Category: Coding

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...

Yesterday I released another revision of the stable branch of the NVIDIA Texture Tools. I recommend everybody to upgrade, since it fixes some bugs and artifacts...

Even thought the DXT compression format is widely adopted, most of the hardware implementations use a slightly different decompression algorithm. The problem is...

This is a trick that I learned from Matthias Wloka during my job interview at NVIDIA. I thought I had a good understanding of the behavior of the vertex post-tr...

I think that the Average Cache Miss Ratio (ACMR) is not the best way of measuring the efficiency of the vertex cache under different mesh optimization algorithm...

Denis finally put his I3D paper online! Denis was my intern a couple of summers ago. We worked together on the implementation of the an emulation framework to i...

Hardware tessellation is probably the most notable feature of Direct3D11. Direct3D11 was announced at the last Gamefest and a technical preview was released in ...

Since my Gamefest talk I’ve received numerous questions about the ownership-based zippering algorithm that I proposed. So, I’ll try to explain it in more detail...

Subdivision Shading is a new approach to compute normal fields of subdivision surfaces that was presented at SIGGRAPH Asia 2008. It’s a very simple idea that pr...

One of the problems when implementing displacement mapping is dealing with texture seams. Texture seams are discontinuities in the parameterization. These disco...