Turing Variable Rate Shading in VRWorks

• 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

Turing Multi-View Rendering in VRWorks

• explains the recent developments in VR headsets and how Turing offers new hardware solutions
• extensions that allow rendering up to 4 different views, with view-dependent attributes using a single invocation

Spherical Gaussian Encoding

• a new encoding method for Spherical Gaussians that improves quality from previous encoding methods

Interior Mapping: rendering real rooms without geometry

• presents a high-level overview of how to implement interior mapping
• comments have much information about the timeline of games that used similar techniques

Efficient Instancing in a Streaming Scenario

• discusses a technique to generate instanced geometry procedurally on the GPU using OpenGL compute shaders
• aimed at filling vast streaming worlds that are broken down into tiles

niagara: Building a Vulkan renderer from scratch*

• new stream coding series about the creation of a Vulkan renderer from scratch
• the first two episodes implement rendering of a single triangle on screen

Adaptive GPU Tessellation with Compute Shaders

• pre-print of an article that will appear in GPU Zen 2
• implements adaptive tessellation using OpenGL 4.5 compute shaders
• source code: https://github.com/jadkhoury/TessellationDemo

Claybook, raw->typed buffer performance analysis numbers

• Twitter thread discussing Raw vs. Typed buffer performance on Claybook
• suggest using raw buffers if supported

CUDA 10 Features Revealed: Turing, CUDA Graphs and More

• overview of new features included in CUDA 10
• Multi-Precision Tensor Cores are exposed on Turing
• CUDA Graphs allow the specification and recording of an execution graph that can be executed multiple times, this reduces overhead and allows the compiler to apply further optimizations
• interoperability with Vulkan and D3D12 is supported

Voronoi Noise

• explains how to generate 2D and 3D noise in a Unity shader

Metal Raytracer - Implementing diffuse BRDF

• extends the Metal raytracer with obj model loading
• a simple diffuse BRDF implementation, including frame accumulation and shadows
• provides a Mitsuba test scene

Mesh Shader Possibilities

• walkthrough of the geometry pipeline on current GPU architectures and how mesh shaders fit into it
• description of an upgrade path to mesh shaders
• look at possibilities of future use cases

The Peak-Performance-Percentage Analysis Method for Optimizing Any GPU Workload

• updated post now includes SM warp-issue-stall metrics
• previously discussed in issue-26

readings on the state of the art in rendering

• summary of resources for graphics programmers to study and keep up-to-date with the graphics programming community

Custom Pipeline Taking Control of Rendering

• a tutorial that shows how to implement a custom rendering pipeline in Unity
• implements skybox rendering, culling filtering, sorting and rendering of unlit objects
• how to improve memory usage and better integration with the Unity frame debugger

SIGGRAPH 2018 Tech Talk Videos Now Available!

• Unreal released the tech talks from SIGGRAPH 2018
• Virtual Production in Unreal Engine 4.20, Mixed Reality Production with Unreal Engine, Fortnite: Advancing the Animation Pipeline, Real-Time Motion Capture in Unreal Engine