ShaderX6 Advanced Rendering Techniques

by Engel, Wolfgang

• ISBN13: 9781584505440
• ISBN10: 1584505443
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-02-15
• Publisher: Charles River Media

Summary

Welcome to ShaderX6, the latest volume in the cutting-edge, indispensable series for game and graphics programmers. This all-new volume is packed with a collection of insightful techniques, innovative approaches to common problems, and practical tools and tricks that provide you with a complete shader programming toolbox. Every article was developed from the research and experiences of industry pros and edited by shader experts, resulting in unbiased coverage of all hardware and developer tools. ShaderX6: Advanced Rendering Techniques provides coverage of the vertex and pixel shader methods used in high-end graphics and game development. These state-of-the-art, ready-to-use solutions will help you meet your everyday programming challenges and bring your graphics to a new level of realism. This collection offers time-saving solutions to help you become more effi cient and productive, and is a must-have reference for all shader programmers.

Table of Contents

Geometry Manipulation	p. 1
Introduction	p. 3
Fast Evaluation of Subdivision Surfaces on Direct3D 10 Graphics Hardware	p. 5
Improved Appearance Variety for Geometry Instancing	p. 17
Implementing Real-Time Mesh Simplification Using the GPU	p. 29
Rendering Techniques	p. 41
Introduction	p. 43
Care and Feeding of Normal Vectors	p. 45
Computing Per-Pixel Object Thickness in a Single Render Pass	p. 57
Filtered Tilemaps	p. 63
Parallax Occlusion Mapping Special Feature Rendering	p. 73
Isocube: A Cubemap with Uniformly Distributed and Equally Important Texels	p. 83
Uniform Cubemaps for Dynamic Environments	p. 93
Practical Geometry Clipmaps for Rendering Terrains in Computer Games	p. 103
Efficient and Practical TileTrees	p. 115
Quantized Ring Clipping	p. 133
Image Space	p. 141
Introduction	p. 143
GPU-Based Active Contours for Real-Time Object Tracking	p. 145
Post-Tonemapping Resolve for High-Quality HDR Anti-aliasing in D3D10	p. 161
A Fast, Small-Radius GPU Median Filter	p. 165
Per-Pixel Motion Blur for Wheels	p. 175
Deferred Rendering Using a Stencil Routed K-Buffer	p. 189
HDR Meets Black & White 2	p. 199
Robust Order-Independent Transparency via Reverse Depth Peeling in DirectX 10	p. 211
Shadows	p. 227
Introduction	p. 229
Stable Rendering of Cascaded Shadow Maps	p. 231
Approximate Cumulative Distribution Function Shadow Mapping	p. 239
Rendering Filtered Shadows with Exponential Shadow Maps	p. 257
Fitted Virtual Shadow Maps and Shadow Fog	p. 275
Removing Shadow Volume Artifacts by Spatial Adjustment	p. 301
Environmental Effects	p. 309
Introduction	p. 311
Rendering Realistic Ice Objects	p. 313
Sunlight with Volumetric Light Rays	p. 325
Procedural Ocean Effects	p. 331
Global Illumination	p. 351
Introduction	p. 353
Practical Methods for a PRT-Based Shader Using Spherical Harmonics	p. 355
Incremental Instant Radiosity	p. 381
Real-Time Photon Mapping Approximation on the GPU	p. 393
Interactive Global Illumination with Precomputed Radiance Maps	p. 401
Handheld Devices	p. 411
Introduction	p. 413
Shaders Gone Mobile: Porting from Direct3D 9.0 to OpenGL ES 2.0	p. 415
Efficiently Using Tile-Based GPUs on Mobile Phones	p. 435
Maximal Performance and Image Quality with Minimal Precision	p. 445
Implementing Graphical Benchmark in OpenGL ES 2.0	p. 455
Every Cycle Counts: Level of Detail Shaders for Handheld Devices	p. 471
Shadow Techniques for OpenGL ES 2.0	p. 487
3D Engine Design	p. 505
Introduction	p. 507
A Flexible Material System in Design	p. 509
3D Engine Tools with C++/CLI	p. 517
Efficient HDR Texture Compression	p. 525
Beyond Pixels and Triangles	p. 535
Introduction	p. 537
An Interactive Tour of Voronoi Diagrams on the GPU	p. 539
AMD DirectX 10 Performance Tools and Techniques	p. 557
Real-Time Audio Processing on the GPU	p. 583
n-Body Simulations on the GPU	p. 605
Index	p. 611
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