Kernel Foveated Rendering

• implements foveated rendering through usage of log-polar transformation
• gbuffer is written as normal, attributes transformed into sub-resolution textures using a log-polar transformation
• shading is done in log-polar space before the results are transformed back into Cartesian space
  

Checkerboard rendering, rotated anti-aliasing and grid frequencies

• Intro to sampling theory and how different sampling patterns influence the aliasing that can be observed
• explanation of why the default D3D11 MSAA has been chosen
  

My take on shaders: Spherical mask dissolve

• description of a shader effect that dissolves triangles outside of a spherical effect range
  

Game Math: Swing-Twist Interpolation (…Sterp?)

• slerp between two orientations takes the shortest path on a 4D hypersphere
• author wants the shortest arc in 3D instead
• decomposes rotation into swing and twist operations
• these are interpolated independently and concatenated to form the final rotation
  

A Multi-Faceted Exploration (Part 1)

• start of series that will look at lack of multi scattering in common analytical BSDFs and solution
• only modelling single scattering causes significant energy loss on rough surfaces
• post shows visual example that up to 60% of energy can be lost
  

Multiple-Scattering BRDF

• derivation of the multi-scattering GGX BRDF
• provides source code and precomputed lookup tables

Stripping scriptable shader variants

• explains what shader variations are
• how to compute the amount of variations created for a shader
• how unity decides what variations to include
• Unity 2018.2 beta adds the possibility to control shader variation compilation from a C# script
  

Compressonator V3.0 Release Brings Powerful New 3D Model Features

• new image diff option allows visualization of pixel difference between compressed / uncompressed textures
• adds model optimizations (vertex cache, overdraw, vertex prefetch optimizations)
• draco compression support
  

Simple and efficient Vulkan loading with flextGL

• tool that allows to only include vulkan functionality that you need
• comparison of header sizes and influence on compile time, startup time
  

Normals and the Inverse Transpose, Part 2: Dual Spaces

• introduction into vectors as functions and dual space
• how to transform dual vectors

Writing a Portable CPU/GPU Ray Tracer in C#

• uses ShaderGen to write shaders in C# and compile them into the target shader language for D3D11, Metal, OpenGL and vulkan

Introducing Shader Playground

• website that allows compilation of shaders with a multitude of shader compilers and inspect the available outputs
• possibility to chain compilers together
  

Vulkan Debug Utilities

• tutorial how to use the VK_EXT_debug_utils extensions
• combines old debug extensions into a unified one and adds more possibilities
• allows more details to be reported from the validation layer and tools that support the extension
  

GPU-Centered Font Rendering Directly from Glyph Outlines

• technical details about the font rendering algorithm used in slug
  

Game Math: Deriving the Slerp Formula

• presents one method to derive the slerp formula for quaternions
  

Programmability of Graphics Pipelines

• discusses issues with composability, how complexity poses a problem of sharing research results
• list of frameworks for research
• how the scriptable render pipeline of unity allows more flexibility and still hides most of the complexity
  

Texture Arrays in Unity

• discusses problems with using a texture atlas
• set of scripts to help with the creation, management and usage of texture arrays in unity
  

Alpha Distribution

• technique that helps to reduce problems of disappearing geometry for alpha tested geometry
• no runtime changes required, only changes the way mips are generated