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Ray tracing gems : high-quality and real-time rendering with DXR and other APIs / edited by Eric Haines and Tomas Akenine-Möller

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Apress Open, [2019]Description: 1 online resource (607 pages) : color illustrationsContent type:
  • text, still image
Media type:
  • computer
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  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781484244272
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Contents:
Part 1. Ray tracing basics
Chapter 1. Ray tracing terminology
Chapter 2. What is a ray?
Chapter 3. Introduction to DirectX Raytracing
Chapter 4. A planetarium dome master camera
Chapter 5. Computing minima and maxima of subarrays
Part 2. Intersections and efficiency
Chapter 6. A fast and robust method for avoiding self-intersection
Chapter 7. Precision improvements for ray/sphere intersection
Chapter 8. Cool patches : a geometric approach to ray/bilinear patch intersections
Chapter 9. Multi-hit ray tracing in DXR
Chapter 10. A simple load-balancing scheme with high scaling efficiency
Part 3. Reflections, refractions, and shadows
Chapter 11. Automatic handling of materials in nested volumes
Chapter 12. A microfacet-based shadowing function to solve the bump terminator problem
Chapter 13. Ray traced shadows : maintaining real-time frame rates
Chapter 14. Ray-guided volumetric water caustics in single scattering media with DXR
Part 4. Sampling
Chapter 15. On the importance of sampling
Chapter 16. Sample transformations zoo
Chapter 17. Ignoring the inconvenient when tracing rays
Chapter 18. Importance sampling of many lights on the GPU
Part 5. Denoising and filtering
Chapter 19. Cinematic rendering in UE4 with real-time ray tracing and denoising
Chapter 20. Texture level of detail strategies for real-time ray tracing
Chapter 21. Simple environment map filtering using ray cones and ray differentials
Chapter 22. Improving temporal antialiasing with adaptive ray tracing
Part 6. Hybrid approaches and systems
Chapter 23. Interactive light map and irradiance volume preview in frostbite
Chapter 24. Real-time global illumination with photon mapping
Chapter 25. Hybrid rendering for real-time ray tracing
Chapter 26. Deferred hybrid path tracing
Chapter 27. Interactive ray tracing techniques for high-fidelity scientific visualization
Part 7. Global illumination
Chapter 28. Ray tracing inhomogeneous volumes
Chapter 29. Efficient particle volume splatting in a ray tracer
Chapter 30. Caustics using screen space photon mapping
Chapter 31. Variance reduction via footprint estimation in the presence of path reuse
Chapter 32. Accurate real-time specular reflections with radiance caching
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Includes bibliographical references.

Part 1. Ray tracing basics

Chapter 1. Ray tracing terminology

Chapter 2. What is a ray?

Chapter 3. Introduction to DirectX Raytracing

Chapter 4. A planetarium dome master camera

Chapter 5. Computing minima and maxima of subarrays

Part 2. Intersections and efficiency

Chapter 6. A fast and robust method for avoiding self-intersection

Chapter 7. Precision improvements for ray/sphere intersection

Chapter 8. Cool patches : a geometric approach to ray/bilinear patch intersections

Chapter 9. Multi-hit ray tracing in DXR

Chapter 10. A simple load-balancing scheme with high scaling efficiency

Part 3. Reflections, refractions, and shadows

Chapter 11. Automatic handling of materials in nested volumes

Chapter 12. A microfacet-based shadowing function to solve the bump terminator problem

Chapter 13. Ray traced shadows : maintaining real-time frame rates

Chapter 14. Ray-guided volumetric water caustics in single scattering media with DXR

Part 4. Sampling

Chapter 15. On the importance of sampling

Chapter 16. Sample transformations zoo

Chapter 17. Ignoring the inconvenient when tracing rays

Chapter 18. Importance sampling of many lights on the GPU

Part 5. Denoising and filtering

Chapter 19. Cinematic rendering in UE4 with real-time ray tracing and denoising

Chapter 20. Texture level of detail strategies for real-time ray tracing

Chapter 21. Simple environment map filtering using ray cones and ray differentials

Chapter 22. Improving temporal antialiasing with adaptive ray tracing

Part 6. Hybrid approaches and systems

Chapter 23. Interactive light map and irradiance volume preview in frostbite

Chapter 24. Real-time global illumination with photon mapping

Chapter 25. Hybrid rendering for real-time ray tracing

Chapter 26. Deferred hybrid path tracing

Chapter 27. Interactive ray tracing techniques for high-fidelity scientific visualization

Part 7. Global illumination

Chapter 28. Ray tracing inhomogeneous volumes

Chapter 29. Efficient particle volume splatting in a ray tracer

Chapter 30. Caustics using screen space photon mapping

Chapter 31. Variance reduction via footprint estimation in the presence of path reuse

Chapter 32. Accurate real-time specular reflections with radiance caching

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