{"id":209,"date":"2009-08-26T18:54:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-27T00:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/?p=209"},"modified":"2009-08-26T19:25:27","modified_gmt":"2009-08-27T01:25:27","slug":"siggraph-asia-2009-papers-micro-rendering-renderants-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/siggraph-asia-2009-papers-micro-rendering-renderants-and-more\/","title":{"rendered":"SIGGRAPH Asia 2009 Papers &#8211; Micro-Rendering, RenderAnts, and More"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A partial papers list has been up on <a href=\"http:\/\/kesen.huang.googlepages.com\/siga2009Papers.htm\">Ke-Sen Huang&#8217;s SIGGRAPH Asia 2009 page<\/a> for a while now, but I was waiting until either the full list was up or an interesting preprint appeared before mentioning it.\u00a0 Well, the latter has happened &#8211; A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mpi-inf.mpg.de\/~ritschel\/Microrendering\/\">preprint and video are now available<\/a> for the paper <em>Micro-Rendering for Scalable, Parallel Final Gathering<\/em>. It shares many authors (including the first) with one of the most interesting papers from last year&#8217;s SIGGRAPH Asia conference, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mpi-inf.mpg.de\/resources\/ImperfectShadowMaps\/\"><em>Imperfect Shadow Maps for Efficient Computation of Indirect Illumination<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0 Last year&#8217;s paper proposed a way to efficiently compute indirect shadowing by rendering a very large number of very low-quality shadowmaps, using a coarse point-based scene representation and some clever hole-filling.\u00a0 This year&#8217;s paper extends this occlusion technique to support full global illumination.\u00a0 Some of the same authors were recently responsible for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mpi-inf.mpg.de\/~ritschel\/Papers\/SSDO.pdf\">another notable extension<\/a> of an occlusion method (SSAO in this case) to global illumination.<\/p>\n<p><em>RenderAnts: Interactive REYES Rendering on GPUs <\/em>is another notable paper at SIGGRAPH Asia this year; no preprint yet, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kunzhou.net\/2009\/renderants-tr.pdf\">a technical report is available<\/a>.\u00a0 A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kunzhou.net\/2009\/debug-tr.pdf\">technical report is also available<\/a> for another interesting paper, <em>Debugging GPU Stream Programs Through Automatic Dataflow Recording and Visualization<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>No preprint or technical report, but promising paper titles: <em>Approximating Subdivision Surfaces with Gregory Patches for Hardware Tessellation<\/em> and <em>Real-Time Parallel Hashing on the GPU<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Looking at this list and <a href=\"http:\/\/kesen.huang.googlepages.com\/siga2008Papers.htm\">last year&#8217;s accepted papers<\/a>, SIGGRAPH Asia seems to be more accepting of real-time rendering papers than the main SIGGRAPH conference.\u00a0 Combined with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.siggraph.org\/asia2009\/for_attendees\/courses_attendees\/index.php\">strong courses program<\/a>, it&#8217;s shaping up to be a very good conference this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A partial papers list has been up on Ke-Sen Huang&#8217;s SIGGRAPH Asia 2009 page for a while now, but I was waiting until either the full list was up or an interesting preprint appeared before mentioning it.\u00a0 Well, the latter has happened &#8211; A preprint and video are now available for the paper Micro-Rendering for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[17,219],"class_list":["post-209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-resources","tag-siggraph-asia","tag-siggraph-asia-2009"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":217,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions\/217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}