someone asked me a good question, so I will write down the reply as a twitter thread below :D
Question is something like: "Where do the BRDF formulas come from? How can we make our own?"
Answer: I will mostly explain specular BRDFs, since they are most used.
the most common way of making them, is by approximating the material
surface as a bunch of small mirrors called microfacets.

Alright! below im gonna post my collection of links related to
occlusion culling. if I missed good links, you folks are welcome to
post them below. "Practical, Dynamic Visibility for Games"
blog.selfshadow.com/publications/p…
occlusion culling by creating hiz-buffer from occluders.
also uses it for shadow caster culling. they find AABB of
objects for culling against hiz-buffer

alright, below I'm gonna list some professors/researchers in Computer Graphics whose research and papers I absolutely love.

you folks are also very much welcome to post your own suggestions below! Morgan McGuire(@CasualEffects)

Virtual Reality, Real-time Rendering, Transparency, Anti-aliasing
Shadows, Ambient Occlusion
casual-effects.com/#research

Alright! Below Im gonna post some good links, for people who are interested in volume rendering! webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca/~pierreb/Visua…
Old course notes. In particular, see section 1.2.2, which explains the
important volume rendering integral.

I will now write down a TL;DR of the paper below

"Adaptive Temporal Antialiasing".
casual-effects.com/research/Marrs… Temporal Anti Alasing(TAA) is a frequently used Anti-aliasing technique,
but it struggles when the colors of pixels change suddenly,
and when objects get occluded and then disoccluded.

How To become an advanced graphics programmer:
Some general advice and tips from me, an expert graphics programmer
huge thread below. If you are at the level at which you can comfortably
read e.g. advanced GDC presentations and siggraph papers, and
then implement them by youself in an reasonable amount of time,
I consider you an advanced graphics programmer,

All right guys! Let's start posting and sharing links useful
for guys who want to get into physical simulation in computer graphics!!!
I'll start below!!! For getting into fluid simulation, I think Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics is the easiest way. A great thesis about this:
image.diku.dk/projects/media…

Below, I will write down some general advice for beginners,
who are just getting started in Computer Graphics(using C++ with OpenGL or DirectX)

If you guys got any more advice, you are welcome to add it! 1. learn linear algebra well. the concepts you will mostly be needing in graphics are

* Cross Product
* Dot Product
* Transformation Matrix
* Orthonormal Bases.
* intersection calculations. e.g., intersection between ray and sphere

focus your efforts on groking the above.