Nvidia GTC 2023 from the Perspective of a Graphics Programmer

It’s an exciting time to be alive, with so much happening in the field of computer graphics. And with Nvidia GTC 2023 concluded last week, a lot of interesting research has been shared with the community. I followed most of the talks about graphics and rendering, and some of the talks on topics related to graphics such as neural radiance fields, hardware-accelerated data processing in C++, and advances in generative AI. And there’s a lot happening. In this summary, I will cover some of the talks I watched and occasionally flavor them with opinions. All the images in this talk are taken from various GTC presentations. <h1>Compressed Micro-Meshes</h1> When Epic revealed the Nanite system for Unreal Engine 5 in the beginning of 2022, the graphics community was in shock and awe. Solving such a long-standing and difficult problem with LODs for 3D models was nothing short of amazing. And now, as more and more game developers are starting to migrate to Unreal Engine for a more “epic” development experience, it is no wonder that some people worry that the only game engine that will be used in the future will be Unreal Engine. But now, Nvidia researchers has published something they call “compressed micro-meshes”, which aims to enhance ray-tracing by constructing clever acceleration structures that enable single-pixel triangles from high fidelity models, and which also scale better with growing geometric complexities. <a href="https://betterprogramming.pub/nvidia-gtc-2023-from-the-perspective-of-a-graphics-programmer-99859b752306">Visit Now</a>