Computer graphics

Vulkan and Metal seem great.

Notes

• To get started in 3d graphics all you really need to understand is how to multiply a bunch of 4x4 matrices together. From there it is a matter of learning how to put that to good effect.

Links

• Physically Based Rendering Book (Web) (V3) (V4) (Contents) (HN)
• NVIDIA GeForce RTX - Official Launch Event (2018)
• Writing to framebuffer
• GUI Development is broken (2018)
• Writing to the framebuffer (2018)
• Spectrum - Client-side image transcoding library.
• Computer Graphics Topics
• Tiny Renderer or how OpenGL works: software rendering in 500 lines of code - Brief computer graphics / rendering course. (In Rust) (HN)
• Looperepool - Tool to create looperinos.
• KABOOM! in 180 lines of bare C++ - Brief computer graphics / rendering course.
• imutils - Series of convenience functions to make basic image processing operations such as translation, rotation, resizing, skeletonization, and displaying Matplotlib images easier with OpenCV and Python.
• Cross-platform GPU fluid simulation
• Interactive Cube
• Skia - Open source 2D graphics library which provides common APIs that work across a variety of hardware and software platforms. (Code)
• Introduction to Raymarching
• 2D Graphics on Modern GPU (2019)
• Resources for Learning Graphics Programming
• Cellular Forms - Implementation of Andy Lomas' Cellular Forms.
• Physically Based Rendering - Implementation of physically based shading model & image based lighting in various graphics APIs. (Web)
• graphics-resources - Few of my bookmarks related to game development and realtime graphics programming.
• Magnum - Lightweight and modular C++11/C++14 graphics middleware for games and data visualization. (HN)
• Pathfinder - Fast, practical, GPU-based rasterizer for fonts and vector graphics using OpenGL 3.0+, OpenGL ES 3.0+, or Metal.
• Braid - Experimental heterogeneous programming language with an application to real-time graphics. (Code)
• SwiftShader - High-performance CPU-based implementation of the Vulkan, OpenGL ES, and Direct3D 9 graphics APIs.
• Thoughts on software rendering (2020)
• Notes on linear transformations (2020)
• Collision detection: article series (2018) (HN)
• Learning Modern 3D Graphics Programming (Code)
• light2d - Light rendering in 2D.
• Seamless, static, 3D mesh multi-texturer
• Aliasing in computer graphics (2020)
• 3D Reaction-Diffusion
• NeRF: Neural Radiance Fields - Tensorflow implementation of optimizing a neural representation for a single scene and rendering new views. (Web)
• A thoroughly modern particle system (2009) (HN)
• Stanford Interactive Computer Graphics (2020) (Code)
• Klein - Specialized SIMD Geometric Algebra Library.
• Basic Skeletal Animation with Geometric Algebra (HN)
• MIT Computer Graphics course (2012)
• Neural Point-Based Graphics
• V-HACD - Decomposes a 3D surface into a set of "near" convex parts.
• Geometric Algebra for Computer Graphics (2019) (HN)
• Graphics Gems books (Code)
• Real-Time Rendering Resources
• Eric Haines courses/research
• Accurate geometric camera calibration
• rs_pbrt - Rust crate to implement at least parts of the PBRT book's C++ code.
• Stippling and Blue Noise (2011)
• MeshLab - Open source, portable, and extensible system for the processing and editing of unstructured large 3D triangular meshes.
• Visual Computing Lab
• Silhouette Maps for Improved Texture Magnification (2004) (Tweet)
• gltf-viewer - Rust glTF 2.0 viewer, written using the gltf crate and plain OpenGL.
• gltf-loader-ts - Engine-agnostic glTF 2.0 loader in TypeScript.
• Principles of Lighting and Rendering with John Carmack (2013)
• Wave Simulator - Graphical 3D simulation of the wave and heat equations. (Code)
• Probulator - Experimentation framework for probe-based lighting.
