Soft shadow maps: Efficient sampling of light source visibility

Computer Graphics Forum

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 725-741

  Atty, Lionel ^a   Holzschuch, Nicolas ^a   Lapierre, Marc ^b   Hasenfratz, Jean Marc ^a,c   Hansen, Charles ^d   Sillion, François X ^a  

^a ENS

^b MOVI GRAVIR IMAG INRIA

^c UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^d University of Utah   (United States)

Author keywords

GPU; Interactive shadows; Real time rendering; Shadow map; Soft shadows

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTATION THEORY; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; COST EFFECTIVENESS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; VISIBILITY;

COMPUTATIONAL COSTS; PENUMBRA; POLYGONS; SOFT SHADOWS;

LIGHT SOURCES;

EID: 33845440749     PISSN: 01677055     EISSN: 14678659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8659.2006.00995.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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