Are we done with Ray Tracing?

• slides for Siggraph 2019 course
• talking about the state of ray-tracing
• state-of-the-art in hardware and software developments
• provides a history and vision of where ray-tracing in games is going to develop

Chasing Triangles in a Tile-based Rasterizer

• the detailed article explains how to tile-based rasterization works
• show how to implement rasterization using this design
• includes SSE and multithreaded implemenation

siggraph course: path tracing in production 2019

• course notes for the Siggraph 2019 course

• part 1 focuses on the necessary background knowledge provide an insight into movie production requirements and mathematical foundation

• part 2 focuses on materials (acquisition and production requirements) showing practical efforts, achievements and problems encountered

Alpha Compositing

• the article discusses the foundations of alpha compositing
• explains the different compositing operations
• show how to use pre-multiplied alpha to eliminate common problems
• explanation of filtering, interpolation, blend modes, and additive blending

Technically Art: Issue 27 (26.07.2019)

• collection of VFX tweets of the week
• tutorials, demos, and showcases of great looking effects

Differences in memory management between Direct3D 12 and Vulkan

• the article discusses memory management in Vulkan and D3D12
• shows differences in API and exposed features
• discussion resource allocation, mapping, cache invalidation, memory budgets, and resource residency

Fresnel Equations Considered Harmful

• presents problems with the Fresnel equations when applied to sRGB data
• model is only accurate when the parameters are carefully selected
• comparison against the Schlick model
• offers an extension of the Schlick model for more accuracy and control

Shadertoy media files

• the article contains the links to the build-in Shadertoy media files
• useful when implementing an effect based on reference found on Shadertoy