| Marc Olano | |
| Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering UMBC |
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| Kurt Akeley | |
| Graphics Architect NVIDIA Corp. |
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| John C. Hart | |
| Associate Professor Department of Computer Science University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign |
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| Wolfgang Heidrich | |
| Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science The University of British Columbia |
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| Michael McCool | |
| Associate Professor University of Waterloo |
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| Jason L. Mitchell | |
| Project Team Leader 3D Application Research Group ATI Research |
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| Randi Rost | |
| Senior Manager, Driver Development 3Dlabs, Inc. |
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Real-time procedural shading was once seen as a distant dream. When the first version of this course was offered four years ago, real-time shading was possible, but only with one-of-a-kind hardware or by combining the effects of tens to hundreds of rendering passes. Today, almost every new computer comes with graphics hardware capable of interactively executing shaders of thousands to tens of thousands of instructions. This course has been redesigned to address today's real-time shading capabilities and to provide more practical information for practitioners. The morning sessions cover the more advanced technical aspects of creating a shading system. The afternoon sessions cover practical details of real-time shading use, including an overview of recently developed algorithms that run well on today's shading hardware and presentations on the latest hardware developments from several leading hardware vendors. The course concludes with the popular panel-style question and answer session, where participants can ask questions of any presenter or suggest topics of discussion.
| Shading Technology | |
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| 8:30 | Introduction (Olano) |
| 8:40 | Ignoring Hardware Differences (Olano) |
| 9:00 | Shading Compilers (Olano) |
| 9:35 | 3D Graphics Hardware Architectures (Akeley) |
| 10:15 | Break |
| Shading Languages | |
| 10:30 | Shading Language Overview (McCool) |
| 10:50 | OpenGL Shading Language (Rost) |
| 11:10 | HLSL (Mitchell) |
| 11:30 | Shader Metaprogramming with Sh (McCool) |
| 11:50 | Sampling Procedural Shaders (Heidrich) |
| 12:15 | Lunch |
| Shading Techniques | |
| 1:45 | Procedural Solid Texturing (Hart) |
| 2:20 | Hardware Shading Effects (Heidrich) |
| 2:55 | Using GPUs for Computation (Hart) |
| 3:30 | Break |
| Shading Systems | |
| 3:45 | 3DLabs (Rost) |
| 4:10 | ATI (Mitchell) |
| 4:35 | NVIDIA (Akeley) |
| Wrap-up | |
| 5:00 | Discussion and Q & A (All) |
| Chapter 1: | Introduction (Marc Olano) | 1 - | 1 |
| Chapter 2: | Ignoring Hardware Differences (Marc Olano) | 2 - | 1 |
| Chapter 3: | Shading Compilers (Marc Olano) | ||
| Marc Olano and Anselmo Lastra, "A Shading Language on Graphics Hardware: The PixelFlow Shading System", Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 98 (Orlando, Florida, July 19-24, 1998). In Computer Graphics, Annual Conference Series, ACM SIGGRAPH, 1998. Reprinted with permission |
3 - | 1 | |
| Marc Olano, Bob Kuehne and Maryann Simmons, "Automatic Shader Level of Detail", Proceedings of Graphics Hardware 2003, Copyright ©2003 The Eurographics Association Reprinted with permission |
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| Chapter 4: | 3D Graphics Hardware Architecture (Kurt Akeley) | ||
| Bill Mark, "Real-Time Programmable Shading", Excerpt from Chapter 3 of Texturing and Modeling: A Procedural Approach, 3rd Edition, by David S. Ebert, F. Kenton Musgrave, Darwyn Peachey, Ken Perlin and Steven Worley, published by Morgan Kaufmann, Copyright ©2003 Elsevier Science (USA) Reprinted with permission. |
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| Chapter 5: | Shading Language Overview (Michael McCool) | 5 - | 1 |
| Chapter 6: | OpenGL Shading Language (Randi Rost) | 6 - | 1 |
| John Kessenich, "Features of the OpenGL Shading Language", 3DLabs Inc. Ltd., Copyright ©2003-2004 John Kessenich Reprinted with permission. |
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| Chapter 7: | HLSL (Jason Mitchell) | ||
| Jason Mitchell, "DirectX® 9 High Level Shading Language" | 7 - | 1 | |
| Chapter 8: | Shader Metaprogramming with Sh (Michael McCool) | 8 - | 1 |
| Michael McCool, "A Short Introduction to Sh" | |||
| Chapter 9: | Sampling Procedural Shaders (Wolfgang Heidrich) | 9 - | 1 |
| Chapter 10: | Procedural Solid Texturing (John Hart) | 10 - | 1 |
| Nathan A. Carr and John C. Hart, "Meshed Atlases for Real-Time Procedural Solid Texturing", ACM Transactions on Graphics v21n2, April 2002. Reprinted with permission. |
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| Chapter 11: | Hardware Shading Effects (Wolfgang Heidrich) | 11 - | 1 |
| Chapter 12: | Using GPUs for General Computation (John Hart) | ||
| Nathan A. Carr, Jessie D. Hall and John C. Hart, "The Ray Engine", Proceedings of Graphics Hardware 2002, Copyright ©2002 The Eurographics Association Reprinted with permission |
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| Nathan A. Carr, Jessie D. Hall and John C. Hart, "GPU Algorithms for Radiosity and Subsurface Scattering", Proceedings of Graphics Hardware 2003, Copyright ©2003 The Eurographics Association Reprinted with permission |
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| Chapter 13: | 3DLabs Shading Hardware (Randi Rost) | 13 - | 1 |
| "New Wildcat Realizm Graphics Technology", Copyright ©2004 3Dlabs Reprinted with permission. |
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| Chapter 14: | ATI Shading Hardware (Jason Mitchell) | ||
| Jason L. Mitchell and Pedro V. Sander, "Applications of Explicit Early-Z Culling" | 14 - | 1 | |
| Chapter 15: | NVIDIA Shading Hardware (Kurt Akeley) | 16 - | 1 |