Ray Tracing Gems - High-Quality and Real-Time Rendering with DXR and Other APIs

This book is a must-have for anyone serious about rendering in real time. With the announcement of new ray tracing APIs and hardware to support them, developers can easily create real-time applications with ray tracing as a core component. As ray tracing on the GPU becomes faster, it will play a more central role in real-time rendering. Ray Tracing Gems provides key building blocks for developers of games, architectural applications, visualizations, and more. Experts in rendering share their knowledge by explaining everything from nitty-gritty techniques that will improve any ray tracer to mastery of the new capabilities of current and future hardware.
What you'll learn: The latest ray tracing techniques for developing real-time applications in multiple domains
Guidance, advice, and best practices for rendering applications with Microsoft DirectX Raytracing (DXR)
How to implement high-performance graphics for interactive visualizations, games, simulations, and more

Who this book is for:Developers who are looking to leverage the latest APIs and GPU technology for real-time rendering and ray tracing
Students looking to learn about best practices in these areas
Enthusiasts who want to understand and experiment with their new GPUs

Inhaltsverzeichnis:

Part 1: Ray Tracing Basics.-

Chapter 1. Ray Tracing Terminology.-

Chapter 2. What is a Ray?.-

Chapter 3. Introduction to DirectX Raytracing.-

Chapter 4. A Planetarium Dome Master Camera.-

Chapter 5. Computing Minima and Maxima of Subarrays.-
Part 2: Intersections and Efficiency.-


Chapter 6. A Fast and Robust Method for Avoiding Self-Intersection.-

Chapter 7. Precision Improvements for Ray/Sphere Intersection.-

Chapter 8. Cool Patches: A Geometric Approach to Ray/Bilinear Patch Intersections.-

Chapter 9. Multi-Hit Ray Tracing in DXR.-

Chapter 10. A Simple Load-Balancing Scheme with High Scaling Efficiency.-

Part 3: Reflections, Refractions, and Shadows.-

Chapter 11. Automatic Handling of Materials in Nested Volumes.-

Chapter 12. A Microfacet-Based Shadowing Function to Solve the Bump Terminator Problem.-

Chapter 13. Ray Traced Shadows: Maintaining Rea l-Time Frame Rates.-

Chapter 14. Ray-Guided Volumetric Water Caustics in Single Scattering Media with DXR.-

Part 4: Sampling.-

Chapter 15. On the Importance of Sampling.-

Chapter 16. Sample Transformations Zoo.-

Chapter 17. Ignoring the Inconvenient When Tracing Rays .-

Chapter 18. Importance Sampling of Many Lights on the GPU.-

Part 5: Denoising and Filtering.-

Chapter 19. Cinematic Rendering in UE4 with Real-Time Ray Tracing and Denoising.-

Chapter 20. Texture Level of Detail Strategies for Real-Time Ray Tracing.-

Chapter 21. Simple Environment Map Filtering Using Ray Cones and Ray Differentials.-

Chapter 22. Improving Temporal Antialiasing with Adaptive Ray Tracing.-

Part 6: Hybrid Approaches and Systems.-

Chapter 23. Interactive Light Map and Irradiance Volume Preview in Frostbite.-

Chapter 24. Real-Time Global Illumination with Photon Mapping.-

C hapter 25. Hybrid Rendering for Real-Time Ray Tracing.-

Chapter 26. Deferred Hybrid Path Tracing.-

Chapter 27. Interactive Ray Tracing Techniques for High-Fidelity Scientific Visualization.-

Part 7: Global Illumination.-

Chapter 28. Ray Tracing Inhomogeneous Volumes.-

Chapter 29. Efficient Particle Volume Splatting in a Ray Tracer.-

Chapter 30. Caustics Using Screen Space Photon Mapping.-

Chapter 31. Variance Reduction via Footprint Estimation in the Presence of Path Reuse.-

Chapter 32. Accurate Real-Time Specular Reflections with Radiance Caching.-