- the video provides a walkthrough of ray tracing fundamentals
- explaining the required concepts, such as BRDF and energy preservation, to understand the rendering equation
- discusses patterns that cause raytracing techniques to require a large number of calculations
- explains what the ReSTIR technique is and how it allows a significant reduction in the calculations required by taking advantage of spatial and temporal reuse
- the paper introduces a progressive technique to cache material evaluations at runtime
- presents the implementation details of updating a fixed-size hash table on the GPU
- additionally shows the performance of the method and presents the effect of different cache sizes
- the article discusses recent AlphaTensor’s discovery on matrix multiplication
- explains what the algorithm applies to and how it compares to existing techniques
- clarifies the performance results reported in articles
- the Twitter thread summarises the real-time distance field generator used by AMD research work
- can maintain the scene representation in < 0.5 ms each frame
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- the paper presents a method to extend a mesh BVH with additional data so that it can be shared between multiple LODs
- presents how to store the fused BVHs
- shows performance and memory impact of using a different number of LODs
- the paper presents a method that combines distance field tracing with hardware ray tracing
- distance field generation is described in the “Real-time distance field builder Twitter thread” above
- describes when to choose between hardware ray tracing and where to fall back to distance field
- a collection of Twitter posts about a large variety of tech artist topics
- breakdowns of techniques, tree animation breakdowns, and a showcase of effects
- the article presents an overview of ongoing Nanite developments the developer noticed in the UE5.1 preview
- appears to start adding support for programmable pixel shader evaluation to allow masked materials
- additionally, initial support for vertex modifications and existing culling limitations
- the blog post discusses a numerical method for fluid flow to simulate wind flow over terrain
- discusses the underlying theory and how to mathematically express the simulation
- shows how to implement the method using compute shaders in OpenGL
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