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How (not) to test graphics algorithms

Posted on August 14, 2019 by

Intro Siggraph 2019 is sadly over, but as always I came back super inspired and grateful for meeting many friends.  Conferences are mostly not about seeing the presentations – but about all the interesting and inspiring discussions, and one of … Continue reading →

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Cull that cone! Improved cone/spotlight visibility tests for tiled and clustered lighting

Posted on April 13, 2017 by

In this blog post, I will present some common spotlight culling techniques and propose one small improvement that is able to correct results of cheap, tiled / clustered culling on the CPU/GPU with almost negligible ALU cost. If you know … Continue reading →

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Small float formats – R11G11B10F precision

Posted on April 2, 2017 by

While this post is not yet dithering related, it is in a way a part of my series about dithering. You can check index of all parts here or check the previous part. I will talk here about use of … Continue reading →

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Dithering part three – real world 2D quantization dithering

Posted on October 30, 2016 by

In previous two parts of this blog post mini-series I described basic uses mentioned blue noise definition, referenced/presented 2 techniques of generating blue noise and one of many general purpose high-frequency low-discrepancy sampling sequences. In this post, we will look … Continue reading →

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Dithering part two – golden ratio sequence, blue noise and highpass-and-remap

Posted on October 30, 2016 by

In previous part of the mini-series I covered dithering definition and how dithering changes error characteristics of simple 1D quantization and functions. In this part I will try to look at what blue noise is, but first wanted to have a … Continue reading →

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Dithering part one – simple quantization

Posted on October 30, 2016 by

Introduction First part of this mini-series will focus on more theoretical side of dithering -some history and applying it for 1D signals and to quantization. I will try to do some frequency analysis of errors of quantization and how dithering … Continue reading →

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Dithering in games – mini series

Posted on October 30, 2016 by

This an opening post of mini blog post series about various uses of dithering for quantization and sampling in video games. It is something most of us use intuitively in every day work, so wanted to write down some of … Continue reading →

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