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03 November, 2012

Addendum to Mathematica and Skin Rendering

Update: there was a typo in the shader code, I didn't update the screenshot...

A shader code snippet following my work on Penner's scattering approximation. I'm actually rather sure it can be done better and for cheaper, especially if you "clamp" the radius range to a narrower window, currently it goes too broad on one side while trying to go back to a standard, not wrapped N dot L for large radii, it's not really useful. But, I've already given the Mathematica code so you can do better...

float3 PSSFitFunction(float NdL, float r)
{
   float3 a0 = {0.0605, 0.2076, 0.2243};
   float3 a1 = {0.0903, 0.1687, 0.2436};
   float3 a2 = {-0.0210, -0.0942, -0.1116};
   float3 a3 = {0.6896, 0.6762, 0.6480};
   float3 a4 = {-0.1110, -0.5023, -0.6703};
   float3 a5 = {0.8177, 0.9119, 0.9209};

   float3 t = NdL.xxx * (a0*r+a1) + (a2*r+a3);
   float3 fade = saturate(a4*r+a5);
  
   return t*t*t * fade + saturate(NdL) * (1-fade);
}

02 November, 2012

How does GPU Compute work?

A presentation I made over the last month, an introduction to GPUs and GPU compute for the "non GPU" programmer. A couple of slides target the videogame industry but otherwise it's pretty general. If you want a good testbed to start playing, this previous post might help.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/111876741/GPU-Compute

Preparing for live presentation
Notes and ideas for the presentation...