Link collection of ray marching on the GPU

By Inigo Quilez

Slides and articles

• "Rendering Worlds with Two Triangles with raytracing on the GPU in 4096 bytes"
  • http://www.iquilezles.org/www/material/nvscene2008/rwwtt.pdf

• "Raymarching distance fields"
  • http://www.iquilezles.org/www/articles/raymarchingdf/raymarchingdf.htm

• "Modeling with distance functions"
  • http://www.iquilezles.org/www/articles/distfunctions/distfunctions.htm

• "Terrain raymarching"
  • http://www.iquilezles.org/www/articles/terrainmarching/terrainmarching.htm

• "Free penumbra shadows for raymarching distance fields"
  • http://www.iquilezles.org/www/articles/rmshadows/rmshadows.htm

• "Mengar fractal"
  • http://www.iquilezles.org/www/articles/menger/menger.htm

Ray marching on distance fields

• "Ray Marching Distance Fields in Real-time on WebGL" Nop Jiarathanakul
  • http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~pjia/raymarch/presentation.pdf
  • http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~pjia/raymarch/report.pdf

• "Raymarching Distance Fields" 9bit Science
  • http://9bitscience.blogspot.jp/2013/07/raymarching-distance-fields_14.html

• "GPU Gems2 : Per-Pixel Displacement Mapping with Distance Functions"
  • https://developer.nvidia.com/content/gpu-gems-2-chapter-8-pixel-displacement-mapping-distance-functions

• "GPU Gems3 : Robust Multiple Specular Reflections and Refractions"
  • http://http.developer.nvidia.com/GPUGems3/gpugems3_ch17.html

• "GPU Ray Marching of Distance Fields" Lukasz Jaroslaw Tomczak
  • http://www2.compute.dtu.dk/pubdb/views/.../imm6392.pdf‎

• "Fast Approximations for Global Illumination on Dynamic Scenes" Alex Evans. SIGGRAPH 2006
  • http://developer.amd.com/wordpress/media/2012/10/Course_26_SIGGRAPH_2006.pdf

• "RayTracing Signed Distance Fields" Dan Knowlton
  • http://www.danknowlton.com/blog.php?p=480

• "Test: Gpu Raymarch of Distance fields" Rubén Penalva's Blog
  • http://www.rpenalva.com/blog/?p=254

Displacement Mapping on GPU

• "Displacement Mapping on the GPU ― State of the Art" László Szirmay-Kalos, Tamás Umenhoffer
  • http://sirkan.iit.bme.hu/~szirmay/egdisfinal3.pdf

Parallax Occlusion Mapping (POM)

• "Practical Dynamic Parallax Occlusion Mapping" Natalya Tatarchuk. AMD. SIGGRAPH 2005
  • http://developer.amd.com/wordpress/media/2012/10/Tatarchuk-ParallaxOcclusionMapping-Sketch-print.pdf

• "Practical Parallax Occlusion Mapping For Highly Detailed Surface

Rendering" Natalya Tatarchuk. AMD. SIGGRAPH 2006

• • http://developer.amd.com/wordpress/media/2012/10/Tatarchuk-POM.pdf

Silhouette Parallax Occlusion Mapping

• "The Rendering Technologies of Crysis 3" GDC 2013.
  • http://www.crytek.com/download/Sousa_Tiago_Rendering_Technologies_of_Crysis3.pptx

• "Interactive Smooth and Curved Shell Mapping" Stefan Jeschke, Stephan Mantler, Michael Wimmer
  • http://www.cg.tuwien.ac.at/research/publications/2007/JESCHKE-2007-ISC/JESCHKE-2007-ISC-Preprint.pdf

• "Next-Generation SpeedTree Rendering" GPU Gems 3
  • http://http.developer.nvidia.com/GPUGems3/gpugems3_ch04.html

Displacement Mapping on Shader model 4.0

• "Displacement Mapping on the GPU - State of the Art" László Szirmay-Kalos, Tamás Umenhoffer. 2006.
  • http://sirkan.iit.bme.hu/~szirmay/egdisfinal3.pdf

Relief Mapping

• GPU Gems3 : Relaxed Cone Stepping for Relief Mapping
  • http://http.developer.nvidia.com/GPUGems3/gpugems3_ch18.html

• Real-Time Relief Mapping on Arbitrary Polygonal Surfaces
  • http://www.inf.ufrgs.br/~oliveira/pubs_files/Policarpo_Oliveira_Comba_RTRM_I3D_2005.pdf

• "Relief Texture mapping web site"
  • http://www.inf.ufrgs.br/~oliveira/RTM.html

• "Faster Relief Mapping Using the Secant Method" Eric Risser, Musawir Shah, Sumanta Pattanaik.
  • http://www.ericrisser.com/stuff/FasterReliefMapingUsingTheSecantMethod.pdf

Quadtree Displacement Mapping

• "Quadtree Displacement Mapping" GDC Europe 2009
  • slides: http://www.drobot.org/pub/M_Drobot_Programming_Quadtree%20Displacement%20Mapping.pdf

• Quadtree Displacement Mapping with Height Blending, Michal Drobot. GPU Pro.

