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Virtual Textures - Sparse Voxel Octree - Voxels
- Efficient Sparse Voxel Octrees - Analysis, Extensions, and Implementation - Laine and Kerras, Nvidia
- laine's paper on efficient SVO rendering
- PC Perspective - John Carmack on id Tech 6, Ray Tracing, Consoles, Physics and more
- Demo by Jon Olick at Siggraph 2008
- ompf.org - Siggraph '08 Realtime Raycasting
- ompf.org - Ray tracing voxels
- Molly Rocket - Carmack: Sparse Voxel Octree
- Samuli Laine - Efficient Sparse Voxel Octrees
- Unlimited Detail Real-Time Rendering Technology 2011
- Mega Meshes - Lionhead's Milo and Kate
- Mega Meshes - Modelling, rendering and lighting a world made of 100 billion polygons - Lionhead's Milo and Kate
- MightyLight - Lionhead's Milo and Kate
- Out-Of-Core construction of Sparse Voxel Octrees
- Procedural voxel Worlds - architecture and caves
- Atomontage Engine - Voxelized Geometry - YouTube
- Euclideon & Unlimited Detail - Bruce Dell Interview by John Gatt
- duangle: Voxel Mesh Hybrids: A Walkthrough
- Two Methods for Voxel Detail Enhancement
- PND3D Demo
- Lighting voxel octrees and procedural texturing
- Atomontage Engine - A Large Game-Like Scene
- High Resolution Sparse Voxel DAGs
- stb voxel graphics library teaser
- stb/stb_voxel_render.h
- The Rendering Technology of SkySaga: Infinite Isles
- The Basics of GPU Voxelization
- Gamasutra: Leonard Ritter's Blog - Towards Realtime Deformable Worlds: Why Tetrahedra Rule, Voxels Drool
- Sean Barrett's voxel game - OBBG: Open Block Building Game
- Sylvain Lefebvre's OctreeTex
- SVO - GameDev.Net
- SigGraph2015 A Survey of Promising, Unconventional and Mostly Abandoned Renderers for ‘Dreams PS4', a Geometrically Dense, Painterly UGC game - AlexEvans
Demoscene
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PBR - Physically Based Lighting
- SigGraph2016 Course: Physically Based Shading in Theory and Practice - Self Shadow
- Physically Based Rendering Encyclopedia
- 3D-Coat - PBR description - easy introduction
- Readings on Physically Based Rendering
- Chart PBR materials - base color, metallic, roughness, porosity
- SIGGRAPH 2014 Course - Physically Based Shading in Theory and Practice
- PBR Tutorial - Physically Based Rendering, And You Can Too
- Physically Based Reflectance Model Design for nex gen
- Extension to Energy-Conserving Wrapped Diffuse lighting
- Microfacet Models f or Refraction thr ough Rough Surfaces - GGX model
- Remember Me part A - physic based rendering, brdf, roughness, materials
- Remember Me part B - rain
- Remember Me part C - Wet environments lighting references comp
- Drobot Lighting of Killzone Shadow Fall - Physical based, IBL, light geometry, IES lights
- PBR Theory for artists
- Physically based rendering chart for Unreal Engine 4 - Sébastien Lagarde DontNod
- Physically-Based Shading at Disney 2012
- Implementation of the Disney principled BRDF
- Optimizing PBR GGX Shaders with dot(L,H)
- Optimizing PBR GGX Shaders - update
- SigGraph2015 Optimizing PBR and BRDF on Mobile
- The SGGX Microflake Distribution - ellipsoidal
- Importance Sampling Microfacet-Based BSDFs using the Distribution of Visible Normals
- GPU Pro 5 - KillZone Area lights code
- Physically Based Rendering Encyclopedia
- PBR - Physically Based Rendering Encyclopedia - discussion of the bible of materials
- Unite2014: Mastering Physically Based Shading in Unity 5
- Shader calibration - Metallic value charts - Unity
SSAO
Stochastic
Camera, Physically Based Camera
Shadows
Deferred rendering - ForwardPlus - Tile based rendering
AA_and_PostFX
- SigGraph2016 - Aggregate G-Buffer Anti-Aliasing in Unreal Engine 4 - AGAA
- GDC2016 Temporal Reprojection AntiAliasing in Inside - Lasse Jon Fuglsang Pedersen
- GDC2016 An excursion in Temporal Supersampling - Marco Salvi Nvidia
- Siggraph 2014 High Quality Temporal Supersampling - Unreal Brian Karis
- Beyond3D - Diving into Anti-Aliasing comparison - SSAA, MSAA, Cover Samp AA, MLAA, FXAA...
- GCN Execution Patterns in Full Screen Passes - Compute shader or 1 triangle better L1 L2 cache use than 2 triangles
- all for a new Post-Processing Pipeline - KGC 2013 - Wolfgang Engel
- Morphological Antialiasing on GPU
- Fast Antialiasing Using Prefiltered Lines
- Fast Prefiltered Lines - GPU Gems - Chapter 22.
