Soft shadow volumes for ray tracing

ACM Transactions on Graphics

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 1156-1165

  Laine, Samuli ^a   Aila, Timo ^a   Assarsson, Ulf ^b   Lehtinen, Jaakko ^a   Akenine Möller, Tomas ^c  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^c LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Shadow algorithms; Visibility determination

Indexed keywords

OCCLUDERS; SHADOW ALGORITHMS; SILHOUETTE EDGES; SOFT SHADOWS; VISIBILITY DETERMINATION;

ALGORITHMS; EDGE DETECTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LIGHT SOURCES; STOCHASTIC CONTROL SYSTEMS; VISIBILITY;

RAY TRACING;

EID: 33646041662     PISSN: 07300301     EISSN: 07300301     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1073204.1073327     Document Type: Conference Paper

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