​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)

• ​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)

  • ​Safe Rust bindings to the Skia​

• ​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)

• ​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)

• ​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)