Modular Radiance Transfer is a recent technique that computes approximate direct-to-indirect transfer by warping and combining transport from a small library of simple shapes. This talk discusses implementation issues that arose when scaling the algorithm from mobile devices to high-end GPUs.

An overview of a systems pipeline for high-dynamic-range video capture, reconstruction, and modeling of real-world scenes with strong spatial variations in the lighting environment, which enables photo-realistic rendering of synthetic objects placed in the scene.

A simple and efficient method for pixel-scale occlusion culling in arbitrarily complex scenes.

This solution to the ill-posed, non-uniform point-spread-function (PSF) estimation problem transforms it into a well-posed image-registration problem that estimates homographies representing the motions of camera shakes in 3D.

An examination of the process and technology used to build control systems for birds in Blue Sky Studio's "Rio" using the main character Blu as a case study.

Creation of the "Kung Fu Panda 2" peacock tail rig and an approach that streamlines the animation process while adhering to a broad and complex specification.

This facial-motion retargeting method for blendshapes without any prior knowledge of facial segmentation delivers better visual quality than traditional local blendshape mapping methods.

For more than a decade, supersample anti-aliasing (SSAA) and multisample anti-aliasing (MSAA) have been the gold-standard anti-aliasing solutions in games. However, these techniques are not well suited for deferred shading or fixed environments like the current generation of consoles. In recent years, industry and academia have been exploring alternative approaches, where anti-aliasing is performed as a post-processing step. The original, CPU-based morphological anti-aliasing (MLAA) method gave birth to an explosion of real-time anti-aliasing techniques that rival MSAA.

Most of these techniques share concepts and ideas, so the main goal of this course is to establish a conceptual link between them, identifying novelties and differences. The presenters explain how sub-pixel data can be used to improve quality and performance tradeoffs at post-processing steps, which is a cutting-edge research area today. The course includes an overview of both research and industry filter-based anti-aliasing techniques in games for all modern platforms (AMD and NVIDIA GPUs, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360), low-level insight to ease adoption of these techniques and give attendees a complete concept-to-implementation roadmap, and deep quality, performance, and ease-of-integration comparisons of each technique.

COURSE SCHEDULE

2 pm
Introduction
Gutierrez & Jimenez

2:05 pm
A Directionally Adaptive Edge Anti-Aliasing Filter
Yang

2:20 pm
Morphological Anti-Aliasing (MLAA)
Reshetov

2:35 pm
Jimenez's MLAA
Jimenez

2:50 pm
Hybrid CPU/GPU MLAA on the Xbox-360
Demoreuille

3:05 pm
Low-Latency MLAA in God of War III
Perthuis

3:20 pm
PlayStation Edge MLAA
Berghoff

3:35 pm
The Saboteur Anti-Aliasing (SPUAA)
Yu

3:50 pm
Break

4 pm
Subpixel Reconstruction Antialiasing (SRAA)
McGuire

4:15 pm
Fast approXimate Anti-Aliasing (FXAA)
Lottes

4:30 pm
Distance-to-Edge Anti-Aliasing (DEAA)
Malan

4:45 pm
Geometry Buffer Antialiasing (GBAA)
Persson

4:55 pm
Directionally Localized Anti-Aliasing (DLAA)
Andreev

5:10 pm
Crysis 2 Anti-Aliasing
Sousa

5:25 pm
Wrap-up and Discussion: Questions and Answers

See cutting-edge DCC tools and applications for gaming, 3D web, and visualization, and artworks generated from COLLADA content-creation-supporting media.

A novel method for increasing the efficiency of stochastic rasterization of motion and defocus blur. Contrary to earlier approaches, the method is efficient even with the low sampling densities commonly encountered in real-time rendering, while allowing the use of arbitrary sampling patterns for optimum image quality.

A generalized approach to decoupling shading from both visibility and geometry sampling in graphics pipelines. The technique enables stochastic supersampling of motion and defocus blur and other effects at reduced shading cost, without requiring micropolygon rendering. It can be thought of as a generalization of GPU-style multi-sample anti-aliasing (MSAA).

Spark improves on current real-time shading languages by supporting better software development practices. It allows the logical features of a real-time shader to be expressed as independent, composable modules, even where a feature cross-cuts multiple stages of the rendering pipeline.

An efficient method to render lens flare of complex optical systems. Based on a combination of traditional ray tracing and rasterization, our technique captures the intricate dynamics of real flare phenomena, while spanning a continuum between accuracy and performance, physical realism and artistic expression.

This novel method to physically simulate flying motions that imitate real bird flight generates physically plausible and apparently realistic bird behaviors based on real wingbeat data.

This talk discusses building information modeling (BIM) tools as an opportunity for design generation, validation, and implementation. It specifically focuses on parametric modeling and constraint-based design explorations and construction assemblies.

This talk focuses on strategies for generative-design validation with the use of digital simulations, particularly dynamics-based modeling tools. It focuses on tools that employ rigid-body or soft-body dynamics, such as cloth simulations, forward and inverse kinematics (FK/IK), and particle interactions.

This work flow for modeling and animating cobwebs on antique sets includes a tool set for artists to model cobwebs, a physics-based solver, and a procedural-modeling engine.