Graphics Programming weekly - Issue 296 - July 16th, 2023


Raytraced order independent transparency

  • the articles continues the exploration into order independent transparency techniques
  • presents the performance and quality of a solution that uses ray tracing
  • discusses advantages, disadvantages and how it compares to other solutions


[video] The Art of Linear Programming

  • the video tutorial provides a visual introduction into linear programming
  • explains how to represent problems in a geometric fashion and then presents how to use the simplex method to solve it
  • additionally presents how to solve linear problems using the pulp python package


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Marching Cubes, Explained Using Marching Squares

  • the articles aims to provide an intuitive understanding of the marching cubes algorithmn
  • starts by explaining how to render a circle on a pixel grid
  • generalizing this method to marching square (the 2D equivalent) and expands it into 3D


[video] It Takes Two, lava lamps, Raymarching in Godot 4.1

  • the video describes how to use raymarching to draw a lava lamp effect
  • shows how to represent spheres using SDFs and combine multiple shapes
  • implementation is done using Godot


High Performance Graphics 2023 papers on the web

  • collections of papers from the High Performance Graphics 2023 conference
  • contains the PDFs and where available also the video recordings
  • covers topics such as Acceleration Structures, Primitives, Surfaces & Appearance Modeling, Deep Learning for Graphics, Distributed & Cloud-Based Rendering as well as GPU Mesh Computing


The AMD FidelityFX™ SDK 1.0 is now available on GPUOpen

  • AMD has released FidelityFX SDK that was announced during GDC 2023
  • the SDK provides a unified interface that aims to reduce the overhead of integrating AMD provides techniques into applications
  • added new Blur, depth of field and lens effects
  • additionally updated existing techniques for the new SDK and introduced improvements


Jobs

Graphics Programmer

Remote Working (UK Based or Relocation)

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Eurographics Symposium on Rendering 2023 papers on the web

  • collections of papers from the Eurographics Symposium on Rendering 2023 conference
  • covers topics in Ray Tracing, Neural Rendering, Spectral, NeRF, Materials, Scatter as well as Patterns & Shadows


In-Game GPU Profiling for DirectX 12 Using SetBackgroundProcessingMode

  • the blog post presents how to use available D3D12 APIs to create stable applications for profiling purposes
  • shows that SetStablePowerState is only one part of the solution
  • the second part SetBackgroundProcessingMode and shows how it allows drivers to communicate back to the application to allow stable performance results


Tile-based Lightweight Integer Compression in GPU

  • the paper introduces a tile-based decompression scheme aimed to allow data queries to operate in a single pass
  • provides an overview of compression schemes
  • shows how to combine delta decoding step and bit unpacking step into a single pass


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