This time we will talk about the presentation given by Colin Barré-Brisebois from SEED, the R&D division of Electronic Arts, during the Graphics Programming Conference 2025. In this talk, he shares his reflections on the department's 10 years of existence, covering both the strategic aspect of balancing high-risk projects with practical applications, and the collaborative culture needed to turn experimental prototypes into robust production tools for games such as Battlefield and EA Sports FC.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNAZu3nFB5k

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Today we are going to talk about this presentation given by Ruslan Kutdosov, Senior Rendering Programmer at Saber Interactive, on behalf of his colleague Kirill Alekseenko (Render Tech Lead) during the Graphics Programming Conference 2025. In it, they share their experience integrating upscaling techniques such as FSR, DLSS, and XeSS into the current iteration of their engine used for Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2, as well as RoadCraft.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IwDr6Zd6YM

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Today, we will talk about this presentation given by Lucas Miguel Antunes da Silva, Graphics Programmer at Davsh Graphics Programming, during Vulkanized 2026. He discusses the development of Factions, a voxel-based VR game for Meta Quest 2 and 3, explaining how they overcame the bandwidth and memory limitations of mobile processors using occlusion and geometry culling techniques directly on the graphics hardware.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H39hUNiweYg

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Today we will talk about the presentation given by Dennis Gustafson and Gabe Rundlet from Tuxedo Labs during the Graphics Programming Conference 2025. In it, they explain how the engine's initial design overcame OpenGL's limitations for simulating lighting in fully destructible environments using Shadow Volumes and 3D Bitmaps, as well as their subsequent transition to Vulkan and the use of Ray-Tracing, which allowed for more efficient memory management.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IM1Dr98f3xU

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On this occasion, we will discuss the presentation given by Sergey Sharybin, Blender's Head of Development, during the 2025 Graphics Programming Conference. In it, he speaks about the unified architecture of their path tracer, Cycles, which is capable of running on various CPU and GPU platforms through a micro-kernel structure and a shader virtual machine to improve interactivity for the artist.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etGMk9wYwNs

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Today we will discuss this paper published in The Journal of Computer Graphics Techniques by Chase Mayer and Ulf Assarsson. In it, instead of using the traditional Ray Marching method, the authors propose using Newton's Method to locate screen-space intersections. This allows pixels to converge in two to six iterations, drastically reducing the computational load compared to current standards.

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https://jcgt.org/published/0015/01/03/

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On this occasion, we will be discussing the presentation given by Hitoshi Mishima, a Render Engineer at Capcom, during REAC 2025. In it, he details how they adapted the RE Engine pipeline to integrate Meshlets, enabling the optimization of games with massive, dense environments like Dragon's Dogma and Monster Hunter Wilds. He also covers the use of Visibility Buffers and two-phase occlusion systems, which drastically reduce the processing load for both the CPU and GPU.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWgPtCDXlPc

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Today, we are going to discuss the paper published by NVIDIA's Pascal Gautron, which introduces a technique called 'Hashed Raytraced Ambient Occlusion' (HRTAO). Unlike traditional screen-space methods, this technique utilizes multi-resolution spatial hashing that adapts the level of detail based on camera distance for scene lighting, effectively eliminating visual noise.

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https://history.siggraph.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/2020-Talks-Gautron_Real-Time-Ray-Traced-Ambient-Occlusion-of-Complex-Scenes.pdf

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Today, we’re talking about the presentation given by Devansh Maheshwari, a graphics programmer at Supergiant Games, during the 2024 Graphics Programming Conference. In it, he shares the team's achievements and challenges while developing and refining their rendering technology, and how building their own pipeline allowed them to reach their goal of creating unforgettable gaming experiences.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vj9elQc0ix4

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This time, we will discuss the presentation given by Mikkel Gjoel and Mikkel Svendsen from Playdead during the Game Developers Conference 2016. In it, they talk about the rendering strategies used to create the visual atmosphere of INSIDE—from the use of blue noise and temporal anti-aliasing for its minimalist aesthetic, to the efficient handling of volumetric fog, water reflections, and shadows while maintaining 60 FPS.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdN06E6Xn9E

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