[video] two minute papers - This is Geometry Processing Made Easy

• a brief summary video of the “Monte Carlo Geometry Processing: A Grid-Free Approach to PDE-Based Methods on Volumetric Domains” paper
• presents how this paper connects to light transport and …

Get to know Metal function pointers

• the Metal shader API now supports function pointers
• the talk provides an overview of the compilation models and performance considerations
• function tables can be passed via argument buffers t the GPU

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Rendering Layered Materials with Anisotropic Interfaces

• a lightweight and efficient method to render layered materials with anisotropic interfaces
• based around GGX BRDF lobes approximations when aligned with the tangent frame

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Followup tidbits on RGBE

• the author presents considerations for designing conversations explained with the example of RGBE encoding
• discusses quantization, round trip error, and precision maximization

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Work-Efficiency vs. Step-Efficiency

• the article discusses how to classify GPGPU work into the critical sequential work and the total amount of work done across all workers
• presents how this division is useful to talk and understand the performance of algorithms

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Casual Shadertoy Path Tracing 1: Basic Camera, Diffuse, Emissive

• A tutorial that shows a practical walkthrough on how to implement a path tracer in shadertoy
• focuses on the generation of renderings instead of physical correctness

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Rendered #1

• A new newsletter with news and insight on volumetric filmmaking, virtual production, 3D rendering, and other emerging realities

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Spatiotemporal reservoir resampling for real-time ray tracing with dynamic direct lighting

• the paper presents a new technique that allows a massive number of dynamic lights to be rendered in real-time
• the presented implementation shows 3.4 million dynamic, emissive tr…

Ray Tracing Essentials Part 7: Denoising for Ray Tracing

• the final part of raytracing series
• presents what denoising techniques are and why they are required
• presents a comparison in multiple scenes, explaining how neural network technique is trained

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Real-time Shadows

• the presentation provides an in-depth overview of shadow techniques for real-time applications
• discusses what shadow maps are, how they are rendered, stored and used
• provides an overview of common problems and solutions
• additionally provides an overv…