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Screen-Space Ambient Occlusion (SSAO) Shader Math and Depth Reconstruction

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1y ago · Nov 14, 2024 9:05 PM

SSAO samples a hemisphere kernel around each fragment in screen space using the linear depth buffer and camera projection matrix.

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1y ago · Nov 15, 2024 12:22 AM

Rotating sample kernels with a repeating 4x4 noise texture eliminates banding and allows smooth bilateral blur filtering.

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1y ago · Nov 17, 2024 4:22 AM

Reconstructing 3D view-space positions directly from depth buffer pixels saves having to store separate position G-Buffers in deferred renderers!

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