- vulkan extension that allows progress markers to be inserted into the Vulkan command stream
- these can be used to detect the range of draw commands that have caused a GPU device error
- a short overview of how it is used in X-Plane
- a brief overview of the rasterization process
- look at the logical rendering pipeline model
- presents the different components that are used to implement pipeline in hardware
- implementation details about the different stages
- Ray Tracing Gems is now also available as a free Kindle version
- presents an overview of the general flow of a frame of the game
- a more detailed look at the acceleration structures used for the raytraced GI implementation
- looks at the composition of transparent objects, lens flares and at terrain tessellation
- presents more images from the acceleration structures and problems discovered with it
- Microsoft released the engineering specification for Direct3D 11 and 12 including DXR
- all GDC content from Nvidia is now available for download (free login required)
- shows which tools are available to look at the shader disassembly for AMD GPUs
- presents the instructions generated for a simple shader and overview of some of the instructions used
- shows the effect of code changes to the code generation
- preprint of I3D paper that will be presented in May
- AO calculations are split into large-scale interactions based on sphere approximations
- finer details are created using linear interpolation from key points on the spheres
- both components are trained against ground truth data
- overview of the latest extensions added to Vulkan on Nvidia GPUs
- mesh shader motivation, execution model and how to use them
- barycentric coordinates extension
- subgroup overview and tensor core access
- texture space shading
- derivatives in compute shaders
- discusses the authors’ thoughts about abstraction levels in graphics APIs
- presents the motivation for the design of the granite engine API
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