Hardware accelerated ambient occlusion techniques on GPUs

Proceedings - I3D 2007, ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 73-80

  Shanmugam, Perumaal ^a   Arikan, Okan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Ambient occlusion; GPU; Real time rendering; Soft shadows

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT OCCLUSION; ANIMATED MODELS; GRAPHICS HARDWARE; HARDWARE-ACCELERATED; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; IMAGE SPACE; INTRINSIC PROPERTY; LOW FREQUENCY; MOLECULAR DATA; MULTI-PASS; OCCLUDER; REAL TIME GRAPHICS; REAL-TIME RENDERING; SEARCH AREA; SOFT SHADOW; STREAM PROCESSOR; SURFACE DETAILS;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS EQUIPMENT; DATA VISUALIZATION; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; VISUALIZATION;

THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 77950592171     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1230100.1230113     Document Type: Conference Paper

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