A practical and fast rendering algorithm for dynamic scenes using adaptive shadow fields

Visual Computer

Volumn 22, Issue 9-11, 2006, Pages 702-712

  Tamura, Naoki ^a   Johan, Henry ^a,b   Chen, Bing Yu ^c   Nishita, Tomoyuki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Photo realistic rendering; Precomputed shadow fields; Real time rendering

Indexed keywords

DYNAMIC SCENES; PHOTO-REALISTIC RENDERING; PRECOMPUTED SHADOW FIELDS; REAL-TIME RENDERING;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER HARDWARE; LIGHT SOURCES; MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS; OBJECT RECOGNITION;

ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS;

EID: 33748547612     PISSN: 01782789     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00371-006-0056-9     Document Type: Article

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