Outline

An outline of the chapters planned for this book. Many of them have yet to be written. Contributors are always welcome!

• Book Information
• Table of Contents
• Part 1: The basics
  • Chapter 1. What are Shaders?
  • Chapter 2. The GPU Design
• Part 2: Realtime rendering
  • Chapter 3. The Rendering Equation
  • Chapter 4. Solving the Rendering Equation
  • Chapter 5. Rasterization
  • Chapter X. Forward vs. Deferred Rendering
    The differences, advantages, and disadvantages of Forward and Deferred Rendering
• Part 3: The math behind the brush
  • Chapter X. UV Coordinates
    What are UV Coordinates?
  • Chapter X. Noise Textures
    The beauty of pseudorandomness
  • Chapter X. Displacement Maps
    One texture, many applications
  • Chapter X. Linear Interpolation
  • Chapter X. Smoothstep
• Part 4: Choosing a look
  • Chapter X. Baked Lighting
    How to light scenes without real-time lighting calculations
  • Chapter X. Vertex Lighting
    Per-vertex lighting calculations
  • Chapter X. Pixel Shading
    Per-pixel lighting calculations
  • Chapter X. Physically Based Rendering (PBR)
    Modern Realistic Graphics
  • Chapter X. Stylized Rendering
    Modern techniques for non-realistic scenes
• Part 5: Patterns for parallel processing
  • Chapter X. Introduction to Compute Shaders
    The path to GPGPU programming
  • Chapter X. Atomic Functions
  • Chapter X. Parallel Prefix Sums (Scans)
• Part 6: Gpu fluids
  • Chapter 6. Navier-Stokes Equations and FDM
  • Chapter 7. High-Level Solution Overview
  • Chapter 8. Helmholtz-Hodge Decomposition
  • Chapter 9. Jos Stam Advection Scheme
  • Chapter 10. Viscous Diffusion (and Poisson Equations)
• References