GPU Pro 360 Guide To Rendering

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Chapter 1 Quadtree Displacement Mapping with Height Blending
- 1.1 Overview
- 1.2 Introduction
- 1.3 Overview of Ray-Tracing Algorithms
- 1.4 Quadtree Displacement Mapping
- 1.5 Self-Shadowing
- 1.6 Ambient Occlusion
- 1.7 Surface Blending
- 1.8 General Advice
- 1.9 Conclusion
- Bibliography
Chapter 2 NPR Effects Using the Geometry Shader
- 2.1 Introduction
- 2.2 Previous Work
- 2.3 Silhouette Rendering
- 2.4 Pencil Rendering
- 2.5 Acknowledgments
- Bibliography
Chapter 3 Alpha Blending as a Post-Process
- 3.1 Introduction
- 3.2 The Alternatives
- 3.3 The Source Artwork
- 3.4 Initial Attempts
- 3.5 The Screen-Space Alpha Mask
- 3.6 Alpha Reference Issues
- 3.7 Rendering Pipeline Integration
- 3.8 Conclusion
- 3.9 Demo
- 3.10 Acknowledgments
- 3.11 Source Code
- Bibliography
Chapter 4 Virtual Texture Mapping 101
- 4.1 Introduction
- 4.2 Virtual Texture Mapping
- 4.3 Implementation Details
- 4.4 Conclusion
- 4.5 Shader Code
- 4.6 Acknowledgments
- Bibliography
Chapter 5 Pre-Integrated Skin Shading
- Eric Penner and George Borshukov 5.1 Introduction
- 5.2 Background and Previous Work
- 5.3 Pre-Integrating the Effects of Scattering
- 5.4 Scattering and Diffuse Light
- 5.5 Scattering and Normal Maps
- 5.6 Shadow Scattering
- 5.7 Conclusion and Future Work
- 5.8 Appendix A: Lookup Textures
- 5.9 Appendix B: Simplified Skin Shader
- Bibliography
Chapter 6 Implementing Fur Using Deferred Shading
- Donald Revie 6.1 Deferred Rendering
- 6.2 Fur
- 6.3 Techniques
- 6.4 Fur Implementation Details
- 6.5 Conclusion
- 6.6 Acknowledgments
- Bibliography
Chapter 7 Large-Scale Terrain Rendering for Outdoor Games
- Ferenc Pint´er 7.1 Introduction
- 7.2 Content Creation and Editing
- 7.3 Runtime Shading
- 7.4 Performance
- 7.5 Possible Extensions
- 7.6 Acknowledgments
- Bibliography
Chapter 8 Practical Morphological Antialiasing
- Jorge Jimenez, Belen Masia, Jose I. Echevarria, Fernando Navarro, and Diego Gutierrez 8.1 Overview
- 8.2 Detecting Edges
- 8.3 Obtaining Blending Weights
- 8.4 Blending with the Four-Neighborhood
- 8.5 Results
- 8.6 Discussion
- 8.7 Conclusion
- 8.8 Acknowledgments
- Bibliography
Chapter 9 Volume Decals
- Emil Persson 9.1 Introduction
- 9.2 Decals as Volumes
- 9.3 Conclusions
- Bibliography
Chapter 10 Practical Elliptical Texture Filtering on the GPU
- Pavlos Mavridis and Georgios Papaioannou 10.1 Introduction
- 10.2 Elliptical Filtering
- 10.3 Elliptical Footprint Approximation
- 10.4 Results
- 10.5 Conclusions
- 10.6 Acknowledgments
- Bibliography
Chapter 11 An Approximation to the Chapman Grazing-Incidence Function for Atmospheric Scattering
- Christian Sch¨uler 11.1 Introduction
- 11.2 Atmospheric Scattering
- 11.3 The Chapman Function
- 11.4 Towards a Real-Time Approximation
- 11.5 Implementation
- 11.6 Putting the Chapman Function to Use
