Ray Tracing Gems II
Next Generation Real-Time Rendering with DXR, Vulkan, and OptiX
edited by Adam Marrs, Peter Shirley, and Ingo Wald, from Apress.

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About

Ray Tracing Gems II book is a collection of articles focused on ray tracing techniques for serious practitioners. Written by industry experts with a particular focus on ray tracing, it offers a practical means to master the new capabilities of current and future GPUs with the latest graphics APIs.

What You'll Learn:

  • The latest ray tracing techniques for developing real-time applications in multiple domains
  • Case studies from developers and studios who have shipped products that use real-time ray tracing.
  • Guidance, advice and best practices for rendering applications with various GPU-based ray tracing APIs (DirectX Raytracing, Vulkan Ray Tracing, OptiX)
  • High performance graphics for 3D graphics, virtual reality, animation, and more

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Source Code

The book has a source code repository on GitHub.

Table of Contents

  • Preface
  • Foreword by Andrew Glassner and Ignacio Llamas
  • Contributors
  • Notation

  • PART I: Ray Tracing Foundations, editor: Per Christensen
    • 1. A Breakneck Summary of Photographic Terms (and Their Utility to Ray Tracing), by Trevor David Black
    • 2. Ray Axis-Aligned Bounding Box Intersection, by Peter Shirley, Ingo Wald, and Adam Marrs
    • 3. Essential Ray Generation Shaders, by Morgan McGuire and Zander Majercik
    • 4. Hacking the Shadow Terminator, by Johannes Hanika
    • 5. Sampling Textures with Missing Derivatives, by Maksim Aizenshtein and Matt Pharr
    • 6. Differential Barycentric Coordinates, by Tomas Akenine-Möller
    • 7. Texture Coordinate Gradients Estimation for Ray Cones, by Wessam Bahnassi
    • 8. Reflection and Refraction Formulas, by Eric Haines
    • 9. The Schlick Fresnel Approximation, by Zander Majercik
    • 10. Refraction Ray Cones for Texture Level of Detail, by Jakub Boksansky, Cyril Crassin, and Tomas Akenine-Möller
    • 11. Handling Translucency with Real-Time Ray Tracing, by Tianyi "Tanki" Zhang
    • 12. Motion Blur Corner Cases, by Christopher Kulla and Thiago Ize
    • 13. Fast Spectral Upsampling of Volume Attenuation, by Johannes Jendersie
    • 14. The Reference Path Tracer, by Jakub Boksansky and Adam Marrs

  • PART II: APIs and Tools, editor: David Hart
    • 15. The Shader Binding Table Demystified, by Will Usher
    • 16. Introduction to Vulkan Ray Tracing, by Matthew Rusch, Neil Bickford, and Nuno Subtil
    • 17. Using Bindless Resources with DirectX Raytracing, by Matt Pettineo
    • 18. WebRays: Ray Tracing on the Web, by Nick Vitsas, Anastasios Gkaravelis, Andreas A. Vasilakis, and Georgios Papaioannou
    • 19. Visualizing and Communicating Errors in Rendered Images, by Pontus Andersson, Jim Nilsson, and Tomas Akenine-Möller

  • PART III: Sampling, editor: Thomas Müller
    • 20. Multiple Importance Sampling 101, by Anders Lindqvist
    • 21. The Alias Method for Sampling Discrete Distributions, by Chris Wyman
    • 22. Weighted Reservoir Sampling: Randomly Sampling Streams, by Chris Wyman
    • 23. Rendering Many Lights with Grid-Based Reservoirs, by Jakub Boksansky, Paula Jukarainen, and Chris Wyman
    • 24. Using Blue Noise for Ray Traced Soft Shadows, by Alan Wolfe

  • PART IV: Shading and Effects, editor: Cem Yuksel
    • 25. Temporally Reliable Motion Vectors for Better Use of Temporal Information, by Zheng Zeng, Shiqiu Liu, Jinglei Yang, Lu Wang, and Ling-Qi Yan
    • 26. Ray Traced Level of Detail Cross-Fades Made Easy, by Holger Gruen
    • 27. Ray Tracing Decals, by Wessam Bahnassi
    • 28. Billboard Ray Tracing for Impostors and Volumetric Effects, by Felix Brüll, Robin Fynn Diedrichs, and Thorsten Grosch
    • 29. Hybrid Ray Traced and Image-Space Refractions, by Daniel Parhizgar and Marcus Svensson
    • 30. Real-Time Ray Traced Caustics, by Xueqing Yang and Yaobin Ouyang
    • 31. Tilt-Shift Rendering Using a Thin Lens Model, by Andrew Kensler

  • PART V: Intersection, editor: Angelo Pesce
    • 32. Fast and Robust Ray/OBB Intersection Using the Lorentz Transformation, by Rodolfo Sabino, Creto Augusto Vidal, Joaquim Bento Cavalcante-Neto, and José Gilvan Rodrigues Maia
    • 33. Real-Time Rendering of Complex Fractals, by Vinícius da Silva, Tiago Novello, Hélio Lopes, and Luiz Velho
    • 34. Improving Numerical Precision in Intersection Programs, by Ingo Wald
    • 35. Ray Tracing of Blobbies, by Manuele Sabbadin and Marc Droske
    • 36. Curved Ray Traversal, by Christiaan Gribble
    • 37. Ray-Tracing Small Voxel Scenes, by Dylan Lacewell

  • PART VI: Performance, editors: Josef Spjut and Michael Vance
    • 38. CPU Performance in DXR, by Peter Morley
    • 39. Inverse Transform Sampling Using Ray Tracing Hardware, by Nate Morrical and Stefan Zellmann
    • 40. Accelerating Boolean Visibility Operations Using RTX Visibility Masks, by Dirk Gerrit van Antwerpen and Oliver Klehm
    • 41. Practical Spatial Hash Map Updates, by Pascal Gautron
    • 42. Efficient Spectral Rendering on the GPU for Predictive Rendering, by David Murray, Alban Fichet, and Romain Pacanowski
    • 43. Efficient Unbiased Volume Path Tracing on the GPU, by Nikolai Hofmann and Alex Evans
    • 44. Path Tracing RBF Particle Volumes, by Aaron Knoll, Gregory P. Johnson, and Johannes Meng
    • 45. Fast Volumetric Gradient Shading Approximations for Scientific Ray Tracing, by Carson Brownlee and David DeMarle

  • PART VII: Ray Tracing in the Wild, editor: Jacob Munkberg
    • 46. Ray Tracing in Control, by Juha Sjöholm, Paula Jukarainen, and Tatu Aalto
    • 47. Light Sampling in Quake 2 Using Subset Importance Sampling, by Tobias Zirr
    • 48. Ray Tracing in Fortnite, by Patrick Kelly, Yuriy O'Donnell, Kenzo ter Elst, Juan Cañada, and Evan Hart
    • 49. ReBLUR: A Hierarchical Recurrent Denoiser, by Dmitry Zhdan
    • 50. Practical Solutions for Ray Tracing Content Compatibility in Unreal Engine 4, by Evan Hart
Bibtex entry: 
@book{Marrs2021,
  title = {Ray Tracing Gems II},
  editor = {Adam Marrs, Peter Shirley, and Ingo Wald},
  publisher = {Apress},
  year = {2021},
  note ={\url{http://raytracinggems.com/rtg2}},
}

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