papers Session 5 - Noise and Reconstruction
- the video recordings of Noise and Reconstrictions papers from I3D have been released
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The engine of the future.
- following the REAC 2024 conference, this author composes his 10 predictions on how graphics engine...
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[video] Rendering Engine Architecture Conference
- the video recordings for the Rendering Engine Architecture Conference have been released
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Virtual Geometry in Bevy 0.14
- the blog post provides a detailed discussion of implementing meshlet
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How I learned Vulkan and wrote a small game engine with it
- the blog post discusses the author's experience learning Vulkan through the development of a small...
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Seiler’s Interpolation
- the short paper presents how to reformat bezier interpolation using cheaper functions
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On Hash Functions for the GPU
- the article presents a geometric and statistical analysis of the PCG2D hash function
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Machine Learning on the GPU - Case Study: Open Image Denoise
- the blog post provides a high-level view that explains machine learning concepts for practical usa...
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Academy Software Foundation Releases OpenPBR 1.0
- the blog post introduces the release of the first stable release of OpenPBR
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Perspective-Correct Interpolation
- the article presents how a rasterizer calculates intermediate values on a triangle
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[video] I3D 2024 Papers Session 4 - Points and Splats
- The videos for I3D paper presentations have been released
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[video] The OpenGL Software Ecosystem
- the video provides an overview of the OpenGL Ecosystem
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Efficient Visibility Reuse for Real-time ReSTIR
- the paper presents a variance reduction technique for ReSTIR aimed at reducing shadow noise
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[video] I3D'24 Technical Paper: Filtering After Shading with Stochastic Texture Filte...
- extended presentation of the I3D paper presentation discussed last week
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Specular Polynomials
- the paper presents a way to reformulate SDS (a path with at least a specular, diffuse, specular bo...
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Ray Tracing with Voxels in C++ Series – Part 6
- the article series extends the voxel rendering implementation to use path tracing
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Microsoft® DirectSR and AMD FidelityFX™ Super Resolution technology
- the blog post explains the new DirectSR (Super Resolution) API
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DXC 1.8.2405 Available Now, Including HLSL 202x
- the blog post introduces the ongoing work of implementing future HLSL versions directly into Clang...
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Renderdoc - Version v1.33
- the latest version of Renderdoc includes a custom and improved DXIL disassembler
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Real-Time Physically Guided Hair Interpolation
- the paper presents a new method that aims to improve hair interpolation from a smaller number of g...
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Implementing General Relativity: Rendering the Schwarzschild black hole, in C++
- the blog post provides a high-level introduction to general relativity
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Texture Streaming
- the blog post discusses the streaming system implementation in the Wicked Engine
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[video] I3D 2024 Papers Session 2 - Light Transport and Storage
- video of the I3D 2023 Paper session on Light Transport
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Construction of a Microfacet Specular BSDF: A Geometric Approach
- the paper provides a walkthrough explanation of the different components that define a BSDF (bidir...
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Hemispherical Lighting Insights
- the paper introduces models to solve the reconstruction of irradiance in the vertex
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Ray Tracing with Voxels in C++ Series – Part 5
- the series on voxel ray tracer continues by presenting how to accumulate samples over time with a ...
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Getting Started In Computer Graphics
- the blog post provides a detailed description for programmers interested in graphics programming
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Sun Beams / God Rays Shader Breakdown
- the article explains an approach to implementing Sun Beams using Billboarding techniques
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Agility SDK 1.614.0: R9B9G9E5 support for Render Targets and UAVs
- the blog post presents that the latest D3D12 SDK update introduces support for R9B9G9E5 for Render...
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Unity Shader Graph Basics (Part 8 - Scene Intersections 1)
- the video shows how to implement a shader effect that allows objects to change their appearance cl...
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Recording the clear command // Vulkan For Beginners #9
- the video tutorial continues to discuss the implementation of a Vulkan renderer
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Filtering After Shading with Stochastic Texture Filtering
- the paper presents an investigation into applying texture filtering after shading instead of befor...
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Death To Shading Languages
- the author presents his view on shading languages and the (lack of) evolution
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Real-Time Path Guiding Using Bounding Voxel Sampling
- the paper introduces a path-guiding method that utilizes an irradiance voxel data structure
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Area ReSTIR: Resampling for Real-Time Defocus and Antialiasing
- the paper introduces Area ReSTIR that extends ReSTIR to be able to be applied to sub
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Ray Tracing with Voxels in C++ Series – Part 4
- the article continues the series that covers the implementation of a voxel raytracer
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A Fully-correlated Anisotropic Micrograin BSDF Model
- the paper presents an improved version of a BSDF developed for micro grain materials
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[video] Beyond White Noise for Real-Time Rendering
- the video presents how different types of noise for random number generation can affect the result...
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Shapes and forms of DX12 root signatures
- the article provides an excellent overview of the different ways to create root signatures in D3D1...
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Recreating Nanite: Mesh shader time
- the article discusses how to implement cluster-based mesh rendering using mesh shaders
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N-BVH: Neural ray queries with bounding volume hierarchies
- the paper introduces a new neural method to compress BVH for raytracing workloads
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AMD GPU architecture programming documentation
- AMD released documentation for the Micro engine and the RDNA 3 ISA
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Pre-condition block compressed textures with Brotli-G
- the blog post presents that the Brotli-G (GPU compression library) now allows a pre
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Ray Tracing with Voxels in C++ Series – Part 3
- the article continues the development of a voxel raytracer by explaining anti
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Buffer Those Commands! // Vulkan For Beginners #8
- the video tutorial explains the Vulkan command buffer concepts
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The shader graph contract
- the article discusses the design trade-offs for a shader graph system
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ZH3: Quadratic Zonal Harmonics
- the paper introduces the ZH3 format for spherical harmonics that fills the gap between linear and ...
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Apple’s Mysterious Fisheye Projection
- the blog post discusses projection methods for spherical videos
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[video] Math in Game Development Summit: A Visual Guide to Quaternions and Dual Quate...
- the GDC talk presents a great explanation of Quaternions and expands the concepts to cover dual qu...
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Ray Tracing with Voxels in C++ Series – Part 2
- this blog post covers how to extend a raytracer in a voxel world with support for reflections
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Meshed Radiance Manifolds for Efficient Volumetric Rendering of Dynamic Faces
- the paper introduces a method for view synthesis of facial expression captures in 3D views not cap...
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[video] I3D 2024 Papers Preview
- the video presents a summary of all the papers that will be presented at the I3D Conference 2024
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One Noise to Rule Them All: Learning a Unified Model of Spatially-Varying Noise Patte...
- the paper discusses a generative model that is trained to generate multiple types of noise and ble...
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Filter-Adapted Spatio-Temporal Sampling for Real-Time Rendering
- the paper presents a framework to shape rendering noise to optimize samples for perceptual quality...
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[video] Nanite for Artists | GDC 2024
- the video shows the limitations of Nanite from an artist's perspective
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Introducing Reverse Z (AKA I'm sorry for breaking your shader)
- the Godot engine is switching the definition of near/far plane, with the near plane now mapping to...
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Take a deep dive into Nanite GPU-driven materials
- the presentation is packed with detailed information about the process of implementing shader grap...
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Real-time denoising of importance sampled direct lighting
- The Master Thesis is a collaboration with Remedy Entertainment and discusses the implementation of...
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Ray Tracing with Voxels in C++ Series – Part 1
- the start of a series of articles covering the implementation of ray tracing for a voxel system
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How to Compact Acceleration Structures in D3D12
- the blog post shows how to implement Acceleration Structure compaction using D3D12
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Demystifying multiple importance sampling
- the article provides a full explanation of the derivation of multiple
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GPU Compute in the Browser at the Speed of Native: WebGPU Marching Cubes
- the article explains how to implement a marching cube compute shader
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The Performance Impact of C++'s final Keyword
- a blog post covering the effect of using C++ final on a ray
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Raytracing - Articles
- this page serves as a starting point for the articles of the author
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Radeon™ GPU Profiler 2.1 adds interoperability with Radeon™ GPU Analyzer (and more)!
- the article introduces how shaders from GPU Profiler captures can now be opened in the GPU Analyze...
