Tag Archives: realtime graphics

Minimal setup screen space quads: No buffers/layouts required

Posted on 3.3.2012 by Anteru (Updated on 3.3.2012)

A neat trick that Rory Driscoll  mentioned on Twitter is to use vertex IDs to generate screen space quads. I just recently came around to use that in my stuff, so here’s some ready-to-use code. The advantage of using the … Continue reading →

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OpenCL for realtime rendering: What’s missing?

Posted on 6.12.2011 by Anteru (Updated on 10.1.2012)

I’m a heavy user of OpenCL, relying on it exclusively for all my highly parallel computing needs. Recently, I started using OpenCL as a replacement for DirectCompute for a DirectX11 based renderer, and while it’s close, there is still a … Continue reading →

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Automated testing on my latest research project

Posted on 1.11.2010 by Anteru

During the last months, I implemented lots of different graphics algorithms with many settings. One core theme that appeared throughout this project was testing: Both how to prevent regressions, as well as how to build a framework that new algorithms … Continue reading →

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Light propagation volumes

Posted on 22.7.2010 by Anteru (Updated on 6.11.2010)

A student of mine (Andreas Kirsch) just recently finished his implementation of light propagation volumes. His implementation is available under the very liberal BSD license, so be sure to grab it while it’s hot. There’s also a bunch of corrections in there, … Continue reading →

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