Browsing by Author "Gruen, Holger"

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    Adaptive Temporal Antialiasing
    (ACM, 2018) Marrs, Adam; Spjut, Josef; Gruen, Holger; Sathe, Rahul; McGuire, Morgan; Patney, Anjul and Niessner, Matthias
    We introduce a pragmatic algorithm for real-time adaptive supersampling in games. It extends temporal antialiasing of rasterized images with adaptive ray tracing, and conforms to the constraints of a commercial game engine and today's GPU ray tracing APIs. The algorithm removes blurring and ghosting artifacts associated with standard temporal antialiasing and achieves quality approaching 8× supersampling of geometry, shading, and materials while staying within the 33ms frame budget required of most games.
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    Sub-triangle opacity masks for faster ray tracing of transparent objects
    (ACM, 2020) Gruen, Holger; Benthin, Carsten; Woop, Sven; Yuksel, Cem and Membarth, Richard and Zordan, Victor
    We propose an easy and simple-to-integrate approach to accelerate ray tracing of alpha-tested transparent geometry with a focus on Microsoft® DirectX® or Vulkan® ray tracing extensions. Pre-computed bit masks are used to quickly determine fully transparent and fully opaque regions of triangles thereby skipping the more expensive alpha-test operation. These bit masks allow us to skip up to 86% of all transparency tests, yielding up to 40% speed up in a proof-of-concept DirectX® software only implementation.