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Alan Wake 2: A Deep Dive into Path Tracing Technology
- the video presentation (free login required) discusses the implementation details of Path Tracing ...
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Transforming a Non-Differentiable Rasterizer into a Differentiable One with Stochasti...
- the paper presents a method that allows existing non
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VNDF importance sampling for an isotropic Smith-GGX distribution
- the article introduces a specialization for the isotropic distribution of visible normals for GGX
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Colour Science Precis for the CGI Artist
- a collection of summaries about color science aimed at computer graphics artists
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Real-time Seamless Object Space Shading
- the paper introduces an object space shading method based on per
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[video] Terrain Tessellation Shaders // Terrain Rendering Episode 13
- the video explains how to use OpenGL tessellation shaders to implement a dynamic level of detail f...
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[video] An Optimisation 6 Years In The Making
- the video presents techniques to represent light shafts
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GM Shaders Guest: Radiance Cascades
- the blog post explains the Radiance Cascades technique for global illumination
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Flattening Bézier Curves and Arcs
- the post presents three methods to convert (Quadratic, Cubic) Bézier curves and elliptical arcs in...
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3D Toon Rendering in 'Hi-Fi RUSH'
- the GDC presentation provides an in-depth view into how the visual stylized shading was implemente...
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DirectX State of the Union Ft. Work Graphs and Introducing DirectSR (Presented by Mic...
- the GDC 2024 presentation covers the problems with Draw Indirect and how Work Graphs are designed ...
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[video] Coding Adventure: Rendering Text
- the video deep dives into font rendering - starts by exploring the True Type Font format
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Graphics Programming Conference
- a new graphics programming conference to happen in Breda (Netherlands) in November
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Recreating Nanite: Runtime LOD selection
- the blog post discusses how to implement a continuous LOD system for meshlet
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Optimizing UE5: Rethinking Performance Paradigms for High-Quality Visuals - Part 1: N...
- the presentation provides an overview of the Nanite and Lumen systems
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[video] Dithered Transparency in Unity Shader Graph
- the video explains the difference between alpha blending and dithered transparency
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RenderDoc - Version v1.32
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Copy Queue woes.
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Real-Time Lighting with Gaussian Splats
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[video] DJ! Swap that chain!!! // Vulkan For Beginners #7
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Game optimization with the AMD radeon developer tool suite
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Moebius-style post-processing and other stylized shaders
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Open sourcing the WinPixEventRuntime under MIT
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Sampling the disk from a square: The adoption method
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Efficient CUDA Debugging: Using NVIDIA Compute Sanitizer with NVIDIA Tools Extension ...
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[video] GDC 2024 - Shader Instrumentation with GPU Reshape
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Ray Marching: Menger Sponge Breakdown
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Mesh shaders in AMD RDNA 3 architecture
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[pdf] Post-mortem GPU crash analysis with AMD radeon GPU detective (RGD)
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Upgrade Your Graphics: Explore New Ray Tracing Features for NVIDIA Nsight Tools
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Procedural grass rendering
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GI-1.1 adds support for glossy reflection rendering
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GDC 2024: We reveal incredible Work Graphs performance, AMD FSR 3.1, GI with Brixeliz...
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Adventures with Differentiable Mesh Rendering
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Graphics Programming – Where To Start?
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[video] It is illogical (device) // Vulkan For Beginners #6
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[video] Too Many Developers Ignore These Optimisations
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Unlock Seamless Material Interchange for Virtual Worlds with OpenUSD, MaterialX, and ...
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Agility SDK 1.613.0 Available Now, Including Support for GDC 2024 Showcase Features
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Work Graphs in Direct3D 12: A Case Study of Deferred Shading
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GDC 2024: Work graphs, mesh shaders, FidelityFX™, dev tools, CPU optimization, and mo...
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Font- and vector-art rendering with mesh shaders
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Random walk method for quaternions
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Cross-Stage Shader Optimization
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Recreating Nanite: LOD generation - faster, better, simpler
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[video] 3D Gaussian Splatting! - Computerphile
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PIX 2403.08 – New D3D12 features + misc PIX improvements
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About fast 2D CDF construction
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Solar Storm Rendering
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Vulkan Foliage rendering using GPU Instancing
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Screen Space Reflection
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The Smooth-Minimum operator or Smooth-Union
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Inside Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1’s iGPU: Adreno Gets Big
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[video] Let's Get Physical (Device) // Vulkan For Beginners #5
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Ray-Tracing Validation at the Driver Level
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[video] How Persona Combines 2D and 3D Art
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How video games use LUTs and how you can too
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Look, Ma, No Matrices!
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DirectX Innovation on Display at GDC 2024
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How (Not) To Optimize Shaders
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Creating a Surface Handle // Vulkan For Beginners #4
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On Light, Colors, Mixing Paints, and Numerical Optimization.
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Vulkanised 2024 Playlist released
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Shadeup Crash Course
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[video] Creating a Debug Callback Function // Vulkan For Beginners #3
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[video] Underwater Caustics Part 2 - Advanced Materials - Episode 42
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Graphite internships: announcing participation in GSoC 2024
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Collaborative Control for Geometry-Conditioned PBR Image Generation
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GPU synchronization in Godot 4.3 is getting a major upgrade
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GM Shaders: Blur Philosophy
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REAC 2024 Conference - Call for Submissions!
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GPU Programming Primitives for Computer Graphics (course)
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[video] Tech Focus: TAA - Blessing Or Curse? Temporal Anti-Aliasing Deep Dive
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Gradient Descent With Adam in Plain C++
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Vulkanised 2024
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[video] Creating an Instance // Vulkan for Beginners #2
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[video] Water Foam - Advanced Materials - Episode 40
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Building the DirectX shader compiler better than Microsoft?
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Toward a next-gen vulkan shading language: our journey with slang
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[video] Explaining my game engine in 2023 - Part3: Tile-based light culling, compute ...
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TRIPS: Trilinear Point Splatting for Real-Time Radiance Field Rendering
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Breakdown: Syndicate (2012)
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[video] I made a Compression Algorithm for Heightmap Terrain
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The Apparent Simplicity of RGB Rendering
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Examining AMD’s RDNA 4 Changes in LLVM
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[video] Vulkan For Beginners Tutorial #1
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[video] When Optimisations Work, But for the Wrong Reasons
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An Introduction To BCn Texture Compression, Part 1: BC4
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Streamlining Subpasses
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Khronos Releases Maximal Reconvergence and Quad Control Extensions for Vulkan and SPI...
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Portals are misunderstood
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Don't Use Moving Averages
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Profiling WebGPU with PIX
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Efficient GPU Rendering for Dynamic Instances in Game Development
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Shining a light on Caustics with Shaders and React Three Fiber
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Mesh shaders: optimization and best practices
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Modernizing Granite’s mesh rendering
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Reprojection in a Ray Tracer
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Introducing GPU Reshape - shader instrumentation for everyone
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[video] Machine Learning for Game Developers
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Creating Rhoxel Meshes From Integer Coordinates
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HLSL Constant Buffer Packing Rules
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GPU Sorting - Overview
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Shader Printf in HLSL and DX12
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GM Shaders: Noise 3
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Hash Noise stability in GPU Shaders
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[video] How does Quad Tessellation work in OpenGL?
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[video] Vertex Animated Water - Advanced Materials - Episode 36
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Around The World, Part 11: Everything is harder on a sphere
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Quaternion Weighted Average
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Siggraph 2023 Courses - Videos released
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A Gentle Introduction to ReSTIR Path Reuse in Real-Time
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[video] Inside Alan Wake 2: How Remedy Delivered A Visual Masterpiece
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[video] Vertex Displacement - Advanced Materials - Episode 35
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[video] This Is Ray Tracing Supercharged!
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DiffusionLight: Light Probes for Free by Painting a Chrome Ball
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Low-level thinking in high-level shading languages 2023
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3D shape matching with quaternions
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Creating a Directed Acyclic Graph from a Mesh
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[video] How do Video Game Graphics Work?
