• Ken Torrance’s accomplishments

    Updated: 2010-02-27 21:42:02
    Ken Torrance, 69, passed away unexpectedly February 15. His last name should be familiar to many of you: Torrance-Sparrow and Cook-Torrance are two reflection models that bear it. He was a professor in the mechanical and aerospace engineering department at Cornell. Don Greenberg, head of the Program of Computer Graphics at Cornell, was his long-time collaborator and [...]

  • Cascaded Light Propagation Volumes for Indirect Illumination

    Updated: 2010-02-26 17:44:28
    This I3D 2010 paper by Anton Kaplanyan (Crytek) and Carsten Daschbacher (University of Stuttgart) is now online on Crytek’s publications page, with video and talk slides.  The paper extends and describes in more detail the real-time global illumination technique Anton presented at SIGGRAPH 2009.  The most significant extension over the SIGGRAPH 2009 presentation is [...]

  • Game Engine Gems

    Updated: 2010-02-26 07:27:38
    A little under a year ago, we mentioned the call for papers for a new “gems” book: Game Engine Gems, edited by Eric Lengyel.  It’s available for pre-order on Amazon, not surprising since it’s due to be launched at GDC, just two weeks from now.  The table of contents is available on the book website, [...]

  • Shadow Survey from SIGGRAPH Asia 2009 course

    Updated: 2010-02-21 22:51:45
    I asked Daniel Scherzer about my post about his book. He said it’s about right (and the long subtitle is indeed a Verlag decision). The cool thing that turned up: their upcoming STAR survey on hard shadows will be more theoretical and detailed than his thesis’ survey. It will be similar to the hard shadow section [...]

  • GPU Pro 2 book CFP

    Updated: 2010-02-21 16:34:08
    GPU Pro (the rebranded ShaderX series) will be published soon. Wolfgang Engel, the editor in chief of the series, has now put out a call for participation for GPU Pro 2; read about it here. Proposal deadline is May 17th.

  • Another new book, with an incredibly long subtitle

    Updated: 2010-02-21 16:15:15
    Amazon sent an auto-recommended of this book to me. Unlike last time, which was humorous but unrelated, I actually appreciate this one: “Temporal Coherence in Real-Time Rendering: Practical Approaches for Capitalizing on Temporal Coherence in the Domain of Real-Time Rendering,” by Daniel Scherzer. At $81 for a 132 page book, I suspected it was a thesis [...]

  • Upcoming Optimization Book

    Updated: 2010-02-20 16:27:17
    Eric Preisz has a book coming out in time for GDC, “Video Game Optimization.” I haven’t seen it yet, but judging by his article on optimization on Gamasutra, it should be pretty good—he knows what he’s talking about. By the way, assuming you’re using Google Chrome for browsing (it’s what the cool kids use), I found [...]

  • SBIM-NPAR CFP

    Updated: 2010-02-18 00:07:04
    SBIM = Sketch-Based Interfaces and Modeling workshop NPAR = Symposium on Non-Photorealistic Animation and Rendering CFP = Call for Participation SBIM-NPAR 2010 will be held June 7-10 in Annecy, France. The NPAR call for participation is up; due date is March 15th, but April 2nd for any SIGGRAPH rejections to be considered. In addition to research, they’re specifically [...]

  • Efficient Sparse Voxel Octrees

    Updated: 2010-02-17 20:25:07
    I mentioned this I3D 2010 paper in a blog post a while ago, but there was no preprint for it at the time.  Now the floodgates of information have been opened with the preprint, a video, and an extended paper all available on the first author’s website.  The source code has also been open-sourced with [...]

  • Made me laugh

    Updated: 2010-02-17 14:44:19
    I noticed Kirk & Hwu’s “Programming Massively Parallel Processors” book is back in stock at Amazon (and now with 2 mixed reviews), after being unavailable for a number of days. The part that made me laugh is Amazon’s ranking listing: #1 in  Books > Computers & Internet > Hardware > Mainframes & Minicomputers If GPU computing isn’t the antithesis of mainframes [...]

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