Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Austin Neil Kinross

Amar Dinesh Patel

Shawn L Hargreaves

Thomas Lee Davidson

Examples described herein generally relate to generating a visualization of an image. A proprietary structure that specifies ray tracing instructions for generating the image using ray tracing is intercepted from a graphics processing unit (GPU) or a graphics driver. The proprietary structure can be converted, based on assistance information, to a visualization structure for generating the visualization of the image. The visualization of the image can be generated from the visualization structure.

Techniques for generating visualizations of ray tracing images

Examples described herein generally relate to intercepting, from a graphics processing unit (GPU) or a graphics driver, a buffer that specifies one or more shader records of a shader table to use in generating the image using raytracing, determining, based at least in part on an identifier of the one or more shader records, a layout of the one or more shader records, interpreting, based at least in part on the layout, additional data in the buffer to determine one or more parameters corresponding to the one or more shader records, and displaying, via an application, an indication of the one or more parameters on an interface.

Techniques for displaying a shader table associated with raytracing images

Examples described herein generally relate to modifying operations of a graphics processing unit (GPU) for tracking. An indication of multiple shaders to be executed in rendering an image can be obtained from a command buffer of commands to be provided to the GPU for rendering the image. At least one shader of the multiple shaders can be modified to generate a modified shader that includes a command to log one or more parameters when executing the modified shader. The command buffer can be provided to the GPU for executing the commands for rendering the image including executing the modified shader.

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