Jiayin Cao
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Senior Devtech @Nvidia. Former graphics engineer at Ready At Dawn, Naughty Dog, Ubisoft. Views are my own.
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Path Tracing Optimization in Indiana Jones™: Shader Execution Reordering and Live State Reductions | NVIDIA Technical Blog
This post is part of the Path Tracing Optimizations in Indiana Jones™ series. While adding a path-tracing mode to Indiana Jones and the Great Circle™ in 2024, we used Shader Execution Reordering (SER)...
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May 15, 2025 at 4:38 PM
New blog post: developer.nvidia.com/blog/path-tr...
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Our #GDC25 talk on Path Tracing Nanite in UE5 is now available on YouTube: youtu.be/8AnVpcIczyk
GDC 2025 | Path Tracing Nanite in NVIDIA Zorah - Full Session Replay
YouTube video by NVIDIA Game Developer
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May 2, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Our #GDC25 talk on Path Tracing Nanite in UE5 is now available on YouTube: youtu.be/8AnVpcIczyk
Here is a new blog post of mine, where I dive deep into the theory and math behind ReSTIR GI.
Big thanks to Markus Kettunen for verifying the theory, reviewing the article, and catching a key detail I had missed.
agraphicsguynotes.com/posts/unders...
Big thanks to Markus Kettunen for verifying the theory, reviewing the article, and catching a key detail I had missed.
agraphicsguynotes.com/posts/unders...
Understanding The Math Behind ReSTIR GI
Recently, I had the pleasure of contributing to Nvidia’s Zorah project, the flagship demo for the RTX 50 Series GPUs. My primary role was to provide technical support for light transport in Zorah, whi...
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May 10, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Here is a new blog post of mine, where I dive deep into the theory and math behind ReSTIR GI.
Big thanks to Markus Kettunen for verifying the theory, reviewing the article, and catching a key detail I had missed.
agraphicsguynotes.com/posts/unders...
Big thanks to Markus Kettunen for verifying the theory, reviewing the article, and catching a key detail I had missed.
agraphicsguynotes.com/posts/unders...
A nice hugo blog post tool that I built today
Sometimes, when we work on a post with a bunch of references, we may need to remove or add items in between.
When the article is almost done, adding/removing any of the references requires updating a bunch of hardcoded numbers, which is error prone
Sometimes, when we work on a post with a bunch of references, we may need to remove or add items in between.
When the article is almost done, adding/removing any of the references requires updating a bunch of hardcoded numbers, which is error prone
April 21, 2025 at 1:03 AM
A nice hugo blog post tool that I built today
Sometimes, when we work on a post with a bunch of references, we may need to remove or add items in between.
When the article is almost done, adding/removing any of the references requires updating a bunch of hardcoded numbers, which is error prone
Sometimes, when we work on a post with a bunch of references, we may need to remove or add items in between.
When the article is almost done, adding/removing any of the references requires updating a bunch of hardcoded numbers, which is error prone
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Our #GDC25 talk "Path Tracing Nanite in NVIDIA Zorah" is now online, free to watch for all: www.nvidia.com/en-us/on-dem...
Path Tracing Nanite in NVIDIA Zorah | Game Developers Conference (GDC) 2025 | NVIDIA On-Demand
In this session, we will discuss the cutting-edge algorithms and techniques behind NVIDIA's Zorah Blackwell launch demo
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April 16, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Our #GDC25 talk "Path Tracing Nanite in NVIDIA Zorah" is now online, free to watch for all: www.nvidia.com/en-us/on-dem...