​Vulkan and Metal seem great.

Notes

• ​To get started in 3d graphics all you really need to understand is how to multiply a bunch of 4x4 matrices together. From there it is a matter of learning how to put that to good effect.​

Links

• ​Physically Based Rendering Book (Web) (V3) (V4)

• ​NVIDIA GeForce RTX - Official Launch Event (2018)​

• ​Writing to framebuffer​

• ​GUI Development is broken (2018)​

• ​Writing to the framebuffer (2018)​

• ​Spectrum - Client-side image transcoding library.

• ​Computer Graphics Topics​

• ​Tiny Renderer or how OpenGL works: software rendering in 500 lines of code - Brief computer graphics / rendering course. (In Rust)

• ​Looperepool - Tool to create looperinos.

• ​KABOOM! in 180 lines of bare C++ - Brief computer graphics / rendering course.

• ​imutils - Series of convenience functions to make basic image processing operations such as translation, rotation, resizing, skeletonization, and displaying Matplotlib images easier with OpenCV and Python.

• ​Cross-platform GPU fluid simulation​

• ​Interactive Cube​

• ​Skia - Open source 2D graphics library which provides common APIs that work across a variety of hardware and software platforms. (Code)

• ​Introduction to Raymarching​

• ​2D Graphics on Modern GPU (2019)​

• ​Resources for Learning Graphics Programming​

• ​Cellular Forms - Implementation of Andy Lomas' Cellular Forms.

• ​Physically Based Rendering - Implementation of physically based shading model & image based lighting in various graphics APIs. (Web)

• ​graphics-resources - Few of my bookmarks related to game development and realtime graphics programming.

• ​Magnum - Lightweight and modular C++11/C++14 graphics middleware for games and data visualization.

• ​Pathfinder - Fast, practical, GPU-based rasterizer for fonts and vector graphics using OpenGL 3.0+, OpenGL ES 3.0+, or Metal.

• ​Braid - Experimental heterogeneous programming language with an application to real-time graphics. (Code)

• ​SwiftShader - High-performance CPU-based implementation of the Vulkan, OpenGL ES, and Direct3D 9 graphics APIs.

• ​Thoughts on software rendering (2020)​

• ​Notes on linear transformations (2020)​

• ​Collision detection: article series (2018) (HN)

• ​Learning Modern 3D Graphics Programming (Code)

• ​light2d - Light rendering in 2D.

• ​Seamless, static, 3D mesh multi-texturer​

• ​Aliasing in computer graphics (2020)​

• ​3D Reaction-Diffusion​

• ​NeRF: Neural Radiance Fields - Tensorflow implementation of optimizing a neural representation for a single scene and rendering new views. (Web)

• ​A thoroughly modern particle system (2009) (HN)

• ​Stanford Interactive Computer Graphics (2020) (Code)

• ​Klein - Specialized SIMD Geometric Algebra Library.

• ​Basic Skeletal Animation with Geometric Algebra (HN)

• ​MIT Computer Graphics course (2012)​

• ​Neural Point-Based Graphics​

• ​V-HACD - Decomposes a 3D surface into a set of "near" convex parts.

• ​Geometric Algebra for Computer Graphics (2019) (HN)

• ​Graphics Gems books (Code)

• ​Real-Time Rendering Resources​

• ​Eric Haines courses/research​

• ​Accurate geometric camera calibration​

• ​rs_pbrt - Rust crate to implement at least parts of the PBRT book's C++ code.

• ​Stippling and Blue Noise (2011)​

• ​MeshLab - Open source, portable, and extensible system for the processing and editing of unstructured large 3D triangular meshes.

• ​Visual Computing Lab​

• ​Silhouette Maps for Improved Texture Magnification (2004) (Tweet)

• ​gltf-viewer - Rust glTF 2.0 viewer, written using the gltf crate and plain OpenGL.

• ​gltf-loader-ts - Engine-agnostic glTF 2.0 loader in TypeScript.

• ​Principles of Lighting and Rendering with John Carmack (2013)​

• ​Wave Simulator - Graphical 3D simulation of the wave and heat equations. (Code)

• ​Probulator - Experimentation framework for probe-based lighting.

