If you need figures or maybe just an idea of what hardware and software the gaming public is using, it’s all out there, gathered and published by the big boys:
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Tag Archives: GPU
The rendering tools in the film industry
Here is a list of articles published by fxguide, giving fascinating insights into the tools used by the film industry in terms of rendering.
- Ben Snow: the evolution of ILM’s lighting tools (January 2011)
A presentation of the evolution of the technology and tools used at Industrial Light and Magic, over the course of the years and movies, from the mid-90s to nowadays. - Monsters University: rendering physically based monsters (June 2013)
- The Art of Rendering (April 2012)
A description of the different techniques used in high end rendering and the major engines. - The State of Rendering (July 2013): part 1, part 2
A lengthy overview of the state of the art in high end rendering, comparing the different tools and rendering solutions available, their approach and design choices, strengths and weaknesses as well as the consequences in terms of quality, scalability and render time.
(Brace yourselves for the massive tag list hereafter.)
A sampling of shadow techniques
On his blog, Matt Pettineo writes about his experiments on cascaded shadow maps, including cascade optimization, shadow map filtering and GPU scene submission: A Sampling of Shadow Techniques.
A trip through the Graphics Pipeline
Fabian Giesen, known as ryg, wrote during Summer a comprehensive series of articles diving into the graphics pipeline. The read is dense and provides lots of details on what is (likely) happening under the hood, that will prove very useful to graphics programmers.