Secant method

• "Interval Mapping" Eric Risser, Musawir Shah, Sumanta Pattanaik.
  • http://graphics.cs.ucf.edu/IntervalMapping/images/IntervalMapping.pdf
• "Displacement Mapping with Ray-casting in Hardware" Yerex, Jagersand. SIGGRAPH 2004 sketches.
  • http://webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca/~jag/research/papers/SIGGRAPH04.pdf
• "Approximate ray-tracing on the GPU with distance impostors" Szirmay kalos. 2005.
  • http://sirkan.iit.bme.hu/~szirmay/ibl_link.htm

Distance estimated 3D Fractals

• "Distance Estimated 3D Fractals (Part I)" Syntopia
  • http://blog.hvidtfeldts.net/index.php/2011/06/distance-estimated-3d-fractals-part-i/
• "Distance Estimated 3D Fractals (II): Lighting and Coloring" Syntopia
  • http://blog.hvidtfeldts.net/index.php/2011/08/distance-estimated-3d-fractals-ii-lighting-and-coloring/
• "Fractal Rendering By Ray Marching with Distance Estimation" Kevin Horowitz
  • http://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cs184/sp12/assignments/Archive/HW6/Fractal%20Renderer.htm

Horizontal Ambient Occlusion (HBAO)

• "Image-Space Horizon-Based Ambient Occlusion" Louis Bavoil, Miguel Sainz, Rouslan Dimitrov. SIGGRAPH 2008.
  • http://developer.download.nvidia.com/presentations/2008/SIGGRAPH/HBAO_SIG08b.pdf
  • http://www.twistedsanity.org/rdimitrov/HBAO_SIGGRAPH08.pdf
• Louis Bavoil, Miguel Sainz.“Image-Space Horizon-Based Ambient Occlusion”. ShaderX7 - Advanced Rendering Techniques. 2008.
  • http://www.amazon.com/ShaderX7-Rendering-Techniques-Wolfgang-Engel/dp/1584505982

Panta Rhei @ Capcom

• http://game.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/series/3dcg/20130801_609709.html
• http://game.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/series/3dcg/20130731_609422.html

ShaderToy demos

• "Elevated"
  • https://www.shadertoy.com/view/MdX3Rr
• "Clouds"
  • https://www.shadertoy.com/view/XslGRr
• "Volcanic"
  • https://www.shadertoy.com/view/XsX3RB
• "Angles"
  • https://www.shadertoy.com/view/lssGRM
• "Juliabulb"
  • https://www.shadertoy.com/view/MdfGRr
• "Catacombs"
  • https://www.shadertoy.com/view/lsf3zr
• "Woods"
  • https://www.shadertoy.com/view/XsfGD4
• "Cubescape"
  • https://www.shadertoy.com/view/Msl3Rr
• "Hell"
  • https://www.shadertoy.com/view/MdfGRX
• "Cell"
  • https://www.shadertoy.com/view/Xdl3R4
• "Bridge"
  • https://www.shadertoy.com/view/Mds3z2
• "Mengar Sponge"
  • https://www.shadertoy.com/view/4sX3Rn
• "Raymarching primitives"
  • https://www.shadertoy.com/view/Xds3zN

Others

• GPU based Single-Pass Ray Casting of Large Heightelds Using Clipmaps
  • http://viscg.uni-muenster.de/publications/2012/FH12/feldmann_hinrichs_-_GPU_based_single-pass_cay_casting_of_large_heightfields_using_clipmaps.pdf

• "Ray-Patch Intersection for Improving Rendering Quality of Per-pixel Displacement Mapping" Ravish Mehra, Subodh Kumar
  • http://www.cs.unc.edu/~ravishm/ray_patch/patch.pdf

• Single-Pass Raycasting
  • http://prideout.net/blog/?p=64
• Volumetric Methods in Visual Effects (SIGGRAPH 2010 course)
  • http://magnuswrenninge.com/volumetricmethods
• Production Volume Rendering 1 – Fundamentals
  • http://magnuswrenninge.com/productionvolumerendering