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I've been working on speeding up AVX-512 vertex decoding in meshoptimizer recently; in the process I stumbled upon two optimizations that I did not end up using but I thought they might be fun to write about! The optimizations that actually made it in req

I've been working on tangent space generation recently, and also pondering the tradeoffs between QTangent and normal-angle storage. So when, in a completely unrelated discussion, someone said "you could store tangent and normal as two RGB10A2 attributes",

NVIDIA RTX Kit is a suite of neural rendering technologies to render game assets with AI, create game characters with photo-realistic visuals, and more.

In 2011-2012 I worked on FIFA Street, followed by FIFA EURO 2012 DLC and finally FIFA 13 - all of these games were based on the same codebase, and this codebase was HUGE. Given an unknown codebase, you need a way to quickly get around it - since you don't

Early this year, NVIDIA released their new raytracing technology, RTX Mega Geometry , alongside an impressive Zorah demo . This demo was distributed as a 100 GB Unreal Engine scene - that can only be opened in a special branch of Unreal Engine, NvRTX. The

Some people have a misconception that in software engineering, skill stops mattering for code quality from some level of seniority, and all of the value add shifts to architecture, high level design decisions, problem setting, or guiding others. And as lo

We all like it when our code is fast. Some of us like the result, but dislike the process of optimization; others enjoy the process. However, optimization for the sake of optimization is wrong, unless you're doing it in your pet project. Optimized code is

meshoptimizer implements several geometry compression algorithms that are designed to take advantage of redundancies common in mesh data and decompress quickly - targeting many gigabytes per second in decoding throughput. One of them, index decoder, has s

Hardware accelerated raytracing, as supported by DirectX 12 and Vulkan, relies on an abstract data structure that stores scene geometry, known as "acceleration structure" and often referred to as "BVH" or "BLAS". Unlike geometry representation for rasteri

Geometric detail in computer graphics has increased exponentially in the past 30 years. To render high quality assets with higher instance counts and greater…