Graphics Programming weekly - Issue 60 — October 28, 2018


Mipmapping with Bidirectional Techniques

  • brief overview about what mips are and how to calculate mip selection in a rasterizer
  • explains ray differentials, a technique that can be used for mip selecttion on primary rays
  • discussion of problems with ray differentials on other ray types, possible solutions and look at what other production renderers use
  • solution using a distance to camera metric and presenting the results by comparing against other techniques


Entity-Component-Systems and Rendering

  • explains the plugin architecture that enables efficient implementation of high-level graphical features
  • how to interact with the scene, culling, scheduling, and GPU execution


DXC Cookbook: HLSL Coding Patterns for SPIR-V

  • SPIR-V shaders can only access global resources
  • HLSL is very flexible with resource usage
  • this post shows what usage pattern DXC is able to transform into legal SPIR-V and what patterns cannot be expressed in SPIR-V


River Editor: Water Simulation in Real-Time

  • walkthrough of the development of real-time GPU based water simulation
  • discusses simulation experiments and algorithms used
  • a brief look at the lighting of the water


Video Series: Practical Real-Time Ray Tracing With RTX

  • post that provides links to talks with summaries about ray tracing on Nvidia RTX hardware
  • difference between rasterization and ray tracing
  • the structure of a real-time ray-tracing application and the components required
  • how to extend the raster-based application with ray-tracing


Turing Texture Space Shading

  • overview of texture space shading
  • technique decouples shading from rasterization rate
  • Turing hardware provides support for computing derivatives in compute shaders and exposes texels that need to be shaded
  • linked video explains the implementation of a texel space shading pipeline


MinLod: A Cheap&Simple Method to Increase Texture Details at Acute Angles

  • look at how to adjust mip selection to favor noise over more detail at acute angels


Visualizing quaternions - An explorable video series

  • visual and interactive explanation of quaternions and stereographic projection


niagara: Parsing SPIRV

  • usage of descriptor update templates
  • SPIRV parser implementation


niagara: Meshlet culling

  • cone culling in task shaders
  • two implementations, one using shared memory atomics and one with other subgroup operations


HLSL - Spherical-Harmonics

  • collection of HLSL functions to use spherical harmonics
  • Mathematica notebook to verify and visualize SH functions


SIGGRAPH 2018 Course: Machine Learning and Rendering

  • all content from the SIGGRAPH 2018 course has been published


D3d12info

  • console tool to get collect capabilities information from DXGI and Direct3D 12


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