Wednesday, April 15, 2015

Links collection

Hi.

This post is a collection of links collected overtime for reference, its mostly about rendering. Hopefully it can be useful to someone else :).

PS : More link will be added in the future.

Tools

Equation writter and doc (use $$ to start an equation)
GPU benchmark
CPU benchmark
Renderdoc (DX11 debugger)
GRemedy (Opengl debugger)
Indexed file search
Disk space visualizer
Text editors color schemes
Gaussian kernel calculator
Mercurial timelapse view
A programming language for Visualisation
Chart/Diagram web app
Regular expression nice tool

Blogs

A very good review of existing blogs/forum
c0de517e Blog
Diary Of A Graphics Programmer
Sebastien Lagarde blog
The ryg blog
Beyond3D blog
Casual-effects blog
Filmicworlds blog
Filmicgames blog
RememberMe rendering
RememberMe rendering 2
Simon Tech Blog

Paper collections

Kesen Siggraph/i3d/Eurographics/etc links (huge collections)
Stephen Hill Siggraph 2018 links
Stephen Hill Siggraph 2017 links
Stephen Hill Siggraph 2016 links
Stephen Hill Siggraph 2015 links
Stephen Hill Siggraph 2014 links
Stephen Hill Siggraph 2013 links
Stephen Hill Siggraph 2012 links
HPG 2018
Jare GDC 2014 links
Jare GDC 2013 links
Humus papers
Dice papers
Square-Enix papers
Michal Valient papers
AMD Papers
Crytek papers
Magnus Wrenninge (volume rendering) papers
Blur comparison by intel
Eurographics 2016
Free paper search engine

Books

Realtime rendering the redux book
GraphicGems books
GpuPro books
Realtimerendering book
GPUGems1
GPUGems2
GPUGems3
Raytracing (in a weekend, the next week, the rest of your life)
Physically Based Rendering:From Theory To Implementation
Ray Tracing gems
Immersive Math : interactive online book

Deep Learning / Machine Learning

Deep Neural Network From Scratch
DeepLearning.ai youtube channel
The 9 DL network you need to know about
Open Image Denoiser (OIDN)
General video course
Backpropagation explained
Overview of gradient descent optimization algorithm
Shallow ML for everyday programming (GDC2019)
Dimensionality reduction
How NN understand images
Color palettes for data
Google dataset search
Understanding CNN with visualizations
State-of-the-Art Survey (January 2019)
Deep learning note from Andrew NG Course
Guide to convolution arithmetic for deep learning
Synthetic data to train D: A review
Neurips 2020

Deep Learning optimisation

Discreet FFT for 3x3 convolution paper
Implementing Strassen’s Algorithm with CUTLASS on NVIDIA Volta GPUs
SGEMM optimized at assembly level on Maxwell hardware
The Lottery Ticket Hypothesis: Finding Sparse, Trainable Neural Networks

Shader libraries

Shadertoy
Geexlab code_samples
Glsl sandbox

Maths

Inigo quilez math tutorials
Frustum planes from the projection matrix
Math tutorials
2d Interpolations
Barycentric tetrahedrons interpolation
Color conversion
Color conversion 2
Stupid Spherical Harmonics tricks
BitHacks
Bicubic upscaler
Fast tonemapping/inverse tonemapping
Fast tonemapping/inverse tonemapping v2
Oblique projection matrices
Oblique projection matrices in Unity
Efficient depth linearization of oblique projection matrices
Good write up on SH
Point on hemisphere computed in shaders code
Building an orthonormal basis
Building an orthonormal basis with improved accuracy
A Collection of math formula for GI
Deringing spherical harmonics
SH visualization
Even faster math functions
The matrix cookbook (including derivatives)
Vector, Matrix and Tensor derivative

APIs

OpenGL specification
CgTutorial Book
Yaldex opengl reference
Matrix transformations explained
DX9 hacks
DX9 Half pixel offset explained
DX9 Half pixel offset explained 2
DX ShaderModel asm reference
DX12 video from microsoft
DX12, Vulcan, etc
Vulcan example
DX11 hacks
DX11.3 Specification
DX12 Specification
OpenCL 1.2 specs
OpenCL 1.2 ref
OpenCL 1.2 quick ref card
OpenCL 2.0 specs
OpenCL 2.0 C specs
OpenCL 2.0 ref
OpenCL 2.0 quick ref card
Intel checklist for OpenCL optimizations
OpenCL AMD optimizations guides and also

