Per chi non potesse vedere Facebook (I due post sono di Angelo Pesce , che potete trovare su Twitter come @kenpex ): Chi di link ferisce di link perisce Part 1 - engineering You might not know what ASCII really is... https://garbagecollected.org/2017/01/31/four-column-ascii/ Texas Hold’em bot (DNN) https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2017/01/robot-knows-when-to-hold-em-wins-huge-in-poker-tournament/ A great survey of compression methods http://mattmahoney.net/dc/dce.html Compile-time C with C++ constexpr https://github.com/kw-udon/constexpr-8cc Zelda’s design docs https://www.nintendo.co.uk/News/2016/December/Take-a-look-behind-the-scenes-with-design-documents-from-The-Legend-of-Zelda–1169414.html Do NOT use these http://www.geeksforgeeks.org/top-10-algorithms-in-interview-questions/ P vs NP: a survey http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=3095 Unicode is madness https://manishearth.github.io/blog/2017/01/14/stop-ascribing-meaning-to-unicode-code-points/ Google’s security infrastructure https://cloud.google.com/security/security-design/ The line of death (web security) https://textslashplain.com/2017/01/14/the-line-of-death/ McGuire’s sample game in Pico-8 http://casual-effects.com/gamejam/brickbreakerp8/index.html A few nice articles on data structures Skip lists done right https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13210687 Robin Hood Hashing - Backward Shift for Deletions http://codecapsule.com/2013/11/17/robin-hood-hashing-backward-shift-deletion/ Ring buffers done right https://www.snellman.net/blog/archive/2016-12-13-ring-buffers/ Costs of Memory Allocation Why large allocs can be slower then small ones http://zeuxcg.org/2014/12/21/page-fault-queue/ https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2014/12/10/hidden-costs-of-memory-allocation/ related https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20170113-00/?p=95185 Great slides on Intel’s architecture https://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2016/10/05/micro49-tutorial-on-intel-processor-graphics-microarchitecture-and-isa The internals of PostgreSQL https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13488315 A tourist guide to LLVM sourcecode http://blog.regehr.org/archives/1453 Disable your AV software (written by an ex-mozilla engineer) http://robert.ocallahan.org/2017/01/disable-your-antivirus-software-except.html Linux performance profile/tuning https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13498485 Chi di link ferisce di link perisce Part 2 - rendering Links for the weekend. NVidia’s “lens matched shading” API (VR...) https://developer.nvidia.com/lens-matched-shading-and-unreal-engine-4-integration-part-1 This is different than what AMD does, it employs a clever trick that hinges on a linear modification of w as a function of x,y A retrospective of Apple’s Metal http://zeuxcg.org/2016/12/01/metal-retrospective/ Related: Let’s close the buffer zoo http://www.joshbarczak.com/blog/?p=1260 Stephanie Hurlburt’s collection of talks http://stephaniehurlburt.com/talksworkshops/ Missed this, but apparently latest NSight supports DX12 (and Vulkan, plus other things) https://developer.nvidia.com/nsight-visual-studio-edition-52-released-oculus-and-vulkan-support-direct3d-12-profiling-and-3 Hybrid fur rendering (volumetric/shells + strands) http://www.imm.dtu.dk/~jerf/papers/hybrid_fur_lowres.pdf FXGuide article series on facial R&D Disney R&D https://www.fxguide.com/featured/face-me-part-3-high-end-faces-rd-from-disney-research/ Digital avatars https://www.fxguide.com/featured/face-me-part-2-make-me-an-avatar-from-a-selfie/ Texture from single photo https://www.fxguide.com/featured/face-me-part-1-photorealistic-facial-texture-from-a-single-still/ Also these were interesting, from FXGuide: https://www.fxguide.com/featured/the-tech-of-pixar-part-1-piper-daring-to-be-different/ https://community.renderman.pixar.com/article/1736/piper-look-dev-hdri-collection.html