1st Edition

GPU Pro 5 Advanced Rendering Techniques

Edited By Wolfgang Engel Copyright 2014
    524 Pages 234 Color Illustrations
    by A K Peters/CRC Press

    In GPU Pro5: Advanced Rendering Techniques, section editors Wolfgang Engel, Christopher Oat, Carsten Dachsbacher, Michal Valient, Wessam Bahnassi, and Marius Bjorge have once again assembled a high-quality collection of cutting-edge techniques for advanced graphics processing unit (GPU) programming. 

    Divided into six sections, the book covers rendering, lighting, effects in image space, mobile devices, 3D engine design, and compute. It explores rasterization of liquids, ray tracing of art assets that would otherwise be used in a rasterized engine, physically based area lights, volumetric light effects, screen-space grass, the usage of quaternions, and a quadtree implementation on the GPU. It also addresses the latest developments in deferred lighting on mobile devices, OpenCL optimizations for mobile devices, morph targets, and tiled deferred blending methods.

    In color throughout, GPU Pro5 is the only book that incorporates contributions from more than 50 experts who cover the latest developments in graphics programming for games and movies. It presents ready-to-use ideas and procedures that can help solve many of your daily graphics programming challenges. Example programs with source code are provided on the book’s CRC Press web page.

    Rendering
    Per-Pixel Lists for Single Pass A-Buffer Sylvain Lefebvre, Samuel Hornus, and Anass Lasram
    Reducing Texture Memory Usage by 2-Channel Color Encoding Krzysztof Kluczek
    Particle-Based Simulation of Material Aging Tobias Günther, Kai Rohmer, and Thorsten Grosch
    Simple Rasterization-Based Liquids Martin Guay

    Lighting and Shading
    Physically Based Area Lights Micha Drobot
    High Performance Outdoor Light Scattering using Epipolar Sampling Egor Yusov
    Volumetric Light Effects in Killzone Shadow Fall Nathan Vos
    Hi-Z Screen-Space Cone-Traced Reflections Yasin Uludag
    TressFX: Advanced Real-Time Hair Rendering Timothy Martin, Wolfgang Engel, Nicolas Thibieroz, Jason Yang, and Jason Lacroix
    Wire Anti-Aliasing Emil Persson

    Image Space
    Screen Space Grass David Pangerl
    Screen Space Deformable Meshes via CSG with Per-Pixel Linked Lists João Raza and Gustavo Nunes
    Bokeh Effects on the SPU Serge Bernier

    Mobile Devices
    Realistic Real-Time Skin Rendering on Mobile Renaldas Zioma and Ole Ciliox
    Deferred Rendering Techniques on Mobile Devices Ashley Vaughan Smith
    Bandwidth Efficient Graphics with ARM® Mali. GPUs Marius Bjørge
    Efficient Morph Target Animation using OpenGL ES 3.0 James Lewis Jones
    Tiled Deferred Blending Ramses Ladlani
    Adaptive Scalable Texture Compression Stacy Smith
    Optimizing OpenCL. Kernels for the ARM® Mali.-T600 GPUs Johan Gronqvist and Anton Lokhmotov

    3D Engine Design
    Quaternions Revisited Peter Sikachev, Vladimir Egorov, and Sergey Makeev
    glTF: Designing an Open-Standard Runtime Asset Format Fabrice Robinet, Rémi Arnaud, Tony Parisi, and Patrick Cozzi
    Managing Transformations in Hierarchy Bartosz Chodorowski and Wojciech Sterna

    Compute
    Hair Simulation in TressFX Dongsoo Han
    Object-Order Ray Tracing for Fully Dynamic Scenes Tobias Zirr, Hauke Rehfeld, and Carsten Dachsbacher
    Quadtrees on the GPU Jonathan Dupuy, Jean-Claude Iehl, and Pierre Poulin
    Two-Level Constraint Solver and Pipelined Local Batching for Rigid Body Simulation on GPUs Takahiro Harada
    Non-Separable 2D, 3D, and 4D Filtering with CUDA Anders Eklund and Paul Dufort

    Biography

    Wolfgang Engel