- More on God of War III Antialiasing
- DigitalFoundry - Pandemic MLAA The Saboteur
- FSAA on SPU - "Saboteur" AA - Beyond3D
- Pandemic Studio's MLAA on SPU in The Saboteur
- Morphological Antialiasing
- Saboteur_Aliasing 1
- Saboteur_Aliasing 1
- Saboteur_Aliasing 2
- MLAA The Saboteur - pb luminance
- MLAA The Saboteur - pb edge fuzzy
- MLAA The Saboteur - pb subpixel
- GameSpot Forums - Saboteur's unique PS3 anti-aliasing
- Efficient anti-aliasing algorithm for computer generated images
- Hybrid Reconstruction Anti-Aliasing Siggraph2014
- Timothy Lottes: FXAA3 Source Released
- Timothy Lottes: Fixed a few typos in FXAA 3.11
- Dynamic Resolution Rendering Article
- Experimenting with Reconstruction Filters for MSAA Resolve
- Nvidia - Particle Shadows (3D voxel PSM) & Cache-Efficient Post-Processing (SSAO with interleaved and divided zbuffer)
- Quick Gaussian Filtering
- Bloom, Gaussian Filter, Pascal tri, weights generation
- A screen-space approach to rendering polylines on terrain | AGI Blogs
- A4: Asynchronous Adaptive Anti-Aliasing using Shared Memory
- Dead Space 3 - Diffuse Reflections
- Killzone: Shadow Fall - SSLR screen space reflection with localized cube map
- GPU Gems 3 - Chapter 27. Motion Blur as a Post-Processing Effect
- Real-time Frame Rate Up-conversion for Video Games - SIGGRAPH 2010
- LucasArts' 60FPS TFU Force Unleashed II TFU2 tech demo - Dmitry Andreev
- The Skylanders SWAP Force Depth-of-Field Shader
- A Fast and Stable Feature-Aware Motion Blur Filter
- A Fast and Stable Feature-Aware Motion Blur Filter
- A Fast and Stable Feature-Aware Motion Blur Filter 2014
- Jorge Jimenez - Next Generation Post Processing in Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare
- Arne Schober - Advanced Screenspace Antialiasing
- Adaptive Wavelet Rendering
- Antialiased 2D Grid, Marker, and Arrow Shaders (JCGT)
- Antialiasing: To Splat Or Not - Nathan Reed's coding blog
- DX11 Perspective Matrix Jittering Temporal AA
- Alchemy Screen-Space Ambient Obscurance Algorithm
- Scalable Ambient Obscurance - based on Alchemy SSAOA
- A Comparative Study of Screen-Space Ambient Occlusion Methods
- Aggregate G-Buffer Anti-Aliasing - Nvidia
- GTC2015 - New raster methods using Maxwell - aggregate gbuffer aa AGAA, multisample hard shadows, new accumulative AA
- Fixing screen-space deferred decals | Bart Wronski
- Frame blending with Motion Vectors (explosion example)
- Time warping using motion vector - NUKE tips and tricks
- Decoupled Coverage Anti-Aliasing
- EuroGraphic2015 Pixel Merge Unit
- Accurate computation of single scattering in participating media with refractive boundaries
- Nvidia - Particle Shadows & Cache-Efficient Post-Processing
- GDC16 - Advanced Techniques and Optimization of HDR/VDR Color Pipelines
- Siggraph2014 Hybrid Reconstruction Anti-Aliasing - Michal Drobot
- A Weighted Error Metric and Optimization Method for Antialiasing Patterns
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- Visualizing Quaternions - image
- Visualizing Quaternions - explanation
- Converting a Rotation Matrix to a Quaternion - Mike Day, Insomniac Games
- Blog: Beautiful maths simplification: quaternion from two vectors - Lol Engine
- Intel - The Computation of Transcendental Functions on the IA-64 Architecture
- The Remez Method to locating the minimax rational approximation to a function
- Hermite Curve Interpolation, Cardinal splines, kb splines
- 2003 Fast inverse sqrt
- 2007 Maths behind fast inverse sqrt
- Fast inv sqrt, fast any fpowf(), 0x5f3759df - Carmack from Greg Walsh 80ies
- Poisson Disk Sampling distribution
- Finish your derivations, please - The ryg
- Geometric interpretation for the quadratic equation - Iñigo Quilez
- Cos approximation : 1 - 0.4*x²
- Interpolation Tricks - linear, smoothstep, spline
- Sin approximation: (1-x)x4
- Bhaskara I's sine approximation formula
- Building an Orthonormal Basis from a 3D Unit Vector Without Normalization
- Doing gravity right - Verlet integration correctly
- Essential Math for Games Programmers
- Spherical Harmonic Lighting - Robin Green, Sony
- Floating-Point Determinism. Microsoft's cpuid with _mm_rcp_ps - Bruce Dawson
- 2D Polyhedral Bounds of a Clipped, Perspective-Projected 3D Sphere
