Ray Tracing Gems: High-Quality and Real-Time Rendering with DXR and Other APIs

Part 1: Ray Tracing Basics

1. Ray Tracing Terminology

2. What is a Ray?

3. Introduction to DirectX Raytracing

4. A Planetarium Dome Master Camera

5. Computing Minima and Maxima of Subarrays

Part 2: Intersections and Efficiency

6. A Fast and Robust Method for Avoiding Self-Intersection

7. Precision Improvements for Ray/Sphere Intersection

8. Cool Patches: A Geometric Approach to Ray/Bilinear Patch Intersections

9. Multi-Hit Ray Tracing in DXR

10. A Simple Load-Balancing Scheme with High Scaling Efficiency

Part 3: Reflections, Refractions, and Shadows

11. Automatic Handling of Materials in Nested Volumes

12. A Microfacet-Based Shadowing Function to Solve the Bump Terminator Problem

13. Ray Traced Shadows: Maintaining Real-Time Frame Rates

14. Ray-Guided Volumetric Water Caustics in Single Scattering Media with DXR

Part 4: Sampling

15. On the Importance of Sampling

16. Sample Transformations Zoo

17. Ignoring the Inconvenient When Tracing Rays

18. Importance Sampling of Many Lights on the GPU

Part 5: Denoising and Filtering

19. Cinematic Rendering in UE4 with Real-Time Ray Tracing and Denoising

20. Texture Level of Detail Strategies for Real-Time Ray Tracing

21. Simple Environment Map Filtering Using Ray Cones and Ray Differentials

22. Improving Temporal Antialiasing with Adaptive Ray Tracing

Part 6: Hybrid Approaches and Systems

23. Interactive Light Map and Irradiance Volume Preview in Frostbite

24. Real-Time Global Illumination with Photon Mapping

25. Hybrid Rendering for Real-Time Ray Tracing

26. Deferred Hybrid Path Tracing

27. Interactive Ray Tracing Techniques for High-Fidelity Scientific Visualization

Part 7: Global Illumination

28. Ray Tracing Inhomogeneous Volumes

29. Efficient Particle Volume Splatting in a Ray Tracer

30. Caustics Using Screen Space Photon Mapping

31. Variance Reduction via Footprint Estimation in the Presence of Path Reuse

32. Accurate Real-Time Specular Reflections with Radiance Caching