Unified Rendering Architecture of Blender's Cycles

Upscaling techniques in Warhammer 40,000 and RoadCraft

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. Watch full presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IwDr6Zd6YM Original Copyright Free Music written, performed, and produced by TrackTribe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HK9z2cR8nlM&list=PLFEJ2E5exsjrjRzhJdOYOmTlcYfK3Hz7_

GPU Driven Rendering of Factions on Meta Quest 2 and 3

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. Watch full presentation here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H39hUNiweYg Original Copyright Free Music written, performed, and produced by TrackTribe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HK9z2cR8nlM&list=PLFEJ2E5exsjrjRzhJdOYOmTlcYfK3Hz7_

A look into Teardown's render engine before and after

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. Watch full presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IM1Dr98f3xU Original Copyright Free Music written, performed, and produced by TrackTribe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HK9z2cR8nlM&list=PLFEJ2E5exsjrjRzhJdOYOmTlcYfK3Hz7_

Unified Rendering Architecture of Blender's Cycles

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. Watch full presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etGMk9wYwNs Original Copyright Free Music written, performed, and produced by TrackTribe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HK9z2cR8nlM&list=PLFEJ2E5exsjrjRzhJdOYOmTlcYfK3Hz7_

Ultrafast Screen-Space Refractions and Caustics via Newton's Method

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. Read full paper: https://jcgt.org/published/0015/01/03/ Original Copyright Free Music written, performed, and produced by TrackTribe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HK9z2cR8nlM&list=PLFEJ2E5exsjrjRzhJdOYOmTlcYfK3Hz7_