Nested Dielectrics

• presents a technique that improves the handling of nested dielectrics in ray-tracing
• example for nested dielectrics is “ice cubes in a drink in a glass”
• tracking entering / existing geometry + priority system to handle overlap cases

ShaderGraph Conversion - Custom Functions(Toon Lighting Example), Vertex Colors(Specular/Texture Painting)

• the tutorial shows to create custom nodes in Unity Shader Graph
• shows to implement Vertex painting using shader graph and use it for a variety of effects

Render Graph Optimization Scribbles

• presents an algorithm for scheduling work in a render graph architecture

Debugger Extension for DRED

• extension for WinDbg that enables debugging of Device Removed Extended Data
• the post shows how to track and find the reason for a GPU device lost error caused by a page fault

Ambient Dice Specular Approximation

• presents how to use the Ambient Dice to store the GGX specular component
• alternative storage scheme instead of spherical harmonics

Optimal Multiple Importance Sampling

• derives weighting functions for Multiple Importance Sampling (MIS) that minimize the variance of an MIS estimator

Orthogonal array sampling for Monte Carlo rendering

• a new strategy for the generation of stratified samples
• using the concept of orthogonal arrays from statistical experiment design

Generating Blue Noise Textures With Void And Cluster

• the article explains how to generate high-quality blue noise

Level of Detail Cross-Fading Geometry

• next part in the article series about the implementation of a scriptable render pipeline in Unity
• adds support for multiple LOD levels per object
• switching between LODs is implemented using a dithering transition