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Most efficient way to calculate signed distance field (SDF) for pixel subsamples?

Looking how to utilize as much parallelization processing as possible for the following task: A screen-sized texture is completely black except for blue pixels which are in close proximity to geometry ...
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Profile GPU performance in Direct3D 11

I'm trying to profile a d3d11 application using queries (pretty much exactly as described here). I noticed something strange with the data I was getting from the queries and I think I managed to ...
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How does higher draw distance strain the CPU?

I am looking at many games like Dead Island 2, Red Dead Redemption 2, and Minecraft and I see that while the render distance grows, the CPU load grows with it. Why could this be happening? Lack of ...
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Theoretical speedup from sample number in path tracing algorithm

Suppose, in a Kajiya style path tracing algorithm, I have 100x100 pixels, and I am using 32 samples per pixel. So, the total ...
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Intel UHD extremely slow copy operations

Is there a way to make copy operations such as CopyResurce(d3d11) and glBlitFramebuffer(ogl) on multi-sample resources faster ...
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GLSL : Extremely slow compilation when using loop

I am making multiple gradients with GLSL. However, when I started using a loop instead of a lengthy else if condition, the compile time jumped from 2-4sec to 40sec !...
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What technique can I use to swap thousands of models per frame?

I need to render a lot of objects that swap their model from frame to frame. Currently, I am putting every model into a single vertex buffer and giving every vertex an id. I store the same id in the ...
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How to do frustum culling with draw call bundling?

If I'm understanding things correctly (please correct me if I'm wrong): All modern graphics APIs (vulkan, dx12, metal, webgpu) provide ways to bundle and replay draw calls. The bundle includes which ...
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What are some tools to test performance of a Vulkan based game?

I am developing Vulkan games. It is still a basic rendering program with some cornel boxed data. Apart from testing hairs, calculating fps, what are some tools to apply to test the performance of such ...
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Convert one triangle to another in matrix4x4?

The context openGL instances learning. I want to transform a reference triangle to another one. So final goal is to have one triangle and the instance being a transformation of that initial triangle. ...
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Good way of implementing an efficient tilemap renderer

I am new to graphics programming and I'm trying to create an efficient 2D tilemap renderer (using rust and wgpu (webgpu)). My current implementation My current implementation consists of: A Rust-Vec (...
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Performance impact/implications of constant buffers / uniform buffers

Constant buffers stay constant throughout entire dispatches / draw calls, and thus their data can presumably be shared as efficiently as possible between different threads using those buffers. But I ...
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Sparse voxel oct tree tracing, optimization tricks?

I have a working oct-ree raytracer and I am applying it to the sponza. The algorithm I have designed works like this at a high level: Collide with the bounding box of the model, move your ray to that ...
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Can meshes be reused in raytracing?

In rasterization, at least in the context of game development, it is a common to have many instances of the same 3D object in a scene (think many identical rocks in different sizes/positions/rotations)...
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Different Vertex structures in multi-purpose system

A typical definition of a Vertex structure in C++ might look something like this: struct Vertex { Vec3 pos; Vec3 color; } However, we found ourselves ...
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Is there a Performance Penalty for LOD objects with different topology?

I have a fairly complex-shaped object I've modeled, and in creating the LOD meshes, I've merged some verts, deleted some and even added some after in cases where this manipulation produced an n-gon. ...
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Embree: Performance issue when ray casting User Defined Geometry

I am working on the integration of Intel's Embree library into our home renderer to accelerate its rendering time. Our renderer supports various geometry types, such as quads, triangles, but also ...
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What does the z-buffer look like in memory?

I am an amateur game developer, and I've been reading a lot on how computer graphics rendering works lately. I was reading on the Z-buffer recently and I can't quite seem to be able to wrap my head ...
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is utilizing multiple GPUs better than using one for all software?

In cases of Laptops, some will have two GPUs. One is built-in (e.g. Intel) and another one attachable (e.g. Nvidia). Is it better to have each of them operate different software to divide the load? or ...
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I am trying to find a clip about the art of old computer graphics

I have saw a clip where a guy talked about the art of squeezing some nice graphics into a very small space that was available on old computers. Come to think of it, it sounded something like today's ...
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Is glDispatchCompute(a,b,c) any faster than glDispatchCompute(a*b*c,1,1)?

In my application, there is no inherent 2D or 3D structure to the computer shader instances. So having multiple dimensions doesn't benefit me semantically in any way. I am wondering, whether it still ...
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Optimizing compute shader with thread group shared memory

I'm currently learning compute shaders and I'm trying to write an optimized Game Of Life. I have a first version working that uses a Shader Storage Buffer Object. I dispatch a thread per cell I want ...
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Performance of Compute Shaders vs. Fragment Shaders for Deferred Rendering

I have written a deferred renderer that can use either a fragment shader or a compute shader to execute the shading pass. Unfortunately, the compute shader implementation runs slower. I'm trying to ...
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Best practice for managing many shaders and merging multiple shaders into one?