• ​librush - Graphics prototyping framework. (Examples)

• ​High-Performance MLS-MPM Solver with Cutting and Coupling​

• ​Computer Graphics course by Keenan Crane (2020)​

• ​How 3D video games do graphics (2020) (Reddit)

• ​The Physics of Light and Rendering - John Carmack (2013)​

• ​Computer Graphics from Scratch (Web) (HN) (HN 2)

• ​Online path sampling control with progressive spatio-temporal filtering (2020) (Twitter)

• ​A sort-middle architecture for 2D graphics (2020)​

• ​Journal of Computer Graphics Techniques​

• ​A Massive Fractal in Days, Not Years (2020)​

• ​Massively Parallel Rendering of Complex Closed-Form Implicit Surfaces (2020)​

• ​Graphics Study: Red Dead Redemption 2 (2020)​

• ​Re-stacking the GUI stack (2020) (Lobsters)

• ​Alpha Waves was the first 3D platform game (2020) (HN)

• ​Lights and Shadows (2020) (HN)

• ​Can’t Invert the CDF? The Triangle-Cut Parameterization of the Region under the Curve (2020) (Talk)

• ​Coding Adventure: Portals (2020)​

• ​Computation graphs and graph computation (2020) (Lobsters)

• ​Graphics Programming Projects​

• ​Motion Capture from Internet Videos (2020)​

• ​SPIR-V - Binary intermediate language for representing graphical-shader stages and compute kernels for multiple Khronos APIs, including OpenCL, OpenGL, and Vulkan.

• ​SPIRV-Cross - Tool designed for parsing and converting SPIR-V to other shader languages.

• ​Low Level Graphics Library (LLGL) - Abstraction layer for the modern graphics APIs OpenGL, Direct3D, Vulkan, and Metal.

• ​Band-Limiting Procedural Textures (2020)​

• ​The compositor causes problems and leads to complexity (2020) (HN)

• ​Rendering the Hellscape of Doom Eternal (2020)​

• ​Introduction to Computer Graphics (2018) (HN)

• ​Ray Marching Soft Shadows in 2D (2020) (HN)

• ​The polygons of DOOM: PSX (2020)​

• ​A trip through the Graphics Pipeline 2011​

• ​Fooling Around with Foveated Rendering (2020) (HN)

• ​"Panini projection", probably used by the Baroque painters, allows us to render images with wide field-of-vision (here 170°) more nicely than the usual perspective​

• ​HDRI Haven - 100% Free High Quality HDRIs for Everyone.

• ​TwinklebearDev SDL 2.0 Tutorial (Code)

• ​Will Usher's research​

• ​Graphics Samples of Jiayin Cao​

• ​Jiayin Cao Graphics Notes Blog​

• ​Text layout is a loose hierarchy of segmentation (2020) (HN)

• ​Bundler - Bundler Structure from Motion Toolkit.

• ​CMU Computer Graphics course (2020) (Exams) (Tweet)

• ​Nvdiffrast - Modular Primitives for High-Performance Differentiable Rendering.

• ​Mesa - 3D Graphics Library. (Web)

• ​A Comparison of Modern Graphics APIs (2020)​

• ​Fluid Engine Dev - Jet - Fluid simulation engine SDK for computer graphics applications. (Web)

• ​meshoptimizer - Mesh optimization library that makes meshes smaller and faster to render.

• ​Mitsuba 2: Retargetable Forward and Inverse Renderer (Differentiable Renderer) (HN)

• ​RGL: Realistic Graphics Lab​

• ​Eight Years at Roblox (2020) (HN)

• ​Mitsuba Renderer 2 - Research-oriented rendering system written in portable C++17.

• ​Painting a Selfie Girl, with Maths (2020)​

• ​Building an artificial sun that looks unbelievably realistic (2020)​

• ​Computer Graphics at Stanford University​

• ​Wojciech Jarosz Bibliography - Publications mostly in computer graphics, rendering, transport theory, and statistics.

• ​OpenImageIO - Reading, writing, and processing images in a wide variety of file formats, using a format-agnostic API, aimed at VFX applications.

