What's new in graphics

January 2019

Rosario Leonardi @ilMal3 22/1/2019

News from CES 2019

AMD released a new Video card, Radeon VII

nVidia will support FreeSync

Many 8K TVs with machine learning upscalers.

Directional Lightmap

Peter Pike Sloan wrote another paper about directional lightmap encoding.

http://www.ppsloan.org/publications/lmap-sabrief18.pdf

Stochastic Textures by Tiling and Blending

Eric Heitz released a demo for his HPG 2018 paper

https://eheitzresearch.wordpress.com/738-2/

Quake 2 Vulkan raytracing.

http://brechpunkt.de/q2vkpt

Rendering of Tomb Rider.

http://www.elopezr.com/the-rendering-of-rise-of-the-tomb-raider/

Adaptive Exposure from Luminance Histograms.

http://alextardif.com/HistogramLuminance.html

Rasterization in one weekend.

https://tayfunkayhan.wordpress.com/2018/11/24/rasterization-in-one-weekend/

Windows rendering in Forza Horizon 4.

... and Spiderman ;)

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/332409/Game_Tech_Deep_Dive_The_fast_and_furious_window_shaders_of_Forza_Horizon_4.php