{"id":4580,"date":"2018-02-07T17:39:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-07T23:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/?p=4580"},"modified":"2018-02-08T06:37:55","modified_gmt":"2018-02-08T12:37:55","slug":"hpg-2018-oh-and-a-hyphen-for-physically-based","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/hpg-2018-oh-and-a-hyphen-for-physically-based\/","title":{"rendered":"HPG 2018; oh, and a hyphen for “Physically-Based” (don’t!)"},"content":{"rendered":"

I mostly wanted to pass on the word that High-Performance Graphics 2018<\/strong>\u00a0has their call for participation<\/a>\u00a0up. Due date for papers is April 12th. HPG 2018 is co-located with SIGGRAPH 2018 in Vancouver in August.<\/p>\n

Also, let’s talk about hyphens. See Rule 1<\/a>: Generally, hyphenate two or more words when they come before a noun they modify and act as a single idea. This is called a\u00a0compound adjective<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Update: John Owens wrote and said “Go read Rule 3,” which is:\u00a0An often overlooked rule for hyphens: The adverb\u00a0very<\/em>\u00a0and adverbs ending in\u00a0ly<\/em>\u00a0are not hyphenated.<\/p>\n

So, he’s right! The hyphen is indeed NOT<\/strong> needed, my mistake! I didn’t do all the work, reading through all eleven rules and noting that “physically” is indeed an adverb.<\/p>\n

Here’s the rest of my incorrect post, for the record. I guess I’m in good company – about a quarter of authors get this wrong, judging from the list of publications below.<\/p>\n

The phrase “High-Performance Graphics” is good to go; “Real-Time Rendering” is also fine. Writing “Physically Based Rendering,” as seen on Wikipedia<\/a> and elsewhere, not quite [I’m wrong]. The world doesn’t end if the hyphen’s not there, especially in a title of just the phrase itself. Adding the hyphen just helps the reader know what to expect: Is the word “based” going to be a noun or part of a compound adjective? If you read the rest of Rule 1<\/a>, note\u00a0you don’t normally add the hyphen if the adjective is after<\/em> the noun. So:<\/p>\n

“Physically-based [that’s wrong] rendering is better than rendering that is spiritually based.”<\/p>\n

is correct, “spiritually based” should not be hyphenated. Google came up with no direct hits for “spiritually-based rendering” that I could find – it’s an untapped field.<\/p>\n

Not a big deal by any stretch, but we definitely noticed that\u00a0“no hyphen” was the norm for a lot of authors for this particular phrase [and rightfully so], to the point where when the hyphen actually exists, as in a presentation by Burley<\/a>, the course description<\/a> leaves it out.<\/p>\n

In no particular scientific sample, here are some titles found without the hyphen:<\/p>\n