Realtime ray tracing

Optimization

NVidia compute shader optim
Cuda bank conflict optim
Low level gpu doc
AMD GCN performance hints
Shader optimization
Shader optimization2 (GCN/DX11)
Optimal grid rendering
Depth Upsampling
Math lib for GCN: ShaderFastLib
GPU Scalarization


Buffers/Textures

ZBuffer precision
Unit vectors encoding
Normals encoding
Get rid of tangent and binormal
BCN formats explained
Normal mal blending
Tightening the Precision of Perspective Rendering
Depth-precision-visualized

Tiled/clustered lighting

Light indexed deferred rendering
Tiled shading
Clustered shading
Practical Clustered Shading
Practical Clustered 2013
Nvidia tiled demo (see download links)
Tiled based rendering
Tiled based rendering & Deferred
Improved culling for tiled and clustered rendering

Shadow

Dual paraboloid
Dual paraboloid 2
Nvidia PCSS
Shadow acne/filtering
Shadow acne 2 (normal offset)
Shadow technics
Shadow technics2
AMD ShadowFX
VSM
RealtimeShadows the book
Soft shadow from spherical harmonics
A good collection of links
Adaptive depth bias
Playing with realtime shadow Crytec
Beyond MSM
Improved MSM (soft shadows and scattering)
Caustics
A scalable real-time many-light shadowing system

Global illumination

Voxel cone tracing
Light Probe Interpolation Using Tetrahedral
GI on the cloud
FC3 GI
GI on GPU
Lightmap compression on metal
Packing lightmap
Spherical harmonic lighting
Various link on ray tracing
Correlated Multi-Jittered sampling
Overview of sampling techniques

Antialiasing

Overview of antialiasing
Siggraph course
MLAA
SMAA
MSAA
MSAA 2
Temporal antialiasing
TAA jitter pattern
Spec antialias : LEAN mapping
Spec antialias : mipmapping normal maps
Spec antialiasing methods
Text antialiasing
Checkboard rendering explained
Dashed line antialiasing

Cubemap/Images Effects

Parallax corrected cubemap
IBL and Parallax correct cubemap
Envmap lighting
Being more wrong parallax corrected
SSLR implementation from GPU Pro 5
Removing banding (p122)
SSRR interleaved
PostFX in bounds
Intel ASSAO
Auto exposure
SSLR in kill zone 2

Physically Based Rendering

Minute Physics: Linear color space
Maths of PBR
Understanding the shading shadow function
Specular brdf reference
UE4 PBR
Bioshock PBR
Unity PBR
Moving frostbyte to PBR
Specular occlusion hack
Specular occlusion hack v2 p77 listing 26
History of the RGB color model
Horizon based specular occlusion
Separable Subsurface scattering (skin)
Fast subsurface scattering approx by Pixar
Good tutorial
GGX for half/medium
PBR Encyclopedia
Allegorithmic PBR guide vol. 1
Google filament renderer

Painterly & non realistic rendering

Gloss Perception in Painterly and Cartoon Rendering
Painterly Rendering with Curved Brush Strokes of Multiple Sizes
Customizing Painterly Rendering Styles Using Stroke Processes
Paint by relaxation
Abstract Painting with Interactive Control of Perceptual Entropy
Gpu image flow
Stable dithering in return of the Obra Dinn

Fluid Simulation

Intel fluid simulation
Intel fluid simulation 2
Fluidic code repository
Fluid simulation for dummies

Multithreading

Lockfree
Data oriented design

GPU Driven pipeline

Rainbow6 Siege
Ubi GPU Pipe
Ubi GPU Pipe 2

Tesselation/Compute

A survey of tesselation technics
GPU Voxelisation
Summed area table
Parallel reduction
Parallel reduction 2
GPU Sorting
Compute shader pipe explained 1
Compute shader pipe explained 2
Compute shader pipe explained 3

Realtime ray tracing

NVidia intro to real raytracing
Effectively integrating rtx ray tracing for realtime
Texture Level-of-Detail Strategies for Real-Time Ray Tracing

Color spaces

Color interpolation in various spaces
GLSL Shader code to convert color from various space
Color for Graphics Programmers

Volume & scattering

Misc

Debugging optimized code in VS studio 2012 and up
Rendering of insight
Coding pirates material with Unity 
Skin shading
Parallax occlusion mapping
White Noise in GLSL
High quality capture of eyes
Eye rendering
A tour of the graphics pipeline
Double VS tripple buffering android
How to bake normal maps for unity