- a lightweight and efficient method to render layered materials with anisotropic interfaces
- based around GGX BRDF lobes approximations when aligned with the tangent frame
- overview of two new libraries developed by Oculus and Qualcomm to expose low-level profiling information designed for tile-based architectures
- Ovrgpuprofiler is a CLI application that provides access to assembled real-time metric details based on the low-level information
- the article presents how to use stochastic LOD selection for a DXR based ray-tracer
- the given technique uses a combination of ray and instance mask to influence the ray selection
- discusses the importance of selecting consistent LODs between rays and shows a performance comparison
- the article explains how Oodle Texture can prepare BC textures in such a way that secondary compressions stages (such as zlib) will be able to compress it further
- shows what Rate-Distortion Optimization is and presents considerations regarding the importance of error estimators
- the article presents CUDA for WSL 2, how to use it and additionally shows how it cooperates with container workloads
- the paper presents to Welch’s statistical t-test can be used to detect bias even with low sample counts
- presents techniques to visualize and analyze the test results
- the article contains the answers to some common question viewers of the Ray Tracing Essentials webinar had
- an extensive collection resource covering various aspects of GPU optimizations
- the article presents how to create a running rat animation using a vertex shader
- this is archived by using UV partitioning to apply different animations to different body parts
- the first part of a WebGPU series shows the necessary steps required to render the first triangle
- this tutorial explains how to bind resources and uses this to add basic camera movement support
- the paper presents a technique that allows Cumulative Distribution Functions that cannot be inverted to still offer an analytical and exact solution
- shows the method at the example of a unit square, stratified sampling of a truncated disk and torus
- overview of cross-platform raytracing abstraction in “The Forge” and a summary of performance numbers on different platforms
- the paper presents the sky and atmosphere model developed by Epic Games that support dynamic viewpoints between planet surface and space
- support different weather and planetary atmospheric settings without high dimensional lookup tables
- the video tutorial explains UV animation, extending this to support varying animations between pixels using flow maps
- uses the presented technique to implement a movement of a planet atmosphere using the Godot engine
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