GPU Gems 3

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• Contributors
• Foreword
• Part I: Geometry
• • Chapter 1. Generating Complex Procedural Terrains Using the GPU
  • Chapter 2. Animated Crowd Rendering
  • Chapter 3. DirectX 10 Blend Shapes: Breaking the Limits
  • Chapter 4. Next-Generation SpeedTree Rendering
  • Chapter 5. Generic Adaptive Mesh Refinement
  • Chapter 6. GPU-Generated Procedural Wind Animations for Trees
  • Chapter 7. Point-Based Visualization of Metaballs on a GPU
• Part II: Light and Shadows
• • Chapter 8. Summed-Area Variance Shadow Maps
  • Chapter 9. Interactive Cinematic Relighting with Global Illumination
  • Chapter 10. Parallel-Split Shadow Maps on Programmable GPUs
  • Chapter 11. Efficient and Robust Shadow Volumes Using Hierarchical Occlusion Culling and Geometry Shaders
  • Chapter 12. High-Quality Ambient Occlusion
  • Chapter 13. Volumetric Light Scattering as a Post-Process
• Part III: Rendering
• • Chapter 14. Advanced Techniques for Realistic Real-Time Skin Rendering
  • Chapter 15. Playable Universal Capture
  • Chapter 16. Vegetation Procedural Animation and Shading in Crysis
  • Chapter 17. Robust Multiple Specular Reflections and Refractions
  • Chapter 18. Relaxed Cone Stepping for Relief Mapping
  • Chapter 19. Deferred Shading in Tabula Rasa
  • Chapter 20. GPU-Based Importance Sampling
• Part IV: Image Effects
• • Chapter 21. True Impostors
  • Chapter 22. Baking Normal Maps on the GPU
  • Chapter 23. High-Speed, Off-Screen Particles
  • Chapter 24. The Importance of Being Linear
  • Chapter 25. Rendering Vector Art on the GPU
  • Chapter 26. Object Detection by Color: Using the GPU for Real-Time Video Image Processing
  • Chapter 27. Motion Blur as a Post-Processing Effect
  • Chapter 28. Practical Post-Process Depth of Field
• Part V: Physics Simulation
• • Chapter 29. Real-Time Rigid Body Simulation on GPUs
  • Chapter 30. Real-Time Simulation and Rendering of 3D Fluids
  • Chapter 31. Fast N-Body Simulation with CUDA
  • Chapter 32. Broad-Phase Collision Detection with CUDA
  • Chapter 33. LCP Algorithms for Collision Detection Using CUDA
  • Chapter 34. Signed Distance Fields Using Single-Pass GPU Scan Conversion of Tetrahedra
  • Chapter 35. Fast Virus Signature Matching on the GPU
• Part VI: GPU Computing
• • Chapter 36. AES Encryption and Decryption on the GPU
  • Chapter 37. Efficient Random Number Generation and Application Using CUDA
  • Chapter 38. Imaging Earth's Subsurface Using CUDA
  • Chapter 39. Parallel Prefix Sum (Scan) with CUDA
  • Chapter 40. Incremental Computation of the Gaussian
  • Chapter 41. Using the Geometry Shader for Compact and Variable-Length GPU Feedback
• Preface