thatguyjk / graphics-resources

:memo: a list of graphic programming resources

graphics-resources

A few of my bookmarks related to game development and realtime graphics programming.

Bulk Download

You can use gh-readme-scrape to bulk download some of the content here for offline reading. For example:

gh-readme-scrape mattdesl/graphics-resources resources/ -e pdf,pptx,ppt --rename

This will download all PDFs and power-point slides into a folder called resources.

Topics

• Physically Based Rendering
• Color Space
• Light & Shadow
• Environments
• Time
• Post-Processing
• Ray Tracing & Distance Functions
• Text, Lines & Shapes
• Non-Photorealistic Rendering
• Math
• Misc Optimizations
• Collections
• Bloggers
• Tools

Physically Based Rendering

• Readings on Physically Based Rendering
• The State of Rendering (2013)
• jMonkeyEngine's Physically Based Rendering (2014)
• CodingLabs: Physically Based Rendering I
• CodingLabs: Physically Based Rendering II
• SIGGRAPH Shading Courses: 2012, 2013 and 2014
  • Physically Based Shader Design in Arnold (2014)
  • Moving Frostbite to Physically Based Rendering (2014)
  • Crafting a Next-Gen Material Pipeline for The Order: 1886 (2013)
  • Real Shading in Unreal Engine 4 (2013)
  • Physically Based Shading in Call of Duty: Black Ops (2013)
• Deferred Shading Tutorial (2005)
• Spherical Harmonic Lighting: The Gritty Details (2003)
• Spherical Harmonics for Beginners (2013)
• A Tiny Improvement of Oren-Nayar Reflectance Model (2012)
• Plausible Environment Lighting in Two Lines of Code (2013)
• Microfacet Models for Refraction through Rough Surfaces (2007)
• Artist Friendly Metallic Fresnel (2014)
• Realistic Rendering of Blue Ice (2009)
• Advanced WebGL - Irradiance Environment Map (2011)
• Irradiance Volumes for Games (2012)
• Wolfire Blog - Physically Based Rendering (2015)

Color Space

• CodingLabs: Gamms vs Linear
• Filmic Games: Linear-Space Lighting (i.e. Gamma) (2010)
• GPU Gems 3: The Importance of Being Linear (2008)

Light & Shadow

• Shading Effects in Left 4 Dead 2 (2010)
• The Illustrative World of Team Fortress 2 (2008)
• Hardware-Accelerated Global Illumination by Image Space Photon Mapping (2009)
• Ambient Occlusion Fields (2005)
• Phong Illumination Model (2012)

Environments

• Rendering Grass in Real Time with Dynamic Lighting (2005)
• Water Flow in Portal 2 (2010)
• Manipulating UVs through Color Data in Portal 2 (2011)
• WebGL Sky Rendering (2011)
• WebGL Terrain and Grass Rendering (2011)
• Zephyros Anemos - WebGL Terrain Rendering

Time

• Fix your Timestep! (2006)
• deWiTTERS Game Loop (2009)
• Fixed Timestep Implementation (2012)

Post-Processing

• Post Processing in the Orange Box (2008)
• Aggregate G-Buffer Anti-Aliasing (2015)
• Physically Based Real-Time Lens Flare Rendering (2011)
• John Chapman - Pseudo Lens Flare (2013)
• Image Imperfections & Film Grain Post-Process FX (2013)
• GLSL Cubic Lens Distortion (2011)
• Using Lookup Tables to Accelerate Color Transforms (2005)
• The Skylanders SWAP Force Depth-of-Field Shader (2013)
• GPU Gems 3: Motion Blur as a Post-Processing Effect (2008)
• GPU Gems 3: Practical Post-Process Depth of Field (2008)

Ray Tracing & Distance Functions

• Fast Soft-Shadowing on Dynamic Height Fields (2008)
• Per-Pixel Displacement Mapping with Distance Functions (2005)
• Raymarching Distance Fields (2013)
• Screen Space Glossy Reflections (2015)

Text, Lines & Shapes

• Higher Quality 2D Text Rendering (2013)
• Improved Alpha-Tested Magnification for Vector Textures (2007)
• Drawing Lines is Hard (2015)
• Material Design on the GPU (2015)
• Polygon Rendering in Ejecta (2012)
• Lecture: Polygon Triangulation (2014)
• GPU Gems 3: Rendering Vector Art on the GPU
• Drawing Text with Signed Distance Fields in Mapbox GL (2014)
• Multi-Channel SDF Text Rendering (2014)
• SDF Rendering of Color Bit Planes (2013)

Non-Photorealistic Rendering

• Watercolor Inspired Non-Photorealistic Rendering for Augmented Reality (2008)
• Advanced Real-Time Cel Shading in OpenGL (2013)
• Stroke-Based Rendering (2002)
• Hand Drawn Rendering (2012)
• Real-Time Ink Dispersion in Absorbent Paper (2005)
• "Nijimi" Rendering Algorithm for Creating Quality Black Ink Paintings (2003)
• WYSIWYG NPR: Drawing Strokes Directly on 3D Models (2002)
• Stylized Rendering Using Samples of a Painted Image (2007)

Math

• Essential Mathematics for Games and Interactive Applications (2008)
• 3D Math Primer for Graphics and Game Development, 2nd Ed (2011)
• math-as-code (2015)
• CodingLabs: World, View, Projection Matrices
• Interactive Introduction to Noise Functions (2013)

Misc Optimizations

• Fast, Branchless Ray/Bounding Box Intersections (2011)
• Combined Approximation of Fresnel Visibility (2015)
• Compact Normal Storage for Small G-Buffers (2009)
• Normal Mapping without Precomputed Tangents (2013)

Collections

• SIGGRAPH Real-Time Rendering Publications
• List of Realtime Global Illumination Techniques
• David Arcila's Game Development Resources
• awesome-opengl
• Readings on Physically Based Rendering

Bloggers

• Aras Pranckevičius
• Stephen Hill
• Sébastien Lagarde
• Angelo Pesce
• Yi-Wen Lin
• Brian Karis
• Christian Schüler
• Tom Forsyth
• Michael Chang
• Timothy Lottes
• John Chapman
• John Hable (and his older blog)
• Philp Rideout
• Mikola Lysenko
• Adrian Courrèges
• Martins Upitis
• Colin Barré-Brisebois
• Rory Driscoll
• Real-Time Rendering Blog
• Mikael H Christensen
• Fabian Giesen
• Iñigo Quilez
• Ignacio Castaño
• Jeremy Shopf

Tools

• Disney BRDF Viewer
• cmft and cmftStudio - cubemap filtering tools
• Modified AMD Cubemapgen - cubemap filtering tool
• preview-dds - minimal cross-platform DDS previewer
• CrazyBump

License

MIT, see LICENSE.md for details.