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Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Beginner friendly
Here is a list of resources suitable for beginners, though intermediate or advanced folks can also benefit from them.
- Learn OpenGL - learnopengl.com is the definitive resource for learning real-time renderer techniques as beginners. Even though it is an OpenGL tutorial, it also teaches rendering techniques at the same time.
- Ray Tracing in One Weekend series - Those three short books explain basic concepts of path tracing and implement a software renderer from scratch.
- CMU's introductory to Computer Graphics course - A comprehensive introduction to various topics in computer graphics.
- Catlike Coding - Focus on C# and shaders in Unity
- Book Of Shaders - The author introduces shaders from an artistic perspective, and the book covers many topics that more engineering-focused resources such as "Learn OpenGL" won't cover.
Meta-links
Resources that curate other resources. Some of meta links are omitted here if they are mentioned in other categories.
- GPU Optimization for GameDev
- Volumetric Clouds Resources List
- graphics resources
- Awesome Computer Graphics
- Awesome Graphics Libraries - engines & frameworks
- Awesome Computer Vision
- Awesome WebGL
- Awesome C
- Awesome C++
- Awesome Gamedev - lots of graphics related stuff
Overview
Books
- Graphics Codex - Free
- Real-Time Rendering, Fourth Edition
- Fundamentals of Computer Graphics 5th Edition
Courses
Math
Tutorials
- [video series] Math For Game Devs - Video Series from Freya Holmér
Books
- Mathematics for Computer Graphics
- Mathematics for 3D Game Programming and Computer Graphics, 3rd Edition
- Foundations of Game Engine Development, Volume 1: Mathematics -Introduces math routings with implementations. It also touchs grassman algebra.
Homogeneous Coordinate
Geometric Algebra
Curves and Surfaces
Implementing Math Library
Ray Tracing
Intro to Ray Tracing
- An Improved Illumination Model for Shaded Display - Turner Whitted's original Ray Tracing Paper
- Ray Tracing in One Weekend series
Ray Tracing Books
- Physically Based Rendering: From Theory To Implementation Third Edition
- Ray Tracing Gems
- Ray Tracing Gems II
BVH
- A Survey on Bounding Volume Hierarchies for Ray Tracing - Excellent overview paper
- bvh - A modern C++ BVH construction and traversal library
Variance Reduction
Denoising
GPU Ray Tracing
Rasterization
Graphics Pipeline
Software Rasterization
- ssloy/tinyrenderer - A short tutorial on writing a software rasterizer. Be careful that the tutorial has some rough edges.
- A Parallel Algorithm for Polygon Rasterization
- Scratchapixel: Rasterization Stage
- Optimizing the basic rasterizer
Graphics Techniques
Depth Buffer
Normal Mapping
- Three Normal Mapping Techniques Explained For the Mathematically Uninclined
- Normal Mapping - Learn OpenGL
Shadow
- Shadow Mapping - LearnOpenGL
- Efficient Shadows from Many Lights
- Experiments in Hybrid Raytraced Shadows
- Michał Olejnik - Raytraced Shadows in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare video presentation
Ambient Occlusion
- Learn OpenGL: SSAO
- Screen Space Ambient Occlusion - Louis Bavoil, Miguel Sainz
- Know your SSAO artifacts
- Practical Realtime Strategies for Accurate Indirect Occlusion
Reflection
Transparency
Ray Marching and SDF
- Graphics Codex: Ray Marching
- Distant functions for primitives - Inigo Quilez
- soft shadows in raymarched SDFs - 2010
Color, HDR, and Tone Mapping
Mipmapping
- Pyramidal Parametrics - Original Mipmap paper
Sampling
- A Pixel is not a Little Square! - classic paper
- Basics of Image Resampling
PBR
- PBR - Learn OpenGL
- Physically Based Rendering in Filament
- Everything (or most things) wrong with learnopengl.com/PBR/Theory
- Crash Course in BRDF Implementation
- Physically Based Shading at Disney
- Deriving Lambertian BRDF from first principles
Shader Programming
- The Book of Shaders
- shadertoy smoothstep demo
- Shader Derivative Functions - useful for normals
- How to read shader assembly
- ShaderToy Advanced Tricks
Compute
Introduction to compute shader
- Introduction to Compute Shaders
- More Compute Shaders
- Even more Compute Shaders
- Compute Shader Glossary
GPU Architecture
- CIS 565 GPU Programming and Architecture
- Gentle introduction to GPUs inner workings
- GCN – two ways of latency hiding and wave occupancy
- Breaking Down Barriers
- How does a GPU Shader work?
- Compute Shaders: Optimize your engine using compute / Lou Kramer, AMD
GPU-driven rendering
Parallel Algorithms
- Parallel Prefix Sum (Scan) with CUDA
- Thinking Parallel, Part I: Collision Detection on the GPU
- Thinking Parallel, Part II: Tree Traversal on the GPU
- Thinking Parallel, Part III: Tree Construction on the GPU
Animation
APIs
OpenGL
- docs.gl - OpenGL API Documentation
- Learn OpenGL - The highly recommended tutorial
- Awesome OpenGL - Curated List for OpenGL
Vulkan
- Spec It is a good idea to keep it open while doing Vulkan Programming.
Tutorials
- Vulkan Guide The best "Vulkan Tutorial" available.
- vk_mini_path_tracer tutorial A relative small tutorial that focus on path tracing using Vulkan's ray tracing API.
- 3D Graphics Rendering Cookbook - Nonfree book
Meta Links
Sychronization
Vulkan Compute
Libraries
- vk-bootstrap Library that simplify the Vulkan initialization boilerplate.
- VulkanMemoryAllocator Memory allocation library that simplifies Vulkan memory allocation and provides decent performance.
- volk Meta-loader for Vulkan that allows you to dynamically load entrypoints required to use Vulkan. It also simplify the use of Vulkan extensions.
- SPIRV-Reflect - Can be used to extract descriptor and push constant information from SPIRV
Others
WebGPU
Tutorials
Programming
Engine Development
- The Shader Permutation Problem - Part 1: How Did We Get Here?
- The Shader Permutation Problem - Part 2: How Do We Fix It?
Tools
Debuggers
Assets
- McGuire Computer Graphics Archive - OBJ format scenes
- ORCA: Open Research Content Archive - Free large graphics scene samples
- ambientCG - Public Domain materials for Physically Based Rendering
- Rendering Resources - Benedikt Bitterli