- the presentation covers an overview of many rendering techniques used in Path of Exile
- these techniques cover a large number of topics, such as flow fields, decals, subsurface raymarching, bent-normal shadows, waves, and much more
- additionally presents details about a hierarchical probe system for GI that uses multiple hierarchical levels to approximate GI information with bounded cost
- the paper discusses the Shadow Techniques used by Final Fantasy XVI
- presents the Tiled Deferred Shadow implementation, performance, and quality results
- the paper discusses how the Oriented Depth Bias technique can be used to replace the traditional Hardware Depth Bias
- additionally, it presents debug visualization techniques
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- the first part of a 3 part series that discusses occluding contour rendering
- first part discusses the issues
- the second part presents methods to efficiently generate smooth, sensible occluding contours from a triangle mesh
- and the final part presents suggestions on what techniques to use for which problems and an overview of open research problems
- the article presents a discussion of functions calls in shaders
- covering issues with having and not having function calls
- discusses how CUDA and ISPC support functions pointers, but GLSL doesn’t
- presenting the costs associated and possible solutions
- the blog post provides an overview of leadership topics aimed at new graphics leads
- lists lessons learned and advice separated by categories
- covering Hiring, Day to Day actions, Performance Reviews, Advocacy as well as Self-Care
- The paper proposes an adaptive sampling technique for efficient Monte Carlo rendering with deep-learning-based denoising
- The suggested method estimates the variance of neural network outputs with random inputs to drive adaptive sampling methods
- When combined with denoising post-correction, it significantly accelerates error convergence during rendering
- the blog post presents the rendering equation and derives the meaning by following the physical units used
- explains differences and relationships between the different units
- the blog post presents the idea of using decals to drive where post-processing and object-level effects
- discusses considerations when applying the decals and how to combine them with other effects
- presents how to use the technique for post-processing shaders and object-level vertex-displacement and alpha effects
- the blog post presents the announcement of the formation of an organization for fostering the standardization, development, and evolution of USD to OpenUSD
- the article has been updated with improvements
- covers efficient, conservative projected bounds for spheres as well as AABB
- presents the implementation and discusses the performance of the presented techniques
- Nvidia presents the best practices for asynchronous compute queue work scheduling
- mentions how expensive workloads need to be to see an advantage
- additionally mentions patterns that should be avoided
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