Rendering optimal solar shadows with plural sunlight depth buffers

Visual Computer

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 76-90

  Tadamura, Katsumi ^a   Qin, Xueying ^b   Jiao, Guofang ^b   Nakamae, Eihachiro ^b  

^a YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Sanei Co Ltd   (Japan)

Author keywords

Penumbra; Photorealistism; Rendering; Shadow; Two pass Z buffer algorithm

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BUFFER STORAGE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; SUN;

SOLAR SHADOWS;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 0035278514     PISSN: 01782789     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00013400     Document Type: Article

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