Volumetric ambient occlusion for real-time rendering and games

IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 70-79

  Szirmay Kalos, László ^a   Umenhoffer, Tamás ^a   Tóth, Balázs ^a   Szécsi, László ^a   Sbert, Mateu ^b  

^a BUDAPEST UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AND ECONOMICS   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GIRONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Computer graphics; GPU; Graphics and multimedia; Importance sampling; Obscurance; Volumetric ambient occlusion

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT OCCLUSION; FUZZY MEMBERSHIP FUNCTION; GRAPHICS AND MULTIMEDIA; ILLUMINATION EFFECT; IMPORTANCE SAMPLING; NOVEL INTERPRETATION; PRE-COMPUTATION; REAL TIME; REAL-TIME RENDERING; RENDERING EQUATION; TANGENT SPHERES;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS EQUIPMENT; MEMBERSHIP FUNCTIONS; PROGRAM PROCESSORS;

REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

EID: 75149158912     PISSN: 02721716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MCG.2010.19     Document Type: Article

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