Useful Links

links.txt

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Vulkan
    **** TL;DR - Getting Started ****
        1) VK Tutorial: https://vulkan-tutorial.com/
        2) Sync blog post: http://themaister.net/blog/2019/08/14/yet-another-blog-explaining-vulkan-synchronization/
        3) VK Lecture Series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLwbj9qys18&list=PLmIqTlJ6KsE1Jx5HV4sd2jOe3V1KMHHgn
        4) VK Guide: https://vkguide.dev/
        5) Docs: https://registry.khronos.org/vulkan/specs/1.3-extensions/html/index.html

    Docs: https://registry.khronos.org/vulkan/specs/1.3-extensions/html/index.html
    
    Tutorials
        https://vulkan-tutorial.com/
        https://vkguide.dev/
        https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/articles/training/api-without-secrets-introduction-to-vulkan-preface.html
        VK Game Engine Series: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8327DO66nu9qYVKLDmdLW_84-yE4auCR
        VK Lecture Series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLwbj9qys18&list=PLmIqTlJ6KsE1Jx5HV4sd2jOe3V1KMHHgn

    Dynamic rendering: https://lesleylai.info/en/vk-khr-dynamic-rendering/
    Ray Tracing:       https://nvpro-samples.github.io/vk_raytracing_tutorial_KHR/#introduction
    Bindless:          https://henriquegois.dev/posts/bindless-resources-in-vulkan/
    Descriptor buffer: https://www.khronos.org/blog/vk-ext-descriptor-buffer
    Synchronization:   http://themaister.net/blog/2019/08/14/yet-another-blog-explaining-vulkan-synchronization/
    ImGui:             https://frguthmann.github.io/posts/vulkan_imgui/
    Shader Objects:    https://www.khronos.org/blog/you-can-use-vulkan-without-pipelines-today

    Examples:
        Khronos:        https://github.com/KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Samples
        Sascha Willems: https://github.com/SaschaWillems/Vulkan

RenderDoc:
    https://renderdoc.org/docs/getting_started/quick_start.html

Texture Compression:
    KTX: https://www.khronos.org/ktx/
    https://github.com/richgel999/bc7enc_rdo
    https://gpuopen.com/compressonator/

Assimp:
    Materials:
        https://assimp-docs.readthedocs.io/en/v5.1.0/API/API-Documentation.html?highlight=aiMaterial#_CPPv410aiMaterial
        https://assimp.sourceforge.net/lib_html/materials.html

glTF:
    https://github.com/jkuhlmann/cgltf

Task Graphs:
    https://levelup.gitconnected.com/organizing-gpu-work-with-directed-acyclic-graphs-f3fd5f2c2af3
    http://simonstechblog.blogspot.com/2019/07/render-graph.html
    http://themaister.net/blog/2017/08/15/render-graphs-and-vulkan-a-deep-dive/
    https://www.jeremyong.com/rendering/2019/06/28/render-graph-optimization-scribbles/
    https://gist.github.com/rtryan98/c781e27d017e5ac45c76e884416b65fe#render-graphs

Culling:
    Optimized AABB and OBB frustum culling:
        https://www.cse.chalmers.se/~uffe/vfc_bbox.pdf

DirectX - D3D12
    Tutorials
        https://www.3dgep.com/learning-directx-12-1/
    Bindless
        https://blog.traverseresearch.nl/bindless-rendering-setup-afeb678d77fc

Decals, glyphs and outlines
    GPU-Centered Font Rendering Directly from Glyph Outlines:
        http://terathon.com/i3d2018_lengyel.pdf
    Valve SDF for decals: https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/apps/valve/2007/SIGGRAPH2007_AlphaTestedMagnification.pdf
    Outline techniques: https://alexanderameye.github.io/notes/rendering-outlines/
        Jump Flood: https://bgolus.medium.com/the-quest-for-very-wide-outlines-ba82ed442cd9

Projections:
   https://www.scratchapixel.com/lessons/3d-basic-rendering/perspective-and-orthographic-projection-matrix/orthographic-projection-matrix.html

Rasterization:
    Triangle Filling:
        http://www.sunshine2k.de/coding/java/TriangleRasterization/TriangleRasterization.html
        https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/direct3d11/d3d10-graphics-programming-guide-rasterizer-stage-rules
        https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/direct3d12/conservative-rasterization

