GPU PRO 3

• Geometry Manipulation. Vertex Shader Tesselation. Real-time Deformable Terrain Rendering. Optimized Stadium Crowd Rendering. Geometric Anti-Aliasing Methods. Rendering. Practical Elliptical Texture Filtering. An Approximation to the Chapman Grazing-Incidence Function for Atmospheric Scattering. Volumetric Real-Time Water and Foam Rendering. CryENGINE 3. Global Illumination Effects. Ray-traced Approximate Reflections Using a Grid of Oriented Splats. Screen-space Bent Cones: A Practical Approach. Real-time Near-field Global Illumination based on a Voxel Model. Shadows. Efficient Online Visibility for Shadow Maps. Depth Rejected Gobo Shadows. Handheld Devices. Inexpensive Anti-Aliasing of Simple Objects. Programming the XPERIA Play GPU. 3D Engine Design. Z3 Culling. Quaternion-based rendering pipeline. Implementing a Directionally Adaptive Edge AA Filter using DirectX 11. Designing a Data-Driven Renderer. GPGPU. Volumetric transparency with Per-Pixel Fragment Lists". Practical Binary Surface and Solid Voxelization with Direct3D 11. Interactive Ray Tracing Using the Compute Shader in DirectX 11. Contributors.

GPU Pro3 is a guide to high-end computer graphics for video games and computer animation. Discussing the latest advancements in technology and graphical artistry, taken from fifty of the industry’s best, it covers tips on creating interesting geometry, shading, illumination shadows, optimizing 3D engines, and much more. GPU Pro3 is presented with full-color photos of graphical examples, charts, indexes, glossaries, and much more, making it an ideal addition to community and college collections catering to technology and artistic design.—Wisconsin Bookwatch, April 2012