GPU Pro: Advanced Rendering Techniques

Wolfgang Engel

CRC Press, Jun 14, 2010 - Computers - 742 pages

This book covers essential tools and techniques for programming the graphics processing unit. Brought to you by Wolfgang Engel and the same team of editors who made the ShaderX series a success, this volume covers advanced rendering techniques, engine design, GPGPU techniques, related mathematical techniques, and game postmortems. A special emphasi

Contents

• I Mathematics: 1
• 1 GPU Color Quantization: 3
• 2 Visualize Your Shadow Map Techniques: 15
• II Geometry Manipulation: 31
• 1 As Simple as Possible Tessellation for Interactive Applications: 33
• 2 RuleBased Geometry Synthesis in RealTime: 41
• 3 GPUBased NURBS Geometry Evaluation and Rendering: 67
• 4 PolygonalFunctional Hybrids for Computer Animation and Games: 87
• III Rendering Techniques: 115
• 1 Quadtree Displacement Mapping with Height Blending: 117
• 2 NPR Effects Using the Geometry Shader: 149
• 3 Alpha Blending as a PostProcess: 167
• 4 Virtual Texture Mapping 101: 185
• IV Global Illumination: 197
• 1 Fast StencilBased Multiresolution Splatting for Indirect Illumination: 199
• 2 ScreenSpace Directional Occlusion: 215
• 3 RealTime MultiBounce RayTracing with Geometry Impostors: 231
• V Image Space: 245
• 1 Anisotropic Kuwahara Filtering on the GPU: 247
• 2 Edge Antialiasing by PostProcessing: 265
• 3 Environment Mapping with FloydSteinberg Halftoning: 291
• 4 Hierarchical Item Buffers for Granular Occlusion Culling: 305
• 5 Realistic Depth of Field in Postproduction: 315
• 6 RealTime Screen Space Cloud Lighting: 327
• 7 ScreenSpace Subsurface Scattering: 335
• VI Handheld Devices: 353
• 1 Migration to OpenGL ES 20: 355
• 2 TouchscreenBased User Interaction: 375
• 3 iPhone 3GS Graphics Development and Optimization Strategies: 385
• 4 Optimizing a 3D UI Engine for Mobile Devices: 397
• VII Shadows: 413
• 1 Fast Conventional Shadow Filtering: 415
• 2 Hybrid MinMax PlaneBased Shadow Maps: 447
• 3 Shadow Mapping for Omnidirectional Light Using Tetrahedron Mapping: 455
• 4 Screen Space Soft Shadows: 477
• VIII 3D Engine Design: 493
• 1 MultiFragment Effects on the GPU Using Bucket Sort: 495
• 2 Parallelized Light PrePass Rendering with the Cell Broadband Engine: 509
• 3 Porting Code between Direct3D9 and OpenGL 20: 529
• 4 Practical Thread Rendering for DirectX 9: 541
• IX Game Postmortems: 547
• 1 Stylized Rendering in Spore: 549
• Bound in Blood: 561
• Lessons Learned Developing Just Cause 2: 571
• 4 Destructible Volumetric Terrain: 597
• X Beyond Pixels and Triangles: 611
• 1 Parallelized Implementation of Universal Visual Computer: 613
• 2 Accelerating Virtual Texturing Using CUDA: 623
• 3 Efficient Rendering of Highly Detailed Volumetric Scenes with GigaVoxels: 643
• 4 Spatial Binning on the GPU: 679
• 5 RealTime Interaction between Particles and the Dynamic Mesh on the GPU: 693
• Section Editors: 707
• Contributors: 709
• Back Cover: 716

About the author

Wolfgang Engel is the CTO & Co-Founder of Confetti Special Effects Inc. He worked for more than four years in Rockstar's core technology group as the lead graphics programmer. He is the editor of the ShaderX books, the author of several other books, and loves to talk about graphics programming. He is also a MVP DirectX since July 2006 and is active in several advisory boards in the industry.

Bibliographic information

• Title: GPU Pro: Advanced Rendering Techniques; Advanced Rendering Techniques
• Editor: Wolfgang Engel
• Publisher: CRC Press, 2010
• ISBN: 1439865531, 9781439865538
• Length: 742 pages
• Subjects: Computers / Computer Graphics; Computers / Programming / Games