Marc Reynolds has been on a roll lately with projections and mappings Cube/Cylinder/Ball mappings http://marc-b-reynolds.github.io/math/2017/01/27/CubeBall.html Uniform random 3d rotations http://marc-b-reynolds.github.io/distribution/2017/01/27/UniformRot.html Higher density uniform floats http://marc-b-reynolds.github.io/distribution/2017/01/17/DenseFloat.html Square/Disc mappings http://marc-b-reynolds.github.io/math/2017/01/08/SquareDisc.html Fourier interpolation (IQ) https://www.shadertoy.com/view/4lGSDw DNN corner: A CNN trained to learn fluid dynamics http://cims.nyu.edu/~schlacht/CNNFluids.htm DNN image approximation (just for fun) https://github.com/schenker/image-learner/ CNN for raster vectorization https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MfG9CDufPA Screen-space reflections in Killing Floor 2 https://sakibsaikia.github.io/2016/12/26/Screen-Space-Reflection-in-Killing-Floor-2.html Few cute triks, especially the idea (not novel, but well illustrated) of using a depth pyramid to accelerate marching Motion matching from Ubisoft. Another presentation on their approximation of motion fields http://www.gameanim.com/2017/01/24/motion-matching-future-gameplay-animation-today/ Hashed alpha (I3D17) A simple idea, using alpha testing and alpha-to-coverage with randomized thresholds to avoid issues with disappearing thin features http://cwyman.org/papers/i3d17_hashedAlpha.pdf Depth linearization for arbitrary (non parallel) frustums http://jcgt.org/published/0005/04/03/ Hacking the PS4. Impressive, they wrote a CP disassembler! https://fail0verflow.com/media/33c3-slides/#/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AoHGJ1g9aM https://github.com/fail0verflow/radeon-tools/blob/master/f32/f32dis.py http://www.siliconkit.com/pragmatic/RAI/bonaire.rai AMD Shader compiler control API (gives control on async shader compilation) http://gpuopen.com/ags-5-0-shader-compiler-controls/ AMD blog post on memory coalescing http://gpuopen.com/gcn-memory-coalescing/ Bringing wide color to Instagram (iPhone 7) https://engineering.instagram.com/bringing-wide-color-to-instagram-5a5481802d7d#.nypqstve2 HDR in Infamous Second Son They use the ACES RRT, I still don’t know why that makes sense... http://www.glowybits.com/blog/2017/01/04/ifl_iss_hdr_1/ http://www.glowybits.com/blog/2016/12/21/ifl_iss_hdr_2/ Voxel Based Realtime GI Master’s thesis. Implementation and comparison of many different algorithms. http://www4.di.uminho.pt/~arf/supervision/DanielGomesVoxelRendering.pdf Mocap with sparse sensors (Disney research) A strong prior corrects the mocap done with few, noisy sensors. http://www.gameanim.com/2016/12/30/real-time-physics-based-motion-capture-sparse-sensors/ Procedural content generation in games http://pcgbook.com/ History of RGB color model http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/AndreasBrinck/20161208/286891/History_of_the_RGB_color_model.php Screen-space shadows & Z-writing POM https://forum.unity3d.com/threads/wip-se-screen-space-shadows.441909/ Spherical Illuminance Composition for Real-Time Indirect Illumination Master’s thesis. A fast radiosity-type algorithm http://www.davidkuri.de/downloads/SIC-GI.pdf Stingray (ex-bitsquid) renderer overview http://bitsquid.blogspot.ca/2017/02/stingray-renderer-walkthrough.html http://bitsquid.blogspot.ca/2017/02/stingray-renderer-walkthrough-2.html Other stuff. Google’s Draco: compression for 3d meshes https://opensource.googleblog.com/2017/01/introducing-draco-compression-for-3d.html A small library to get a windows framebuffer going! https://github.com/emoon/minifb Inverse-transpose explained (again) https://gist.github.com/pervognsen/c6b1d19754c2e8a38b10886b63d7bf2d Tessellation modes quick reference http://reedbeta.com/blog/tess-quick-ref/ Disk and cylinder bound box http://iquilezles.org/www/articles/diskbbox/diskbbox.htm F-Lux, without distorting the colors too much... http://epa.psy.ntu.edu.tw/documents/2016/Shih_etal_2016.pdf

