A tour of Granite’s Vulkan backend – Part 4

• shows the window system abstraction
• can be used to render to a window or into an offscreen render target
• how to allocate temporary data that is only required for the duration of the frame

A Tale of a Bug

• the article describes the process to locate a bug in Babylon.js PBR pipeline
• comparison against other rendering engines confirmed the problem
• caused by the difference between spherical polynomials and spherical harmonics

Tone Mapping

• shows the effect on PBR scene when no tone mapping is applied
• why tone mapping is required and explanation of exposure
• presents how to calculate luminance and the final average exposure required

Automatic Exposure Using a Luminance Histogram

• presents the process of tone mapping and how curves are used
• shows different kinds of tone mapping curves and their final result
• highlighting what different considerations need to be considered when deciding on a solution

PIX 1904.23 – New Timing Capture preview and improved DXIL shader debugging

• new PIX version contains a preview of a new timing view
• will support larger capture durations, up to hours
• designed to better visualize a large amount of data collected
• preview because a large number of features are still missing
• team is looking for feedback

A tour of Granite’s Vulkan backend – Part 5

• presents how render passes are expressed in the user-facing API
• shows how layout transition for external dependencies are handled
• separate logic for user-created, WSI images and transient images
• suggests that barriers should be treated at a higher level inside a frame graph architecture
  

i3D 2019 – Sampling Projected Spherical Caps in Real Time

• presents a new technique for a stochastic sampling of spherical area lights that is suitable for GPU implementations
• able to reduce noise from unoccluded areas significantly
• based on cutting the projected spherical cap into disks and sampling the disks instead

Lighting And Transmittance

• the second part of the volumetric cloud rendering series
• explains transmittance and phase functions
• 3D path visualization that presents how phase functions influence the way rays traverse the volume

Dynamic Bounding Volume Hierarchies - Extended version

• an extended version of the GDC 2019 talk
• overview of AABB and BVH
• shows how to build a BVH using bottom up and top down building algorithms and update dynamically
• presenting different strategies