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Technology Papers

• Implementing A Fixed Function Shader in HLSL - Technology Paper
• Normal Map Compression
• Introduction to the DirectX® 9 High Level Shading Language - From ShaderX2
• Performance Optimization Techniques for ATI Graphics Hardware with DirectX®9.0
• Rendering Outdoor Light Scattering in Real Time

Presentations

• Rubin, N., 2008. “Issues and Challenges in Compiling for Graphics Processors” (keynote talk). International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization (CGO), Boston, Ma. Slides Video

• Ribble M. 2008. Next-Gen Tile Based GPUs. Conference Session. GDC Mobile 2008. February 19, 2008, San Francisco, CA. Slides
• Tatarchuk, N. 2008. Future-Proof Games with Real-Time Tessellation. Conference Session. Advanced Direct3D Tutorial Day, Game Developer's Conference, February 18, 2008, San Francisco, CA. Slides
• Vlachos, A. (Valve) Post Processing in The Orange Box. Conference Session. Advanced Direct3D Tutorial Day, Game Developer's Conference, February 18, 2008, San Francisco, CA. Slides
• Jon Story & Holger Grün. Harnessing the Power of Multiple GPUs. GDC08 Slides
• Jon Story, Holger Grün & Ignacio Llamas (NVIDIA). Harnessing the Power of Multiple GPUs. GDC08 AD3D Slides
• Richard Huddy. DirectX10.1 “DirectX 10 and then some…”: Slides
• Bill Bilodeau & Peter Lohrmann. Tessellation in a Low Poly World: Slides
• Nicolas Thibieroz. Ultimate Graphics Performance for DirectX 10 Hardware: Slides
• Jonathan Zarge & Dan Ginsburg. The Ultimate Developers Toolkit: Slides

• Tatarchuk, N. Tomorrow's Rendering Today: High Quality Interactive Rendering with Real-Time Tessellation on GPU. Invited industry talk. ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games (I3D'08). March, 2008. Redwood City, CA Slides

• Tatarchuk, N. 2007. Topics in Tessellation for High Quality Real-Time Rendering in Computer Graphics. Eurographics Game Industry Presentations Track: New Technologies and Solutions session. Eurographics, Prague, Czech Republic, September 2007.Slides

