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Recent Conferences: GDC 2008 | Siggraph 2007 | GDC 2007

Books

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Whitepapers

Direct3D SDK 10 Whitepapers

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• Clipmaps
• Cloth Simulation
• Coverage Sampled Antialiasing (CSAA) Tutorial
• Deformable Bodies
• Denoising
• DX10 Feature Demo
• Fur Using Shells and Fins
• GPU Blend Shapes
• Perlin Fire
• Rain
• Skinned Instancing
• Soft Particles
• Soft Shadows
• Solid Wireframe
• Sparkles
• Texture Array Terrain
• Variance Shadow Mapping

OpenGL SDK 10 Whitepapers

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• OpenGL SDK 10 Overview
• Christmas Tree Rendering
• High-Quality Antialiasing
• Simple Glow

Other Whitepapers

• New! Using SAS with HLSL, CgFX, and FX Composer
• New! Real-Time Normal Map DXT Compression
• Real-Time YCoCg-DXT Compression
• NVIDIA GPU Programming Guide
• Coverage Sampling AA

Recent Conference Presentations

GDC 2008

• Real-Time Depth Buffer Based Ambient Occlusion
• NVIDIA Developer Toolkit Overview
• Direct3D Day: Optimizing DirectX 10 Performance
• Direct3D Day: Soft Shadow Mapping
• Direct3D Day: Instanced Tesselation in DirectX 10
• Direct3D Day: Harnessing the Power of Multiple GPUs
• GPU Optimization with NVIDIA Performance Tools [VIDEO]
• Optimizing Marble Blast Ultra [VIDEO]
• NVIDIA FX Composer 2.5 + NVIDIA Shader Debugger [VIDEO]
• Particle-Based Fluid Simulation for Games [VIDEO]
• 3D Stereoscopic Game Development [VIDEO]
• Advanced Skin Rendering [VIDEO]
• Beyond printf(): Debugging Graphics Though Tools 
• GPU Physics for Game Programmers

Soft Shadows

• Updated! Integrating Realistic Soft Shadows into Your Game Engine

SIGGRAPH 2007

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• Smoke, Fire, and Water with Fluid Dynamics
• NVIDIA FX Composer 2: Shader Authoring for Everyone
• GPU Gems 3 Sampler
• Summed-Area Variance Shadow Maps
• Playable Universal Capture [External Site]
• Advanced Skin Rendering
• Real-Time Voxelization of Triangle Meshes on the GPU
• Stencil Routed A-Buffer

GDC 2007

Download ZIP of All GDC 2007 Presentations

• NVIDIA Sponsored Sessions
• NVIDIA FX Composer 2: A Comprehensive Shader Development Package
• GPU Optimization with the Latest NVIDIA Performance Tools
• GeForce 8800 OpenGL Extensions
• NVIDIA Demo Team Secrets: Cascades
• NVIDIA Demo Team Secrets: Advanced Skin Rendering
• Advanced Visual Effects with Direct3D
• Real-Time Atmospheric Effects in Games, Revisted
• Real-time Volumetric Smoke Using Direct3D 10
• Soft Shadows Using Hierarchical Min-Max Shadow Maps
• How to Make Use of Direct3D 10 Now