    Graphics from scratch: https://gabrielgambetta.com/computer-graphics-from-scratch/
    Perspective: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0_ONQQ5ZNM
    Depth:
        https://nlguillemot.wordpress.com/2016/12/07/reversed-z-in-opengl/
        https://developer.nvidia.com/content/depth-precision-visualized
        https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13711252/what-does-gl-fragcoord-z-gl-fragcoord-w-represent

    Ambient Occlusion:
        SSAO in Vulkan: https://developer.imaginationtech.com/blog/ambient-occlusion-in-vulkan/
    Light + Material shading techniques:
        Forward+:          https://takahiroharada.files.wordpress.com/2015/04/forward_plus.pdf
        Clustered Shading: http://www.aortiz.me/2018/12/21/CG.html
    Advances in Real-Time Rendering in Games:
        http://advances.realtimerendering.com/s2016/

Linear Algebra:
    Quaternions on the GPU: https://tech.metail.com/performance-quaternions-gpu/

Vertex packing:
    Normal encoding: https://knarkowicz.wordpress.com/2014/04/16/octahedron-normal-vector-encoding/

Camera
    https://catlikecoding.com/unity/tutorials/movement/orbit-camera/

PBR:
    https://learnopengl.com/PBR/Theory
    https://google.github.io/filament/Filament.md.html#materialsystem/standardmodel

Ray Tracing
    RT Gems v1.9 (unofficial):
        https://www.realtimerendering.com/raytracinggems/rtg/index.html
        https://www.realtimerendering.com/raytracinggems/unofficial_RayTracingGems_v1.9.pdf

    A Fast and Robust Method for Avoiding Self-Intersection
        https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-4842-4427-2_6

    Phong shaded RT in Unity:
        https://www.cs.princeton.edu/courses/archive/fall16/cos526/papers/importance.pdf
        http://blog.three-eyed-games.com/2018/05/12/gpu-path-tracing-in-unity-part-2/

    Sampling:
        https://cas.ee.ic.ac.uk/people/dt10/research/rngs-gpu-mwc64x.html
        http://l2program.co.uk/900/concentric-disk-sampling
        https://jcgt.org/published/0007/04/01/paper.pdf

    Ray Cones:
        https://d1qx31qr3h6wln.cloudfront.net/publications/Akenine-Moller2021LOD.pdf

    PBRT:
        https://www.pbrt.org/
        https://pbr-book.org/

    RT Gems:         https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2F978-1-4842-7185-8.pdf
    ReSTIR paper:    https://research.nvidia.com/sites/default/files/pubs/2020-07_Spatiotemporal-reservoir-resampling/ReSTIR.pdf
    ReSTIR GI paper: https://research.nvidia.com/publication/2021-06_restir-gi-path-resampling-real-time-path-tracing
    ReSTIR article:  https://gamehacker1999.github.io/posts/restir/

    Manual BVHs:     https://jacco.ompf2.com/2022/04/13/how-to-build-a-bvh-part-1-basics/
    SBTs explained:  https://www.willusher.io/graphics/2019/11/20/the-sbt-three-ways

    Denoising:
        https://alain.xyz/blog/ray-tracing-denoising#accumulation

    RT shadows:
        Analytical: https://blog.imaginationtech.com/implementing-fast-ray-traced-soft-shadows-in-a-game-engine/
        Monte Carlo: https://medium.com/@alexander.wester/ray-tracing-soft-shadows-in-real-time-a53b836d123b
        https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2F978-1-4842-4427-2_13.pdf
        https://developer.download.nvidia.com/assets/events/GDC15/hybrid_ray_traced_GDC_2015.pdf

    Disney BRDF
        https://github.com/knightcrawler25/GLSL-PathTracer/blob/master/src/shaders/common/disney.glsl
        https://github.com/schuttejoe/Selas/blob/dev/Source/Core/Shading/Disney.cpp
        https://github.com/knightcrawler25/Optix-PathTracer/blob/master/src/optixPathTracer/disney.cu
        https://www.shadertoy.com/view/XdyyDd
        https://www.shadertoy.com/view/llGyRd
        https://www.shadertoy.com/view/sltXRl

Model resources:
    Rungholt and other models: https://casual-effects.com/g3d/data10/index.html

UI:
   https://www.rfleury.com/p/ui-series-table-of-contents
   https://github.com/rxi/microui

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Fibers
    Fibers by hand: https://graphitemaster.github.io/fibers/

Virtual terminal sequences:
    ANSI Colors: https://talyian.github.io/ansicolors/

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Query hardware
    WMI Queries:
        https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/wmisdk/example--getting-wmi-data-from-the-local-computer
        https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/wmisdk/querying-wmi