• Course 24: GPGPU: General-Purpose Computation on Graphics Hardware
  • Hensley, J. Close to the Metal. Course 24 - GPGPU: General-Purpose Computation on Graphics Hardware. ACM SIGGRAPH, San Diego, CA. August 2007. Slides
  • Hensley, J. and Yang, J. Tuning GPGPU Applications for Performance. Course 24 - GPGPU: General-Purpose Computation on Graphics Hardware. ACM SIGGRAPH, San Diego, CA. August 2007. Slides
• Course 28: Advanced Real-Time Rendering in 3D Graphics and Games
  • Advanced Real-Time Rendering in 3D Graphics and Games, Course 28 Full course notes PDF
  • Tatarchuk, N. (AMD), Shopf, J. (AMD), DeCoro, C. (Princeton / AMD). 2007. Real-Time Isosurface Extraction Using the GPU Programmable Geometry Pipeline. ACM SIGGRAPH 2007: Proceedings of the conference on SIGGRAPH 2007 course notes, course 28, Advanced Real-Time Rendering in 3D Graphics and Games, pp. 122-137. 2007 Chapter 9 Bibtex Course notes, Chapter 9
  • Tatarchuk, N. Course Introduction. Course 28: Advanced Real-Time Rendering in 3D Graphics and Games. ACM SIGGRAPH, San Diego, CA. August 2007. Slides
  • Drone, S. Real-Time Particle System on the GPU in Dynamic Environments. Course 28: Advanced Real-Time Rendering in 3D Graphics and Games. ACM SIGGRAPH, San Diego, CA. August 2007. Slides
  • Galoppo, N. Dynamic Deformation Textures. Course 28: Advanced Real-Time Rendering in 3D Graphics and Games. ACM SIGGRAPH, San Diego, CA. August 2007. Slides Project web page
  • Green, C. Surface Detail Maps with Soft Self-Shadowing. Course 28: Advanced Real-Time Rendering in 3D Graphics and Games. ACM SIGGRAPH, San Diego, CA. August 2007. Slides
  • Green, C. Simple, Fast Vector Texture Maps on GPU. Course 28: Advanced Real-Time Rendering in 3D Graphics and Games. ACM SIGGRAPH, San Diego, CA. August 2007. Slides
  • Tatarchuk, N. Real-Time Tessellation on GPU. Course 28: Advanced Real-Time Rendering in 3D Graphics and Games. ACM SIGGRAPH, San Diego, CA. August 2007. Slides
    • Movie: Morph Animation with Tessellation
    • Movie: Terrain tessellation
    • Movie: Character rendering with tessellation
  • Boulton, M. Tessellation in Viva Piñata. Course 28: Advanced Real-Time Rendering in 3D Graphics and Games. ACM SIGGRAPH, San Diego, CA. August 2007. Slides Movie: Morph Animation with Tessellation
  • Mitchell, J. Interactive Illustrative Rendering in Team Fortress 2. Course 28: Advanced Real-Time Rendering in 3D Graphics and Games. ACM SIGGRAPH, San Diego, CA. August 2007. Slides
    • Movie 1
    • Movie 2
    • Movie 3
    • Movie 4
  • Andersson, J. Terrain Rendering in Frostbite using Procedural Shader Splatting Course 28: Advanced Real-Time Rendering in 3D Graphics and Games. ACM SIGGRAPH, San Diego, CA. August 2007. Slides
  • Oat, C. Real-Time Wrinkles. Course 28: Advanced Real-Time Rendering in 3D Graphics and Games. ACM SIGGRAPH, San Diego, CA. August 2007. Slides Movie
  • Mittring, M. Finding Next Gen CryEngine2. Course 28: Advanced Real-Time Rendering in 3D Graphics and Games. ACM SIGGRAPH, San Diego, CA. August 2007. Slides
  • Sander, P. V., Nehab, D., Barczak, J. Fast Triangle Reordering for Vertex Locality and Reduced Overdraw. In proceedings of ACM Transactions on Graphics - SIGGRAPH 2007, San Diego, California, July 2007, Volume 26, Issue 3, Article 89. August 2007. Tootle2_BibTex PDF Slides
  • Hensley, J., Isidoro, J., Preetham, A. J. Combining computer vision and physics simulations using GPGPU. SIGGRAPH 2007 Sketch, SESSION: Looking good, Article No. 79, August 2007. DepthExtraction_BibTex PDF Slides
• Technical talks
  • Wiley, A. and Scheuermann, T. The Art and Technology of Whiteout. AMD Technical Talk, ACM SIGGRAPH, San Diego, CA. August 2007. Slides Movie
  • Tatarchuk, N. and Shopf, J. Real-Time Medical Visualization with FireGL. AMD Technical Talk, ACM SIGGRAPH, San Diego, CA. August 2007. Slides Movie

• Doggett, M. AMD's Radeon HD 2900. Hot 3D Session, Graphics Hardware 2007. San Diego, CA, August 2007. Slides
• Nehab, D., Sander, P.V., Lawrence, J., Tatarchuk, N., Isidoro, J. Accelerating Real-Time Shading with Reverse Reprojection Caching. GH '07: Proceedings of the 22nd ACM SIGGRAPH/EUROGRAPHICS symposium on Graphics hardware, pp. 25-35, San Diego, CA, August 2007. Reprojection BibTex PDF Movie Slides

GCDC 2007 Leipzig

• AMD GPU Tools for games development
• Harnessing the Power of DirectX 10

Develop Brighton - AMD Technical day (guest Microsoft)

• Presentations
  • Develop Introduction
  • AMD CPU Roadmap
  • Multi-Core Coding for Games & Phenom™ Software Optimization
  • ATI Radeon™ HD 2000 Series Technology Overview
  • Harnessing the Power of DX10
  • AMD GPU Tools for Games

GDC 2007

• Presentations
  • GDC 2007
    • Ginsburg, D. OpenGL ES 2.0 : Start Developing Now. Conference Session. GDC 2007. March 5-9, 2007, San Francisco, CA. Slides
    • Advanced Direct3D Tutorial Day
      • Riguer, G. DirectX10: Porting, Performance and “Gotchas”. Conference Session. GDC 2007. March 5-9, 2007, San Francisco, CA. Slides
      • Tatarchuk, N. The Importance of Being Noisy: Fast, High Quality Noise. Conference Session. GDC 2007. March 5-9, 2007, San Francisco, CA. Slides
      • Wenzel, C. (Crytek) Real-time Atmospheric Effects in Games Revisited. Conference Session. GDC 2007. March 5-9, 2007, San Francisco, CA. Slides
    • AMD Sponsored Sessions
      • Andersson, J. (DICE), Tatarchuk, N. Frostbite Rendering Architecture and Real-time Procedural Shading & Texturing Techniques. AMD Sponsored Session. GDC 2007. March 5-9, 2007, San Francisco, CA. Slides
      • Gruen, H. Performance Profiling with AMD GPU Tools: A Case Study. AMD Sponsored Session. GDC 2007. March 5-9, 2007, San Francisco, CA. Slides
      • Shopf, J., Debuy, S. Procedural Tools and Techniques for Current and Future Game Platforms. AMD Sponsored Session. GDC 2007. March 5-9, 2007, San Francisco, CA. Part 1: Gettin' Procedural (Slides)
      • Zarge, J., Sowerby, S. AMD Graphics Developer Performance Tools. AMD Sponsored Session. GDC 2007. March 5-9, 2007, San Francisco, CA. Slides

