Android GPU Debugging
I am currently working on improving the custom Vulkan renderer that powers PeakVisor’s Android app. It is one of the key features that sets the app apart f...
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GPU-Programming
Mesh Shaders as Replacement for Hardware Tessellation?
Mesh shaders represent a notable evolution in modern graphics pipelines. They are often positioned as a potential “silver bullet” capable of replacing the tr...
Fast Rendering of Parametric Objects on Modern GPUs
This is the paper page of our paper “Fast Rendering of Parametric Objects on Modern GPUs”, which has been accepted for The Eurographics Symposium on Paralle...
Vulkan all the way: Transitioning to a modern low-level graphics API in academia
This is the paper page of our paper “Vulkan all the way”, which is an extended edition of our previous paper The Road to Vulkan: Teaching Modern Low-Level A...
The Road to Vulkan: Teaching Modern Low-Level APIs in Introductory Graphics Courses
This is the paper page of our paper “The Road to Vulkan: Teaching Modern Low-Level APIs in Introductory Graphics Courses” which has been accepted and present...
Conservative Meshlet Bounds for Robust Culling of Skinned Meshes
This is the paper page of our paper “Conservative Meshlet Bounds for Robust Culling of Skinned Meshes” which has been accepted and presented at Pacific Graph...
Setting Up a Proper Projection Matrix for Vulkan
In this post, I’d like to describe a strategy how a proper and (hopefully) easy to understand perspective projection matrix for Vulkan can be set-up manuall...
Why projection matrices typically used with OpenGL fail with Vulkan
When programmers with an OpenGL background learn Vulkan, they often expect—or hope—that the projection matrices they have used with OpenGL continue to work w...
Vulkan Synchronization Validation - Key Items
Vulkan snchronization validation has reached version 1.0 as reported by LunarG on January 13th, 2021. They published an official documentation of it, titled ...
Fast Multi-View Rendering for Real-Time Applications
This is the paper page of our paper “Fast Multi-View Rendering for Real-Time Applications” which has been accepted at the Eurographics Symposium on Parallel ...
CPU-Programming
Floating Point Epsilon Calculator
When using floating point variables, there’s always the danger that a certain number cannot be represented exactly. Therefore, oftentimes epsilon values need...
Faster Compile Times Through Parallel Compilation on Multiple Cores? (With Benchmarks)
I currently have access to PCs which are of totally different form factors—one being a desktop-PC, the other being a laptop-PC—and actually have pretty diffe...
How To Pass Lambda Functions in C++ (By Value, By L-Value Reference, By Universal Reference)
A question that I’ve asked on StackOverflow: C++ best practice: Pass use-only (not stored) lambda argument to function by const-reference or by forwarding-r...
Tools
Floating Point Epsilon Calculator
When using floating point variables, there’s always the danger that a certain number cannot be represented exactly. Therefore, oftentimes epsilon values need...