What To Learn To Be A Graphics Programmer

A practical guide for aspiring graphics programmers covering what to learn to become hireable. Graphics programming is framed as two parallel tracks: the CPU side (explicit APIs like DirectX 12, Vulkan, Metal) and the GPU side (lighting math, shading, shadows, ambient occlusion, post-processing). Recommended learning resources include 'Ray Tracing in One Weekend' for path tracing, learnopengl.com for PBR theory, the Filament documentation for deeper PBR, and the PBRT book. Required math is manageable — linear algebra, basic trigonometry, and some calculus — while knowledge of standard data structures and algorithms is also advised. The author briefly notes skepticism about LLM hype but acknowledges ML has a place in the toolbox.

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Graphics Programming weekly - Issue 444 - June 28th, 2026

Weekly curated roundup of graphics programming topics including a multi-layer ReSTIR variant for reducing disocclusion noise, an LLM-guided GPU kernel optimization system (KernelPro), a compute shader Catmull-Clark tessellation pipeline, smooth-maximum techniques for procedural surfaces, neural texture compression via hypernetworks, forward-mode differentiation for procedural texture derivatives, Rust-GPU for writing shaders in Rust compiled to SPIR-V, robust camera ray generation from clip matrices, and Radeon GPU profiler updates with DirectX 12 HLSL source display.

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