Ray Tracing Gems II (eBook)

Next Generation Real-Time Rendering with DXR, Vulkan, and OptiX

Adam Marrs, Peter Shirley, Ingo Wald (Herausgeber)

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2021 | 1st ed.
LVI, 858 Seiten
Apress (Verlag)
978-1-4842-7185-8 (ISBN)

Infos

This Open Access book is a must-have for anyone interested in real-time rendering. Ray tracing is the holy grail of gaming graphics, simulating the physical behavior of light to bring real-time, cinematic-quality rendering to even the most visually intense games. Ray tracing is also a fundamental algorithm used for architecture applications, visualization, sound simulation, deep learning, and more.Ray Tracing Gems II is written by industry experts with a particular focus on ray tracing, and it offers a practical means to master the new capabilities of current and future GPUs with the latest graphics APIs.What You'll Learn:The latest ray tracing techniques for developing real-time applications in multiple domainsCase studies from developers and studios who have shipped products that use real-time ray tracing.Guidance, advice and best practices for renderingapplications with various GPU-based ray tracing APIs (DirectX Raytracing, Vulkan Ray Tracing)High performance graphics for 3D graphics, virtual reality, animation, and moreWho This Book Is For:Game and graphics developers who are looking to leverage the latest hardware and software tools for real-time rendering and ray tracing to enhance their applications across a variety of disciplines.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 4.8.2021
• Zusatzinfo: LVI, 858 p. 876 illus. in color.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Informatik ► Software Entwicklung ► Spieleprogrammierung
• Schlagworte: BVH and Acceleration Structures • Computer Graphics • DirectX Raytracing • Game Development • GPU • open access • Path Tracing • rasterization • Ray tracing • Real-Time Rendering • Vulkan Ray Tracing
• ISBN-10: 1-4842-7185-8 / 1484271858
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4842-7185-8 / 9781484271858