For those who are interested nVidia have made GPU Gems 1 available on their website. You can find it here

 

For those who are interested nVidia have made GPU Gems 1 available on their website. You can find it here

http://http.developer.nvidia.com/GPUGems/gpugems_part01.html

 

• Copyright
• Foreword
• Preface
• Contributors
• Part I: Natural Effects
  • Chapter 1. Effective Water Simulation from Physical Models
  • Chapter 2. Rendering Water Caustics
  • Chapter 3. Skin in the "Dawn" Demo
  • Chapter 4. Animation in the "Dawn" Demo
  • Chapter 5. Implementing Improved Perlin Noise
  • Chapter 6. Fire in the "Vulcan" Demo
  • Chapter 7. Rendering Countless Blades of Waving Grass
  • Chapter 8. Simulating Diffraction
• Part II: Lighting and Shadows
  • Chapter 9. Efficient Shadow Volume Rendering
  • Chapter 10. Cinematic Lighting
  • Chapter 11. Shadow Map Antialiasing
  • Chapter 12. Omnidirectional Shadow Mapping
  • Chapter 13. Generating Soft Shadows Using Occlusion Interval Maps
  • Chapter 14. Perspective Shadow Maps: Care and Feeding
  • Chapter 15. Managing Visibility for Per-Pixel Lighting
• Part III: Materials
  • Chapter 16. Real-Time Approximations to Subsurface Scattering
  • Chapter 17. Ambient Occlusio
  • Chapter 18. Spatial BRDFs
  • Chapter 19. Image-Based Lighting
  • Chapter 20. Texture Bombing
• Part IV: Image Processing
  • Chapter 21. Real-Time Glow
  • Chapter 22. Color Controls
  • Chapter 23. Depth of Field: A Survey of Techniques
  • Chapter 24. High-Quality Filtering
  • Chapter 25. Fast Filter-Width Estimates with Texture Maps
  • Chapter 26. The OpenEXR Image File Format
  • Chapter 27. A Framework for Image Processing
• Part V: Performance and Practicalities
  • Chapter 28. Graphics Pipeline Performance
  • Chapter 29. Efficient Occlusion Culling
  • Chapter 30. The Design of FX Composer
  • Chapter 31. Using FX Composer
  • Chapter 32. An Introduction to Shader Interfaces
  • Chapter 33. Converting Production RenderMan Shaders to Real-Time
  • Chapter 34. Integrating Hardware Shading into Cinema 4D
  • Chapter 35. Leveraging High-Quality Software Rendering Effects in Real-Time Applications
  • Chapter 36. Integrating Shaders into Applications
• Part VI: Beyond Triangles
  • Chapter 37. A Toolkit for Computation on GPUs
  • Chapter 38. Fast Fluid Dynamics Simulation on the GPU
  • Chapter 39. Volume Rendering Techniques
  • Chapter 40. Applying Real-Time Shading to 3D Ultrasound Visualization
  • Chapter 41. Real-Time Stereograms
  • Chapter 42. Deformers
  • Appendix

GPU Gems 2

http://http.developer.nvidia.com/GPUGems2/gpugems2_part01.html

GPU Gems 3

http://news.developer.nvidia.com/2008/12/gpu-gems-3-now-online.html