Filament - Physically-based rendering engine

• 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 and implementations for directional, point and spotlights
• providing GLSL code snippets
• a short overview of the clustered forward shading implementation
• information about how to validate a PBR implementation

An implementation of physically based shading model & image based lighting in various graphics APIs

• physically based shading model implemented using D3D11, D3D12, Vulkan and OpenGL 4.5
• each backend is implemented in a single .h and .cpp file

Generating random points in a sphere

• shows algorithms for generating random points within a sphere
• contains interactive visualizations that make it easy to see the quality of the distribution
  

Flowmapped-Burn-Shader

• breakdown of a burning shader implemented in Unreal Engine
• uses flow maps and world space positioned spheres to influence the fire

Non-Scary Shader Intro 2: Vertex Fun

• part two of the series providing an introduction to vertex shaders
• shows how to add a custom vertex shader to a basic unity shader, sample textures, pass data from vertex to pixel shader and modify vertex positions
  

Explanation of the paper 'View-warped Multi-view Soft Shadows for Local Area Lights'

• summary of the paper: “View-warped Multi-view Soft Shadows for Local Area Lights ” discussed in last weeks issue
• a real-time technique for soft shadows
  

Optimize Memory Transfers - Using CUDA profiler to figure out why our renderer is slow

• shows how to measure Cuda copy performance using the tools contained in the SDK
• how to speed up the application with the collected performance information
  

Aligning 3D scans

• the article discusses how to calculate the central axis from a 3D mesh
• the axis is computed as maximal perpendicular to the area-weighted surface normal of the mesh
  

Vulkan - Multisampling

• explains how to use MSAA when using Vulkan
• how to detect the supported sample count, set up the render targets and make the necessary adjustments to the render passes
• shows how to enable sample shading to further improve quality on the inside of polygons

Twitter - Volume rendering thread

• twitter thread that provides a large number of links to information about volume rendering
  

Vulkan® 1.1.82 - Chunked Specification

• provides the Vulkan specification in a chunked version
• the original specification is one large HTML file that causes usability issues

Decoding Radeon Vulkan versions

• AMD provides a XML file that offers the possibility to map from external driver version to the contained Vulkan driver version

Xenko 3.0 is now free and open-source!

• Xenko, a C# based game engine has been released as open source with an MIT license
  

Compilation of 100+ 3D graphics academic papers

• collection of many 3D graphics research papers for a large number of different topics (sorted by topic)
  

Think Silicon® releases GLOVE™, an OpenGL ES over Vulkan middleware as open source

• OpenGL ES implementation using Vulkan
• licensed as LGPL v3