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Beyond SAH — Building Optimal BVHs
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Dynamic diffuse global illumination
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Denoising raytraced images using OIDN
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Mesh Shaders on RDNA™ Graphics Cards
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Occupancy explained
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Optimizing Shaders in Unreal Engine
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Interpolation Using Wave Intrinsics
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An update to our Render Graph
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Vulkan Video Decode: First Frames
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Surface Gradient Bump Mapping Framework Overview
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Ray tracing animated crowds
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[video] Digital Foundry's Best Game Graphics of 2023 - PC, PS5, Xbox, Switch - Anothe...
- year-end video that discusses the standout graphical games of the year
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A gentler introduction to ReSTIR
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Knockout City Frame Breakdown
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Advanced API Performance: Swap Chains
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How to programmatically check graphics driver version
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Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora - the big developer tech interview
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Introduction to micro-meshes for mesh compression
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Simulating Fluids, Fire, and Smoke in Real-Time
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[video] Using Textures In The Vertex Shader - Advanced Materials - Episode 34
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Exploring the design space of remote scene approximation
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Use the GPU, Luke!
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Performance Comparison of Meshlet Generation Strategies
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[video] GPU Crash Debugging in Unreal Engine: Tools, Techniques, and Best Practices |...
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Shader on The Sphere
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WebGPU/WebGL performance comparison best practices
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[video] How Games Have Worked for 30 Years to Do Less Work
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DirectX? On my Linux??
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[video] Vertex Shader Optimization - Advanced Materials - Episode 33
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Introducing Radeon™ GPU Profiler 2.0!
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Our brand-new DirectStorage sample is available now
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Announcing AMD RenderStudio - supporting collaborative 3D creation and rendering in t...
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Coverage Bitmasks for Efficient Rendering Algorithms
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[video] Lengths, angles, projection, correlation | Linear algebra episode 2
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GM Shaders Mini: OkLab
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[video] How to Render a Wireframe On a Solid Mesh
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[video] What Is A Graphics Programmer?
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[video] Introduction To Vertex Shaders - Advanced Materials - Episode 32
- start of a new shader tutorial series covering vertex shaders
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[video] When Your Game Is Bad But Your Optimisation Is Genius
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How We Render Extremely Large Point Clouds
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How do I become a graphics programmer? - A small guide from the AMD Game Engineering ...
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(Graphics) Programming Resource List
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GM Shaders Mini: Phi
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Interpolating Color Image Histograms Using Sliced Optimal Transport
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WebGPU Render Bundle best practices
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A library for creating and manipulating spherical and zonal harmonics.
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Improved Multithreading in wgpu - Arcanization Lands on Trunk
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Performance tricks
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Unlocking GPU Intrinsics in HLSL
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Dynamic vertex formats
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Tiled per-triangle soft shadow volumes
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[video] Optimize Your Meshes!
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Interactive 3D Graphics and Games - Call for Participation
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GM Shaders Mini: The Matrix
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Changing the game for Black hair
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[video] code.talks 2023 - Making pretty things with code: Getting started as Technica...
- the talk presents an insight into the job of a technical artist
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AMD - UE - Performance guide
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Physically Based Rendering: Fourth Edition
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Advanced API Performance: Intrinsics
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Secrets of Direct3D 12: Do RTV and DSV descriptors make any sense?
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Intuiting Latency and Throughput
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Explore GPU advancements in M3 and A17 Pro
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Discover new Metal profiling tools for M3 and A17 Pro
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Why Cities: Skylines 2 performs poorly
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Extending Materials in Bevy 0.12 with MaterialExtension
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[video] How do Major Video Games Render Grass?
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[pptx] The Rendering of The Callisto Protocol
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NVIDIA Micro-Mesh Vulkan Sample
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OpenPBR v0.2 Now Publicly Available
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Real-time dreamy Cloudscapes with Volumetric Raymarching
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Finding Real Polynomial Roots on GPUs
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PIX 2310.30: a faster PIX with many raytracing + other improvements
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[video] Alan Wake 2 PC Path Tracing: The Next Level In Visual Fidelity?
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[video] How Are Games Rendering Fur?
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[video] OpenGL [Episode 30] [Theory] The View Matrix
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[video] Animated Flag Part 2 - Advanced Materials - Episode 27
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[video] Why can't you multiply vectors?
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Machine Learning for Game Devs: Part 1
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Study Notes On The Marschner Hair Shading Model
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GM Shaders Mini: Tonemaps
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Efficient CUDA Debugging: Memory Initialization and Thread Synchronization with NVIDI...
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Advanced API Performance: Descriptors
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[video] RE:2023 Shader Translator: Implementation and Use
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[video] RE:2023 Is Rendering Still Evolving?
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The Best Darn Grid Shader (Yet)
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Setting up PSO Precaching & Bundled PSOs for Unreal Engine
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[video] Animated Flag - Advanced Materials - Episode 26
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[pdf] Bounded VNDF Sampling for Smith–GGX Reflections
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The white furnace test
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Book (w/ Turnable Pages) Breakdown
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Doing dynamic resolution scaling? Watch out for texture memory size!
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New Implementation of LTC Line Lights
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Designing Slang’s automatic differentiation
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The new sokol-gfx WebGPU backend
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[video] Introduction To Tessellation in OpenGL
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Locally-Adaptive LOD for Hardware-Accelerated Ray Tracing
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Work graphs API – compute rasterizer learning sample
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Voxy tool development so far...
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Advanced API Performance: Debugging
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Unity 4D #4: Creating 4D Objects
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Dynamic Resolution Scaling (DRS) Implementation Best Practice
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Vulkan Documentation Just Got Easier!
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[video] Worn-Out LCD Screen Shader - Advanced Materials - Episode 25
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Master Thesis - Volumetric data structures for real-time ray tracing
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[video] AMD FSR3 Hands-On: Promising Image Quality, But There Are Problems - DF First...
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SimLOD: Simultaneous LOD Generation and Rendering
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Ray Tracing Spherical Harmonics Glyphs
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USD and glTF Resources Page
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A Micrograin BSDF Model for the Rendering of Porous Layers
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Stable Fiddusion - Frequency-domain blue noise generator
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GPU driven rendering in AnKi: A high level overview
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Unity 4D #3: Rendering 4D Objects
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From the archive: Notes on environment lighting occlusion.
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Introducing Desmos Studio's 3D Calculator (Beta)
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GM Shaders Mini: Vector Spaces
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[video] Sampling of Environment Maps for Image-based Lighting [Shaders Monthly #13]
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Toon Shading Fundamentals - From Cel-Shading to bidirectional toon ramps
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Combining Resampled Importance and Projected Solid Angle Samplings for Many Area Ligh...
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Nonlinear Ray Tracing for Displacement and Shell Mapping
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Making Gaussian Splats more smaller
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Chrome Graphics as Seen By Attackers
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You’re calculating framerate percentiles wrong!
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AMD FSR 3 game integrations out now + more details for developers
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[video] Game Engine Programming 060.3 - Explaining block compression formats and sRGB...
- the video explains BC texture compression - covers how the compression format works and the differ...
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Reach For the Spheres: Tangency-Aware Surface Reconstruction of SDFs
- the paper introduces a new method for the triangle mesh reconstruction from an SDF representation
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Interlocked min/max on HLSL single precision floats (Part II)
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Worley and His Noise (Worley Noise/Voronoi Noise)
- the article presents how to implement Worley/Voronoi noise
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From WebGL to WebGPU
- the article presents a set of differences between WebGL and WebGPU
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Radeon™ Raytracing Analyzer 1.3 is now available
- the latest version of the raytracing analyzer adds support for visualizing the rays in the scene
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Radeon™ Memory Visualizer 1.7 is out now
- the latest edition of the Memory Visualizer adds improved support for resource aliasing
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Radeon™ GPU Profiler 1.16 is here!
