Graphics Programming weekly - Issue 170 — February 14, 2021


Real-Time Physically Based Rendering and BRDFs

  • the blog posts provides a walkthrough of the Cook-Torrance shading model
  • starts with the Lambert shading model and then presents step-by-step how to arrive at the final model
  • shows results at each step with source code provided


Using Radeon™ GPU Analyzer v2.4.1 with DirectX® Raytracing

  • the Radeon GPU Analyzer now supports DXR shader disassembly, live VGPR analysis as well as control-flow graph analysis
  • shows what of the two compilation models (fully inline vs. Indirect ) has been chosen by the runtime
  • also provides the disassembly for the driver generated acceleration structure traversal


Visual Exploration Of Light Transport In Path Tracing

  • master thesis that covers a tool for interactive exploration of all contributing paths from a path tracer
  • including a heatmap visualization and area filters
  • show how to use the proposed visualization to help in debugging scenarios


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RDO texture encoding notes

  • the author provides a list of lessons learned and advice that should be considered when working on rate-distortion optimization algorithms


Unity SDF Generator – Part 2

  • second particle in articles series about SDF (signed distance field) generation with Unity
  • this part presents how to visualize an SDF using a pixel shader


[video] Generate a Mesh Asset Using Compute Shaders in the Unity Editor!

  • the Unity tutorial explains how to generate meshes from a compute shader
  • in the process, it explains the fundamentals of compute shaders and read back data from the GPU


Linear Interpolation

  • the article provides a geometric interpretation of linear interpolation, range mapping, and how it relates to Bézier curves
  • provides links towards articles with further information on why lerp for colors and rotations doesn’t always work as expected


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