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Catmull-Clark subdivision is the standard for smooth surfaces in offline rendering, going back to Geri's Game in 1997. Catmull-Clark recursively refines a mesh, allowing artists to author a low-poly mesh and subdivide it during rendering. It's also a well

In the previous post, we talked about ways to tessellate a triangle with adaptive tess factors. Now it's time to take the next step and actually tessellate a mesh. The goal of this post is to put together a reference solution, a baseline approach that wor

Hardware tessellation as we know it today (Dx11-style) had its origins on the Xbox 360, which released in 2005. Time flies, right? It was a natural step in the evolution toward film-quality realtime rendering. After all, tessellation was a key component o

Is anyone using temporal reprojection to improve MSAA?

Can we use multisampling effectively for upsampling? This has been a question in the back of my mind for give or take 10+ years.

One of the fascinating things for me at Naughty Dog as a junior programmer was that allocating memory was forbidden. Literally everything was fixed size with several heaps (like the level heap). Per-frame allocations were allowed as an arena allocator tha

As you have probably seen, ARKit has become quite popular for facial animation. It has obvious appeal for mocap on a budget, but it's also being used on professional productions as well. So I decided to do a test, and here it is:

Adventures in Visibility Rendering Part 1: Visibility Buffer Rendering with Material Graphs Part 2: Decoupled Visibility Multisampling Part 3: Software VRS with Visibility Buffer Rendering Part 4: Visibility TAA and Upsampling with Subsample History

Introduction

Adventures in Visibility Rendering Part 1: Visibility Buffer Rendering with Material Graphs Part 2: Decoupled Visibility Multisampling Part 3: Software VRS with Visibility Buffer Rendering Part 4: Visibility TAA and Upsampling with Subsample History