- the article presents changes in the latest AMD GPU profiler update
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Introduction to 3D Gaussian Splatting
- the blog post provides an introduction to the Gaussian Splatting rasterization technique
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Painting with Math: A Gentle Study of Raymarching
- the blog post provides a visual introduction to Raymarching
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GM Shaders Mini: Math
- the article provides a brief overview of alpha blending and weighted averages
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Making Gaussian Splats smaller
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Onboarding floating-point
- the series of blog posts covers floating points and fixed point representations for numbers
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[video] How I implemented MegaTextures on real Nintendo 64 hardware
- the video presents an overview of virtual texturing
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Vulkanised 2024 - Call for Submissions
- the 2024 Vulkan conference Vulkanised is looking for speakers
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Call for Authors GPU Zen 3
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[pdf] Authoring Materials That Matters - Substrate in Unreal Engine 5
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What we talk about when we talk about Ray Tracing?
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Gaussian Splatting is pretty cool!
- The blog post describes a brief overview of the Gaussian Splatting technique
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Interlocked min/max on HLSL single precision floats
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GM Shaders Mini: Imagination
- The blog post shows the importance of thinking in gradients
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Constant Time Stateless Shuffling and Grouping
- The article introduces how to encrypt/decrypt are methods to allow reversible changes to data
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[video] Wow, NVIDIA’s Rendering, But 10X Faster!
- The video presents a comparison of 3D Gaussian Splatting for Real
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[video] I Tried Simulating The Entire Ocean
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At A Glance: The Aliasing Problem in Computer-Generated Shaded Images
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[pdf] HypeHype Mobile Rendering Architecture
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[pdf] Large-Scale Terrain Rendering in Call of Duty
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GFXReconstruct on Android - How-To Guide
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[video] CUDA Tutorials I Profiling and Debugging Applications
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New Work Graphs sample and Radeon GPU Profiler support for GPU Work Graphs
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BroadLeaf: Developing a Real-Time Solution for Rendering Trees
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Solving Self-Intersection Artifacts in DirectX Raytracing
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Advanced API Performance: Shaders
- the blog post provides best practices for shader performance
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[video] Starfield: The Digital Foundry Tech Review
- the video presents a deep dive into the technical aspects of Starfield
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[video] Billboarding With The Geometry Shader // Intermediate OpenGL Series
- the article presents how to use geometry shaders from OpenGL
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Bezier curves
- The article provides an interactive explanation and exploration of Bezier curves
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[video] MaterialX 2023 Virtual Town Hall
- Video recording of MaterialX-related developments in the virtual town hall meeting
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vsync simulator
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Inside bend: screen space shadows
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Ray-aligned Occupancy Map Array for Fast Approximate Ray Tracing
- The paper introduces a Ray-aligned Occupancy Map Array as an alternative to BVH
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Radiance Cascades: A Novel Approach to Calculating Global Illumination[WIP]
- The paper presents a global illumination technique based on radiance cascades
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Rendering Technologies behind Gran Turismo 7: VR, Ray Tracing and Sky Simulation
- the slides cover the difficulties of VR and what is required for a good user experience
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Camera and lens definitions for VFX
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[video] Mathematical Magic Mirrorball #SoME3
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Optimizing Metal: Stitch several Metal functions into a single shader using MTLFuncti...
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Hardcore Vulkan debugging – Digging deep on Linux + AMDGPU
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Getting Started with Radeon™ GPU Detective 1.0
- AMD released a new tool to help with debugging GPU crashes
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[SCC] Next Gen Development for Games | Sony Official
- a combination of three conference presentations recordings from the sony creator event
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HLSL 2021 Migration Guide
- the latest version of DXC switches the default HLSL version to 2021
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ShaderCrashingAssert
- release of a small header helper to implement a basic assert for GPU shader code
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A Gentle Introduction to ReSTIR: Path Reuse in Real-time
- the course notes and slides for the ReStir course from Siggraph are available
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Reverse Z (and why it's so awesome)
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Interviewing Graphics Programmers
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Speed Up GPU Crash Debugging with NVIDIA Nsight Aftermath
- Nsight Aftermath now supports application-specific markers to be inserted and accessed from the cr...
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GM Shaders Mini: CRT
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Bringing shaders to contest programming
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[video] SIGGRAPH 2023 | Latest in Graphics Development and GPU Profiling with NVIDIA ...
- the video presents a short overview of the new developer features in Nvidia tools
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[video] Skydome // Terrain Rendering episode #12
- the video presents the theory behind Skydomes and how they compare to sky boxes
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Optimize 3D Assets with Khronos’ New glTF-Compressor Tool
- Khronos released a new tool to improve the experience when working with KTX compression
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[video] The rendering techniques of Path of Exile (Alexander Sannikov)
- the presentation covers an overview of many rendering techniques used in Path of Exile
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[pdf] Shadow Techniques from Final Fantasy XVI
- the paper discusses the Shadow Techniques used by Final Fantasy XVI
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Occluding Contour Breakthroughs, Part 1: A Surprisingly Hard Problem
- the first part of a 3 part series that discusses occluding contour rendering
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Why your GPU can (and probably should) do real function calls
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Learnings As a Graphics Lead
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Denoising-Aware Adaptive Sampling for Monte Carlo Ray Tracing
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Radiant Flux, Intensity, Irradiance, Radiance, and the Rendering Equation
- the blog post presents the rendering equation and derives the meaning by following the physical un...
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Using decals to drive object shaders and post-processing.
- the blog post presents the idea of using decals to drive where post
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Pixar, Adobe, Apple, Autodesk, and NVIDIA Form Alliance for OpenUSD to Drive Open Sta...
- the blog post presents the announcement of the formation of an organization for fostering the stan...
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Approximate projected bounds [Updated]
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Advanced API Performance: Synchronization
- Nvidia presents the best practices for asynchronous compute queue work scheduling
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Raytraced order independent transparency part 2
- the article presents a method that uses any hit shaders to implement order
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Announcing GPU Work Graphs in Vulkan
- AMD announced the release of a Vulkan extension to support the experimental D3D12 Work Graph conce...
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Korean edition of RTR4 available
- the blog post announces that the book Real-Time Rendering is now also available in Korean
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Float to int casts for data compression
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GM Shaders Mini: Dither
- the article presents an overview of dithering techniques
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Unity 4D #1: Understanding the Fourth Dimension
- the article presents an introduction to the fourth dimension and explains how to imagine mathemati...
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A Whirlwind Tour of Games Color Management
- the article provides a comprehensive overview of game color management and encoding complexities
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PROGRAMMING: SDMV (Single Draw Multiple Viewport) Instanced Cubemap Rendering
- the article presents how to render geometry to the six faces of a cubemap from a single draw call
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Roblox to Present 3D Motion and Rendering Research at SIGGRAPH 2023
- the blog post shows the talks Roblox will be presenting at SIGGRAPH
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[video] Art Optimization: How FatShark constructed their central asset pipeline with ...
- the GDC presentation covers geometrical limitations and techniques that can be used to solve the b...
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Rendering ‘God of War Ragnarök’
- the talk presents is a combination of leadership methods and rendering techniques of God of War Ra...
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Advanced API Performance: Pipeline State Objects
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Calculate how many helper pixels a pixel quad has
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[video] Nuclear's graphics tricks #1: simple outline rendering
- the quick video presents a method to render an outline of an object by taking advantage of wirefra...
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Computational complexity of texture encoding
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Santa Monica Studio - Our GDC 2023 presentations
- Santa Monica Studio release the slides for all GDC 2023 presentations
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Sub-pixel Distance Transform - High quality font rendering for WebGPU
- the article presents an in-depth look at SDF font rendering techniques
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Micro-Mesh Overview (Part 1)
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Effective use of the new D3D12_HEAP_TYPE_GPU_UPLOAD flag
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Real-Time Neural Texture Upsampling in ‘God of War Ragnarök’
- the presentation present a neural network approach used to upscale textures
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[video] User Clip Planes // OpenGL Intermediate Series
- the video tutorial presents how one can use clip planes to cut geomeetry along plane equations
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Raytraced order independent transparency
- the articles continues the exploration into order independent transparency techniques
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[video] The Art of Linear Programming
- the video tutorial provides a visual introduction into linear programming
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Marching Cubes, Explained Using Marching Squares
- the articles aims to provide an intuitive understanding of the marching cubes algorithmn
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[video] It Takes Two, lava lamps, Raymarching in Godot 4.1
- the video describes how to use raymarching to draw a lava lamp effect
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High Performance Graphics 2023 papers on the web
- collections of papers from the High Performance Graphics 2023 conference
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The AMD FidelityFX™ SDK 1.0 is now available on GPUOpen
- AMD has released FidelityFX SDK that was announced during GDC 2023
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Eurographics Symposium on Rendering 2023 papers on the web
- collections of papers from the Eurographics Symposium on Rendering 2023 conference
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In-Game GPU Profiling for DirectX 12 Using SetBackgroundProcessingMode
- the blog post presents how to use available D3D12 APIs to create stable applications for profiling...
