Applications of Computing in Industry : Lecture

This talk was given as part of the popular "Advances in Real-Time Rendering in 3D Graphics and Games" course at this year's Siggraph. Pure is Black Rock's critically acclaimed off-road racing game for XBox360 and PS3. The wilderness environments in the game are densely populated with trees, grasses and other foliage. We will demonstrate a number of techniques we used to render foliage efficiently and at a high visual quality. These range from innovative GPU post processing methods to efficient CPU caching and sorting schemes. We'll also give a sneak preview into work on Split/Second, our next game due for release in 2010

Mark Baker - Lead Programmer

Mark is a games industry veteran of 11 years experience and an Imperial College alumnus, having completed MEng Computing in 1998 with first class honors. He has worked for many games companies in a variety of roles, often concentrating on tools and infrastructure. He has contributed to 3 published games with an average metacritic rating of 75.

Jeremy Moore - Lead Programmer

Jeremy Moore is the lead engine programmer for the Core Technology Group at Black Rock Studio in Brighton, UK. He has been working in the games industry for over a decade. At Black Rock he spent four years working on SCEA's ATV Offroad Fury games on both PS2 and PSP. Amongst other things he was responsible for the acclaimed network play implementation. He now specializes in real-time graphics.