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Welcome to the home page for GPU Gems: Programming Techniques, Tips, and Tricks for Real-Time Graphics. GPU Gems is hard bound, 816 pages, and in full color throughout, with over 300 diagrams and screenshots. It was released at GDC 2004 and is now available for purchase. We invite you to take a look around the site to learn more about the book.

GPU Gems is a compilation of articles covering practical real-time graphics techniques arising from the research and practice of cutting-edge developers. It focuses on the programmable graphics pipeline available in today's graphics processing units (GPUs) and highlights quick and dirty tricks used by leading developers, as well as fundamental, performance-conscious techniques for creating advanced visual effects. The contributors and editors, collectively, bring countless years of experience to enlighten and propel the reader into the fascinating world of programmable real-time graphics.

"This collection of articles is particularly impressive for its depth and breadth. The book includes product-oriented case studies, previously unpublished state-of-the-art research, comprehensive tutorials, and extensive code samples and demos throughout."

Ian Buck is completing his PhD degree in computer science at the Stanford University Graphics Lab, researching general purpose computing models for GPUs. His research focuses on programming language design for graphics hardware, as well as general computing applications that map to graphics hardware architectures. He received his BSE in computer science fromPrincetonUniversityin 1999, and is a recipient of Stanford School of Engineering and NVIDIA fellowships.

Joe Demers received his BS fromCarnegieMellonUniversityand an MS from theUniversity of Southern California. He worked on Nendo, a simple but powerful 3D modeling and painting package from Nichimen Graphics, and numerous demos at NVIDIA, where he has worked since 1999.

Eugene recently completed a BS at the University of Waterloo in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science. He currently resides in California working on the Demo Team at NVIDIA. He can occasionally be found playing piano late at night at the office.

Steve received his PhD in computer science from UC Berkeley in 1977. In 1978 he founded Silicon Valley Software and served as president for 15 years, where he developed C and FORTRAN compilers. After spending too many years attending SIGGRAPH, in 1995 he finally made the switch into graphics and began developing OpenGL drivers. His past eventually caught up with him, however, and he is now one of the principal designers and implementers of the Cg language at NVIDIA.

Simon Green is an engineer in the technical developer relations group at NVIDIA. After graduating with a degree in Computer Science from Reading University, England, Simon worked in the video games industry for two years before emigrating to the United States to work for Silicon Graphics. He has presented at the Game Developer and Apple World Wide Developer Conferences. His interests include OpenGL, cellular automata, image based rendering and analogue synthesizers. He spends his time at NVIDIA thinking up new and interesting ways to abuse graphics hardware.

In between riding camel-back through the Sahara and lounging on the Brazilian coast, Juan Guardado enjoys contributing graphics technologies to the computer games industry. After graduating with a bachelor of computer engineering degree from McGill University he joined Matrox Graphics, where his work culminated in the development of hardware-accelerated displacement mapping. He now works at NVIDIA with the Technical Developer Relations team based in the United Kingdom. He has given numerous talks at industry events, including GDC (U.S.and Europe ), and has been published in Shader X and Gamasutra online magazine.

Charles Hansen received a BS in computer science from Memphis State University in 1981, and a PhD in computer science from the University of Utah in 1987. He is currently an associate professor of computer science at the University of Utah. From 1989 to 1997, he was a technical staff member in the Advanced Computing Laboratory (ACL) located at Los Alamos National Laboratory, where he formed and directed the visualization efforts of the ACL. He was a Bourse de Chateaubriand Postdoctoral Fellow at INRIA, Rocquencourt France, in 1987 and 1988. His research interests include large-scale scientific visualization and computer graphics.

Drew Hess is a software developer in the Software Research and Development department at Industrial Light & Magic. In a past life, he was a member of the IA-64 architecture team at Intel Corporation. Drew received a BS in Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and an MS in Computer Science from Stanford University.

Milan Ikits is a PhD candidate in the School of Computing at the University of Utah, and a research assistant at the Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute. His current research interests lie in the areas of computer graphics, scientific visualization, immersive environments, and human-computer interaction. He received a Diploma in Computer Science from the Budapest University of Technology and Economics in 1997. Milan is the creator of the popular OpenGL Extension Wrangler library (GLEW).

Growing up in a house where 3D graphics movies and computers were left unlocked and out in plain sight, it's no wonder that Greg became addicted to graphics at an early age. Attempts to cure him using respectable math and science have failed, but he did come away with a B.S. in Physics and minor in studio art in 1995. Fortunately, Greg has found a safe environment with the developer community outreach program at NVIDIA where he helps himself and others work through their afflictions. He has developed and contributed to visual effects in many games. Among these are the reflective water animation in Morrowind, the glow in Tron 2.0, and a volume translucency effect for an upcoming title. His works have appeared in various computer graphics and physics publications, and he is particularly excited by the combination of physics and computer graphics.

Frank is a software engineer working on the Technical Developer Relations team. He works on tools for digital content creation and helps DCC companies integrate new technologies into their products. Before joining NVIDIA, he worked for IBM, CoCreate, and Fraunhofer Research on topics ranging from streaming 3D to mainframe operating systems. Frank received his degree in Computer Science in 1997 from theUniversity ofTbingen,Germany.

Alexandre Jean Claude currently works as the team lead for rendering and pipeline at Softimage. For the past few years, he has focused on game development pipelines and hardware rendering technologies. He graduated from the Universit du Qubec Montral in computer science.

Joe Kniss received a BS degree in 1999 from IdahoStateUniversity and an MS degree in computer science from theUniversity ofUtahin 2002. He is currently pursuing a PhD degree in computer science at theUniversity ofUtah, where he is a member of the Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute. His research interests include computer graphics, light transport in participating media, human-computer interaction, and immersive environments.

Aaron Lefohn is a PhD student in the computer science department at the University of California at Davis and a graphics software engineer at Pixar Animation Studios. His research interests include general computation with graphics hardware, photorealistic rendering, and physically-based animation. Aaron completed his MS in computer science at the University of Utah in 2003, an MS in theoretical chemistry from the University of Utah in 2001, and a BA in chemistry from Whitman College in 1997. Aaron is an NSF graduate fellow in computer science.

David has been a computer graphics architect for NVIDIA since 2000. He received a PhD in computer science from the University ofNorth Carolina atChapel Hill in 2002, where he did research in image-based rendering, reflectance measurement and representation, and graphics hardware. He spent the summer of 1997 at Hewlett-Packard working on the PixelFlow graphics supercomputer. David worked at Evans & Sutherland from 1989 to 1996, and received a BS from theUniversity ofUtahin 1995. David lives in Salt Lake City, Utah.

John O'Rorke has been creating games since the age of six. During high school he worked after school with Hewlett-Packard in their firmware division and then attended the DigiPen Institute of Technology. He is currently an engine architect at Monolith Productions, where he has worked on Aliens vs. Predator 2, Tron 2.0, No One Lives Forever 2: A Spy in H.A.R.M.'s Way, and is currently developing engine technology for future products.

Fabio Pellacini was born in Italy, where he spent the first 24 years of his life. During this time he received a Laurea degree in physics from University of Parma, and worked one year for Milestone building a physics engine. Following this experience he decided to pursue his interests in computer graphics by moving to the United States, where he received a PhD in computer graphics from Cornell University and published a few papers (four of which got luckily accepted to SIGGRAPH). These days he is spending his time in a dark office at Pixar Animation Studios designing and implementing the next generation of lighting technology for the studio.

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