• ​Deep Learning Medical Decathlon Demos for Python​

• ​Computer Animation and Simulation (2020)​

• ​Blend2D - 2D Vector Graphics Powered by a JIT Compiler. (Web)

• ​GLFW - Multi-platform library for OpenGL, OpenGL ES, Vulkan, window and input. (Code)

• ​Hallucinations re: the rendering of Cyberpunk 2077 (2020) (HN)

• ​Why are video games graphics challenging? Productionizing rendering algorithms (2020) (HN)

• ​Universal Scene Description (USD) - Efficient, scalable system for authoring, reading, and streaming time-sampled scene description for interchange between graphics applications. (Code)

• ​Pixar Graphics Technologies (GitHub)

• ​Introduction to Computer Graphics (2020) (Assignments) (Tweet)

• ​Pixar's Render Farm (2021) (HN)

• ​Graphics Studies Compilation (2020)​

• ​Smooth Voxel Terrain (2012) (HN)

• ​Michael Abrash's Graphics Programming Black Book​

• ​Instant Meshes - Interactive field-aligned mesh generator.

• ​Graphics in Overlapping Bitmap Layers (1983)​

• ​Graphics Programming Weekly (HN)

• ​Ask HN: How to self-learn graphics programming? (2021)​

• ​A Guide to the Graphics of the Sega Mega Drive / Genesis​

• ​Computing gradients on grids of pixels and voxels – forward, central, and… diagonal differences (2021)​

• ​It's raymarching march (2021)​

• ​Fitting cubic Bézier curves (2021)​

• ​PlenOctrees for Real-time Rendering of Neural Radiance Fields (Code) (HN) (Talk)

• ​Understanding and Extending Neural Radiance Fields (Jonathan T. Barron) (2020)​

• ​Rendering large 3D tilemaps with a single draw call at 3000 FPS (2021)​

• ​Example-based texture synthesis written in Rust​

• ​A Pixel Is Not a Little Square (1995) (HN)

• ​Film simulations from scratch using Python (2021)​

• ​Computer Graphics Papers Parody​

• ​Sharper Mipmapping using Shader Based Supersampling (2019)​

• ​Graphics Pipelines for Young Bloods (2021) (HN)

• ​125 Artists Create Unique Renders From a Simple Prompt (2020)​

• ​A Macro View of Nanite (2021) (HN)

• ​Rotations with quaternions (2021)​

• ​Implementing strict three-point perspective (HN)

• ​IconVG - Compact, binary format for simple vector graphics. (HN)

• ​Asymptote - 2D & 3D TeX-Aware Vector Graphics Language. (Web)

• ​three-d - Renderer written in Rust which compiles to both desktop (OpenGL) and web (WebAssembly + WebGL)..

• ​Top 100 3D Renders from the Internet's Largest CG Challenge | Alternate Realities (2021)​

• ​ThorVG - Platform-independent portable library for drawing vector-based scenes and animations. (Web)

• ​NVIDIA Canvas - Turn Simple Brushstrokes into Realistic Images. (HN)

• ​How do games render their scenes? (2021)​

• ​Visibility Buffer Rendering with Material Graphs (2021)​

• ​Smoothstep Integral (HN)

• ​Rendering 1M+ Particles (2021) - Using Points and Shaders.

• ​Incoherent-Light-Simulation - Research simulation of the propagation of incoherent light, aiming to illustrate the concept of spatial coherence.

• ​RGBFAQ - Documentary about synthetic data, simulations and computer graphics.

• ​Global Illumination - What It Is, How Does It Work And Why Do We Need It? (2021) (Tweet)

• ​Real-Time Shading with Polyhedral Lights using Silhouette Detection​

• ​Pixar cofounder Alvy Ray Smith on ‘A Biography of the Pixel’ (2021)​

• ​Surface Multigrid via Intrinsic Prolongation (Code)

• ​Neural Subdivision - Novel framework for data-driven coarse-to-fine geometry modeling. (Code)

• ​An Introduction to Deep Learning on Meshes (Tutorials)

• ​NPMs: Neural Parametric Models for 3D Deformable Shapes (Code)

• ​Chaikin’s Algorithm: Drawing Curves (2021) (HN)

• ​A Practical Model for Subsurface Light Transport​