{"id":3959,"date":"2015-08-19T07:31:18","date_gmt":"2015-08-19T13:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/?p=3959"},"modified":"2015-08-24T08:30:15","modified_gmt":"2015-08-24T14:30:15","slug":"seven-things-for-august-19-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/seven-things-for-august-19-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Seven Things for August 19, 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More stuff:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>New interactive 3D graphics books at SIGGRAPH 2015: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/smile.amazon.com\/WebGL-Insights-Patrick-Cozzi\/dp\/1498716075?tag=realtimerenderin\">WebGL Insights<\/a><\/em>, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/smile.amazon.com\/GPU-Pro-Advanced-Rendering-Techniques\/dp\/1482264617?tag=realtimerenderin\">GPU Pro 6<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>(Kindle right now, hardcover in September). Let me know if I missed anything (see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/books.html\">full list here<\/a>, which also includes links to Google Books previews for these new books).<\/li>\n<li>Updated book: 7th edition of the <em><a href=\"http:\/\/smile.amazon.com\/OpenGL-Superbible-Comprehensive-Tutorial-Reference\/dp\/0672337479?tag=realtimerenderin\">OpenGL SuperBible<\/a><\/em>. I would guess that, with Vulkan coming down the pike, and Apple going with Metal and no longer developing OpenGL (it&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opengl.org\/wiki\/History_of_OpenGL#OpenGL_4.1_.282010.29\">back\u00a0in 2010<\/a> at <a href=\"https:\/\/support.apple.com\/en-us\/HT202823\">4.1 in Mavericks<\/a>), this will be the final edition. Future\u00a0students having to learn Vulkan or DirectX 12, well, that won&#8217;t be much fun at all&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>I mentioned yesterday how you can <a href=\"http:\/\/dl.acm.org\/citation.cfm?id=2809654&amp;_sm_au_=iVV25TfRTPr0jbK6\">download the SIGGRAPH 2015 Proceedings<\/a> for free this week. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.siggraph.org\/discover\/news\/looking-siggraph-2015-conference-content\">There&#8217;s more<\/a>, in theory. Some\u00a0of the links <a href=\"http:\/\/www.siggraph.org\/discover\/news\/looking-siggraph-2015-conference-content\">there<\/a> have nothing as of right now. The <a href=\"http:\/\/dl.acm.org\/citation.cfm?id=2787626&amp;_sm_au_=iVV25TfRTPr0jbK6\">Posters<\/a> are worth a skim, especially since I didn&#8217;t see them at SIGGRAPH.\u00a0I also liked the <a href=\"http:\/\/dl.acm.org\/citation.cfm?id=2785585&amp;_sm_au_=iVV25TfRTPr0jbK6\">Studio PDF<\/a>. It starts with\u00a0a bunch of single-page talks that are fun to snack on, followed by a few random slidesets. <a href=\"http:\/\/dl.acm.org\/citation.cfm?id=2782782&amp;_sm_au_=iVV25TfRTPr0jbK6\">Emerging Tech<\/a> also has longer descriptions than on <a href=\"http:\/\/s2015.siggraph.org\/attendees\/emerging-technologies\">the ETech page<\/a>\u00a0(which has more pics and videos, however). If you gotta catch &#8217;em all, there&#8217;s also a PDF for\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/dl.acm.org\/citation.cfm?id=2786601&amp;_sm_au_=iVV25TfRTPr0jbK6\">Panels<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>There have been many news articles recently about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.treehugger.com\/gadgets\/how-use-screens-night-without-ruining-your-sleep.html\">not viewing screens at bedtime<\/a>. Right, sure. Michael Herf (former CTO at\u00a0Picasa) is the president at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/justgetflux.com\/\">f.lux<\/a>, one company that makes\u00a0screens vary in overall spectra during the day to ameliorate the problem. He pointed me at a\u00a0useful-to-researchers bit: their\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/fluxometer.com\/rainbow\/#!id=iPhone%206\/6500K-iPhone6\">fluxometer site<\/a>, with spectra for many different displays, all downloadable.<\/li>\n<li>Oh, and related, a tip from Michael: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pantone.com\/pantone-lighting-indicator-stickers\">Pantone stickers<\/a> with differing colors (using <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Metamerism_(color)#Metameric_failure\">metameric failure<\/a>)\u00a0under different temperature lights, so you can ensure you&#8217;re showing work under consistent lighting conditions.<\/li>\n<li>I was impressed by <a href=\"http:\/\/halide-lang.org\/\">HALIDE<\/a>, an MIT licensed open source project for writing high performance image processing code (including GPU versions) from scratch.\u00a0Most impressive is their case study for local Laplacian filters (<a href=\"http:\/\/halide-lang.org\/assets\/lectures\/Halide_CVPR_intro.pdf\">p. 28<\/a>), showing great performance with considerably less code and time coding vs. Adobe Photoshop&#8217;s efforts. Google and others use\u00a0it extensively (<a href=\"http:\/\/halide-lang.org\/assets\/lectures\/Halide_CVPR_intro.pdf\">p. 32<\/a>).<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/pathtracingrevolution\/\">Path tracing<\/a> is\u00a0all the rage for the film industry; the Arnold renderer started it (AFAIK) and others have followed suit. Here&#8217;s an entertaining\u00a0path trace of interior lighting for a Minecraft scene using the free\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/chunky.llbit.se\/\">Chunky path tracer<\/a>.\u00a0SPP is samples per pixel:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/chunky.llbit.se\/spp-compare.gif\" alt=\"Chunk progressive render\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More stuff: New interactive 3D graphics books at SIGGRAPH 2015: WebGL Insights, GPU Pro 6\u00a0(Kindle right now, hardcover in September). Let me know if I missed anything (see full list here, which also includes links to Google Books previews for these new books). Updated book: 7th edition of the OpenGL SuperBible. I would guess that, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,48,7],"tags":[16,286,588,566,586,587],"class_list":["post-3959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book","category-reports","category-resources","tag-books","tag-displays","tag-halide","tag-image-processing","tag-path-tracing","tag-spectra"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3959","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3959"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4008,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3959\/revisions\/4008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}