GPU Technology Papers

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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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

Presentations

• 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 2007 Reprojection BibTex [PDF] [Movie] [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]
  • 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. [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