We present a generalized decoupled and object space shading system. This system includes a new layer material system, a dynamic hierarchical sparse shade space allocation system, a GPU shade work dispatcher, and a multi-frame ...

Stippling illustrations of CEOs, authors, and world leaders have become an iconic style. Dot after dot is meticulously placed by professional artists to complete a hedcut, being an extremely time-consuming and painstaking ...

Multi-fragment rendering provides additional degrees of freedom in postprocessing. It allows us to edit images rendered with antialiasing, motion blur, depth of field, and transparency. To store multiple fragments, ...

Dusk and dawn scenes have been difficult for brute force path tracers to handle. We identify that a major source of the inefficiency in explicitly path tracing the atmosphere in such conditions stems from wasting samples ...

Rendering environment lighting using ray tracing is challenging because many rays within the hemisphere are required to be traced. In this work, we propose discrete visibility fields (DVFs), which store visibility information ...

Blue noise error patterns are well suited to human perception, and when applied to stochastic rendering techniques, blue noise masks can minimize unwanted low-frequency noise in the final image. Current methods of applying ...

Screen-space Ambient Occlusion (AO) is commonly used in games to calculate the exposure of each pixel to ambient lighting with the help of a depth buffer. Due to its screen-space nature, it suffers from several artifacts ...