Should I make an in depth video about the math of the rasterizer? Otherwise the next video will be about matrices.

"But who will ever read this code anyway" lol

I watched so many videos about this topic, but this one just nailed it! Finally I got a deeper understanding how a rasterizer works! Thank you!

I have not heard anyone explain computer science topics better than you. Hope you keep making videos!

I have just discovered your channel and love your content! Keep it up!

Can't believe the quality of your videos! You make complex stuff easier to understand, really appreciate your effort :)

Thank you so much! I feel like I finally understand the process behind rendering. Keep up the good work 😄😄😄

I've watched so many videos to get an understanding of the pipeline but none come close to this one Thanks Alottt!!

I just found your Video because I am working with OpenGL and I really like it! Wish there was more in-depth content about the different shaders and everything. Nice work!

such a comprehensive and interesting video thank you so much for sharing! :) subbed

This was very helpful and informative! Thank you))

Good channel. You deserve more subs. Subscribed

Just subbed. Great content!

this is very clean tutorial to understand. Thanks

This is a top notch production! Well done, my students will appreciate this.

Thank you for this!!

instant sub. well done

Nice work!

this is the best explanation of the graphics pipeline I've ever saw

dam brah, you are quite versed on cg im glad i found your channel.

I've been playing with particle shaders, and didn't quite understand the colour output until I read the comment at 4:40

i won't believe your c++ codes anymore hahaha dividing normal by the id XD, i love your content .

Thank you! Also thanks for speaking english so clearly, I could understand everything xD

Do you tutor? I like how detailed you are but there were some areas that were vague for me, like the fact that the output vectors of a vector shader on some input vertex would fall within the range -1

Amazing tutorial for beginners, much better explanation than my college professor's😅

i read your code, and it's a division by ID to get the color attributes😉

Dude why youre inactive on youtube, you really explain things very well, thank you for this great video

So well explained! I've just started a youtube channel about retro technologies and systems, for Brazilians, and I would love to know how software did you use to animate those arrows ;). Thx

i cant figure out how the output merger works, can you please give a visual example on how it works?

Where did you go man!? This channel has the juice

Hello FloatyMonkey, your channel is really great and I found the videos very informative. Thank you. I have a question about Tesselation. Why is Tesselation required here..since vertex shader already gets data that are vertices of triangles ?

I have a couple questions, hopefully its clear without visualization here: 1. Does the rasterizer produce multiple fragments/pixels with the same position? For example, where the blue and red triangles overlap, would there be a fragment with the blue triangle attributes and one with the red triangle attributes in the same overlapping position? i.e. {position = (2, 3), color = blue, depth = 0.1}, {position= (2, 3), color = red, depth = 0.5} 2. If there are fragments with duplicate positions, does this mean that the Fragment/Pixel shader will run on the same fragment position multiple times even though in the following stage (output merger) the result of the red fragment being shaded will be thrown away (because its in the back)? Thank you

More documentation can be seen in MSFT's Direct3D pipeline: docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/direct3d11/overviews-direct3d-11-graphics-pipeline

subscribed, if not for dark theme videos alone

Hello! It's a great video and I would have a question. Where all the advanced lighting techniques are being processed? Is that at the pixel shader too? Thank you

how you make the video? ppt animation?

4:43 I saw what you did ;)

Probably something I missed, but where does the perspective projection take place? Wherever you mentioned the vertices they were described with x,y,z not x,y

7:37 That's not really a sufficient explanation. Generating the locations of the vertices of your blender mesh is also not possible on a graphics card, but the CPU sets it up for the GPU; just because the GPU can't do something doesn't explain why it's not done. So, why doesn't the CPU just sort the triangles? The real one-sentence explanation is "Unfortunately, we can't solve this problem by changing the order in which we draw the triangles, *since it's way too expensive to sort hundreds of thousands of triangles, every single frame*. The solution to our problem...". As a secondary issue, if you have a triplet of long rectangles where A covers B, B covers C, and C covers A, that triplet can't be resolved without a Z-buffer either. But that's a rare case and generally not the "real" reason, it's just too expensive to compare overlapping triangles and re-sort them all every single frame.

I was reading that code why did u divide normal by vertex id 🤣🤣🤣🤣

I love your video! I want to use some screenshots in my lecture. Of course I will cite the source. can I?

Which kind of code is the code in the video??

I read the code, that's how you learn

What an accent! Where are you from? I can't figure it out.

I think the hardest part of this video to understand is how that color is supposed to be “pink” 😂

Amazing explanation!!! ♥ But... 09:59... what?! 😅

Where is that accent from?

0:50 LOL software rendering go brrr 3:10 If 16-bits is conventionally used... how do modern 3D graphics work? I mean, games have exceeded 65,536 vertices per frame since the early 2000s, and 65,536 vertices per object for somewhat less time. Do engines swap out vertices mid-frame like was done for sprites and palletes for ambitious games on sprite-based hardware? 4:35 ...why? Doesn't sound like a very useful range for display purposes at all. 6:25 You _could_ use Bresenham's line algorithm or something instead of constructing triangles for that purpose. 7:50 Huh... So the RTX 4090-or for a video-contemporary example, the Titan RTX-is less capable in a respect than, say, the Atari VCS/2600's TIA?! (Sprite-based graphics hardware allows for direct draw-ordering of sprites, AFAIK without exception because without vertex-level depth information, there's really no other method to handle depth. This was also done for polygons on the first generation of console "3D" video processors {that is, the 3DO Interactive Multiplayer's Clio/CEL Engine, the Sega Saturn's VDP1, and the PlayStation's Sony GPU†}, as they lacked per-pixel depth calculation and perspective-correct texture mapping. Oh, and speaking about the 3DO and Saturn, they actually _directly_ used quadrilaterals as their base geometric primitive rather than triangles {causing quite the headache for their devs}, so yeah.) 7:55 Can you explain why a depth buffer is beneficial? Seems to me that the very processes needed to create one eliminate the need for one and _in fact make creating one wasteful_ . I mean, here's essentially what it _seems_ you're doing to create a depth buffer: 1. Use vertex shader output coordinates to identify the polygons behind the pixel of screen coordinate (x, y). 2. " identify what _part_ (i.e. polygon-specific coordinates) of the polygons are behind the pixel of screen coordinate (x, y). 3. " identify the _depth_ of the part of the polygons behind the pixel of screen coordinate (x, y). 4. Sort (polygon, depth) pairs from least to greatest depth. 5. Identify which polygon is at least depth. 6. Store least result as pixel in depth buffer. 7. Move on to next pixel. Thing is, if you know what polygon is closest to the pixel of a screen coordinate, and you know where on the polygon that is, then you already have ALL the information you need to start the texture-filtering/pixel-shader process for that pixel. (And indeed, those steps 1-5 and 7 are _required_ for perspective-correct texture mapping AFAIK, so it's not like that process itself is wasteful.) _So, why waste cycles and memory in storing the depth in a buffer_ ? After all, if you're going to come back to it later for any future texture-filtering or pixel-shading-related use, you're _also_ going to have to store a "polygon buffer" or else wastefully redo steps 1-5 and 7 (or at least 1-3, 5, and 7) in order to re-determine what face that depth value actually belongs to. †Though not necessarily the Atari Jaguar's Tom, which actually was able to handle vertex depth information during rasterization, being perhaps the first consumer-grade 3D (no quotations) hardware capable of that. However, the complexity, bugs, and bottlenecks of the Jaguar's architecture rendered its software generally unimpressive compared to its competition which lacked such a feature, and certain games like Club Drive show evidence of depth-ordered polygons. Overall, excellent short video, though. ;)