• librush - Graphics prototyping framework. (Examples)
• High-Performance MLS-MPM Solver with Cutting and Coupling
• Computer Graphics course by Keenan Crane (2020)
• How 3D video games do graphics (2020) (Reddit)
• The Physics of Light and Rendering - John Carmack (2013)
• Computer Graphics from Scratch (Web) (HN) (HN 2) (TOC) (HN)
• Online path sampling control with progressive spatio-temporal filtering (2020) (Twitter)
• A sort-middle architecture for 2D graphics (2020)
• Journal of Computer Graphics Techniques
• A Massive Fractal in Days, Not Years (2020)
• Massively Parallel Rendering of Complex Closed-Form Implicit Surfaces (2020)
• Graphics Study: Red Dead Redemption 2 (2020)
• Re-stacking the GUI stack (2020) (Lobsters)
• Alpha Waves was the first 3D platform game (2020) (HN)
• Lights and Shadows (2020) (HN)
• Can’t Invert the CDF? The Triangle-Cut Parameterization of the Region under the Curve (2020) (Talk)
• Coding Adventure: Portals (2020)
• Computation graphs and graph computation (2020) (Lobsters) (HN)
• Graphics Programming Projects
• Motion Capture from Internet Videos (2020)
• SPIR-V - Binary intermediate language for representing graphical-shader stages and compute kernels for multiple Khronos APIs, including OpenCL, OpenGL, and Vulkan.
• SPIRV-Cross - Tool designed for parsing and converting SPIR-V to other shader languages.
• Low Level Graphics Library (LLGL) - Abstraction layer for the modern graphics APIs OpenGL, Direct3D, Vulkan, and Metal.
• Band-Limiting Procedural Textures (2020)
• The compositor causes problems and leads to complexity (2020) (HN)
• Rendering the Hellscape of Doom Eternal (2020)
• Introduction to Computer Graphics (2018) (HN)
• Ray Marching Soft Shadows in 2D (2020) (HN)
• The polygons of DOOM: PSX (2020)
• A trip through the Graphics Pipeline 2011
• Fooling Around with Foveated Rendering (2020) (HN)
• "Panini projection", probably used by the Baroque painters, allows us to render images with wide field-of-vision (here 170°) more nicely than the usual perspective
• HDRI Haven - 100% Free High Quality HDRIs for Everyone.
• TwinklebearDev SDL 2.0 Tutorial (Code)
• Will Usher's research
• Graphics Samples of Jiayin Cao
• Jiayin Cao Graphics Notes Blog
• Text layout is a loose hierarchy of segmentation (2020) (HN)
• Bundler - Bundler Structure from Motion Toolkit.
• CMU Computer Graphics course (2020) (Exams) (Tweet)
• Nvdiffrast - Modular Primitives for High-Performance Differentiable Rendering.
• Mesa - 3D Graphics Library. (Web)
• A Comparison of Modern Graphics APIs (2020)
• Fluid Engine Dev - Jet - Fluid simulation engine SDK for computer graphics applications. (Web)
• meshoptimizer - Mesh optimization library that makes meshes smaller and faster to render.
• Mitsuba 2: Retargetable Forward and Inverse Renderer (Differentiable Renderer) (HN)
• RGL: Realistic Graphics Lab
• Eight Years at Roblox (2020) (HN)
• Mitsuba Renderer 2 - Research-oriented rendering system written in portable C++17.
• Painting a Selfie Girl, with Maths (2020)
• Building an artificial sun that looks unbelievably realistic (2020)
• Computer Graphics at Stanford University
• Wojciech Jarosz Bibliography - Publications mostly in computer graphics, rendering, transport theory, and statistics.
• OpenImageIO - Reading, writing, and processing images in a wide variety of file formats, using a format-agnostic API, aimed at VFX applications.
• Deep Learning Medical Decathlon Demos for Python
• Computer Animation and Simulation (2020)
• Blend2D - 2D Vector Graphics Powered by a JIT Compiler. (Web)
• GLFW - Multi-platform library for OpenGL, OpenGL ES, Vulkan, window and input. (Code)
• Hallucinations re: the rendering of Cyberpunk 2077 (2020) (HN)
• Why are video games graphics challenging? Productionizing rendering algorithms (2020) (HN)
• Universal Scene Description (USD) - Efficient, scalable system for authoring, reading, and streaming time-sampled scene description for interchange between graphics applications. (Code)
• Pixar Graphics Technologies (GitHub)
• Introduction to Computer Graphics (2020) (Assignments) (Tweet)
• Pixar's Render Farm (2021) (HN)
• Graphics Studies Compilation (2020)
• Smooth Voxel Terrain (2012) (HN)
• Michael Abrash's Graphics Programming Black Book
• Instant Meshes - Interactive field-aligned mesh generator.