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Tile-based Lightweight Integer Compression in GPU
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Intermediate Graphics Library (IGL)
- Meta open-sourced their cross-platform library that provides a common graphics API abstraction
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GPU 2D Drawing Part 2: Rectangle SDF. Masking. Rotations.
- the blog post discusses signed distance fields (SDF) for rectangles as well as how to render borde...
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Rain Effects Breakdown
- the article provides a breakdown of how to implement a rain effect using Unity visual shaders
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Skeletal animation in glTF
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[video] Windows Gaming On Mac: Game Porting Toolkit Tested! Cyberpunk, Hogwarts, Dead...
- the Digital Foundry video provides an overview of the Apple Game Porting Toolkit
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[video] Skybox // Terrain Rendering episode #11
- the video tutorial presents how to render a skybox using OpenGL
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[video] Building Roads Procedurally Using Unity's Spline Package
- the video tutorial presents how to build a road network using a spline system
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Debugging CUDA More Efficiently with NVIDIA Compute Sanitizer
- This article discusses a code sanitizer in CUDA that is similar to one used in C++
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Behind the Pretty Frames: Diablo IV
- the article provides an in-depth study of a Diablo IV frame rendering on PC
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An Approximate Mie Scattering Function for Fog and Cloud Rendering
- The paper introduces a new method for representing scattering with varying particle sizes using un...
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[video] Make Your Renders Unnecessarily Complicated
- the video shows an humerous overview of what is required to model a camera, with functioning lenes...
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Signed Distance Function (Field)
- the article dicusses how to use signed distance functions to render a circle
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Neural Intersection Function
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[pdf] Path tracing in Production - The Path of Water
- the Siggraph 2023 course notes discuss the challenges faced related to water rendering on Avatar: ...
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[video] Convolutions and adding random variables, visually explained
- the video explains the concept of convolution functions/filters
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Real-Time Ray Tracing of Micro-Poly Geometry with Hierarchical Level of Detail
- the paper introduces a method that enables micro-poly geometry for raytracing workloads
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D3D12 Work Graphs Preview
- the blog post announces the first public release of a new D3D12 feature called Work Graphs
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GPU Work Graphs in Microsoft DirectX® 12
- the AMD guide provides a more in-depth look at the practical use of D3D12 Work Graphs
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PIX 2306.21-preview: Work Graphs support
- the blog post announces support for the new d3d12 work graphs feature in the preview version
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From 0 to glTF with WebGPU: Rendering the Full glTF Scene
- another part of the glTF rendering series - part focuses on how to interpret the scene hierarchy a...
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[video] Let's Code a Realtime Fluid Simulation in Unity
- the video tutorial presents a walkthrough on the integration of a real
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Task Graph Renderer at Activision
- the talk discusses the design of the Task Graph architecture used by Activision
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Overview of Nitrous’ Decoupled Rendering Architecture
- the presentation slides explain the improvements done to decoupled shading
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Real-Time Rendering of Glinty Appearances using Distributed Binomial Laws on Anisotro...
- the paper presents a new method to render glittery materials
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Line Rendering Deep Overview - Part 1 - Extraction
- the article presents an overview of line extraction techniques
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A note on Metal shader converter
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Sampling Visible GGX Normals with Spherical Caps
- the paper introduces a novel importance sampling algorithm for the GGX microfacet BRDF
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Far Cry Dunia Engine Shader Pipeline - Long-term Vision & Lessons Learned
- the presentation covers the development story of the Far Cry shader system
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Modern Mobile Rendering @ HypeHype
- the talk covers how the author designed a new rendering architecture aimed at mobile hardware
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Day Night Cycle using LUT in Fragment Shader of Materials
- the article presents how a LUT (Look Up Table) can be used to apply a color transformation to conv...
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CG Spotlight Slides - Screen Space Indirect Lighting with Visibility Bitmask
- slides covering Screen Space Indirect Lighting with Visibility Bitmask
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Peeling back the varnish: The graphics of Diablo IV
- the blog post covers a high-level overview of topics covering Diablo IV graphics techniques
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Bring your game to Mac, Part 2: Compile your shaders
- the presentation presents how to convert the D3D12 shader for use with metal
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[video] OpenGL vs. Direct3D - Servan Keondjian & Casey Muratori
- the 2-hour interview discusses the history of the development of Graphics APIs
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[video] I3D 2023 Keynote A Glimpse of Neural Rendering's Future by Marco Salvi
- the keynote presents an overview of the state of the art in neural rendering
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[video] An introduction to Shader Art Coding
- the video tutorial explains shader programming aimed at newcomers
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A Quickstart Guide to CUDA
- the article provides a tutorial on how to use CUDA for beginners
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Stochastic Subsets for Bounding Volume Hierarchy (BVH) Construction
- The paper presents a new approach for constructing Bounding Volume Hierarchies (BVH) by leveraging...
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GM Shaders Mini: Scaling
- the tutorial provides common scaling, stretching, and centering patterns when using pixel and UV c...
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Iterative 𝛼-(de)Blending: a Minimalist Deterministic Diffusion Model
- the paper presents a rederivation of diffusion models with more straightforward concepts of mixing...
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[video] Where did my intersections go?
- the short video presents how ray-sphere intersection points behave when expressed with imaginary n...
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[video] I3D 2023 Papers Session 4 - Ray Tracing
- the video recording ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games 2023 for Ray Traci...
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Rendering Engine Architecture Conference - 2023
- open, digital, and freely accessible conference covering many rendering engine architectures is ha...
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[video] Frustum Culling // Terrain Rendering episode #9
- the video tutorial explains two different techniques of frustum culling
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Khronos Osaka Dev Day Video and LunarG Presentation Slides Available
- slides and videos from the Khronos Osaka Dev Day have been released
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Deus Ex – Alpha Terrain
- the article presents how the terrain in Deus Ex is quite different compared to other solutions
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[video] [OpenGL Episode 25] Rotation Matrices (using glm)
- the video shows how rotation matrices are defined in mathematics and glm + OpenGL
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[video] Halton Low-Discrepancy Sequence [Shaders Monthly #12]
- the video explains the effect of the Halton Sequence compared to random and grid sampling
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Waterfall Shader Breakdown
- the article explains how to create a stylized waterfall effect
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Micro-Mesh Construction
- the paper presents how to construct micro meshes from high
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Unit Gradient Fields: SDFs, UGFs, and their friends
- the article provides a formal definition of a Unit Gradient Field
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Advanced API Performance: CPUs
- the article presents CPU performance consideration for efficient usage of APIs
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Introducing Vulkan Ray Tracing Position Fetch Extension
- the blog post describes a new Vulkan raytracing extension that allows the retrieval of positions f...
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[video] I3D 2023 Papers Session 1 - Neural Rendering and Image Warping
- video recording for the first I3D conference paper session has been released
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From 0 to glTF with WebGPU: Rendering the First glTF Mesh
- the second part of the glTF mesh series covers how to interpret mesh data and render from WebGPU
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Shader Execution Reordering: Nvidia Tackles Divergence
- the article presents the effect of Shader Execution Reordering (SER) on GPU performance
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Introducing AMD Capsaicin Framework - our ARR Research Framework which includes our G...
- AMD released a new research framework aimed at the rapid development of multiple rendering impleme...
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A Rough Idea of How Photon Mapping Works
- the article provides an overview of the Photon Mapping technique
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Stochastic Texture Filtering
- the paper investigates and presents the quality and performance influence of stochastic texture fi...
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GPU Hang Exploration: Splitgate
- the article provides a walkthrough of how to investigate a GPU hang found in Splitgate on Steam De...
