Ray Tracing

Seven Things for June 22nd

Updated: 2012-06-23 02:35:18

Here goes: The Journal of Computer Graphics Techniques has published its first accepted article: “Importance Sampling of Reflection from Hair Fibers”. Free for download, of course. Mauricio Vives pointed out that the thirteenth article in a series going back to 2010 is now up: Fluid Simulation for Video Games. Not my particular interest, but my [...]

SIGGRAPH 2012 early registration deadline is today

Updated: 2012-06-18 19:57:13

If you’re reading this after June 18th, oh well… Registration page is here. Me, I wouldn’t rate SIGGRAPH the premier interactive rendering research conference any more: I3D or HPG publish far more relevant results overall. SIGGRAPH still has a lot of other great stuff going on, and there are enough things of interest to me [...]

Why submit when you can blog?

Updated: 2012-06-12 02:31:17

I was cleaning up the RTR portal page today. Of all the links on this page, I often use those linked in the first three items. I used to have about 30 blogs listed. Trying them all today, 5 have disappeared forever (being replaced by junk like this and this), and 10 more are essentially [...]

Seven Things for June 7th

Updated: 2012-06-08 01:08:46

I’ll be gone this weekend, so my dream of catching up on resources by posting every day is slowed a bit. Here’s today’s seven: The free Process Explorer has a lot more functionality than its name implies. One very cool feature is that it actually shows GPU usage. Run it, right-click a process that’s running and [...]

Seven Things for June 6th

Updated: 2012-06-07 03:14:08

It’s D-Day and it’s been awhile, so let’s get going. This is a LIFO of the 486 backlogged links I’ve collected for this blog: GPUView looks like an interesting profiling tool from some students at Stanford (done as interns at Microsoft, which has a more official page), though I’ve heard it’s a bit of work [...]