Name: Ray Tracing Gems II
ISBN: 978-1-4842-7185-8

Editors:

Adam Marrs⁰,
Peter Shirley¹,
Ingo Wald²

Adam Marrs
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Explore the capabilities of the latest graphics hardware and APIs
Review a comprehensive collection of ideas, tips, and best practices for real-time ray tracing applications
Learn about real-time ray tracing, hybrid rendering, denoising & filtering, global illumination, and more
With advice from graphics experts at NVIDIA and top game developers in the game industry

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Table of contents (50 chapters)

Front Matter

Pages i-lvi

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Ray Tracing Foundations
1. Front Matter
  
  Pages 2-7
  
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2. A Breakneck Summary of Photographic Terms (and Their Utility to Ray Tracing)
  
  Trevor David Black
  
  Pages 9-35
3. Ray Axis-Aligned Bounding Box Intersection
  
  Peter Shirley, Ingo Wald, Adam Marrs
  
  Pages 37-39
4. Essential Ray Generation Shaders
  
  Morgan McGuire, Zander Majercik
  
  Pages 41-64
5. Hacking the Shadow Terminator
  
  Johannes Hanika
  
  Pages 65-76
6. Sampling Textures with Missing Derivatives
  
  Maksim Aizenshtein, Matt Pharr
  
  Pages 77-88
7. Differential Barycentric Coordinates
  
  Tomas Akenine-Möller
  
  Pages 89-94
8. Texture Coordinate Gradients Estimation for Ray Cones
  
  Wessam Bahnassi
  
  Pages 95-103
9. Reflection and Refraction Formulas
  
  Eric Haines
  
  Pages 105-108
10. The Schlick Fresnel Approximation
  
  Zander Majercik
  
  Pages 109-114
11. Refraction Ray Cones for Texture Level of Detail
  
  Jakub Boksansky, Cyril Crassin, Tomas Akenine-Möller
  
  Pages 115-125
12. Handling Translucency with Real-Time Ray Tracing
  
  Tianyi “Tanki” Zhang
  
  Pages 127-138
13. Motion Blur Corner Cases
  
  Christopher Kulla, Thiago Ize
  
  Pages 139-151
14. Fast Spectral Upsampling of Volume Attenuation Coefficients
  
  Johannes Jendersie
  
  Pages 153-159
15. The Reference Path Tracer
  
  Jakub Boksansky, Adam Marrs
  
  Pages 161-187
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1. Front Matter
  
  Pages 188-192
  
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2. The Shader Binding Table Demystified
  
  Will Usher
  
  Pages 193-211
3. Introduction to Vulkan Ray Tracing
  
  Matthew Rusch, Neil Bickford, Nuno Subtil
  
  Pages 213-255
4. Using Bindless Resources with DirectX Raytracing
  
  Matt Pettineo
  
  Pages 257-279

About this book

This Open Access book is a must-have for anyone interested in real-time rendering. Ray tracing is the holy grail of gaming graphics, simulating the physical behavior of light to bring real-time, cinematic-quality rendering to even the most visually intense games. Ray tracing is also a fundamental algorithm used for architecture applications, visualization, sound simulation, deep learning, and more.

Ray Tracing Gems II is written by industry experts with a particular focus on ray tracing, and it offers a practical means to master the new capabilities of current and future GPUs with the latest graphics APIs.

What You'll Learn:

The latest ray tracing techniques for developing real-time applications in multiple domains
Case studies from developers and studios who have shipped products that use real-time ray tracing.
Guidance, advice and best practices for rendering applications with various GPU-based ray tracing APIs (DirectX Raytracing, Vulkan Ray Tracing)
High performance graphics for 3D graphics, virtual reality, animation, and more

Who This Book Is For:

Game and graphics developers who are looking to leverage the latest hardware and software tools for real-time rendering and ray tracing to enhance their applications across a variety of disciplines.

Keywords

Computer Graphics
Real-Time Rendering
Ray Tracing
Path Tracing
GPU
DirectX Raytracing
Vulkan Ray Tracing
BVH and Acceleration Structures
Rasterization
Game development
Open Access

Editors and Affiliations

Apex, USA

Adam Marrs
Salt Lake City, USA

Peter Shirley, Ingo Wald

About the editors

Adam Marrs is a Senior Graphics Engineer in the Game Engines and Core Technology group at NVIDIA. He holds a PhD in computer science, has conducted graphics research in academia and industry, published at HPG, Eurographics, JCGT, and wrote for the GPU Zen 2 and Ray Tracing Gems books. He has shipped graphics code in AAA game titles and commercial game engines.

Peter Shirley is a Distinguished Engineer in the Research group at NVIDIA. He holds a PhD in computer science and has worked in academics, startup companies, and industry. He is the author of several books including the recent Ray Tracing in One Weekend series.

Ingo Wald is a Director, Ray Tracing, at NVIDIA. He holds a PhD in computer science, has a long history of ray tracing related research in both academia and industry, and is probably best known for authoring and co-authoring various papers and open-source software project related to rendering, visualization, data structures, and other topics that in one or another form usually involve ray tracing.

Bibliographic Information

Book Title: Ray Tracing Gems II
Book Subtitle: Next Generation Real-Time Rendering with DXR, Vulkan, and OptiX
Editors: Adam Marrs, Peter Shirley, Ingo Wald
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7185-8
Publisher: Apress Berkeley, CA
eBook Packages: Professional and Applied Computing, Professional and Applied Computing (R0), Apress Access Books
License: CC BY-NC-ND
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4842-7184-1Published: 26 August 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4842-7187-2Published: 23 August 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4842-7185-8Published: 04 August 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: LVI, 858
Number of Illustrations: 876 illustrations in colour
Topics: Computer Graphics, Game Development

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Table of contents (50 chapters)

Front Matter

Ray Tracing Foundations

Front Matter

APIs and Tools

Front Matter

About this book

Keywords

Editors and Affiliations

Apex, USA

Salt Lake City, USA

About the editors

Bibliographic Information

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