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The Modern Vulkan Cookbook

You're reading from The Modern Vulkan Cookbook A practical guide to 3D graphics and advanced real-time rendering techniques in Vulkan

Product type Paperback

Published in Apr 2024

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781803239989

Length 334 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

C++

Tools

Vulkan

Concepts

Game Design

Authors (2):

Preetish Kakkar

Mauricio Maurer

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Table of Contents (12) Chapters

Preface

1. Chapter 1: Vulkan Core Concepts

2. Chapter 2: Working with Modern Vulkan FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 3: Implementing GPU-Driven Rendering

4. Chapter 4: Exploring Techniques for Lighting, Shading, and Shadows

5. Chapter 5: Deciphering Order-Independent Transparency

6. Chapter 6: Anti-Aliasing Techniques

7. Chapter 7: Ray Tracing and Hybrid Rendering

8. Chapter 8: Extended Reality with OpenXR

9. Chapter 9: Debugging and Performance Measurement Techniques

10. Index

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Index

As this ebook edition doesn't have fixed pagination, the page numbers below are hyperlinked for reference only, based on the printed edition of this book.

A

acceleration structure 248

API functions

calling 26-28

application render loop

xrBeginFrame 273

xrEndFrame 273, 281

xrWaitFrame 273

B

bidirectional reflectance distribution function (BRDF) 244

bottom level acceleration structures (BLASs) 249

bounding volume hierarchy (BVH) 248

buffers

creating 85-87

data, uploading to 87-89

C

command buffers 48

reusing 51-53

command pool

creating 48, 49

commands

allocating 49-51

recording 49-51

submitting 49-51

compute shaders

used, for frustum culling 147-154

Cook-Torrance lighting model 177

D

data

uploading, to buffers 87-89

data races

avoiding, with ring buffers 90-92

debug information

retrieving, from shaders 315-318

Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS) 215

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Authors (2)

Kakkar

Kakkar

Arush Kakkar is a computer vision and deep learning researcher and an undergraduate at Delhi Technological University. His primary focus is on autonomous robotics, which includes drones and self-driving cars, and he has been involved in building such systems in different capacities, such as navigation, localization, path planning. He has also leveraged state-of-the art computer vision and deep learning technologies for them. He is the electrical systems head of the Solar Car team of his university, Solaris DTU. He is currently working on his own driverless car company, CruiseX, which uses deep learning to drive more smoothly and with fewer errors.

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Mauricio Maurer

Mauricio Maurer

Mauricio Maurer is a computer graphics engineer with nearly 20 years of experience working with 2D and 3D rendering, computational geometry, and rasterization in the fields of scientific visualization, CAD/CAM, and social networking. He is currently a graphics software engineer at Meta, helping to develop the next generation of AR/VR devices. Mauricio holds two master's degrees in computer science with a specialization in computer graphics from SUNY Stony Brook, NY, and the Federal University of Parana, Brazil.

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