I3D 2007

• Conference Papers
  • Nehab, D., Sander, P.V., Lawrence, J., Tatarchuk, N., Isidoro, J. Accelerating Real-Time Shading with Reverse Reprojection Caching. GH '07: Proceedings of the 22nd ACM SIGGRAPH/EUROGRAPHICS symposium on Graphics hardware, pp. 25-35, San Diego, CA, August 2007Reprojection BibTex PDF MovieSlides
  • Sander, P. V., Nehab, D., Barczak, J. Fast Triangle Reordering for Vertex Locality and Reduced Overdraw. In proceedings of ACM Transactions on Graphics - SIGGRAPH 2007, San Diego, California, July 2007, Volume 26, Issue 3, Article 89. August 2007. Tootle2_ BibTex PDFSlides
  • DeCoro, C., Tatarchuk, N. Real-time Mesh Simplification Using the GPU. To appear in proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games (SI3D '07). MeshSimpl BibTex PDF Project Page (Princeton)
  • Oat, C., Sander, P. V. 2007. Ambient Aperture Lighting. To appear in proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games (SI3D '07). AmbAperture BibTex PDF
  • Scheuermann, T., Hensley, J. 2007. Efficient Histogram Generation Using Scattering on GPUs. To appear in proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games (SI3D '07). GPU Histogram BibTex PDF
• Conference Course Notes
  • NOTE that updated course notes with more material will be posted on this webpage shortly, please check back in two weeks
• Conference Sketches
  • Hensley, J., Isidoro, J., Preetham, A. J. Combining computer vision and physics simulations using GPGPU. SIGGRAPH 2007 Sketch, SESSION: Looking good, Article No. 79, August 2007.
    DepthExtraction BibTex PDF Slides
• Conference Posters
  • Dachsbacher, C., Tatarchuk, N. Prism Parallax Occlusion Mapping with Accurate Silhouette Generation. To appear in proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games (SI3D '07) as poster. PrismPOM BibTex PDF Video

Sweden Technical Day

• Welcome ATI Technical Day
• Preparing Games for Windows Vista
• Clever Shader Tricks
• AMD Designing for N cores
• HavokFX - Next Gen Physics on ATI GPUs
• Introduction to D3D10
• Graphics Performance
• Profiling and Debugging with PIX
• AMD Technology and Software

Eurographics 2006

• Tatarchuk, N. ATI ToyShop. Animation Track, Best of Eurographics Animation Festival, Eurographics, Vienna, Austria, September 2006. Slides MPG 320 x 240 Download

Eurographics Workshop on Natural Phenomena 2006

• Tatarchuk, N. Artist-Directable Real-Time Rain Rendering in City Environments. Eurographics Workshop on Natural Phenomena, Vienna, Austria, September 2006. Slides Paper PDF