- Stupid Spherical Harmonic ticks - Peter-Pike Sloan
- Efficient Spherical Harmonic Evaluation - Peter-Pike Sloan
- Spherical Harmonics in actual games - TomF
- Shared Spherical Harmonics library for C++/HLSL/OpenCL/CUDA using pycgen to generate/document optimal transforms
- On the early history of the Singular Value Decomposition SVD
- Cholesky decomposition - Wikipedia
- GDC2014 Intro to frames, dictionnaries and K-SVD
- Extremely short Matlab LP solvers
- Simple and Fast Spherical Harmonic Rotation
- Eigen - C++ template library for linear algebra
- Don't invert that matrix - matrix factorization instead
- Derived Algebraic Geometry
- Octonion - previously octaves - 8 dimension complex numbers
- Dot, cross, and quaternion products
- All primes past 2 and 3 of the forms 6n+1 and 6n-1 (or 6n+5)
- Gaussian Elimination
- Algebraic Surfaces Gallery
- Maths for game developpers - Jorge Rodriguez
- From 1,000,000 to Graham's Number - tetration, pentation, power of power
- Examples of mathematical discoveries which were kept as a secret
- Math Symbols, unicode
- Terry Moore: Why is 'x' the unknown? The origin of 'x'. And 'y' and 'z'.
- Cyclic fractions - full reptend primes
- Full reptend prime - Wikipedia
- Name of 3d volume combinations
- Encoding Uniform Scale in Quaternions and Dual Quaternions
- Math Symbols
- Liu Hui's π algorithm
- 101 Prime Resources On Advanced Mathematics
- Animation of sum of sin/pi to build a square signal
- OpenGL Mathematics - GLSL like maths lib
- Fast inv sqrt, fast any fpowf(), 0x5f3759df
- Ryg's SSE/AVX matrix multiply
- How a Kalman filter works, in pictures
- Experilous: Generating Spherical Distance Fields from Polygons
- Moonshine theory I: symmetry, numbers, and Monstrous Moonshine | Brandon Rayhaun
- Continued fractions for pi, exp, sqrt(2)
- Fast and accurate sine/cosine - Nick
- Dirichlet distribution and random number generation
- Double factorial, triple factorial - variations On Factorial
- Dijkstra's Prime Number Algorithm
- Faster Math Functions - Bases and Frames
- Printing Floating-Point Numbers
- Robust estimation, least square and M-estimators optimisation
- Square root in C using Newton-Raphson method sqrt
- Tensor products of vector spaces
- Understanding The Discrete Fourier Transform
- Polynom online regression tools
- FooPlot - online function plotter
- GraphSketch online plotter
- Incremental Least Squares Curve Fitting
- Same Stats, Different Graphs: Generating Datasets with Varied Appearance and Identical Statistics through Simulated Annealing | Autodesk Research
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- The Wonderful World of Early Computing - Neatorama
- 40 years of Multics, 1969-2009 - blast from the past, history, MIT, Multics - CIO
- First small/home computers
- The Texas Instruments TMX 1795: the first, forgotten microprocessor?
- One Div Zero: A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages
- Apple || disk controler under 256 bytes
- Apple II DOS source code - disk drive controleur code
- The Man Behind The Curtain - historic games with public source code
- Learn to Let Go: How Success Killed Duke Nukem
- Lisp Cycles
- Evolution of a Python programmer
- PC Gaming: Slowly Dying & On Life Support
- Quake's hidden-surface removal
- Steve Wozniak on Jobs movie - " largely a lie about me"
- theRyg - Networks all the way down - evolution from parallel bus to star shape serial point to point
- Real PS4 Screenshots Justify All That 'Next-Gen' Hype
- Down to the silicon: how the Z80's registers are implemented
- How Sega built the Genesis
- repz ret - repeat return optimization for legacy AMD K8 still in GCC
- The 3D Software Rendering Technology of 1998's Thief: The Dark Project
- History of video game graphics from 2D to fake 3D and real 3D
- Ralph Baer and Bill Harrison Play Ping-Pong Video Game, 1969 - oldest video game
- The untold story of the invention of the game cartridge in the Fairchild Channel F console
- The history of grep, fgrep, egrep; from Ken Thompson to GNU grep
- Linus Torvalds started Linux to access Usenet over 2400 baud modem into university, added fs to download
- Scroll Back: The Theory and Practice of Cameras in Side-Scrollers
- Dave Baggett's answer - Crash Bandicoot fit on PS1 with 4 bytes to spare
