- the paper presents comprehensive coverage of BVH hierarchies, especially focused on ray tracing
- provides an overview of the basics, compare many state of the art algorithms for construction and traversal
- provides a comprehensive overview of existing hardware and frameworks
- additionally presents the most common techniques and recommendations for the different algorithms to be used
- the video tutorial presents how to render and animate a newton’s cradle with SDFs
- implementation is done using shader toy
- the article presents the difference between ddx/y ddx/y_fine
- presents the history of these instructions in HLSL and how different hardware/API behaves
- shows example use cases on how fine and coarse rasterization affect seamless sphere mapping
- additionally presents how fine derivatives can be used for quad-level communication
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- Vulkan API now exposes video support
- extended the concept of the queue to support decode/encode queues with different extensions for several codecs
- the article presents a walkthrough of the API through the usage of an encoder example
- the article presents an overview of why filtering for pixel art at non-integer values is vital to prevent artifacts
- provides an overview of numerous filters and links to resources
- additionally provides a demo application to compare the different filters
- the paper presents a machine learning-based approach that uses differential rendering to approximate several simplifications effects simultaneously
- presents a model that can jointly optimize over shape, appearance, and animation parameters
- the article provides an overview of shader assembly reading
- focuses on GCN instructions
- provides a brief overview of the hardware, the different operations, and how small changes can make significant differences in generated code
- the article presents two common approaches to fullscreen passes
- using PIX shows why using a single large triangle is more efficient and describes why this is the case
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