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DirectX / OpenGL(Vulkan) concepts mapping chart

How is anisotropic filtering typically implemented in modern GPUs?

Thorough, accessible material about Fourier basis functions and Spherical Harmonics?

What kind of technology would be involved in the rendering of human nails?

Reasons of the assumptions for the microfacet distribution function?

Why replicating the higher bits of RGB565 when converting to RGBA8888?

Should not specular reflection on a rough surface be similar to diffuse reflection?

Why does the integral of NDF over a solid angle equals the area where micronormals belong to that angle?

Why does the G1 term have a 2 in the numerator in Walter's formula, but not in Heitz's generalized formula?

How to extract a BRDF from a shader [closed]

Benefits of Clustered Shading vs Tiled Shading?

Why map Hammersley 2D set's (u,v) to sphere's (θ, φ) coordinates (and not to (φ, θ) )?

What algorithm(s) are behind Google Street View's 3d mapping mode?

What's different between D3D12_CPU_PAGE_PROPERTY_WRITE_COMBINE and D3D12_CPU_PAGE_PROPERTY_WRITE_BACK, and why they're named like that?

GLSL Uniform Layout Spec says member array stride alignment is rounded up to vec4?

Which graphics APIs texture formats are HDR texture formats?

How do modern GPUs handle branching instructions in shader code?

Is a smaller local-size/threadgroup-size better for compute shader performance?