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Per chi non potesse vedere Facebook (I due post sono di Angelo Pesce, che potete trovare su Twitter come @kenpex):

Chi di link ferisce di link perisce

Part 1 - engineering

You might not know what ASCII really is...
https://garbagecollected.org/2017/01/31/four-column-ascii/

Texas Hold’em bot (DNN)
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2017/01/robot-knows-when-to-hold-em-wins-huge-in-poker-tournament/

A great survey of compression methods
http://mattmahoney.net/dc/dce.html

Compile-time C with C++ constexpr
https://github.com/kw-udon/constexpr-8cc

Zelda’s design docs

https://www.nintendo.co.uk/News/2016/December/Take-a-look-behind-the-scenes-with-design-documents-from-The-Legend-of-Zelda–1169414.html

Do NOT use these
http://www.geeksforgeeks.org/top-10-algorithms-in-interview-questions/

P vs NP: a survey
http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=3095

Unicode is madness
https://manishearth.github.io/blog/2017/01/14/stop-ascribing-meaning-to-unicode-code-points/

Google’s security infrastructure
https://cloud.google.com/security/security-design/

The line of death (web security)
https://textslashplain.com/2017/01/14/the-line-of-death/

McGuire’s sample game in Pico-8
http://casual-effects.com/gamejam/brickbreakerp8/index.html

A few nice articles on data structures

Skip lists done right https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13210687
Robin Hood Hashing - Backward Shift for Deletions http://codecapsule.com/2013/11/17/robin-hood-hashing-backward-shift-deletion/
Ring buffers done right https://www.snellman.net/blog/archive/2016-12-13-ring-buffers/

Costs of Memory Allocation
Why large allocs can be slower then small ones
http://zeuxcg.org/2014/12/21/page-fault-queue/
https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2014/12/10/hidden-costs-of-memory-allocation/
related https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20170113-00/?p=95185

Great slides on Intel’s architecture
https://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2016/10/05/micro49-tutorial-on-intel-processor-graphics-microarchitecture-and-isa

The internals of PostgreSQL
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13488315

A tourist guide to LLVM sourcecode
http://blog.regehr.org/archives/1453

Disable your AV software (written by an ex-mozilla engineer)
http://robert.ocallahan.org/2017/01/disable-your-antivirus-software-except.html

Linux performance profile/tuning
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13498485

Chi di link ferisce di link perisce

Part 2 - rendering

Links for the weekend.

NVidia’s “lens matched shading” API (VR...)
https://developer.nvidia.com/lens-matched-shading-and-unreal-engine-4-integration-part-1
This is different than what AMD does, it employs a clever trick that hinges on a linear modification of w as a function of x,y

A retrospective of Apple’s Metal
http://zeuxcg.org/2016/12/01/metal-retrospective/
Related: Let’s close the buffer zoo
http://www.joshbarczak.com/blog/?p=1260

Stephanie Hurlburt’s collection of talks
http://stephaniehurlburt.com/talksworkshops/

Missed this, but apparently latest NSight supports DX12 (and Vulkan, plus other things)
https://developer.nvidia.com/nsight-visual-studio-edition-52-released-oculus-and-vulkan-support-direct3d-12-profiling-and-3

Hybrid fur rendering (volumetric/shells + strands)
http://www.imm.dtu.dk/~jerf/papers/hybrid_fur_lowres.pdf

FXGuide article series on facial R&D

Disney R&D https://www.fxguide.com/featured/face-me-part-3-high-end-faces-rd-from-disney-research/
Digital avatars https://www.fxguide.com/featured/face-me-part-2-make-me-an-avatar-from-a-selfie/
Texture from single photo https://www.fxguide.com/featured/face-me-part-1-photorealistic-facial-texture-from-a-single-still/

Also these were interesting, from FXGuide:

Marc Reynolds has been on a roll lately with projections and mappings

Cube/Cylinder/Ball mappings http://marc-b-reynolds.github.io/math/2017/01/27/CubeBall.html
Uniform random 3d rotations http://marc-b-reynolds.github.io/distribution/2017/01/27/UniformRot.html
Higher density uniform floats http://marc-b-reynolds.github.io/distribution/2017/01/17/DenseFloat.html
Square/Disc mappings http://marc-b-reynolds.github.io/math/2017/01/08/SquareDisc.html

