An Exploration Into...

Screen Space Ambient Occlusion

Carried out as part of my MSc in Games Software Development.

In this repository you'll find a 'mini-research' project I carried out into implementing and analysing the performance of SSAO for games. I may include the paper that acompanies this project in the future.

Libraries used:

• Assimp (Open Asset Import Library) For ease of demoing this application, release configuration binaries of Assimp 'should' be included in this repo.
• Todo: remove these and build from source code.

Sources:

• José María Méndez - A Simple and Practical Approach to SSAO

• Masaki Kawase - Frame Buffer Postprocessing Effects in DOUBLE-STEAL (Wreckless)

• Filip Strugar - An investigation of fast real-time GPU-based image blur algorithms

• Reinder Nijhoff - Post process - SSAO (A technique I liked a lot and used for comparisons)

• GPU Zen: Advanced Rendering Techniques 1

  • Sterna, W. Robust Screen Space Ambient Occlusion in 1ms in 1080p on PS4.
  • Strugar, F. Scalable Adaptive SSAO.