• explains what variable rate shading is and what use cases it enables
• a control texture allows varying of the shading rate on a 16x16 pixel grid

• new shader stages on Turing that allows the generation of primitives for direct consumption by the rasterizer
• task shader: emits mesh shader workgroups
  • allows work on larger clusters, the selection of mesh resolution, …
• mesh shader…

I am going to be on vacation for the next two weeks so this series will take a small break and will return on September 24th.

• presents a filtering approach for a pixel art style in a 3D environ…

• video for the talk that was discussed in issue 42
• an in-depth overview of color, color spaces, and color transformations
• discussion of HDR standards
• ACES pipeline overview
• implementation of HDR pipeline covering:
  • tone …

• slides for the layered real-time shading model discussed in issue 38
• using a statistical analysis of light transport in layered structures
• a visual explanation of the statistical analysis framework
• presentation of results, comp…

• using ideas from imperfect shadow map point-cloud rendering to implement reflections
• generates a point cloud around the track
• screen space pixels that are close to points of the point cloud tr…

• great in-depth discussion of the full PBR rendering pipeline, documentation for the Filament engine
• base BRDF model, extended with support for clear coat layer, anisotropic surfaces, and cloth
• explanation of lighting units …

• explanation of frame stuttering
• provides videos and frame by frame comparisons of what is causing the stutter
• explains how the discrepancy between measured time and actual present time causes the studdering issue
• current state of graphics API e…

• the history behind the release of the Disney datasets of large-scale scenes
• comparison of the scene rendered using Disney’s renderer and PBRT 3

• explanation of partial derivates in pixels shader, (ddx, ddy in HLSL or dFdx, dFdy in OpenGL)
• the rate of change for variables in a 2x2 pixel grid
• how they are calculated, how they can be used to calculate face normals fro…