GPU Pro 7

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Rendering

Real-time rendering is an exciting field in part because of how rapidly it evolves

and advances but also because of the graphics community’s eagerness and will-

ingness to share their new ideas, opening the door for others to learn and share

in the fun! In this section we introduce three new rendering techniques that will

be relevant to game developers, hobbyist, and anyone else interested in the world

of graphics.

Our first chapter is “Adaptive Virtual Textures” by Ka Chen in which a

technique for large, open world texturing is presented. This technique is able to

achieve very high resolution textures and also supports dynamically compo