Efficient shadows for GPU-based volume raycasting

16th International Conference in Central Europe on Computer Graphics, Visualization and Computer Vision, WSCG'2008 - In Co-operation with EUROGRAPHICS, Full Papers

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 17-24

  Ropinski, Timo ^a   Kasten, Jens ^a   Hinrichs, Klaus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Deep shadow maps; Shadow generation; Shadow mapping; Volume rendering

Indexed keywords

DE FACTO STANDARD; GRAPHICS BOARD; GRAPHICS HARDWARE; RAYCASTING; RENDERING PERFORMANCE; RUNTIME BEHAVIORS; SHADOW GENERATION; SHADOW MAPS; VOLUME RAYCASTING;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER VISION; MAPS; VISUALIZATION; VOLUME RENDERING;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS EQUIPMENT;

EID: 67649891571     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (19)

1. Uwe Behrens and Ralf Ratering. Adding shadows to a texture-based volume renderer. In VVS '98: Proceedings of the 1998 IEEE symposium on Volume visualization, pages 39-46. ACM Press, 1998.
2. Eric Chan and Frédo Durand. Rendering fake soft shadows with smoothies. In EGRW '03: Proceedings of the 14th Eurographics workshop on Rendering, pages 208-218, Aire-la-Ville, Switzerland, Switzerland, 2003. Eurographics Association.
3. Franklin C. Crow. Shadow algorithms for computer graphics. In SIGGRAPH '77: Proceedings of the 4th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques, pages 242-248. ACM Press, 1977.
4. Markus Hadwiger, Andrea Kratz, Christian Sigg, and Katja Bühler. Gpuaccelerated deep shadow maps for direct volume rendering. In GH '06: Proceedings of the 21st ACM SIG-GRAPH/Eurographics symposium on Graphics hardware, pages 49-52, New York, NY, USA, 2006. ACM Press.
5. Jean-Marc Hasenfratz, Marc Lapierre, Nicolas Holzschuch, and François Sillion. A survey of real-time soft shadows algorithms. Computer Graphics Forum, 22(4):753-774, dec 2003.
6. Tae-Yong Kim and Ulrich Neumann. Opacity shadow maps. In Proceedings of the 12th Eurographics Workshop on Rendering Techniques, pages 177-182, London, UK, 2001. Springer-Verlag.
7. Joe Kniss, Simon Premoze, Charles Hansen, and David Ebert. Interactive translucent volume rendering and procedural modeling. In VIS '02: Proceedings of the conference on Visualization '02, pages 109-116. IEEE Computer Society, 2002.
8. J. Krüger and R. Westermann. Acceleration techniques for GPU-based volume rendering. In Proceedings IEEE Visualization 2003, 2003.
9. Michael S. Langer and Heinrich H. Bülthoff. Depth discrimination from shading under diffuse lighting. Perception, 29(6):649-660, 2000.
10. Tom Lokovic and Eric Veach. Deep shadow maps. In SIGGRAPH '00: Proceedings of the 27th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques, pages 385-392, New York, NY, USA, 2000. ACM Press/Addison-Wesley Publishing Co.
11. Gerd Marmitt, Heiko Friedrich, and Philipp Slusallek. Interactive Volume Rendering with Ray Tracing. In Eurographics State of the Art Reports, 2006.
12. S. Roettger, S. Guthe, D. Weiskopf, and T. Ertl. Smart hardware-accelerated volume rendering. In Procceedings of EG/IEEE TCVG Symposium on Visualization VisSym '03, pages 231-238, 2003.
13. William T. Reeves, David H. Salesin, and Robert L. Cook. Rendering antialiased shadows with depth maps. In SIGGRAPH '87: Proceedings of the 14th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques, pages 283-291. ACM Press, 1987.
14. Mirko Sattler, Ralf Sarlette, Thomas Mücken, and Reinhard Klein. Exploitation of human shadow perception for fast shadow rendering. In APGV '05: Proceedings of the 2nd symposium on Applied perception in graphics and visualization, pages 131-134. ACM Press, 2005.
15. Ingo Wald, Heiko Friedrich, Gerd Mar-mitt, and Hans-Peter Seidel. Faster isosurface ray tracing using implicit kd-trees. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 11(5):562-572, 2005. Member-Philipp Slusallek.
16. Lance Williams. Casting curved shadows on curved surfaces. In SIGGRAPH '78: Proceedings of the 5th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques, pages 270-274. ACM Press, 1978.
17. Ingo Wald, Thomas Kollig, Carsten Benthin, Alexander Keller, and Philipp Slusallek. Interactive global illumination using fast ray tracing. In EGRW '02: Proceedings of the 13th Eurographics workshop on Rendering, pages 15-24, Aire-la-Ville, Switzerland, Switzerland, 2002. Eurographics Association.
18. Caixia Zhang and Roger Crawfis. Shadows and soft shadows with participating media using splatting. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 9(2):139-149, 2003.
19. C. Zhang, D. Xue, and R. Crawfis. Light propagation for mixed polygonal and volumetric data. In CGI '05: Proceedings of the Computer Graphics International 2005, pages 249-256, Washington, DC, USA, 2005. IEEE Computer Society.