ACM Siggraph 2006

• Scheuermann, T. Render to Vertex Buffer with D3D9. Course 3: GPU Shading and Rendering. Siggraph, Boston, MA. August 2006. Slides
• Tatarchuk, N. Advanced Real-Time Rendering in 3D Graphics and Games - Introduction. Course 26: Advanced Real-Time Rendering in 3D Graphics and Games. Siggraph, Boston, MA. August 2006. Slides [Course Notes, Introduction]
• Sander, P. The Parthenon Demo: Preprocessing and Real-Time Rendering Techniques for Large Datasets. Course 26: Advanced Real-Time Rendering in 3D Graphics and Games. Siggraph, Boston, MA. August 2006. Slides [Course Notes, Chapter 1 and 2]
• Oat, C. Rendering Gooey Materials with Multiple Layers . Course 26: Advanced
  Real-Time Rendering in 3D Graphics and Games. Siggraph, Boston, MA.
  August 2006. Slides [Course Notes, Chapter 4]
• Evans, A. (Media Molecule). Fast Approximations for Global Illumination on Dynamic Scenes. Course 26: Advanced Real-Time Rendering in 3D Graphics and Games. Siggraph, Boston, MA. August 2006. Slides [Course Notes, Chapter 9]
• Tatarchuk, N. Parallax Occlusion Mapping for Detailed Surface Rendering. Course 26: Advanced Real-Time Rendering in 3D Graphics and Games. Siggraph, Boston, MA. August 2006. Slides [Course Notes, Chapter 5]
• Mitchell, J. (Valve) Shading in Valve’s Source Engine. Course 26: Advanced Real-Time Rendering in 3D Graphics and Games. Siggraph, Boston, MA. August 2006. Slides [Course Notes, Chapter 7]
  • Video: Constant Albedo versus Ambient Cube Albedo
  • Video: Alyx Phong Close-up
  • Video: Alyx Sun Rim Light
  • Video: Constant versus Ambient Cube
  • Video: Specular wall
• Tatarchuk, N. Artist-Directable Real-Time Rain Rendering in City Environments. Course 26: Advanced Real-Time Rendering in 3D Graphics and Games. Siggraph, Boston, MA. August 2006. Slides [Course Notes, Chapter 5]
• Oat, C. Ambient Aperture Lighting. Course 26: Advanced Real-Time Rendering in 3D Graphics and Games. Siggraph, Boston, MA. August 2006. Slides [Course Notes, Chapter 8]
• Wenzel, C. (Crytek) Real-Time Atmospheric Effects in Games. Course 26: Advanced Real-Time Rendering in 3D Graphics and Games. Siggraph, Boston, MA.
  August 2006. Slides [Course Notes, Chapter 6]
  • Video: GDC 2006 Video
  • Video: CryEngine2 Day and Night Cycle
  • Video: CryEngine2 River Sequence
  • Video: CryEngine2 Soft Particles
  • Video: CryEngine2 Volumetric Lightning

Academia

• Tatarchuk, N. 2006. Graphics Research at ATI. Graphics Hardware Day, CSAIL, MIT, Cambridge, MA. July 2006

Develop Brighton - ATI Technical day plus special guests (Intel and Microsoft)

• DirectX 10 for Techies
• Clever Shader Tricks
• Intel's new Core™ Microarchitecture
• Profiling Threaded Games
• Coding for Multiple Cores
• Graphics Performance
• Practical examples of multi-threading in games
• Microsoft Get Ready for Direct3D 10
• Microsoft Getting Ready for Windows Vista

Russian Game Developer Conference - KRI 2006 (in Russian)

• The future of OpenGL
• OpenGL Performance Tuning
• Render-to-Vertex Buffer Approaches
• Practical Parallax Occlusion Mapping For Highly Detailed Surface Rendering
• Artist-Directable Real-Time Rain Rendering in City Environments
• The Ancient Temples, The Modern Cities, and the Stars: GPU Journeys with the ATI Demo Team. Part II: ToyShop Revealed
• DirectX9 optimization for the Radeon X1000 series
• ATI SDK and Tools
• How to Work on Next Gen Effects Now: Bridging DX10 and DX9
• HDR on Radeon X1000 series

GDC 2006

• Advanced D3D Tutorial Day - Optimizing DirectX9 Graphics
• Advanced D3D Tutorial Day - How to Work on Next Gen Effects Now: Bridging DX10 and DX9
• Advanced D3D Tutorial Day - Artist-Directable Real Real-Time Rain Rendering in Time Rain Rendering in City Environments
• ATI Session - The Ancient Temples, The Modern Cities, and the Stars: GPU Journeys with the ATI demo team Part I: Parthenon
• ATI Session - Efficient Shader Tricks
• ATI Session - The Ancient Temples, The Modern Cities, and the Stars: GPU Journeys with the ATI demo team Part III: The Galaxies
• ATI Session - The Ancient Temples, The Modern Cities, and the Stars: GPU Journeys with the ATI demo team Part II: ToyShop Revealed
• ATI Session - Squeezing Performance out of your Game with ATI Developer Performance Tools and Optimization Techniques
• GLES Tutorial Day - Advanced Rendering Techniques with OpenGL ES 1.1+
• GLES Tutorial Day - OpenGL ES 1.1+ and ES 2.0
• OpenGL Tutorial Day - Advanced Visual Effects with Advanced Visual Effects with OpenGL OpenGL
• Practical Parallax Occlusion Mapping For Highly Detailed Mapping
• Isidoro, J. R. Shadow Mapping: GPU-based Tips and Techniques. Conference Session. GDC 2006. March 2006, San Jose, CA.slides
• GDCMobile2006 - Change to OpenGL ES 2.0: Shaders Go Mobile

