With fast 3D graphics becoming more and more available even on low end platforms, the
focus in developing new graphics hardware is beginning to shift towards higher quality …

With fast 3D graphics becoming more and more available even on low end platforms, the
focus in hardware-accelerated rendering is beginning to shift towards higher quality …

There are strong indications that the future of interactive graphics programming is a more
flexible model than today's OpenGL/Direct3D pipelines. Graphics developers need a basic …

This paper presents a new interactive rendering and display technique for complex scenes
with expensive shading, such as global illumination. Our approach combines sparsely …

This book covers real-time shading systems, their design and how they work. Procedural
shading, long valued for off-line rendering and production animation is now possible on …

This chapter presents Forward+, a rendering pipeline that adds a Graphics Processing Unit
(GPU) compute-based light-culling stage to the traditional forward-rendering pipeline to …

Traditionally, hardware rasterizers only support the Phong lighting model in combination
with Gouraud shading using point light sources. However, the Phong lighting model is …

This book presents techniques to render photo-realistic images by programming the
Graphics Processing Unit (GPU). We discuss effects such as mirror reflections, refractions …

One of the main techniques used by software renderers to produce stunningly realistic
images is programmable shading—executing an arbitrarily complex program to compute the …

Real-time procedural shading was once seen as a distant dream. When the first version of
this course was offered four years ago, real-time shading was possible, but only with one-of …