Irradiance Caching – Part 1
I finally finished writing the next article about the lightmap rendering tech that I did for The Witness. This one is about irradiance caching, and in particula...
Category: Coding
Software Patents are Programmer’s Responsibility
The other day I read this in Dark Shikari’s blog (one of the developers of x264): Most importantly, stop harassing the guy whose name is on the patent (La...
Matt’s Gregory ACC Tessellation Render
A while ago Matt Davidson contacted me to discuss a few issues with the Gregory ACC source code that we released. Turns out there were some issues in the code t...
Hemicube Rendering and Integration
I just posted another article about the global illumination solution that I implemented for The Witness, the second one in the series: The Witness – Hemic...
Watertight Tessellation: precise and fma
One important feature of Direct3D 11 and OpenGL 4, which I have seen very little written about, is the addition of a new precise qualifier. It’s no surpri...
The Witness
Jon has recently started a development blog about The Witness, the game that we have been working on during the last few months. So far there are a few posts ab...
OpenNL 3.0
GPGPU.org takes note that OpenNL 3.0 has just been released and that this new version comes with support for CUDA. That’s certainly interesting, but for me the ...
Continuity Mapping for Multi-Chart Textures
Naty Hoffman references a paper from Siggraph Asia titled Continuity Mapping for Multi-Chart Textures. The paper provides a solution to a problem that I’ve talk...
Efficient Substitutes for Subdivision Surfaces
Our siggraph course has been accepted and is finally up on the siggraph website! Here’s the brief description of the course: An overview of the most recent theo...
NVTT quote
I love this quote from Ivan-Assen Ivanov about the NVIDIA Texture Tools: We switched to CUDA nvcompress in our pipeline and totally forgot about it. Until yeste...