- 11.7 Conclusion
- 11.8 Appendix
- Bibliography
Chapter 12 Volumetric Real-Time Water and Foam Rendering
- Daniel Scherzer, Florian Bagar, and Oliver Mattausch 12.1 Introduction
- 12.2 Simulation
- 12.3 Rendering
- 12.4 Artist Control
- 12.5 Conclusion
- Bibliography
Chapter 13 Inexpensive Antialiasing of Simple Objects
- Mikkel Gjøl and Mark Gjøl 13.1 Introduction
- 13.3 Rendering Lines
- 13.4 Discussion
  - 13.2 Antialiasing via Smoothed Lines
- 13.5 Conclusion
- 13.6 Acknowledgments
- Bibliography
Chapter 14 Practical Planar Reflections Using Cubemaps and Image Proxies
- S´ebastien Lagarde and Antoine Zanuttini 14.1 Introduction
- 14.2 Generating Reflection Textures
- 14.3 Using Reflection Textures
- 14.4 Conclusion and Future Work
- 14.5 Acknowledgments
- Bibliography
Chapter 15 Real-Time Ptex and Vector Displacement
- Karl Hillesland 15.1 Introduction
- 15.2 Packed Ptex
- 15.3 Runtime Implementation
- 15.4 Adding Displacement
- 15.5 Performance Costs
- 15.6 Memory Costs
- 15.7 Alternatives and Future Work
- 15.8 Conclusion
- 15.9 Acknowledgments
- Bibliography
Chapter 16 Decoupled Deferred Shading on the GPU
- G´abor Liktor and Carsten Dachsbacher 16.1 Introduction
- 16.2 Decoupled Sampling in a Rasterization Pipeline
- 16.3 Shading Reuse for Deferred Shading
- 16.4 Implementation
- 16.5 Results
- 16.6 Acknowledgments
- Bibliography
Chapter 17 Tiled Forward Shading
- Markus Billeter, Ola Olsson, and Ulf Assarsson 17.1 Introduction
- 17.2 Recap: Forward, Deferred, and Tiled Shading
- 17.3 Tiled Forward Shading: Why
- 17.4 Basic Tiled Forward Shading
- 17.5 Supporting Transparency
- 17.6 Support for MSAA
- 17.7 Supporting Different Shaders
- 17.8 Conclusion and Further Improvements
- Bibliography
Chapter 18 Forward+: A Step Toward Film-Style Shading in Real Time
- Takahiro Harada, Jay McKee, and Jason C. Yang 18.1 Introduction
- 18.2 Forward
- 18.3 Implementation and Optimization
- 18.4 Results
- 18.5 Forward+ in the AMD Leo Demo
- 18.6 Extensions
- 18.7 Conclusion
- 18.8 Acknowledgments
- Bibliography
Chapter 19 Progressive Screen-Space Multichannel Surface Voxelization
- Athanasios Gaitatzes and Georgios Papaioannou 19.1 Introduction
- 19.2 Overview of Voxelization Method
- 19.3 Progressive Voxelization for Lighting
- 19.4 Implementation
- 19.5 Performance and Evaluation
- 19.6 Limitations
- 19.7 Conclusion
- 19.8 Acknowledgments
- Bibliography
Chapter 20 Rasterized Voxel-Based Dynamic Global Illumination
- Hawar Doghramachi 20.1 Introduction
- 20.2 Overview
- 20.3 Implementation
- 20.4 Handling Large Environments
- 20.5 Results
- 20.6 Conclusion
- Bibliography
Chapter 21 Per-Pixel Lists for Single Pass A-Buffer
- Sylvain Lefebvre, Samuel Hornus, and Anass Lasram 21.1 Introduction
- 21.2 Linked Lists with Pointers (Lin-alloc
- 21.3 Lists with Open Addressing (Open-alloc
- 21.4 Post-sort and Pre-sort
- 21.5 Memory Management
