Thoroughly updated, this fourth edition focuses on modern techniques used to generate synthetic three-dimensional images in a fraction of a second. With the advent of programmable shaders, a wide variety of new algorithms have arisen and evolved over the past few years. This edition discusses current, practical rendering methods used in games and other applications. It also presents a solid theoretical framework and relevant mathematics for the field of interactive computer graphics, all in an approachable style. New to this edition: new chapter on VR and AR as well as expanded coverage of Visual Appearance, Advanced Shading, Global Illumination, and Curves and Curved Surfaces.

• Chris Ohk
• HyunJun Park
• Johnson Kang
• Kyowon Yang
• Macht Sung
• MinHyeok Jeon

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  • Contents Overview
  • Notation and Definitions

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  • Architecture
  • The Application Stage
  • Geometry Processing
  • Rasterization
  • Pixel Processing
  • Through the Pipeline

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  • Data-Parallel Architectures
  • GPU Pipeline Overview
  • The Programmable Shader Stage
  • The Evolution of Programmable Shading and APIs
  • The Vertex Shader
  • The Tessellation Stage
  • The Geometry Shader
  • The Pixel Shader
  • The Merging Stage
  • The Compute Shader

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  • Basic Transforms
  • Special Matrix Transforms and Operations
  • Quaternions
  • Vertex Blending
  • Morphing
  • Geometry Cache Playback
  • Projections

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  • Shading Models
  • Light Sources
  • Implementing Shading Models
  • Aliasing and Antialiasing
  • Transparency, Alpha, and Compositing
  • Display Encoding

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  • The Texturing Pipeline
  • Image Texturing
  • Procedural Texturing
  • Texture Animation
  • Material Mapping
  • Alpha Mapping
  • Bump Mapping
  • Parallax Mapping
  • Textured Lights

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  • Planar Shadows
  • Shadows on Curved Surfaces
  • Shadow Volumes
  • Shadow Maps
  • Percentage-Closer Filtering
  • Percentage-Closer Soft Shadows
  • Filtered Shadow Maps
  • Volumetric Shadow Techniques
  • Irregular Z-Buffer Shadows
  • Other Applications

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  • Light Quantities
  • Scene to Screen

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  • Physics of Light
  • The Camera
  • The BRDF
  • Illumination
  • Fresnel Reflectance
  • Microgeometry
  • Microfacet Theory
  • BRDF Models for Surface Reflection
  • BRDF Models for Subsurface Scattering
  • BRDF Models for Cloth
  • Wave Optics BRDF Models
  • Layered Materials
  • Blending and Filtering Materials

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  • Area Light Sources
  • Environment Lighting
  • Spherical and Hemispherical Functions
  • Environment Mapping
  • Specular Image-Based Lighting
  • Irradiance Environment Mapping
  • Sources of Error

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  • The Rendering Equation
  • General Global Illumination
  • Ambient Occlusion
  • Directional Occlusion
  • Diffuse Global Illumination
  • Specular Global Illumination
  • Unified Approaches

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  • Image Processing
  • Reprojection Techniques
  • Lens Flare and Bloom
  • Depth of Field
  • Motion Blur

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  • The Rendering Spectrum
  • Fixed-View Effects
  • Skyboxes
  • Light Field Rendering
  • Sprites and Layers
  • Billboarding
  • Displacement Techniques
  • Particle Systems
  • Point Rendering
  • Voxels

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  • Light Scattering Theory
  • Specialized Volumetric Rendering
  • General Volumetric Rendering
  • Sky Rendering
  • Translucent Surfaces
  • Subsurface Scattering
  • Hair and Fur
  • Unified Approaches

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  • Toon Shading
  • Outline Rendering
  • Stroke Surface Stylization
  • Lines
  • Text Rendering

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  • Sources of Three-Dimensional Data
  • Tessellation and Triangulation
  • Consolidation
  • Triangle Fans, Strips, and Meshes
  • Simplification
  • Compression and Precision

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  • Parametric Curves
  • Parametric Curved Surfaces
  • Implicit Surfaces
  • Subdivision Curves
  • Subdivision Surfaces
  • Efficient Tessellation

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  • Profiling and Debugging Tools
  • Locating the Bottleneck
  • Performance Measurements
  • Optimization
  • Multiprocessing

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  • Spatial Data Structures
  • Culling Techniques
  • Backface Culling
  • View Frustum Culling
  • Portal Culling
  • Detail and Small Triangle Culling
  • Occlusion Culling
  • Culling Systems
  • Level of Detail
  • Rendering Large Scenes

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  • Deferred Shading
  • Decal Rendering
  • Tiled Shading
  • Clustered Shading
  • Deferred Texturing
  • Object- and Texture-Space Shading

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  • Equipment and Systems Overview
  • Physical Elements
  • APIs and Hardware
  • Rendering Techniques

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  • GPU-Accelerated Picking
  • Definitions and Tools
  • Bounding Volume Creation
  • Geometric Probability
  • Rules of Thumb
  • Ray/Sphere Intersection
  • Ray/Box Intersection
  • Ray/Triangle Intersection
  • Ray/Polygon Intersection
  • Plane/Box Intersection
  • Triangle/Triangle Intersection
  • Triangle/Box Intersection
  • Bounding-Volume/Bounding-Volume Intersection
  • View Frustum Intersection
  • Line/Line Intersection
  • Intersection between Three Planes

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  • Rasterization
  • Massive Compute and Scheduling
  • Latency and Occupancy
  • Memory Architecture and Buses
  • Caching and Compression
  • Color Buffering
  • Depth Culling, Testing, and Buffering
  • Texturing
  • Architecture
  • Case Studies
  • Ray Tracing Architectures

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  • Everything Else
  • You

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  • Broad Phase Collision Detection
  • Mid Phase Collision Detection
  • Narrow Phase Collision Detection
  • Collision Detection with Rays
  • Dynamic CD Using BSP Trees
  • Time-Critical Collision Detection
  • Deformable Models
  • Continuous Collision Detection
  • Collision Response
  • Particles
  • Broad Phase Collision Detection

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  • Broad Phase Collision Detection
  • Shaders for Ray Tracing
  • Top and Bottom Level Acceleration Structures
  • Coherency
  • Denoising
  • Texture Filtering
  • Speculations

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  • Euclidean Space
  • Geometrical Interpretation
  • Matrices
  • Homogeneous Notation
  • Geometry

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  • Definitions
  • Trigonometric Laws and Formulae

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Copyright © 2018 Chris Ohk, HyunJun Park, Johnson Kang, Kyowon Yang, Macht Sung and MinHyeok Jeon

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