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[video] GDC 2023 - Two-Level Radiance Caching for Fast and Scalable Real-Time Global ...
- the GDC presentation present a GI solution that aims to cache radiance into a cache hierarchy
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[video] The LOD Manager // Terrain Rendering episode #8
- the video tutorial expands on the terrain rendering series by adding support for calculating LOD l...
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RPS SDK Tutorial
- AMD released an extensive tutorial on how to use the Render Pipeline Shaders SDK
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Microfacet theory for non-uniform heightfields
- the paper proposes a new method for the combination of rough surface NDFs
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Real-Time Neural Appearance Models
- The paper presents a new method to represent materials utilizing learned hierarchical textures com...
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I want to talk about WebGPU
- the article presents a history of graphics API and how WebGPU fits into the history
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Advanced API Performance: Sampler Feedback
- the guide contains best practices for using Sample Feedback on Nvidia hardware
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Vulkan Video Decoding
- the article presents the video functionality that Vulkan exposes
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Unit Gradient Fields: What do we mean by offset?
- the article presents an overview of Unit Gradient Fields (UGFs)
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Cyberpunk 2077’s Path Tracing Update
- the article presents an in-depth look at the performance of the latest Cyberpunk 2077 update
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[video] Level Of Detail // Terrain Rendering episode #7
- the video tutorial about rendering terrain using OpenGL continues by explaining how LODs can be im...
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Fine-grained backface culling
- Article discusses implementing backface culling in mesh shaders
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Building a new graphics engine in Rust - Part 4
- the article presents progress on a Rust-based home graphics engine project
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Radeon™ GPU Profiler 1.15 provides an enhanced ISA view experience and more
- the article presents improvements done to the AMD GPU profiler
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[video] A neat realtime water caustics technique using partial derivatives in UE!
- the video explains how to use partial derivatives in HLSL shaders to calculate the amount of light...
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[video] A visual explanation for 3D transformation matrix multiplications
- the video tutorial explains how matrices are combined
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[video] Quake's PVS: A hidden gem of rendering optimization
- the video explains how PVS (Potential Visibility Set) used by Quake is implemented
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Battlefront II: Layered Explosion
- the article explains how star wars battlefront explosion VFX has been implemented
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Cubic Interpolation of Quaternions
- the article explains a series of Interpolation and shows how they build up to cubic Quaternion int...
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Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games 2023 papers on the web
- a collection of papers from the I3D 2023 presentation
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[video] Math in Game Development Summit: A Visual Guide to Quaternions and Dual Quate...
- the GDC talk explains how Quaternions and Dual Quaternions work and how they affect objects under ...
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Advanced Graphics Summit: Realistic Real-Time Sky Dome Rendering in 'Gran Turismo 7'
- the GDC presentation discusses the new sky rendering model developed for GT7
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GM Shaders Mini: FXAA
- the short tutorial presents how the FXAA algorithm is implemented
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Simplifying Bézier paths
- the article discusses techniques to calculate Bézier that use fewer segments than the existing ori...
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MaterialX - Version 1.38.7
- the latest version released from the Open MaterialX standards adds support for MaterialX Graph Edi...
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The many ways of converting FP32 to FP16
- the article presents several different methods to convert between 32 and 16
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Mipmap Generation
- the tutorial explains how to use WebGPU to use compute shaders to calculate the MIP maps for textu...
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Contributing to Godot - Visual Shaders Nodes
- the article presents how to introduce custom shader nodes into the Godot Visual shader graph
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New playground: integer.exposed
- the article introduces two new interactive playgrounds for integer and floating point numbers
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[video] Advanced Graphics Summit: 'Marvel's Spider-Man' Remastered: A PC Postmortem
- the talk discusses how the PC port approaches PSO management to reduce stutter and manage memory w...
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[video] Everyone can understand transformation matrices - and how it works
- the video explains visually to read and understand 4x4 transformation matrixes
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Half baked and a half: a small update
- the blog post describes the approach of incrementally accumulating voxel data to augment the repro...
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Direct3D 12: Adventures in Shaderland
- the article describes how Godot converts SPIR-V shaders to DXIL for D3D12
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[video] I3D 2023 Papers Preview
- the video presents an overview of the papers that will be presented during the I3D 2023 in Bellevu...
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[video] Cyberpunk 2077 Ray Tracing: Overdrive Technology Preview on RTX 4090
- the video presents the visual difference the overdrive (ReStir
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NVIDIA Displacement Micro-Map Toolkit
- Nvidia released the Displacement Micro-Map Toolkit SDK
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From 0 to glTF with WebGPU: The First Triangle - Updated for Chrome 113 Release
- the tutorial shows how to render a first triangle with WebGPU
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Web3D Survey
- the website collects information about the API and extension availability for Web
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Matrix Compendium
- the article provides a central place for matrix understanding for computer graphics
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Random Sampling Experiments: Avoid The Sides!
- the blog post shows different sampling strategies
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Shader Tutorial: Color Correction
- the tutorial explains how to apply color modifications in shaders
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[video] Stylized Grass and the many techniques available in UE to reach the desired s...
- the long Video explains detailed how to render a Stylized grass
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Subspace Culling for Ray–Box Intersection
- the paper proposes a new solution to accelerate AABB when used as BVH for objects that are thin an...
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Efficient Spatial Resampling Using the PDF Similarity
- the paper introduces a new rejection method based on the PDF shape similarity between pixels for s...
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World Space Path Resampling
- the article presents an overview of ReSTIR/ReGIR, explaining similarities and differences between ...
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let's talk about normals
- the article presents the difference between Object Normals, Tangent Normals as well as World Norma...
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Mesh Shaders and Meshlet Culling in Metal 3
- the article presents an overview of use cases for mesh shaders
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You Can Use Vulkan Without Pipelines Today
- the blog post introduces the VK_EXT_shader_object extension that allows Vulkan to be used without ...
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A Generalized Ray Formulation For Wave-Optics Rendering
- the paper introduces a generalized ray concept into wave
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Agility SDK 1.710.0-preview: GPU Upload Heaps and Non-normalized Sampling
- the new D3D12 SDK adds support for CPU and GPU shared heaps on iGPUs and GPUs with re
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GM Shaders Mini: Derivatives
- the article explains what function derivatives are and how they are helpful in shaders
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Practical Projective Geometric Algebra
- slides of the GDC talking covering Geometric Algebra have been released
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[video] Coding Adventure: Ray Tracing
- the detailed video tutorial shows how to implement raytracing applications
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PIX and ID3D12ManualWriteTrackingResource
- the new API allows applications to disable the use of kernel WRITE_WATCH for CPU
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GDC 2023: Introducing the FidelityFX SDK with new technologies, an early look at FSR ...
- AMD released the videos and slides from the sponsored session at GDC23
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Real-time sparse distance fields for games
- the presentation introduces the implementation of Brixelizer, an AMD real
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Introduction to Spherical Gaussians
- the article introduces Spherical Gaussians based on the Spherical Harmonics covered in the last pa...
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DNND 2: Tensors and Convolution
- the second article of the series continues uncovering how Deep Neural Networks are implemented
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[video] Geomipmapping // Terrain Rendering episode #6
- the terrain video tutorial series introduces a continuous level of detail for geometric details
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Raytracing on AMD’s RDNA 2/3, and Nvidia’s Turing and Pascal
- the article uses the AMD and Nvidia dev tools to take a look at how they approach the BVH building...
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Half baked: Dynamic Occlusion Culling
- the blog post discusses designs and considerations for occlusion Culling techniques
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Leveraging Rust and the GPU to render user interfaces at 120 FPS
- the article discusses the implementation of the GPUI library
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CPU->GPU data transfer - What is the best way to provide GPU the data inputs for each...
- the Twitter thread discusses different methods to upload per
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Notes on FFTs: for users
- the article presents different use cases of Fourier Transforms from a user perspective
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[Video] Iridescent Bubble Shader - Advanced Materials - Episode 18
- the video tutorial explains the effect of iridescence, why it happens, and how to replicate it
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[Unreal] GameCube-Style Stencil Lights
- the article discusses how to implement a lighting model as found in the Legend of Zelda: The Wind ...
