Graphics Programming Virtual Meetup Meeting Notes

This repository contains notes for meetings of the Graphics Programming Virtual Meetup.

Note, sometimes this documentation can become out-of-date, and a lot of meeting notes are not recorded here. To check the latest information for our meetings, visit our discord server.

• Meetup page: https://www.meetup.com/Graphics-Programming-Virtual-Meetup
• Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/TsTDb4uYfR
• Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbX05PBAE-582PYaRXdjRnw

Previous Years

• 2023
• 2022
• 2021
• 2020

2024-12-11 Two Blue Noise Blog Posts Group Read

• What the Heck is Blue Noise?
• Generating Blue Noise Sample Points With Mitchell’s Best Candidate Algorithm

Links Mentioned

• Free blue noise textures
• Edge-Avoiding À-Trous Wavelet Transform for fast Global Illumination Filtering
• Our past meeting on Edge-Avoiding À-Trous Wavelet Transform for fast Global Illumination Filtering
• The Lobster Programming Language

2024-12-04 Physically Based Rendering V4 7.3 Group Read

• 7.3 Bounding Volume Hierarchies

Links Mentioned

• Jolt Physics
• godot-jolt
• Parallel Locally-Ordered Clustering for Bounding Volume Hierarchy Construction
• AAA - Analytical Anti-Aliasing
• Youtube: GPU driven rendering in AnKi 3D Engine
• Frames In Flight Explained
• Sampling methods for pre-filtering diffuse Image Based Lighting
• What's next for WebGPU
• Behind the Pretty Frames: Detroit Become Human
• Graphics Programming Conference Talks
• Youtube: Occupancy Explained Through the AMD RDNA™ Architecture
• Occupancy Explained slides
• Optimizing a Rust GPU matmul kernel
• A guide to fast voxel ray tracing using sparse 64-trees
• Hidden Surface Removal in Immortalis-G925: The Fragment Prepass
• My recommended Books
• Bluesky threads: Differentiable Graphics with Slang.D for Appearance-Based Optimization
• A simple way to scale pixel art games
• Modern Vulkan Application Sample

2024-11-27 Group watch of "Beyond White Noise for Real-Time Rendering"

• Youtube: Beyond White Noise for Real-Time Rendering
• Beyond White Noise for Real-Time Rendering Slides
• blog of Alan Wolfe

Links Mentioned

• Wikipedia: Pink noise
• Wikipedia: Colors of noise
• Wikiepdia: Brownian motion
• Fair coins tend to land on the same side they started: Evidence from 350,757 flips
• Constant Time Stateless Shuffling and Grouping
• Alan Wolfe: Irrational Numbers
• How to Generate Random Colors Programmatically
• Generating Blue Noise Sample Points With Mitchell’s Best Candidate Algorithm
• Isaac Hayes Wallpaper Generator - Volumetric light scattering
• Creating a Volumetric Ray Marcher
• Ambient Occlusion: An Extensive Guide on Its Algorithms and Use in VR
• Real-Time Polygonal-Light Shading with Linearly Transformed Cosines
• Casual Shadertoy Path Tracing
• Filter-adapted spatiotemporal sampling for real-time rendering
• Interleaved Gradient Noise: A Different Kind of Low Discrepancy Sequence
• Real-Time Path Tracing and Denoising in Quake II
• Spatiotemporal Blue Noise Masks
• Filter-adapted spatiotemporal sampling for real-time rendering
• Wikipedia: Clustering Illusion
• Wikiepdia: Fibonacci_sequence#Relation_to_the_golden_ratio
• Youtube: Visualization of Brownian motion