Frame graphs

Frame graphs are a design pattern for handling complex rendering pipelines, which are currently used in industry. Their usage is motivated by handling barriers, queue synchronization and memory aliasing in the background by abstracting the rendering pipeline of a frame on a higher level.

Resources

• Tiago Rodrigues, Advanced Graphics Tech: Moving to DirectX 12: Lessons Learned, GDC 2017
• Yuriy O’Donnell, FrameGraph: Extensible Rendering Architecture in Frostbite, GDC 2017
• Render graphs and Vulkan — a deep dive, 2017
• Vulkan - Fast Paths, GDC 2016