An optimized soft shadow volume algorithm with real-time performance

Proceedings of the SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Workshop on Graphics Hardware

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 33-40

  Assarsson, Ulf ^a   Dougherty, Michael ^b   Mounier, Michael ^b   Akenine Möller, Tomas ^a  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b MICROSOFT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

A-FRAMES; BLENDING TECHNIQUES; FRAME BUFFER; FRAME RATE; PIXEL SHADER; REAL TIME PERFORMANCE; SOFT SHADOW; VISUAL QUALITIES;

ALGORITHMS; BLENDING; LIGHT SOURCES; MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS;

OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 4644335705     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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