GPU Computing Gems Emerald Edition

Copyright © 2011 NVIDIA Corporation and Wen-mei W. Hwu. All rights reserved.

Introduction

25 Lattice Boltzmann Lighting Models 381

26 Path Regeneration for Random Walks 401

27 From Sparse Mocap to Highly Detailed Facial Animation 413

28 A Programmable Graphics Pipeline in CUDA for Order-Independent Transparency 427

The State of GPU Computing in Ray Tracing and Rendering

We are on the cusp of a rendering renaissance. Although GPUs have traditionally been used to drive hardware rasterization pipelines, and GPU computing has ventured into many different fields as a general computing platform, it is not to be forgotten that computer graphics stands to greatly benefit from these new programming models.

As GPUs continue to become more powerful and ...