Cached Texture Space Shading and Consistency?
Budget so in the common case enough tiles are processed to completely update the screen at some sample density per pixel. When less tiles are needed to be updated (better scene temporal coherence)...
View ArticleLocation of "Filtering" in the Graphics Pipeline
This is a tangent related to the prior thread...The hardware provides fast filtering from the texture unit, but only the worst-case filter: in terms of classic re-sampling filters, bilinear filtering...
View ArticleContinuing on the TS Blog Conversation Chain
Re Joshua Barczak - Texel Shader Discussion..."I’m suggesting that the calling wave be re-used to service the TS misses (if any), so instead of waiting for scheduling and execution, it can jump into a...
View ArticleRethinking the Symbolic Dictionary
Another permutation of dictionary implementation for forth like languages...SourceExported source is composed of two parts,(1.) Token array, where tokens can reference a local symbol by index into...
View ArticleMixing Temporal AA and Transparency
Jon Greenberg asks on twitter, "Okay, so here's the TemporalAA question of the day - transparency isn't TAA'd - how do you manage the jittered camera? Ignore it? Oy..." The context of this question is...
View ArticleISA Toolbox
For years now I have found that nearly everything I work on can be made better by leveraging ISA features which are not always exposed in all the graphics APIs. For example, currently working on a...
View ArticleCross-Invocation Data Sharing Portability
A general look at the possibility of portability for dGPUs with regards to cross-invocation data sharing (aka to go next after ARB_shader_ballot which starts exposing useful SIMD-level programming...
View ArticleCRT Inventory
Makvision M2929 ----------------- 29", _4:3, _800x600__, 30-40_ KHz, 47-90_ Hz, 90___ MHz, slot mask_____, _____0.73 mm pitch, VGA_HP "1024" D2813 ----------------- 14", _4:3, 1024x768__, 30-49_ KHz,...
View ArticleBlack Friday vs Display Technology
My wife and I are in the Toronto area in Canada visiting family for the the US Thanksgiving holiday. Naturally food and shopping resulted in a trip to Costco and the mall, where I ran across an Apple...
View ArticleQuality MSAA Resolve
When MSAA is done right I avoid all morphological AA's like FXAA because they add artifacts. Here are some hints on how to do MSAA right. These techniques work in HLSL or GLSL, using the HLSL terms...
View ArticleGPUOpen!
TechReport | TomsHardware | PCPerFull disclosure, I'm part of this project at AMD working in RTG's ISV Engineering Team lead by Nicolas Thibieroz ...GPUOpen from my Personal Perspective as a...
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Random Holiday 2015
Google Photos = Fail GreatMinus has basically imploded loosing a lot of the image content on this blog, unfortunately Google Photos is not a great alternative, while it seems to support original...
View ArticleNot Happy About This
Engadget: Lawsuit Over 4K Copy ProtectionAccording to Engadget, Intel and Warner Bros are suing LegendSky (makers of HDFury devices). The Engadget article claims, "it's not very likely that people are...
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Driving NTSC TVs From Modern GPUs at 59.94 Hz Without Interlacing
EquipmentUsing a HDFury 3 (purchase directly from HDFury.com and DHL shipping is free and only a few days from Taiwan), along with a Crescendo Systems: TC1600. Unfortunately it is only possible to the...
View ArticleAvegant Glyph
Curious what the real tech specs are for the Avegant Glyph. Working from comments from the Polygon article, apparently since it doesn't obscure the entire field of view of vision, you are still...
View ArticleTemporal AA Neighborhood Clamp
Thoughts too long for the twitter thread on this, back from my memory of working on this problem...In TAA the purpose of the neighborhood clamp is to remove ghosting. Using the surrounding local...
View ArticleLocal/Global Dimming, Blooming, Contrast Ratios - CRT/LCD/Plasma/OLED
Global DimmingOLED HDTVs drop to about 33% of peak brightness on a full white screen. My Samsung Plasma HDTV has similar issues. The random made-in-1996 CRT I just profiled at home drops to about 60%...
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