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DNND 1: a Deep Neural Network Dive
- the article discusses the basics of Convolutional Neural Networks
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Depth-only Screen Space Ambient Occlusion (SSAO) for Forward Renderers
- the article shows how to implement SSAO using WebGL 2
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Stylized Water Shader
- the tutorial explains how to create a Stylized Water Shader using Unity from start to finish
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Generalization of Adobe's Fresnel Model
- the short paper presents an extension to the Adobe Standard Material model that allows specific re...
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Introduction to Spherical Harmonics
- the article aims to provide an understanding of Spherical Harmonics without requiring advanced mat...
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[video] Sharp Text Shader - Advanced Materials - Episode 18
- the video tutorial shows how to create a text shader using signed distance fields and how to devel...
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The Year of the Vulkan Book
- the article discusses the author's experience of writing "Mastering Graphics Programming with Vulk...
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Vectors, Matrices & Matrix Order
- the article discusses matrix and vector representation
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Float Compression 7: More Filtering Optimization
- the article continues the series on float compression topics
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PIX 2303.02: You asked, we listened! A bumper PIX release
- new release of PIX contains a vast list of new developments
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Understanding Vulkan device buffer address alignment
- the article explains the alignment requirements of buffer loads from VK_KHR_buffer_device_address
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Real-time Cluster Path Tracing for Remote Rendering
- the presentation covers a real-time cluster-based path
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[video] Simple Lighting in Defold - Screen Space Light Maps
- the video tutorial presents a simple lighting model that uses sprites to define light effects
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Vulkan all the way: Transitioning to a modern low-level graphics API in academia
- the paper explains the experience of transitioning university classes to be taught using Vulkan in...
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[video] How to Improve Shader Performance by Resolving LDC Divergence
- the video discusses the problem of non-uniform constant loads within a single wrap
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CUDA LOD Generation
- the paper presents how to use GPU-based techniques to implement LOD construction of point clouds
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[video] Lighting // Terrain Rendering episode #5
- the latest part of the video tutorial discusses how to apply lighting to a terrain using OpenGL
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How to render it. Ten ideas to solve Computer Graphics problems.
- the article presents an overview of 10 aspects to consider when approaching solving a computer gra...
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Setting up a bindless rendering pipeline
- the talk describes to setup a bindless rendering pipeline using Vulkan, D3D12, and HLSL shaders
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Reading Veach’s Thesis, Part 2
- the article continues a series of understanding the Robust Monte Carlo Methods for Light Transport...
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Two-pass Gaussian blur coeffifients generator
- the article provides a calculator that generates offsets and weights for a separable Gaussian blur...
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WebGPU Error Handling best practices
- the article describes the error handling techniques that are available when using WebGPU
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Vulkanised 2023
- the official website collects the links to the videos and slides of the talks presented at the Vul...
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An Open Letter to ARM / Mali: Please stop doing this
- the article presents issues with the ARM/mali GPU device IDs and how they relate to GPU performanc...
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Impressions from Vulkanised 2023 Conference
- the author presents his impression from the Vulkanied conference
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[video] Vulkanised 2023
- the playlist of video recordings of the talks presented at the Vulkanised 2023 in Munich
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Teardown Teardown
- the article presents a breakdown of how Teardown is being rendered
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Swapping Colours
- the article provides an overview of different techniques to adjust object colors from objects
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[video] Calculating Ray-Sphere Intersections
- the video tutorial explains how to implement ray-sphere intersection testing
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Fast Real-Time Shading for Polygonal Hair
- the paper presents a technique to approximate hair lighted by an environment map, direct lighting,...
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Float Compression 6: Filtering Optimization
- the blog post continues the series on float compression techniques
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[video] Parallax Occlusion Optimization - Advanced Materials - Episode 15
- the video discusses the difference between Parallax Occlusion and normal mapping
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Screen Space Indirect Lighting with Visibility Bitmask
- the paper proposes an expansion of Horizon-based indirect illumination by using visibility bitmask...
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Raymarching Clouds
- the post provides a walkthrough of how to implement raymarching for volumetric clouds
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GM Shaders Mini: Blendmodes
- the short tutorial shows how to recreate photoshop blend modes using GLSL shader code
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A fast and precise triangle rasterizer
- the article presents how to implement a software triangle rasterizer
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Getting Started with Vulkan Compute Acceleration
- the tutorial explains the basics of compute shader usage with Vulkan by implementing a compu...
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Technically Art: Issue 138 (11.02.2023)
- a collection of tech art tweets covering topics such as procedural modeling, volumetric motion blu...
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[video] Texturing // Terrain Rendering episode #4
- the video tutorial explains how to apply textures to a terrain system
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Float Compression 0: Intro
- the start of a series of blog posts that explores the space of compressing floating point data
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GM Shaders Mini: Normal Maps
- short tutorial explains the concept of normal maps and how it influences the lighting computations...
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Shader Tutorial: Subsurface Scattering
- the article explains how to create a shader in Unity that gives an object a subsurface scattering ...
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Compute Shader thread index to 2D coordinate
- the blog post explains how to convert a one-dimension threadIndex from compute shader into a 2D co...
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[video] Sand Shader - Advanced Materials - Episode 14
- the video tutorial shows how to adjust Unity and Unreal Shading models to be more fitting for Sand...
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WebGL / WebGPU Jan 2023 meetup highlights
- the article presents a summary of what was discussed at the WebGL / WebGPU meetup
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The Energy Distance as a Replacement for the Reconstruction Loss in Conditional GANs
- the paper presents an alternative way to deal with the instability of generative adversarial netwo...
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PS2 Vector Unit Lighting on Shadowman2
- the article presents a look back at the Shadowman game implementation for the PS2
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Teardown Frame Teardown - Rendering analysis
- the article presents a rendering analysis of the game Teardown
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Accelerated Photon Mapping for Hardware-based Ray Tracing
- the paper presents how to take advantage of ray tracing hardware for progressive photon mapper
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Bringing Nanite to Fortnite Battle Royale in Chapter 4
- the article explains updates required for Chapter 4 of Battle Royale
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Introducing Compressonator v4.3
- the new release introduces support for the Brotli
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[video] Image-based Lighting (IBL) of PBR Materials [Shaders Monthly #11]
- the video presents how to implement image-based lighting of the Cook
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Infinite Quadtrees – Fractal Coordinates
- the article introduces the idea of expression quadtrees in terms of a collection of square grids
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Lumen brings real-time global illumination to Fortnite Battle Royale Chapter 4
- the blog post describes what changes were required to make Lumen work in 60 FPS mode for the new s...
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Virtual Shadow Maps in Fortnite Battle Royale Chapter 4
- the article explains the issue that needed to be solved for Virtual Shadow Maps at 60fps
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[video] SIGGRAPH 2022 - Advances in Spatial Hashing
- the video explains how Spatial hashing applies to storing sparse spatial data
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Fast, Near Lossless ‘Compression’ of Normal Floats
- the article explains a method to compress 32-bit floats into 24
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High-Performance Graphics 2023 - Call for Participation
- the High-Performance Graphics 2023 conference is open for submissions
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Announcing GFXReconstruct (v0.9.17) with DirectX®12 and DirectX® Raytracing support
- the article announces that the GFXReconstruct now supports D3D12 (previously was Vulkan only)
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[video] Midpoint Displacement // Terrain Rendering episode 3
- the video explains a second technique to generate terrains taken from the Focus on 3D Terrain Prog...
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Rotation with three shears
- the article shows how to rotate a 2D sprite using 3 shear operations
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AMD RDNA™ 3 Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) reference guide is now available
- the new AMD hardware guide for RDNA3 has been released
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Approximate projected bounds
- the article shows techniques implement conservative techniques to project bounding boxes and spher...
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Use.GPU Goes Trad
- the article describes how the Use.GPU level of abstraction is continuing to evolve
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Tangent Spaces and Diamond Encoding
- the article provides an overview of Tangen Space Encodings
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Optimize Your Graphics with RenderDoc Meta Fork
- the article presents the Meta Quest exclusive features of the RenderDoc fork
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An Introduction to Vulkan: A Full Day Tutorial
- during the Vulkanised 2023 conference in Munich, a full
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Water Wave Simulation
- the article aims to develop an intuition for FFT (Fast Fourier Transform) and how it's underlying ...
