- the article presents a very detailed look at temporal anti-aliasing
- shows each component of the technique visually and explains how it solves the problem
- provides alternative solutions and presents a link to the sources of the technique
- the article provides a high-level learning guide for getting started with D3D12
- providing a starting point for getting started quickly as well as detailed learning articles
- contains sources for performance advice from the different manufacturers
- additionally contains information where to find the official D3D12 specification to clarify uncertainties
- the article presents a high-level view of the graphics programming world
- shows that the specialization has separated into multiple distinct sub-categories
- presents resources for getting started in the different specializations
- the article presents the characteristics of IGN(Interleaved Gradient Noise) that make it a good fit for TAA (Temporal Antialiasing Techniques)
- compares against Bayer, white and blue noise
- showing visual explanations to show the Low Discrepancy properties
- the article presents the findings of the importance of directionality and occlusion for IBL(Image-based lighting)
- presents comparisons between ray-tracing ground truth, as well as various versions of screen space GTAO( Ground Truth Ambient Occlusion)
- shows how to bake the directional aspect into Spherical harmonics
- additionally contains a follow-up post about the technical implementation details
- the article presents a look back at the emergence of the term uber shader
- showing how a single shader that supported a flexible BRDF evaluation instead of pre-defined categories
- the comments contain an insightful discussion about the further historical developments of the term
- the article compares different techniques to generate blue noise
- presents the quality of the generated noise
- providing ideas for future development
- the article provides a history of game consoles in the First Generation 1972 to modern-day consoles
- presents what new hardware was added with each generation and how constraints and programming environment evolved
- the article presents branching on GPUs, clearing up that the cost of a branch depends on the kind
- shows shader code helpers that allow the visualization of the branching patterns
- additionally presents that extra care is required if branching around texture reads
- the blog discusses dependent texture reads and the impact on GPU performance
- shows why it affects performance and discusses tradeoffs to consider
- the paper presents a look at the half/single/double and quad precision for floating-point calculations
- provides an analysis of different linear algebra tasks to derive precision
- suggesting which types of tasks might be more suitable to reduced precision
- one-minute long video shows the impostors used for far away vegetation in Zelda Breath of the Wild
- the article shows how custom shader effects can be integrated into the UE4 pipeline
- presents a method that doesn’t require engine modification but uses undocumented private classes
- talk discusses the available memory types in D3D12/Vulkan
- discussing ways to upload data to the GPU, including the new hardware Smart Access Memory (Resizable BAR)
- shows performance advice for usage patterns for the different memory types to achieve optimal performance
- the article provides a collection of advice to help with debugging GPU issues
- broken down into sub-categories based on the appearance of the bug
- additionally contains a list of helpful debug infrastructure elements that should be set up to accelerate the process
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