Occlusion culling and z-fail for soft shadow volume algorithms

Visual Computer

Volumn 20, Issue 8-9, 2004, Pages 601-612

  Assarsson, Ulf ^a   Akenine Möller, Tomas ^a  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Graphics hardware; Shadow volumes; Soft shadows

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER HARDWARE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTERPOLATION; LIGHT REFLECTION; LIGHT SOURCES; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

GRAPHICS HARDWARE; PENUMBRA REGION; SHADOW VOLUMES; SOFT SHADOWS;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 10044247451     PISSN: 01782789     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00371-004-0254-2     Document Type: Article

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