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GPU Gems 3 - Image Effects: Chapters 24 through 26 now online

We've posted three more GPU Gems 3 chapters for this week:

• Chapter 24: The Importance of Being Linear by Larry Gritz and Eugene d'Eon (NVIDIA)
• Chapter 25: Rendering Vector Art on the GPU by Charles Loop and Jim Blinn (Microsoft Research)
• Chapter 26: Object Detection by Color: Using the GPU for Real-Time Video Image Processing by Ralph Brunner, Frank Doepke, and Bunny Laden (Apple)

GPU Gems 3 - Image Effects: Chapters 21 through 23 now online

This week, we start on Part IV of GPU Gems 3: Image Effects.

• Chapter 21: True Impostors by Eric Risser (University of Central Florida)
• Chapter 22: Baking Normal Maps on the GPU by Diogo Teixeira (Move Interactive)
• Chapter 23: High-Speed, Off-Screen Particles by Iain Cantlay (NVIDIA)

GPU Gems 3 - Chapters 14-20 are now online

Chapters 14 through 20 of GPU Gems 3 are now up. This week's chapters are all about rendering everything from skin to vegetation.

Chapters this week:

• Chapter 14: Advanced Techniques for Realistic Real-Time Skin Rendering by Eugene d'Eon and David Luebke (NVIDIA)
• Chapter 15: Playable Universal Capture by George Borshukov, Jefferson Montgomery, and John Hable (Electronic Arts)
• Chapter 16: Vegetation Procedural Animation and Shading in Crysis by Tiago Sousa (Crytek)
• Chapter 17: Robust Multiple Specular Reflections and Refractions by Tamás Umenhoffer (Budapest University of Technology and Economics), Gustavo Patow (University of Girona), and László Szirmay-Kalos (Budapest University of Technology and Economics)
• Chapter 18: Relaxed Cone Stepping for Relief Mapping by Fabio Policarpo (Perpetual Entertainment) and Manuel M. Oliveira (Instituto de Informática—UFRGS)
• Chapter 19: Deferred Shading in Tabula Rasa by Rusty Koonce (NCsoft Corporation)
• Chapter 20: GPU-Based Importance Sampling by Mark Colbert (University of Central Florida) and Jaroslav Kivánek (Czech Technical University in Prague)

GPU Gems 3 - Now Online

Beginning this week we'll be releasing the full text of GPU Gems 3 on the NVIDIA website -- Seven chapters to start, and then three chapters per week between now and GDC 2009. Click here to begin reading the first section of GPU Gems 3, Geometry.

Chapters this week:

• Generating Complex Procedural Terrains Using the GPU by Ryan Geiss (NVIDIA)
• Animated Crowd Rendering by Bryan Dudash (NVIDIA)
• DirectX 10 Blend Shapes: Breaking the Limits by Tristan Lorach (NVIDIA)
• Next-Generation SpeedTree Rendering by Alexander Kharlamov, Iain Cantlay, Yury Stepanenko (NVIDIA)
• Generic Adaptive Mesh Refinement by Tamy Boubekeur, Christophe Schlick (LaBRI–INRIA, University of Bordeaux)
• GPU-Generated Procedural Wind Animations for Trees by Renaldas Zioma (Electronic Arts/Digital Illusions CE)
• Point-Based Visualization of Metaballs on a GPU by Kees van Kooten, Gino van den Bergen (Playlogic Game Factory) & Alex Telea (Eindhoven University of Technology)