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Mastering Graphics Programming with Vulkan
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Mastering Graphics Programming with Vulkan

by Marco Castorina, Gabriel Sassone
February 2023
Intermediate to advanced
382 pages
8h 14m
English
Packt Publishing
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Implementing Variable Rate Shading

In this chapter, we are going to implement a technique that has become quite popular recently: variable rate shading. This technique allows developers to specify at which rate to shade individual pixels while maintaining the same perceived visual quality. This approach allows us to reduce the time taken for some rendering passes, and the time savings can be used to implement more features or render at higher resolutions.

Vulkan provides multiple options to integrate this technique into an application, and we are going to provide an overview of all of them. This feature is provided through an extension that is supported only on recent hardware, but it’s possible to implement it manually using compute shaders. ...

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