How do Video Game Graphics Work?

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Have you ever wondered how video game graphics have become incredibly realistic? How can GPUs and graphics cards render such incredibly detailed scenes? Well, in this video we're going to explore how just a bunch of data in your computer gets turned into realistic graphics. Additionally, we'll take a quick look into Ray Tracing, DLSS or Deep Learning Super Sampling, and many other complicated aspects of video game graphics.

We at Branch Education love to play video games, so this video has been one of our favorite ones to make thus far. It's kind of like getting to look under the hood of your childhood car. Also, it was surprising that practically all video games use similar basic steps to render each frame. Furthermore, as a fun fact, to create this video our team used 1x 3090ti, 3x 3090s, and the model that we tore down was a 3090.

There are just sooooo many topics in the realm of computer graphics that we couldn't cover. If you're interested in part 2 where we'll cover things like UVs, Normal Maps, Shadows, Reflections, Specular Reflections, and much more, tell us in the comments.

Table of Contents:

00:00 - Video Game Graphics

01:11 - Graphics Rendering Pipeline and Vertex Shading

04:16 - Video Game Consoles & Graphics Cards

05:06 - Rasterization

06:51 - Visibility Z Buffer Depth Buffer

10:03 - Pixel Fragment Shading

11:35 - The Math Behind Pixel Shading

14:05 - Vector Math & Brilliant Sponsorship

16:11 - Flat vs Smooth Shading

17:25 - An Appreciation for Video Games

17:58- Ray Tracing

18:45 - DLSS Deep Learning Super Sampling

19:06 - GPU Architecture and Types of Cores

20:06 - Future Videos on Advanced Topics

20:24 - Outro for Video Game Graphics

Key Branches from this video are: How do JPEGs Work? How does Computer Hardware Work?

Erratum:

Animation: Mike Radjabov, Prakash Kakadiya, Teddy Tablante

Script: Teddy Tablante

Twitter: @teddytablante

Modeling: Mike Radjabov, Prakash Kakadiya

Voice Over: Phil Lee

Sound Design: www.drilu.mx

Sound Effects and Music Editor: Raúl Núñez

Supervising Sound Editor and Mixer: Luis Huesca

References:

"NVIDIA Ampere GA102 GPU Architecture" Second-Generation RTX. NVIDIA Corporation 2021

Wikipedia contributors. "Computer Animation" "Computer Graphics". "CUDA". "Graphics Pipeline". "History of Computer Animation". "NVIDIA". "Rasterization". Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, Visited December 21nd 2023

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