Fourier interpolation (IQ)
https://www.shadertoy.com/view/4lGSDw

DNN corner:

A CNN trained to learn fluid dynamics http://cims.nyu.edu/~schlacht/CNNFluids.htm
DNN image approximation (just for fun) https://github.com/schenker/image-learner/
CNN for raster vectorization https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MfG9CDufPA

Screen-space reflections in Killing Floor 2
https://sakibsaikia.github.io/2016/12/26/Screen-Space-Reflection-in-Killing-Floor-2.html
Few cute triks, especially the idea (not novel, but well illustrated) of using a depth pyramid to accelerate marching

Motion matching from Ubisoft.
Another presentation on their approximation of motion fields
http://www.gameanim.com/2017/01/24/motion-matching-future-gameplay-animation-today/

Hashed alpha (I3D17)
A simple idea, using alpha testing and alpha-to-coverage with randomized thresholds to avoid issues with disappearing thin features
http://cwyman.org/papers/i3d17_hashedAlpha.pdf

Depth linearization for arbitrary (non parallel) frustums
http://jcgt.org/published/0005/04/03/

Hacking the PS4.
Impressive, they wrote a CP disassembler!
https://fail0verflow.com/media/33c3-slides/#/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AoHGJ1g9aM
https://github.com/fail0verflow/radeon-tools/blob/master/f32/f32dis.py
http://www.siliconkit.com/pragmatic/RAI/bonaire.rai

AMD Shader compiler control API (gives control on async shader compilation)
http://gpuopen.com/ags-5-0-shader-compiler-controls/
AMD blog post on memory coalescing
http://gpuopen.com/gcn-memory-coalescing/

Bringing wide color to Instagram (iPhone 7)
https://engineering.instagram.com/bringing-wide-color-to-instagram-5a5481802d7d#.nypqstve2

HDR in Infamous Second Son
They use the ACES RRT, I still don’t know why that makes sense...
http://www.glowybits.com/blog/2017/01/04/ifl_iss_hdr_1/
http://www.glowybits.com/blog/2016/12/21/ifl_iss_hdr_2/

Voxel Based Realtime GI
Master’s thesis. Implementation and comparison of many different algorithms.
http://www4.di.uminho.pt/~arf/supervision/DanielGomesVoxelRendering.pdf

Mocap with sparse sensors (Disney research)
A strong prior corrects the mocap done with few, noisy sensors.
http://www.gameanim.com/2016/12/30/real-time-physics-based-motion-capture-sparse-sensors/

Procedural content generation in games
http://pcgbook.com/

History of RGB color model
http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/AndreasBrinck/20161208/286891/History_of_the_RGB_color_model.php

Screen-space shadows & Z-writing POM
https://forum.unity3d.com/threads/wip-se-screen-space-shadows.441909/

Spherical Illuminance Composition for Real-Time Indirect Illumination
Master’s thesis. A fast radiosity-type algorithm
http://www.davidkuri.de/downloads/SIC-GI.pdf

Stingray (ex-bitsquid) renderer overview
http://bitsquid.blogspot.ca/2017/02/stingray-renderer-walkthrough.html
http://bitsquid.blogspot.ca/2017/02/stingray-renderer-walkthrough-2.html

Other stuff.

Google’s Draco: compression for 3d meshes https://opensource.googleblog.com/2017/01/introducing-draco-compression-for-3d.html
A small library to get a windows framebuffer going! https://github.com/emoon/minifb
Inverse-transpose explained (again) https://gist.github.com/pervognsen/c6b1d19754c2e8a38b10886b63d7bf2d
Tessellation modes quick reference http://reedbeta.com/blog/tess-quick-ref/
Disk and cylinder bound box http://iquilezles.org/www/articles/diskbbox/diskbbox.htm
F-Lux, without distorting the colors too much... http://epa.psy.ntu.edu.tw/documents/2016/Shih_etal_2016.pdf