• Graphics in Overlapping Bitmap Layers (1983)
• Graphics Programming Weekly (HN)
• Ask HN: How to self-learn graphics programming? (2021)
• A Guide to the Graphics of the Sega Mega Drive / Genesis
• Computing gradients on grids of pixels and voxels – forward, central, and… diagonal differences (2021)
• It's raymarching march (2021)
• Fitting cubic Bézier curves (2021)
• PlenOctrees for Real-time Rendering of Neural Radiance Fields (Code) (HN) (Talk)
• Understanding and Extending Neural Radiance Fields (Jonathan T. Barron) (2020)
• Rendering large 3D tilemaps with a single draw call at 3000 FPS (2021)
• Example-based texture synthesis written in Rust
• A Pixel Is Not a Little Square (1995) (HN)
• Film simulations from scratch using Python (2021)
• Computer Graphics Papers Parody
• Sharper Mipmapping using Shader Based Supersampling (2019)
• Graphics Pipelines for Young Bloods (2021) (HN)
• 125 Artists Create Unique Renders From a Simple Prompt (2020)
• A Macro View of Nanite (2021) (HN)
• Rotations with quaternions (2021)
• Implementing strict three-point perspective (HN)
• IconVG - Compact, binary format for simple vector graphics. (HN)
• Asymptote - 2D & 3D TeX-Aware Vector Graphics Language. (Web)
• three-d - Renderer written in Rust which compiles to both desktop (OpenGL) and web (WebAssembly + WebGL)..
• Top 100 3D Renders from the Internet's Largest CG Challenge | Alternate Realities (2021)
• ThorVG - Platform-independent portable library for drawing vector-based scenes and animations. (Web)
• NVIDIA Canvas - Turn Simple Brushstrokes into Realistic Images. (HN) (Article)
• How do games render their scenes? (2021)
• Visibility Buffer Rendering with Material Graphs (2021)
• Smoothstep Integral (HN)
• Rendering 1M+ Particles (2021) - Using Points and Shaders.
• Incoherent-Light-Simulation - Research simulation of the propagation of incoherent light, aiming to illustrate the concept of spatial coherence.
• RGBFAQ - Documentary about synthetic data, simulations and computer graphics.
• Global Illumination - What It Is, How Does It Work And Why Do We Need It? (2021) (Tweet)
• Real-Time Shading with Polyhedral Lights using Silhouette Detection
• Pixar cofounder Alvy Ray Smith on ‘A Biography of the Pixel’ (2021)
• Surface Multigrid via Intrinsic Prolongation (Code)
• Neural Subdivision - Novel framework for data-driven coarse-to-fine geometry modeling. (Code)
• An Introduction to Deep Learning on Meshes (Tutorials)
• NPMs: Neural Parametric Models for 3D Deformable Shapes (Code)
• Chaikin’s Algorithm: Drawing Curves (2021) (HN)
• A Practical Model for Subsurface Light Transport
• Scratchapixel - Learn Computer Graphics From Scratch.
• Graphics Workshop - Learn computer graphics by writing GPU shaders.
• MaterialX - Open standard for transfer of rich material and look-development content between applications and renderers. (Web)
• Appearance-Driven Automatic 3D Model Simplification (2021) (Code)
• How to make simple water graphics
• Awesome Fluid Dynamics
• ReactCasting - Raycasting algorithm that renders pseudo 3D scene in HTML using React (no canvas) and renders as text in textarea or console.