I3D 2006

• Triangle Order Optimization for Efficient Graphics Hardware Computation Culling
• Dynamic Parallax Occlusion Dynamic Parallax Occlusion Mapping with Approximate Mapping with Approximate Soft Shadows Soft Shadows

EG2005 Conference

• Xenos: XBOX360 GPU

GDC-E 2005

• Richer Worlds for Next Gen Games
• Irradiance Volumes for Games

SIGGRAPH 2005

• Chapter 10: Computation Culling with Explicit Early-Z and Dynamic Flow Control
• Introduction to the DirectX9 High Level Shading Language
• Filtering Cubemaps:Angular Extent Filtering and Edge Seam Fixup Methods
• Interactive Summed-Area Table: Generation for Glossy Environmental Reflections
• Explicit Early-Z Culling and Dynamic Flow Control on Graphics Hardware
• DirectX® 9 High Level Shading Language
• Practical Dynamic Parallax Occlusion Mapping
• GPU Shading and Rendering, Shading Compilers Notes
• GPU Shading and Rendering, Shading Compilers Slides

GDC 2005

• OpenGL Tutorial Day Presentations
  • OpenGL Performance Tuning
  • OpenGL Shading Language
• Advanced Visual Effects with Direct3D
  • 3.0 Shaders
  • Optimization
  • Advances in Real-Time Skin Rendering
  • Making Pretty Pictures with Direct3D, by Alex Evans of Lionhead Studios
  • Far Cry and DirectX, by Carsten Wenzel of Crytek
• ATI Sponsored Sessions
  • Bringing Hollywood to Real-Time
  • CubeMapGen
  • Cubemap Filtering with CubeMapGen
  • Dynamic Image-Space Per-Pixel Displacement Mapping with Silhouette Antialiasing via Parallax Occlusion Mapping
  • Irradiance Volumes for Games
  • Optimizing for DirectX Graphics
  • RenderMonkey 1.6
  • Ruby: Dangerous Curves Effects
  • Summed-Area Tables And Their Application to Dynamic Glossy Environment Reflections

SIGGRAPH 2004

• ASHLI - Multipass for Lower Precision Targets
• Real-Time Skin Rendering on Graphics Hardware
  • Movie , Slides
• Practical Real-Time Hair Rendering and Shading
  • Movie , Slides
• RenderMonkey: An Effective Environment for Shader Prototyping and Development
  • Movie , Slides
• Making of Ruby: The DoubleCross
• Real-Time Shading Course
  • Explicit Use of Early-Z Notes , Slides
  • HLSL Notes , Slides

2004 Eurographics Conference on Graphics Hardware

• UberFlow: A GPU-Based Particle Engine
  • Movie

GDC 2004

• OpenGL Tutorial Day presentations
  • The OpenGL Shading Language
  • OpenGL Performance Tuning
  • OpenGL ARB Superbuffers
• RenderMonkey sponsored session presentations
  • Custom Component Development with the RenderMonkey SDK
  • New RenderMonkey features for DirectX and OpenGL Shader Development
• Adding Spherical Harmonic Lighting to the Sushi Engine
• Procedural Shaders: A Feature Animation Perspective
• Advanced Visual Effects with Direct3D
  • Shader models
  • Optimization
  • Deferred Shading by Shawn Hargreaves, Climax
  • Optimizing Star Wars: Galaxies by Jeff Grills, Sony Online Entertainment
  • Real Time Skin Rendering
  • Half-Life 2 / Source Shading by Gary McTaggart, Valve Software
• ATI Sponsored Sessions
  • Save the Nanosecond! PC Graphics Performance for the next 3 years
  • Volumetric Light Shaft Rendering
  • Real Time Skin Rendering
  • Hair Rendering and Shading
  • Advanced Depth of Field
  • Drawing a Diamond

KRI 2004 (in Russian)

• Introduction to GLSL
• Graphics Effects

NetSeminar December 2003

• Advanced visual effects with DirectX® 9 and ATI

NetSeminar November 2003

• RenderMonkey

Mojo Reloaded

• Real-Time 3D Scene Post-Processing
• The Dark Secrets of Shader Development

GDCE 2003

• Designing a Portable Shader Library for Current and Future API's
• Real-Time 3D Scene Post-processing
• Efficient High-Level Shader Development

EuroGraphics 2003

• ASHLI Viewer Poster - Eurographics 2003
• ASHLI Viewer Notes - Eurographics 2003

NetSeminar

• High Level Shading with DirectX® 9 on Radeon 9700- Net Seminar

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