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Random thoughts after moving from GLSL to HLSL
- the author describes the personal experience with GLSL and HLSL gained through moving AnKi 3D betw...
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Min/Max Buffer Precision Improvement
- the blog post explains how to improve the precision when encoding min
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How to accelerate AI applications on RDNA 3 using WMMA
- the article covers how Wave Matrix Multiply Accumulate (WMMA)
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Practical Tips for Optimizing Ray Tracing
- the article provides techniques to speedup raytracing workloads
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Let’s talk about (GPU) crashes
- the article presents a discussion of different sources of GPU hangs
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[pptx] Deep Dive into FidelityFX Super Resolution 2
- the presentation contains a step-by-step walkthrough of the FSR implementation
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Updates in d3dx12.h: Nuget Packaging, Header Bloat Reduction, and D3DX12GetCopyableFo...
- a new version of the D3D Agility SDK has been released
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[video] Fault Formation // Terrain Rendering episode 2
- the video shows how to implement a Fault Formation algorithm for a procedural terrain using OpenGL...
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[video] niagara: Culling optimization
- another part of the Vulkan series that implement GPU culling
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Experimenting with fp16, part 2
- the blog post continues the discussion of the effects of using 16
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Requiem for piet-gpu-hal
- the article discusses the reasoning why Vello (a GPU compute
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Experimenting with fp16 in shaders
- The article discusses the use of 16-bit floating point numbers (fp16) in shaders
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Improving color quantization heuristics
- the article discusses techniques for improving color quantization algorithms
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Implement MacOS Monterey screen saver in shadertoy(less than 100 lines of code)
- the tutorial shows how to implement an effect that recreates the color and wave pattern of the scr...
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Screen-space Variable Rate Shading in Unity with DirectX 12.
- The article discusses screen-space variable rate shading (VRS), a technique that can improve perfo...
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Column Major and Row Major Vectors and Matrices (for games)
- the article explains the difference between row-major and column
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[video] Hexagonal Tiling Explained!
- The video explains how to create a hexagon using SDFs in shadertoy
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Unity Mobile Game Performance Optimization: Balance between Graphics Performance and ...
- the article discusses strategies for optimizing the performance of mobile games in Unity
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Two-Pass Occlusion Culling
- the blog posts describes how Hierarchical Z-Buffer (HZB) Occlusion Culling uses a depth buffer to ...
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Ghost of Tsushima SIGGRAPH Talks
- summary of two Siggraph talks by the author covering Ghost of Tsushima
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Some News About the 4th Edition of Physically Based Rendering
- the post announces that the new edition of PBR will be released on March 28, 2023
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[video] niagara: Triangle culling
- the stream covers the implementation and exploration of triangle culling into a GPU culling pipeli...
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Path tracing workshop
- Intel released a Path tracing workshop of 76 minutes of videos and ShaderToy exercises
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[video] Coding a Bezier curve from scratch!
- the video presents how to implement Bezier Interpolation
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Introduction of the Raytracing Technology Part 2
- the article continues the series by covering an overview of raytracing techniques
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Meshlet sizing theory
- the article presents metrics to calculate to judge the optimal size for meshlets
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[video] Compute Shaders in Bevy
- the video presents how to integrate a compute shader into the Rust
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Stream compaction using wave intrinsics
- the article presents how to use wave intrinsics to reduce the number of atomic operations required...
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Introducing AMD Render Pipeline Shaders SDK
- This article provides an overview of the Render Pipeline SDK design and implementation
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Introduction of the Raytracing Technology Part 1
- the article provides an overview and history of raytracing
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[video] Heightmaps // Terrain Rendering episode 1
- the video is the start of a new video series to render a height map using OpenGL
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[video] World Normal Mix Shader in Godot
- the video tutorial shows how to implement a shader in Godot that mixes two textures into a single ...
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[video] CUDA 12 New Features and Beyond
- the video discusses new features in Cuda 12 and a look at future developemnts
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GM Shaders Mini: Fluids
- the article presents a technique to improve the look of a particle based fluid system
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Bringing Nvidia® and AMD support to oneAPI
- the article explains how the oneAPI API can be used to target intel, nvidia and AMD GPUs
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Resolving Long Standing Issues with Vulkan Windowing System Integration (WSI)
- the blog post explains two new extensions that have been added to Vulkan to improve interaction wi...
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Understanding The Math Behind ReStir DI
- the in-depth article explains the mathematics behind the original ReStir and an in
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UE5.1 - New shading models and changing the GBuffer
- the article presents how to integrate a custom toon shading model into UE5.1
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[video] Live Coding: 3d Truchet Weave
- the video presents a walkthrough of how to replicate a Truchet Weave pattern using ShaderToy
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Fast CDF generation on the GPU for light picking
- the blog post explains how to build a cumulative distribution function (CDF) to accelerate the sam...
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[video] The Continuity of Splines
- the detailed video explains splines and concepts derived/extended from these
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[video] Shader Code and Maths to Node Graphs
- the presentation focuses on how to approach the implementation of abstract code/math expressions t...
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ECCV 2022 Tutorial - Neural Volumetric Rendering for Computer Vision
- slides and videos for the Neural Volumetric Rendering for Computer Vision have been released
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Behind the Pretty Frames: Death Stranding
- the article provides a detailed look into a frame breakdown from the Decima engine
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MIPNet: Neural Normal-to-Anisotropic-Roughness MIP Mapping
- the paper presents a new method to calculate texture MIP maps that preserves compatibility with ex...
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[video] How Big Budget AAA Games Render Clouds
- the video provides a summary of the cloud rendering techniques covered in Horizon: Zero Dawn and t...
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Studying 'Spectral Primary Decomposition'
- the article continues the series on spectral rendering
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[video] I Made a Game Entirely Within a Shader (almost) | Game Dev Challenge
- the video presents how the author developed a pong game using only a pixel shader in Unity
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[video] How I Made The World with SINE
- the video focuses on the definition of a procedural terrain from a vertex shader
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[video] [Episode 23] From Local to World Space (Model Matrix Transformation)
- the video is the latest part of an OpenGL learning series that focuses on the explanation of verte...
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Shaders Explained: Dithering
- the article explains how two implements two different types of dithering in metal shaders
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[video] Why Did Link's Cel Shading Disappear?
- the video does a deep dive into deferred shading techniques to explain why a graphical artifact in...
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Announcing ComputeSharp 2.0 — run C# on the GPU with ease through DirectX 12 and D2D1...
- the article presents the library that allows C# code to be executed via HLSL, D2D1, XAML, and more...
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How to make Sage's ice wall ability from Valorant
- the tutorial explains how to create an ice wall VFX inspired from the game Valorant in Godot
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Technically Art: Issue 135 (25.11.2022)
- contains a collection of tweets covering procedural texturing with MaterialX, shader VFX examples
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[video] Car Paint Shader - Advanced Materials - Episode 9
- the video tutorial presents several techniques for creating a car paint shader
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Shader Reflection using the DirectX Shader Compiler
- the article presents how to use the DXC library to compile and gather information from compiled D3...
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Brotli-G: An open-source compression/decompression standard for digital assets that i...
- AMD introduces a GPU-compatible implementation of the Brotli lossless compression algorithm
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Introduction of the ASTC Texture Compression
- the article provides an overview of the different ASTC Texture Compression formats available
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[video] But what is a convolution?
- the video provides a great visual explanation of convolution filters
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Spherical Elevation Adjusting Arbitrary Normals
- the article explains how to offset normals along spheres so that displacement doesn't cause self
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Radeon™ Raytracing Analyzer source code available + meet amdrdf
- the AMD Radeon Raytracing Analyzer has been open-sourced
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Agility SDK 1.608.0: Enhanced Barriers and more
- new agility SDK release contains Enhanced Barriers (no longer in preview SDK, removing the need fo...
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VK_EXT_descriptor_buffer
- new Vulkan proposal outlines improvements to the managem