• Exponential Map, Angle Axis, and Angular Velocity (2021)
• Visualizing Rotation Spaces (2021)
• Learned Motion Matching (2020)
• Swapchains and Frame Pacing (2021) (HN)
• Graphics Programming Resources List
• Graphics Programming Virtual Meetup Meeting Notes
• Graphics Programming Virtual Meetup (Discord) (Twitter)
• Unbiased Emission and Scattering Importance Sampling For Heterogeneous Volumes (2021) (Article)
• Takua Renderer - Physically-based photorealistic global illumination renderer. (Porting Takua Renderer to 64-bit ARM) (Shadow Terminator in Takua)
• Magic Shop RenderMan Art Challenge (2021)
• Raya and the Last Dragon (2021)
• Shipshape RenderMan Art Challenge (2020)
• Can Data Die? Tracking the Lenna Image (2021)
• Curves and Surfaces (2021) (HN) (Tweet)
• OctaneRender - Fastest unbiased, spectrally correct GPU render engine, delivering quality and speed.
• OTOY - Future of holographic rendering is in the cloud. (Twitter)
• NAP Framework - Open source, low overhead, real-time control & visualization platform. (Code)
• Awesome Point Cloud Analysis
• Adventures in Hybrid Rendering
• Retro Synthwave - Giving a 2D grid a 3D look. (HN)
• Good Graphics - Artistic practice of Romello Goodman.
• FNA3D - 3D Graphics Library for FNA. (Web)
• Universal Volumetric - Free, fast, cross-platform volumetric codec for everyone.
• Text2Mesh Text-Driven Neural Stylization for Meshes (2021) (Code)
• Building a PS1 style retro 3D renderer (2021) (HN)
• Model Synthesis - Model synthesis is a technique for generating 2D and 3D shapes from examples. (Web)
• PyVista - 3D plotting and mesh analysis through a streamlined interface for the Visualization Toolkit (VTK). (Docs)
• How to Draw S-Curved Arrows Between Boxes / Rectangles (2021) (HN)
• A Meta-er-verse (2021)
• Finding Your Home in Game Graphics Programming (HN)
• Distance, Time-of-Impact, and Closest-Point-of-Approach between Convex 2D Shapes
• Signed Distance Field (SDF) Resources
• Journal of Graphics Tools
• Awesome Voxel
• nsdf
• The Fastest GIF Does Not Exist (2022) (HN) (Reddit)
• Collision Detection Book (Code)
• 4 Ways to Create a Mesh for a Sphere
• Exposure Fusion – local tonemapping for real-time rendering (2022)
• Corners Don't Look Like That: Regarding Screenspace Ambient Occlusion (2012)
• Computer Graphics : Spring 2022
• Scotty3D - 3D graphics software package includes components for interactive mesh editing, realistic path tracing, and dynamic animation.
• Glad - Multi-Language GL/GLES/EGL/GLX/WGL Loader-Generator based on the official specs. (Code)
• Why are 2D vector graphics so much harder than 3D? (2019) (HN)
• Neural Volumes: Learning Dynamic Renderable Volumes from Images (2019) (Code)
• Graphics Developer Roadmap
• 7GUIs - Reflect as many typical (or fundamental or representative) challenges in GUI programming as possible. (HN)
• Xilem: an architecture for UI in Rust (2022) (HN) (Lobsters)
• Differentiable Signed Distance Function Rendering (2022) (HN) (Code)
• Real-Time Polygonal-Light Shading with Linearly Transformed Cosines (Code)
• Multi-platform experiments in framebuffer drawing performance (2021)
• Basic fact all graphics coders should know
• Interactive Surface Flow in Taichi
• Visualizing Delaunay Triangulation (2022)
• stdg - 2D graphics in any programming language with just print statements.
• Hex-Tiling Demo
• KTX (Khronos Texture) - Lightweight container for textures for OpenGL, Vulkan and other GPU APIs.
• Mitsuba 3 - Retargetable Forward and Inverse Renderer. (Web)
• 3D Formats Guidelines - Guidelines for artists and developers using Khronos Group 3D formats.
• Interpolating Polygons (2017)
• A simple texture atlas packing algorithm (2022)
• A better point light attenuation function (2022)
• Compute shaders in graphics: Gaussian blur (2022)
• Physically Based - PBR values database.
• MantaRay - Open source physically based renderer.
• LZ_XOR (2022) (HN)