- 21.6 Implementation
- 21.7 Experimental Comparisons
- 21.8 Conclusion
- 21.9 Acknowledgments
- Bibliography
Chapter 22 Reducing Texture Memory Usage by 2-Channel Color Encoding
- Krzysztof Kluczek 22.1 Introduction
- 22.2 Texture Encoding Algorithm
- 22.3 Decoding Algorithm
- 22.4 Encoded Image Quality
- 22.5 Conclusion
- Bibliography
Chapter 23 Particle-Based Simulation of Material Aging
- Tobias G¨unther, Kai Rohmer, and Thorsten Grosch 23.1 Introduction
- 23.2 Overview
- 23.3 Simulation
- 23.4 Preview Rendering
- 23.5 Results
- 23.6 Conclusions
- Bibliography
Chapter 24 Simple Rasterization-Based Liquids
- Martin Guay 24.1 Overview
- 24.2 Introduction
- 24.3 Simple Liquid Model
- 24.4 Splatting
- 24.5 Grid Pass
- 24.6 Particle Update
- 24.7 Rigid Obstacles
- 24.8 Examples
- 24.9 Conclusion
- Bibliography
Chapter 25 Next-Generation Rendering in Thief
- Peter Sikachev, Samuel Delmont, Uriel Doyon, and Jean-Normand Bucci 25.1 Introduction
- 25.2 Reflections
- 25.3 Contact-Hardening Shadows
- 25.4 Lit Particles
- 25.5 Compute-Shader-Based Postprocessing
- 25.6 Conclusion
- 25.7 Acknowledgments
- Bibliography
Chapter 26 Grass Rendering and Simulation with LOD
- Dongsoo Han and Hongwei Li 26.1 Introduction
- 26.2 Render Grass Blades
- 26.3 Simulation
- 26.4 Conclusion
- Bibliography
Chapter 27 Hybrid Reconstruction Antialiasing
- Micha l Drobot 27.1 Introduction
- 27.2 Overview
- 27.3 Related Work
- 27.4 Hybrid Antialiasing Overview
- 27.5 Temporally Stable Edge Antialiasing
- 27.6 Temporal Super-Sampling
- 27.7 Temporal Antialiasing (TAA
- 27.8 Final Implementation
- 27.9 Results Discussion
- 27.10 Conclusion
- Bibliography
Chapter 28 Real-Time Rendering of Physically Based Clouds Using Precomputed Scattering
- Egor Yusov 28.1 Introduction
- 28.2 Light Transport Theory
- 28.3 Precomputed Solutions
- 28.4 Volume-Aware Blending
- 28.5 Implementation
- 28.6 Results and Discussion
- 28.7 Conclusion
- Bibliography
Chapter 29 Sparse Procedural Volume Rendering
- Doug McNabb 29.1 Introduction
- 29.2 Overview of Current Techniques
- 29.3 Overview
- 29.4 Metavoxels
- 29.5 Algorithm
- 29.6 Conclusion
- Bibliography
Chapter 30 Adaptive Virtual Textures
- Ka Chen 30.1 Introduction
- 30.2 Procedural Virtual Textures Basics
- 30.3 Adaptive Virtual Textures
- 30.4 Virtual Texture Best Practices
- 30.5 Conclusion
- Bibliography
Chapter 31 Deferred Coarse Pixel Shading
- Rahul P. Sathe and Tomasz Janczak 31.1 Overview
- 31.2 Introduction and Background
- 31.3 Algorithm
- 31.4 Performance
- 31.5 Conclusion
- Bibliography
Chapter 32 Progressive Rendering Using Multi-frame Sampling
- Daniel Limberger, Karsten Tausche, Johannes Linke, and J¨urgen D¨ollner 32.1 Introduction
- 32.2 Approach
- 32.3 Multi-frame Rendering Techniques
- 32.4 Conclusion and Future Work
- 32.5 Acknowledgment
- Bibliography
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