There is a new lighting approach that extends the Light Pre-Pass idea. It is called Inferred Lighting and it was presented by Scott Kircher and Alan Lawrence from Volition. Here is the link http://graphics.cs.uiuc.edu/~kircher/publications.html They assume a Light Pre-pass concept as covered here on this blog with three passes. The geometry ...

SIGGRAPH is next week and I am still preparing my talk. If you are around please come by and say hi. My talks title is "Light Pre-Pass Renderer Mark III" and it is part of the "Advances in Real-Time Rendering in 3D Graphics and Games" day on Monday next week:...

I was on SIGGRAPH to attend the "Beyond Programmable Shading" day. I spent the whole morning there and left during the last talk in the morning. Here is the URL for the Larrabee day: http://s08.idav.ucdavis.edu/ The talks are quite inspiring. I was hoping to see actual Larrabee hardware in action but they ...