VU Echtzeitgraphik - Slides

WS 3.0, 186.140

Michael Wimmer

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Vorlesungsfolien und Literaturhinweise

Vorlesungsfolien und Literaturhinweise

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Introduction	Folien Intel page on Moore's law with a link to the original paper.
Perception	Folien Various articles on Gamma by Charles Poynton An article about the 30 Hz vs. 60 Hz issue. The info is dated and not entirely correct, but the general idea holds true. Siggraph Course Notes about perception in real-time rendering (see especially the Appendix).
Pipeline	Folien James F. Blinn "Clipping Using Homogeneous Coordinates"
OpenGL Programming	Folien www.opengl.org, the main OpenGL gateway. The OpenGL Architecture Review Board, with links to their meeting notes. The OpenGL Extension Registry, with the extension header files and all extension specifications. NVIDIA OpenGL Extension Specifications, many of the most important extensions in nice PDF format. The newest OpenGL Specification, with info what's changed from previous versions. The Design of the OpenGL Graphics Interface, a good paper describing the design of OpenGL directly from its creators.
Performance	Folien FRAPS, a generic framerate display tool. GLTrace, a powerfull call logging and tracing tool. Note: if tracing (displaying every command) doesn't work, contact me for an older version... Gltrace & GlSim, another call logging tool which is not as easy to set up but can also be used to replay the command stream. Intel VTune, a powerful external profiler for Intel processors. A 30-day evaluation download is available. AMD CodeAnalyst, a similar tool for AMD processors, though not as powerful (and robust). Rational Quantify, an instrumenting profiler. A 7-day evaluation download may be available (but Rational has been bought by IBM). Data complexity for Virtual Reality - Where do all the triangles go? A paper, by Michael Deering analyzing the distribution of triangles in a number of CAD models. Dynamic 3D Graphics Workload Characterization and the Architectural Implications, a paper about performance characterization, also showing the balance point of the "average triangle". Using the RDTSC Instruction for Performance Monitoring, an Intel article about the topic.
Texturing	Folien Paul Heckbert's page, with interesting material about texture mapping, especially perspective correct texture mapping.
Shading and Lighting Effects	Folien A paper by Mark Kilgard which explains all of the issues and theoretical background involved in bump mapping on today's GPUs. A simple tutorial on how to do simple diffuse bump mapping using only OpenGL extensions. As always, NVidia's developer web page has lots of slides and papers on all the relevant techniques.
Programmable Shading	Folien Again, see also NVidia's developer web page. A page on Stanford's shading language. Although current commercial shading languages (Cg, OpenGL 2.0) modified the concept a little bit, it is still the best exposition on the basic concepts involved.
Shadows	Folien Mark Kilgard's (Nvidia) paper on Robust shadow volumes, including a link to the original paper describing shadow volumes in hardware. A newer shadow volume paper building on the previous one, with a good literature overview and some speed enhancements.
Visibility	Folien
Levels of Detail (LoD)	Folien Michael Garland's Homepage, where you can download the source code to his quadric error metrics simplification papers (qslim). A LOD Demo featuring a Galactica starfighter. Another demo, for the method in this paper.