- presents a method that decouples geometry samples from shading samples
- explains the difference of human vision between the ability to detect edge aliasing and internal aliasing and why geometric frequency is required to be higher
- explains performance implication of triangle sizes and MSAA
- shows how TAA, MSAA, and Decoupled Visibility Multisampling (DMV) compare in performance and quality
- the article presents a refresher on the concept of slope
- shows that slope space is a representation for unit vectors in the upper
- presents the properties of slope space, what advantages it has
- additionally discusses how slope space is used in normal distribution functions (NDF)
- the article explains how the destruction system was implemented
- based around a world map damage textures that contain a mask to mark destroyed areas
- this mask is then sampled during a geometry to cull and transform geometry to represent the destruction
- the article presents a natural SDF based detail mapping / Fractal Noise displacement mapping
- technique presented uses spheres of varying radius to represent a varying level of octaves to represent the details
- presents how to combine the different layers and suggests alternative possibilities
- additionally presents a video that shows a clear visualization of the different layers being combined
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- collection of tweets about technical art
- covering particles, stylized shading, portfolios, and game breakdowns
- the article explains how a visibility buffer approach is used
- presents how the shading pass has been implemented (Frostbite BRDF, tangent frames, …)
- covers area light implementation using Linearly transformed cosines and compares different representation and discuss the tradeoffs
- additionally covers different noise types and the effect on denoising
- the first part of the series discusses where mobile GPUs are used
- presents how the hardware design is setup
- shows how power usage and thermal efficiency budgets are influencing all systems on a chip
- pre-release chapter from ray tracing gems 2
- presents weighted reservoir sampling, a technique for the efficient sampling stochastic data
- shows how optimized variants of algorithms exist to sample with different properties, weighting behaviors, or duplicate output behavior
- the source code for the technique has been published on Github
- also contains a sample implementation of how it can be integrated
- the technique only relies on color buffer information for the upsampling pass
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