I have managed to greatly minimize draw calls on my recent project, but as I'm adding more shaders, I see that I have to switch more times and that is causing a lot of draw calls. What is the best ...
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How are 2D graphics rendered in HTML canvas

I was making some circles in the HTML Canvas element and the circles were so smooth. In a sense that you cant see any vertices. I normally work in unity and I you make a shape in 3d you most of the ...
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Optimizing texture fetches with higher mip levels

Let's say I have some shader program in DirectX or OpenGL rendering a full screen quad. And in a pixel/fragment shader I sample some huge textures at random texture coordinates. That is one same ...
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Tessellation Speed in terms of interpolated points per second

For a research project, I have written a Tessellation Shader to interpolate solution points of a 3-Dimensional mathematical equation. Therefore I don't use any techniques for displacement, I merely ...
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Software Rendering Display Latency

I've been doing some reading as to how to reduce input delay on modern computing devices. A lot of my understanding from this comes from the VR research paper by Carmack explaining the numerous ...
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Compute shader textures compared 2D float4 arrays

I am wondering is there a difference in performance between using floating point textures as my 2D float4 array vs just passing in 2D float4 arrays? 2D float arrays eliminate the need to do texture ...
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Should you measure mesh complexity in triangles or vertices?

I have seen people using either vertices or triangles as a quick heuristic to estimate mesh memory usage and mesh rendering time. I always thought vertices were better, because the number of vertices ...
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Are MMORPGs, specifically WoW, limited by their latency in terms of FPS?

It sounds crazy, but I've been doing a lot of reading on exactly why WoW performs very poorly, even on a 1080Ti / 8700k OC'd and overall, a high-end machine. Overclocking the CPU yielded great ...
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Why are tessellation shaders disliked?

I often hear that tessellation shaders aren't great for performance reasons. Something along the lines that if you try to use a tessellation shader, you'll find that the data you get out isn't ...
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Is a smaller local-size/threadgroup-size better for compute shader performance?

A compute shader defines the number of threads it requires to be executed. This number can be called "local size" or "threadgroup size" according to the API, and be factored into 3 separate dimensions ...
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Using GPU instead of CPU in Scala

I wrote a program that displays points expressed in 3D in a 2D canvas, using perspective projection. The aim is to display a cube. Each face of the cube is drawn by linearly interpolating the points ...
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How does MSAA performance scale?

I'm finding myself increasingly interested in rendering techniques utilizing multisampling for anti-aliasing (obviously), out-of-order transparency, volumes etc. Searching the web for performance ...
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The most performant way to organize vertex data on modern GPUs

Say I have a model made up of vertices, each with position, normal, tangent, and ...
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Dealing with wasted space when using SIMD on CPU for vector maths

I've been getting interested in SIMD programming on CPU using SSE recently, but I'm a complete noob on the subject. I found this article describing how to make an efficient float3 type using the ...
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How can an OpenGL visualization run for weeks?

For an art project, I need to make an OpenGL visualization run for at least 4 weeks. Is this possible? I can pretty much choose the rest of the hardware and software.
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In Metal, what performance advantages are there, if any, to using vertex descriptors and the [[stage_in]] qualifier?

Metal seems to provide two very different ways to access vertex data in your vertex shader. You can: Create an MTLVertexDescriptor object, which describes vertex ...
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Tasks of a professional graphics programmer?

Currently I'm 16 and in high school and I love graphics programming and I'm seriously considering it as a career path. I was wondering what a day as a graphics programmer looks like for offline ...
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Can I voxelize 3D set of points without reconstructing surface first?

I have huge point cloud data I want to render them at interactive frame frate. Process I know is 1.point cloud data 2.triangulate it using delnauy or other triangulation algo 3.surface ...
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Performance impact during texture layer loading

Recently I have been having a rather confusing performance drop with loading in layers of a 2D texture array, but only in one case from what I can tell, leaving me to speculate on why it is happening ...
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GPU not reaching 100% usage when frame rate is dropping

I am making an iOS game using Unity. I am testing some shaders that I have made for the game, and in some cases the device will run at under 30 FPS but not have 100% device utilization. Sometimes a ...
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Challenges of Offline Rendering

What are some of the challenges of Offline Rendering? I know one problem that is faced is performance and rendering times, are there any more issues? Path Traced photos seem to have reached the ...
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Can I use QueryPerformanceCounter to measure single draw or compute call performance?

I know I can use QueryPerformanceCounter for measure time for whole single frame. But can I when it comes to OpenGL draw or compute call? I always assumed that, as ...
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Register pressure in Compute Shader

I'm in the process of writing a Ray Tracer using DirectCompute / HLSL. First, eye rays are generated (one per pixel). Then, rays are traced, shaded and reflected in a loop. Also, shadow rays for each ...
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How can I improve the performance of my custom Global Illumination approach?

I want to experiment with some new stuff about modern rendering techniques and in that way I'm trying to implement a custom GI (somewhere between pathtracing and instant radiosity). My scene is a bit ...
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Optimizing performance on hardware

I'm working on a webgl audio visualizer that uses particles, and I want to optimize rendering based on the user's hardware. I'd like to offer a "low quality" and "high quality" setting so that it ...
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How to get unique nearest neighbour?

There's already something called K-nearest neighbour algorithm with gives nearest neighbour to points. But what I want is unique neighbour which is not shared by any other neighbour. I've implemented ...
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Billboards or impostors when objects' instances are re-scaled [closed]

Billboarding/impostors mean, roughly, representing complex 3D objects in 2D or with simple quadrilaterals, for the sake of LOD systems. Consider the case of rendering a very numerous asteroid field ...
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